Family, school, and legal correspondence. School letters are from De Witt C. Clement while at Clegg's College, near Mocksville, N.C., to John Clement at Gettysburg College, Gettysburg, Pa., and to a sister attending Edgeworth Female Academy, Greensboro, N.C. Included also are a letter discussing the presidential election of 1840, letters and a speech on the political activities of the Whigs and Democrats in North Carolina; a letter from Merryhill, N.C., concerning the Civil War; and an essay on card playing.
