Correspondence pertaining chiefly to the antislavery movement. Includes descriptions of Hennepin and Lowell, Illinois, circa 1838-1839. Correspondents include Charles C. Burleigh and members of the Lundy and Vickers families. Other items include a petition to the governor of Coahuila and Texas, Mexico, requesting permission to settle African American families there in 1832; a circular (1837) concerning the Pennsylvania Anti-Slavery Society; poems; and an undated biographical sketch of Benjamin Lundy. The collection includes papers of abolitionist Paxson Vickers.