Includes Legal papers (Articles of incorporation, mortgages, deeds, leases, etc., for CO&SW, Memphis, Paducah & Northern, Paducah and Elizabethtown, Miss&Tenn, L&N, Paducah & Memphis and other roads). Also a few lists of subscriptions to stock and bonds, cancelled bonds, scrip certificates, etc. The last four folders are materials from trustee Thomas E. Walker, and contain one resolution from 1857 and many matters concerning the Mississippi and Missouri Railroad. Also includes Chicago & Rock Island information, a PennRR circular, May 13,1868 [prtd.], A few letters of directors' resignations, and accounts of trustees.