This collection contains letters, account books, papers, and miscellaneous items pertaining to the family of Charles Himrod. The majority of the letters, written by family and friends, are addressed to his wife Alice Judson. A great deal of the letters were written by Charles to Alice during the 1870s when Charles was working at a furnace company in Ohio and Alice was spending time with family in Pennsylvania. In addition to personal correspondence, the collection includes letters written to Charles from various business associates. Besides correspondence, the collection includes deeds, receipts, abstracts, and invoices relating to the Himrod and Judson families; business and calling cards; postcards; verse and prose by Alice Judson and others; miscellaneous sheet music; and one architectural drawing of Lucuro Spring Grant in New Mexico.