A few biographical notes on his family and others by Arthur Kendall, youngest son of Nathan and Abby J. Reed Kendall - undated, but probably ca. 1940. Also, a small miscellany of legal forms and school-related items. Writings consisting of Charles Reed's notes on a journey to California (transcripts only); school essays and poems, mostly by Josephine Stedman, all undated, ca. 1850; and transcriptions of two newspapers articles about travel to California, one unsigned (1848) and one by William Allen (1849); and a transcription of the well-known last edition of the Vicksburg, Mississippi The Daily Citizen, July 2, 1863.