Two letters and an envelope written by J. C. Whitescarver in 1877. A transcription made by the donor accompanies the original documents. Whitescarver describes his first impressions on arriving in the Little Red River community and finding work, as well as inquiring about people and the conditions in his home place in Calhoun, McLean County, Kentucky, where the addressee, Sallie Whitescarver, lived, apparently with J. C.'s brother, to whom the content of the letters is addressed.

Dr. Robert Cochran, professor of English and director of the Center for Arkansas and Regional Studies, collected this correspondence regarding arrangements for Almeda Riddle to visit the University of Arkansas and perform for his folklore class.

Copies of letters and photographs collected by Jefferson Forrest Mullins of Wilson, Arkansas, were donated to the University of Arkansas Libraries by his daughter, Carolyn Moffitt, of Memphis. The letters were written to Mullins in 1946 and 1948 by two German prisoners of war who had been incarcerated at Wilson, Arkansas, during World War II.