Photocopies of the collection are in the library and also in the Tennessee State Library and Archives. Tennessee State Library and Archives, Bettie Mizell Donelson Papers, 1787-1938, Nashville, Tennessee, 2.9 ft. Library of Congress, Manuscript Division, Andrew Jackson Donelson Papers, 1779-1943. Her correspondence, some of which dates from the period when she served as White House Hostess for Jackson, is with her parents Mary P. and John Donelson, her sister, niece, and friends. Card index for part of the collection in the Library.
Entire collection is available on microfilm.
Material is principally located in Series 1. In container 5, signature of Rachel Jackson. University of California, Berkeley, The Bancroft Library, Manuscript Division, William Anderson Scott Papers, ca. North Carolina State Department of Archives and History collection, Alexander Brevard Papers, 1751-1911, ca. Revolutionary quartermaster and iron manufacturer of Lincoln Co., North Carolina.