Includes a July 4th speech given at Bowling Green, Ohio, a letter on the Mormons published in the New York World , and miscellaneous legal writings and notes. Diaries include extensive entries especially noting his legal activities in Wood County, his trip west, and his settlement in California. Includes one diary written by Charles Gorrill with entries mostly dealing with the bridge company business. No discernible arrangement. Includes two volumes and one oversize volume used mostly as scrapbooks of clippings.
Clippings generally are poems and humorous writings.
The oversize account ledger includes a written account of Gorrill's trip to Findlay, Carey, and Dayton taken in 1858, and one ledger includes his published letters from his trip west. Also included is a file of loose clippings taken from the scrapbooks as well as an obituary of Thomas A. Gorrill and a memorial poem for Libby Swigert. Includes mostly undated photographs of the Gorrill family and the Walker family. Also includes an album with photographs of various family members and friends of the Gorrills. Correspondence from W. H. Gorrill to Smith re.