1862-1903 Series 3. Miscellaneous Materials Series 4. Volumes Subseries 4.1. Correspondence and Other Papers Correspondence, legal and financial materials, and other papers of Polk and Yeatman family members. Materials before 1840 are chiefly about business matters, but there are also many documents that relate to both local and national political issues.
Later materials relate chiefly to family matters.
There is little material that discusses the Civil War directly. 1773-1833 About 500 items. Chiefly materials about William Polk's business dealings in Mecklenburg County and Raleigh, N.C., and in Tennessee, where Polk was accumulating large land holdings. There are many legal documents relating to purchases of land. In the 1820s, most of the letters are to William from his sons at various locations in North Carolina and Tennessee.