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The Angela Morgan correspondence series includes letters to and from a wide range of ministers, literary figures, editors and journalists and individuals and organizations involved in the peace movement and social reform. (See the Controlled Access portion of the finding aid for a listing of significant correspondents.) The series also includes scattered correspondence and papers, 1861-1922, of her father, Albert T. Morgan, who came to Mississippi after the Civil War. The correspondence is arranged chronologically.

This series contains letters received by George M. Brown--with an exception being the letters to Frankie Brown, George Brown's first wife. There are many correspondents housed within this collection, however, some regular Senders include: Daniel S. Foster (letters from 1862-1868), Thomas Dunne (letters from 1862-1866), Maria H. Young (letters from 1864-1869), J.D. Hammond (letters from 1864-1869), Frankie Brown (letters from 1877-1878), and Eva Brown (1881-1882).

Correspondence and other Papers (1949 accession) is a chronologically arranged series and dates from 1822 to 1896. The letters concern family affairs, business, state and national politics, particularly the presidential candidacy of Lewis Cass and the elections of 1848 and 1852, and the Felch estate.