The collection includes letters from a New Orleans stock broker, John W. Fairfax, to Confederate General James Longstreet. The first is a request for a recommendation for Lawson L. Davis, a conferate veteran who was applying for a paymastership in the Army. The second letter speaks of personal business matters and mentions Bradstreet's impaired vision and new marriage.

Twelve post-American Civil War letters written to former Confederate Lieutenant General James Longstreet (1821-1904) by his children: Fitz Randolph Longstreet, John Garland Longstreet, Mary Louise "Lula" Longstreet Whelchel, and Robert Lee Longstreet; as well as Masie Johnston Sanders, Richard B. Shepard, U. Stamps, and C. Herbert Walling.