This collection contains 16 pieces of incoming correspondence of Hampden-Sydney College's Union Literary Society. The correspondence relates to the society's routine business and includes responses to invitations to join the membership or to lecture before the society. Also included are letters from various vendors relating to purchases of regalia or furnishings for the society. Within the correspondence of potential members and lecturers are letters from John S. Caskie, Thomas Saunders Gholson, James E. Heath, Elias Lyman Magoon, Chesley Martin, Henry W. Miller, Joseph Nimmo, and Harry Robertson. Vendors represented in the collection are H. K. Ellyson, Jos. M. Freeman, Samuel W. Harwood, John W. Hines, Joseph Perkins, R. C. Richardson (for Jaquelin P. Taylor), ad Francis B. Watkins.