This collection contains three partial letters (copies only) written by John Ingles, a 19th-century resident of Virginia's New River Valley. (The handwriting in the letters does not seem to match, so the three letters may have been written by different individuals.) In the first letter, Ingles mentions a recent New Year's ball in Christiansburg, Virginia, and having driven a sled to Christiansburg from Newbern. Writing to an unidentified brother in the second letter, Ingles expresses concern over John Hale. In a third letter, signed "John Ingles Sr.," the writer recalls the many times that he heard his parents recount the family's experiences "in their first settling on the western watters [sic] of Virginia," and he promises to share these stories to the best of his recollection, "that a [record?] of them may be preserved."