Chiefly naval and personal correspondence, together with journal (1831) kept during a voyage from New York, N.Y., to Mobile Bay (Ala.), naval orders, rations, and regulations, and other papers. Includes Salter's correspondence (1828-1864) with his wife, Margaret; correspondence (1850-1853) with secretaries of the navy James C. Dobbin, William A. Graham, and John Pendleton Kennedy, some of which relates to Salter's opposition to abolition of flogging in the navy; and description of Veracruz, Mexico, and the navigation of its harbor.