Correspondence, writings, notebooks, family papers, scrapbooks, and other papers primarily of John Bozman Kerr, John Leeds Kerr, J.S. Bozman, and other members of the allied Bozman, Goldsborough, Kerr, Leeds, and Richardson families. Documents political, legal, and financial developments in the early history of Maryland, particularly the Eastern Shore. Includes John Leeds Bozman's poetry, political notebooks and a scrapbook of John Leeds Kerr, John Bozman Kerr's unpublished biography of Daniel Carroll, Daniel Carroll's will, and two volumes on Central America containing preliminary surveys for an isthmian canal, circa 1850. Also includes mercantile and estate papers of Daniel Richardson and his wife, Ruth Richardson, pertaining chiefly to trade with William Fishbourne and other merchants of Philadelphia, Pa., and London, England; manuscript copies of speeches delivered by Luther Martin and James McHenry in the Maryland legislature about the proceedings of the U.S. Constitutional Convention (1787); and materials pertaining to William Vans Murray. Correspondents include Charles Goldsborough and Robert Henry Goldsborough.