Correspondence, writings, notebooks, family papers, scrapbooks, and other papers primarily of John Leeds Bozman, John Bozman Kerr, John Leeds Kerr, 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 Includes John Leeds Bozman's poetry, political notebooks and a scrapbook of John Leeds Kerr, John Bozman Kerr's unpublished biography of Daniel Carroll, Daniel Carroll's will, and two volumes on Central America containing preliminary surveys for an isthmian canal, circa 1850.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 correspondence, business records, and estate papers of Daniel Richardson and his wife, Ruth Richardson, pertaining chiefly to trade with William Fishbourne, Ennion Williams, and other merchants of Philadelphia, Pa., and London, England; and 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). Correspondents include Edward Johnson Coale, Arnold Elzey, Charles Goldsborough, Nicholas Goldsborough, Robert Henry Goldsborough, Isaac Appleton Jewett, John Lloyd, Isaac Edward Morse, William Vans Murray, Benjamin Richardson, Charles S. Storrow, and William Tudor.