Correspondence and other papers, including correspondence of Tyler's widow, Julia Gardiner Tyler, an autograph collection assembled by their son, Lyon Gardiner Tyler, and family papers reflecting social life and customs in Virginia. Correspondents include George Bancroft, James Barbour, Margaret Gardiner Beeckman, Richard T. Brown, James Buchanan, John S. Cunningham, Henry Curtis, John B. Floyd, Alexander Gardiner, Juliana McLachlan Gardiner, Thomas W. Gilmer, Hugh Blair Grigsby, Mary Tyler Jones, John Leeds Kerr, James Lyons, James Monroe, Cincinnatus Newton, John Page, Littleton W. Tazewell, St. George Tucker, Septimus Tustin, Robert Tyler, and Henry A. Wise.