"The letters and documents are arranged chronologically beginning with Thomas Gilmore Pearson's draft of his will, 1850, up to 1936. They are divided into three sections, following the family histories: section 1: pre-Civil War and Civil War period; section 2: 1875-1887, basically the courtship letters of Laura Pearson and Benjamin Hammond; section 3: 1887-1937, Pearson & Hammond letters." (p. ix). The families chiefly lived in Troup County, Georgia...