Collection includes a letter (9 June 1844) from Walker to his sister, Lucina, who was attending Macon Female College in Macon, Ga.; a certificate for Walker's guardianship (5 Mar 1849) of John B. Walker; a fragment of an unidentified planter's diary (1864); and an estate account for Col. Virgil H. Walker, 1849-1852. In the letter to his sister, Calvin J. Walker described three parties he attended, people he encountered in his travels and, briefly, a hunting trip to Lookout Mountain. The 1864 planter's diary registers the day-to-day operations of the plantation, illnesses of enslaved people on the plantation, types of crops grown, as well as travels to town transporting Confederate tithes. In addition to inventories of belongings and financial records from the settlement of the estate, the estate account of Virgil H. Walker contains notes on estate laws and settlement concerns (in shorthand), along with slave lists (giving names, ages, and appraised value; includes names of enslaved people who escaped or ran away), and a Walker family genealogy. Also contains a slave list of "Negroes belonging to the estate of William Porter, Stewart Co, Georgia, Dec. 1862," noted as "For Lizzie," presumably Elizabeth Porter. Sixteen enslaved people are listed, including several children.
