The collection consists of letters from constituents on such matters as postmasterships and other political appointments, topics related to the Civil War, requests for government documents, political party matters, etc. This is not his total incoming correspondence and it is not known how representative it is. There is a small amount of family correspondence to Pomeroy and a small amount of correspondence not to Pomeroy which came with the Papers. Its original relationship, if any, to the Pomeroy Papers is not known.