Correspondents include: father Lorenzo A. Sykes; mother Eliza Ann Wurts Sykes; husband Robert H. Atwater; aunts Caroline Wurts and Laura Wurts; uncle George Wurts; grandmother Abigail Petit Wurts; cousin Lizzie Wurts; Ann Temple Levingston; Mary L. McCready; cousins by marriage Lyman S. Atwater and Susie H. Atwater; Lucy E. Chapman; and aunt by marriage Susan S. Atwater. Subjects include family matters and information from parents and husband while away on business or pleasure trips.

One letter to an aunt and one letter to cousin by marriage Lyman S. Atwater.

Poetry written to and by Caroline Atwater.

confirmation certificate, wedding announcement card and newspaper clipping of announcement, list of wedding guests, school compositions, two promissory notes, and notes about ocean voyage to Europe in 1867.

correspondence from mother Caroline A. Sykes Atwater, father Robert H. Atwater, R.A. Wurts, and Julia A. Shurman, school report cards, and The Young Communicants Manual.

One letter with missing signature of correspondent.

Receipts for expenses while traveling in Europe, daughter's tuition, post office box rent, and subscriptions.

Accounts with William Alexander Smith & Co. (of New York City), First National Bank of Rondout, Antoine Bucci Marchand (of Rome, Italy), and National Trust Co. of City of New York.

correspondence, promissory notes, statements, receipts and stock certificates bought and sold by Atwater. Companies include: Central Mining Co. of Colorado, Delaware and Hudson Canal Company, Bennington & Glastenbury Rail Road Mining & Manufacturing Co., St. Louis Ore and Steel Co., and The Union Chemical Manufacturing Co.

Papers include correspondence, conveyances, deeds, notes on the properties, quit claims, plans of Stamford and Glastenbury, tax receipts, statement of account with estate administrator, division of Lyman Atwater's estate, and the estate inventory. Along with his uncles Lyman H. Atwater and Wyllys Atwater and aunts Susan A. Bagg and Grace C. Bishop, Robert H. Atwater inherited land in Woodford, Bennington, Stamford and Glastenbury in Vermont from Lyman Atwater who died intestate.

Papers include: correspondence, mortgage, deed, and receipts for house repair. Atwater purchased property in Rondout, New York that apparently did not have clear title. He later attempted to sell the property to John B. Alliger.

Papers include fire insurance, legal opinions regarding disputed ownership of the property, abstract of title, and notes. The three parcels of real estate located in Lyndon, Osago County, Kansas were mortgaged to Eliza Ann Wurts Sykes, Atwater's mother-in-law.

Correspondents include: wife Caroline A. Sykes Atwater; uncle L.H. Atwater; cousin Lyman S. Atwater; cousin by marriage Alice A. Wurts; brother W. Atwater; Charles P. Wurts; treasurer, Delaware and Hudson Canal Company Isaac N. Seymour; aunt by marriage A.B. Wurts; John D. Bluxom; A.A. Crosby; S. Boutwell; Ellis Ashmead Bartlett; sister Katie; Samuel H. Hall; member, board of managers, Delaware and Hudson Canal Company Robert Lenox Kennedy; president, board of managers, Delaware & Hudson Canal Co. George Talbot Olyphant; Hy Rowland; William Irwin; Edward E. Atwater; vice president, Cornell Steamboat Co. S.D. Coykendall; J.W. Cook; and Stephen Abbey.

Subjects include: Sale of Mt. Carbon Coal stock, purchase of Cornell Steamboat Co. stock, family matters, sale of Atwater land in Vermont, letters from wife detailing 1867 European trip, and Delaware and Hudson Canal Company business.

One letter to member, board of managers Delaware and Hudson Canal Company, Robert Lenox Kennedy and one letter to publishers Henry Carey Baird Co.

passport; handbills; programs; agreement between Henry Wurtz, William Schley and Atwater for The Union Chemical Manufacturing Company; typewritten manuscript by Atwater "Our Stand for the Cubans in History"; genealogical information on the Bagg family; and proceedings of the Historical and Geographical section of the New England Society, Orange, New Jersey.

Two receipts and one notice of non-payment on a promissory note.

Letters from former U.S. President John Tyler, A. Hamilton, J. H. Alexander, Horace P. Russ, Edmund Griffen, and W. H. Peet.

One letter to W. H. Peet.

Papers from two New York State Supreme Court cases in which MacNeill was plaintiff in one, the defendant in the other and one agreement giving Lorenzo A. Sykes participatory rights in the Guyandotte Land Company.

These sisters received letters addressed to the both of them from their brother Lorenzo A. Sykes and his wife Eliza Ann Wurts Sykes from January 1849 through December 1858. There is one letter addressed to Cynthia from brother R.B. Sykes (1833). The rest of the letters are addressed to Lucy and cover the dates February 1851 through March 1880. Correspondents include nieces Caroline A. Sykes Atwater and Matilda Sykes Wurts and brother Lorenzo A. Sykes.

Three receipts.

Most of the letters are from her husband Lorenzo A. Sykes written before and after their marriage in 1831 and include information about his canal and railroad work. Other correspondents include: father George Wurts; brothers John Wurts, Henry Wurts, George Wurts, and Maurice Wurts; mother Abigail Petit Wurts; and S.A. Baulen.

Small notebook of personal expenses of Sykes and family.

Both with National Trust Company of New York City.

Shares in Great Northern Oil Company.

Bills and receipts (for medical attention and funeral expenses), inventory and appraisement of property. Daughter Caroline and son-in-law Robert H. Atwater were executors of the estate.

"List of articles left in the house at Rondout for Mrs. Sykes July 9th 1857" written by Mrs. John Wurts (Martha Potts Haskins Wurts).

Stock for Newark Mutual Fire Insurance Company.

Papers include canceled checks, mortgage on personal property, receipts for bonds of New York and Erie Railroad Company, promissory notes, accounts of coal deliveries, and sales records of household items. Mendell was associated with the St. Charles Hotel in New York City.

Receipts for membership dues in the New York Historical Society, Delaware and Hudson Canal Company capital stock, wallpaper, taxes, room and board, coal, grain, dues for Rondout Lodge, clothing, expenses while traveling in Europe.

probate notices, copies of portions of wills bequeathing money or stock, and receipts.

Deeds and mortgages for Sykes and his wife's land in Newark Township, Essex County, New Jersey are included as well as papers for Sykes's land in Texas. The Texas land papers were numbered and include: statement of law regarding land in Texas; certificate of sale (in Spanish and English translation); and legal opinion about the land. After Sykes's death in 1878 the administrator of his estate, son-in-law Robert H. Atwater, received Texas land warrants location information (1879) and made notes concerning Texas land law (1886).

Many of the letters were written by sister-in-law Ann Barbara Norris Wurts (A.B. Wurts) requesting money and financial assistance and advice.

Other correspondents include: wife Eliza Ann Wurts Sykes; J.W. Scott; nephew L.B. Sykes; Elizabeth Dodge; John Bluxamie; niece E. A. Caufield; J.B. Augur; A.H. Livingston; John Aspinnall; Thomas H. Wells; George Schuyler; brother Nathaniel Sykes; Joseph W. Allen; treasurer, Delaware & Hudson Canal Co., Isaac N. Seymour; Cortlandt Parker; Reverend Jesse Pound (St. Matthew's, New York City); vice president, board of managers, Delaware & Hudson Canal Co. William Musgrave; Mary E. Wells; Rafael Gonzales; General William Gibbs MacNeill; J.H. Alexander; Adolf Rodewalt; R.T. Germain; president, board of managers, Delaware & Hudson Canal Co. John Wurts; Charles P. Wurts; R.B. Mason; and Edward H. Hudson.

Subjects include: family matters, land in Newark, NJ, New York and Erie Railroad contract settlement, taxes, Delaware and Hudson Canal Company stock shares, employment seekers, reports about Charles W. Lancaster's gun.

Also see Series II (Delaware and Hudson Canal Company records), Subseries I (Maurice Wurts papers) for correspondence to Sykes from John Wurts regarding Delaware and Hudson Canal Company business.

Copies or drafts of letters sent to: Mrs. Wells; George L. Schuyler; Society of the Germain Table; Miss P. Hunter; sister-in-law A. B. Wurts; president, New Jersey Railroad and Transportation Company Robert Schuyler (regarding rights of way and title to land from 1835- 1836); president, board of managers, Delaware and Hudson Canal Company George Talbot Olyphant (report of possible railroad route through Port Jervis to Hudson River); O. DeForest Grant.