Chiefly correspondence by the family of William Pitt Greenwood Hayward (1848-1922) of Roxbury, MA and Denver, CO and his daughter Gertrude Hayward Mead (1883-1969) of Denver, CO and Greenwich, CT. The papers of William P.G. Hayward includes a diary kept the summer of 1872, when he worked as a cowboy in Kansas. The papers of Henry Clay Moffett (1832-1863), brother of William P.G. Hayward's wife Susan Moffett, includes correspondence and a diary with an account of his trip from San Francisco to Batavia, NY in 1857. Moffett's Civil War letters provide vivid and concise descriptions of combat, particularly around Shiloh, and of life on the march through Tennessee as a member of Sherman's army. Collection has 659 photographs, of which there are 22 daguerreotypes, 10 ambrotypes, 18 tintypes, and a miniature painting on ivory of Mary Langdon Greenwood.