Map shows counties, railroads, canals, major cities, towns, battlegrounds, and mining activity for Missouri, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Kentucky, and parts of Iowa, Michigan, and Wisconsin Territory. Includes explanation and length of waterbodies. Scale not given.

Map shows counties, roads, railroads, canals, cities and towns for Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, and parts of Michigan and Wisconsin Territory; mining activity for lead region of Illinois and Wisconsin Territory; township grid for lower Michigan. Insets: "Vicinity of Detroit," "Vicinity of Cincinnati," "Falls of Ohio," and "Lead region east of the Mississippi River." Includes explanation and table of steamboat routes. Scale [ca. 1:2,028,000].

Copy of transcript for a letter from Thomas J. Pilgrim to James Perry, on June 19, 1838, discussing his trip on a boat up the Mississippi River.

Copy of transcript for a letter from Mary Ann Ellis to Emily Bryan Perry, on November 15, 1838, discussing a trip and the relatives she has seen.

Copy of transcript for a letter from Mary Ann Ellis to Emily M. Austin Bryan Perry discussing her attempt to visit Perry's children in Pittsburgh and giving updates on other family.

Copy of transcript for a letter from Thomas J. Pilgrim to James F. Perry reporting of on his journey to Louisville.

Copy of transcript for a letter from Thomas J. Pilgrim to James Perry, on July 6, 1838, discussing a school for Perry's son Stephen in Steubenville, Ohio. Pilgrim also discusses what he did for the Fourth of July.