The Correspondence folder consists of letters written between various family members from 1836 to 1867. Among the correspondence is a letter from Eliza Faris O'Flaherty (mother of author Kate Chopin) to Frederic Charleville, March 10, 1864[?], describing a secret wedding between Eliza's sister Suliame and a Confederate soldier and an incident in which Union soldiers forced O'Flaherty's family to fly an American flag on their house to celebrate the fall of Confederate forces at Vicksburg, Mississippi. A series of letters between Louis A. Benoist and Reverend Father F. Daniel of Montreal, Canada, 1864-1865, discusses genealogy information on the Benoist family. The Family Records folder has original Benoist and Charleville family documents such as marriage contracts, wills, and other official records. The majority of the records are written in French. The royal commissions and military record of Antoine Gabriel Francois Benoist are filed in oversize storage. The Property folder contains land deeds for property owned by the Benoist-Charleville families but also deeds and receipts for slaves owned by the Charleville family. Among the items is an inventory of the possessions of Joseph Chauvin Charleville dated May 17, 1770. Upon one receipt written in July 1815 is a later statement of manumission dated 1818, freeing a child named Pierre. The Receipts/Accounts folder comprises miscellaneous receipts for goods purchased by the families. The series includes statements for accounts held by the family with Thomas O’Flaherty, a successful St. Louis merchant and father of novelist Kate Chopin. The Genealogy folder consists of printed genealogical charts, excerpts from family histories pertaining to the Benoist and Charleville families, heraldry information, and other family information. A Benoist family tree chart is stored with oversized materials.