Letters by Henry Hawkins refer to senatorial duties in Albany, trips by stage, canal, and Hudson River packet to various parts of the state; other letters refer to the death of Henry Hawkins due to smallpox; also, the Articles of Association of the Exchange Bank of Alexander, with a list of first director and subscribers.

Diary of a trip to New York City by mail car, back up the Hudson, across the Erie Canal to Montezuma, along the Seneca Canal, to Ithaca; thence to Owego by railroad, by horse to Friendsville and Montrose Pennsylvania; by stage to Tunkhannock and Wilkes Barre; by boat on the Pennsylvania Canal, and back to Philadelphia.