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.

Correspondence with constituents while governor and as a senator, and letters to his son Reuben E. Fenton Jr. when the latter was a student at Brown University; also, speeches, handbills, a broadside, and other miscellaneous printed material.