The series consists of family correspondence, photos, post cards and clippings as relates to John Hatt.

A series of six albums of 1,527 postcards collected by Ethel Anderson from 1905 to c.1911 and were donated by the executors of her estate as stipulated in her will and a series of 26 leather postcards.

The documents in this series date from 1846 to 1893. They include personal and business correspondence; account books; ledgers; business cards and handbills; publications relating to the Temperance movement; and printed material from the Salvation Army.