This collection consists of biographical and genealogical information, corresondence, and financial and legal documents of the Critz family living in Patrick County, Virginia. The bulk of the correspondence relates to Haman Critz's participation in the Civl War. Later letters detail labour troubles and race relations occuring during Reconstruction. The financial and legal documents cover land sales, purchase of enslaved individuals, and tobacco accounts.

The Reynolds Family Papers were created by the Reynolds family of North Carolina and Virginia, primarily tobacco baron R.J. Reynolds and his wife Katharine Smith Reynolds. Correspondence, financial, and legal records document the creation and early years of the Reynolds’s 1,000-acre estate and working farm, Reynolda, located in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Other subjects of note are the Reynolds family’s philanthropic and social activities and the R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company.