Box 1 contains most all of the correspondence found in the collection, and is primarily business letters written to John H. Brower by numerous shipmasters and agents between 1840 and 1865. Of special interest are many letters from Capt. W.S. Johnson describing the activities of the ANDREW JACKSON (including details of her sale to a British firm in 1863), and from Capt. W.H. Nelson of the HARVEY BIRCH.

Box 2 contains vessel accounts, marine insurance policies, bills of sale, and other documentation relative to the activities of John H. Brower between 1840 and 1860. There are 4 folders of material relative to the clipper ANDREW JACKSON, including abstract logs for her voyages between 1856 and 1861. There is a folder of maritime insurance policies covering cargoes shipped to and from Texas and New York, and another folder containing bills of sale for numerous vessels in which J.H. Brower held an interest. There is a folder of Charter Parties covering, the years 1842-1847, and a pocket notebook identifying "ship passages" of the Texas-New York Line, 1856-1857.

Box 3 contains information on Alabama Claims cases, 1876-1883. Included are published transcripts, business records of vessels involved in various cases, and other pertinent material. Most of the cases involved Brower vessels while others are cases in which Thomas Browning Hewitt served as attorney.