The Huff-Nixon family papers consist of correspondence, legal and business papers, reminiscences, clippings, and genealogical materials of five generations of Quaker families in North Carolina and Indiana. Most of the material concerns the families of Samuel Nixon (1781-1865), his son-in-law Daniel Huff (1816-1899), and his son Dr. Oliver Nixon Huff (1852-1937) of Fountain City, Indiana, and Oliver Nixon Huff's wife, Sophia (Bogue) Huff (1866-1931). The oldest material in the Nixon-Huff Papers is found in a scrapbook compiled about 1883 by Emily Jane (Nixon) Huff. It consists of letters, leaflets, pamphlets, receipts, and other papers of the Nixon family dating back to 1760. Of special interest is a silhouette of Samuel Nixon's grand-father, Phineas Nixon (1710-1771) of Pasquotank County, North Carolina, which is believed to be the oldest image we have of a North Carolina Friend. Most of the correspondence dates from 1829 to 1860. It includes letters from family and Quaker friends, including letters from Friends at the Friends Shawnee school near what is now Lawrence, Kansas, and correspondence on business, politics, antislavery, education, and Quaker affairs. There are extensive files of clippings and reminiscent material on antislavery, including letters of Levi Coffin; on a party of Newport men who traveled to California seeking gold in 1850; and on local and Quaker history. The collection also includes extensive genealogical material, mainly collected by Sophia (Bogue) Huff, on the Huff, Nixon, Bogue, Durfee, Rogers, and related families in Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Virginia, Ohio, Indiana, New York, and New England.