Includes membership records, officers' reports, business papers, subscription library records, minutes of the Society's meetings and debates. Includes receipts and letters expressing pleasure at being honored by the society. Receipt dated December 2, 1841 from Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson while he was a Virginia constable, which was later given to the Franklin Society.

This collection includes papers, scores, professional files, and recordings reflecting Stewart's compositions in published and draft forms and their performances, as well as societies to which he belonged, and correspondence with colleagues. There are 9 reel-to-reel recordings of performances.

Contains accounts of expenditures, membership list (1846), and records of Bibles distributed.