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The Charles Henry Palmer series (5 folders, approx 209 MB) contains correspondence regarding business transactions and miscellaneous items. The correspondence between Palmer and his father (1 folder) addresses their mutual business interests in Michigan, namely the Marquette, Houghton & Ontonagon Railroad, the Pewabic and Franklin Mines, and other stock interests. The letters contain a good deal of business advice from father to son, but little other information of a personal nature. The other correspondence in the series (3 folders) documents Palmer's business transactions regarding his investments in mining, real estate, and trading of stocks and bonds. The miscellaneous file in this series (1 folder) contains some items of interest: Photocopy of the 1896 entries of the diary of Mary E. Palmer, Palmer's wife; two of Palmer's notebooks from the University of Michigan; miscellaneous deeds and indentures. This series also includes scans of correspondence and correspondence and photographs related to the U-M Sigma Phi Society.

The Palmer Family History and Astrological Information series (2 folders) contains a file on astrological information for several family members, a history of the Palmer family written by Suzanne L. DeVine, and other materials.

The Philomela Palmer Hoffman series includes correspondence and legal papers regarding her interests in mining and real estate investments. Additionally, the series contains papers from the settlement of her mother's estate (1 folder). The Cornucopia Mine file (1 folder) contains legal documents and correspondence regarding the gold mine in Utah in which Hoffman, her sister Virginia, and her brother Charles, invested. Like her father's correspondence, these letters largely document the means of trading and maintaining mining interests in the early twentieth century. This series also includes approximately 67 MB of digitized correspondence.