Series III: Peck Family Papers, 1853-1903, consists primarily of correspondence and one photocopy of a journal from 1853 to 1903. The Peck and Allen family members correspond to and from Wolf Creek and Oakland, Tennessee and Florida. The letters and journal include writings about traveling to Georgia, Louisiana, Virginia, North Carolina, and Tennessee cities such as Knoxville, Nashville, Memphis, Loudon, and Kingsport. The journal also includes descriptions of the Chimneys and Paint Rock in the Great Smoky Mountains. The correspondence refers to several females with the name Emma, and it is difficult to distinguish which Emma the letters refer to.

Emma E. Peck writes about the distress in Louisiana after the Civil War with the "negroes" dying of cholera and everybody wanting "to leave that dreadful country." One letter by Emma E. Peck discusses the progress of the Civil War, but she predominantly writes about her family and children.