This collection consists of 8 letters and 2 documents pertaining to Charles C. Fowler, grandson of lexicographer Noah Webster, and his family. Several items relate to financial disputes over income from Noah Webster's published works, such as a contract regarding the division of the royalties, signed on August 12, 1854; the contract includes 4 additional notes in which Charles C. Fowler acknowledged his receipt of the money (1860-1863). Fowler wrote to his father, William C. Fowler, about the contract on June 9, 1855, and received 3 letters from his father about family finances (November 3, 1856; December 25, 1857; and December 1857). Two of the financial letters concern land "granted to the late Noah Webster." The collection also contains a note from William Fowler to his daughter Emily (January 14, 1854).
Other material pertains to Amherst College, including a page of notes that Charles Fowler wrote about a reunion meeting of the Class of 1851 (August 9, 1854). He received a letter from R. C. Russell, a friend, discussing personal matters (December 28, 1856), and Russell also wrote a letter to William W. Fowler regarding the payment of William's debts (September 19, 1857). The final item is a letter from Charles Fowler to the mayor and aldermen of New York City, in which he requested a position in the Office of Commissioner of Deeds for the City and County of New York (March 1855).
Reverend William Chauncey Fowler (1793-1881), the son of Reuben Rose Fowler and Catharine Chauncey, graduated from Yale College in 1816 and lived in Durham, Connecticut, and Middlebury, Vermont, where he was a professor at Middlebury College. He married Harriet Webster (d. 1844), the daughter of lexicographer Noah Webster, on July 21, 1825, and they had four children: Emily Ellsworth (b. 1826), Charles Chauncey (1829-1876), William Worthington (1832-1881), and Webster Winthrop (1835-1842). Charles Chauncey Fowler attended Amherst College; after graduating in 1851, he moved to New York City, where he became a lawyer. William Worthington Fowler also graduated from Amherst College and was admitted to the New York State Bar. Emily Ellsworth Fowler married Gordon L. Ford before 1854 and lived in New London, Connecticut.