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3 items. Letters to his father, Theodore Lincoln, and mother, Hannah (Mayhew) Lincoln from Brunswick, Maine where Lincoln was an undergraduate at Bowdoin College.

3 items. Letters to his father on his voyage to New Brunswick, Canada, and on his medical studies in Boston. See Folder 10.

5 items. Letters to his father and mother on his voyage to New Orleans with Dr. Henry Little. Recent transcripts of these letters by Rebecca Bernardos. See Folder 11 for a diary of the voyage.

Letters to his father, mother and brother Bela from Brunswick, Maine, and Boston.

7 items. Letters to his father, mother, and brother Bela From Burlington, Vermont, where Lincoln was teaching anatomy at the University of Vermont and creating preparations for an anatomical cabinet. His brother Thomas was assisting him in his dissections in 1829. One letter is from Thomas and Benjamin to their brother Bela. The last letter discusses the offer from Nathan R. Smith to teach at the University of Maryland in Baltimore.

2 items. Letters to his father from Baltimore, including a long description of the University of Maryland.

13 items. Letters to his father and to his brothers, Thomas, Bela, and Edmund on his growing surgical practice, his private students, his ambitious plans for research and writing and for improved medical education, his controversy with Theodore Woodward, his publications, and his health. Includes a printed circular for his pamphlet, Hints on the present state of medical education and the influence of medical schools in New England(1833). The final letter, dated May 23, 1824, from Thomas and Benjamin to Theodore, is about Benjamin returning to Dennysville because of debilitating illness.

10 items. Letters written from Burlington. Includes discussion of the cholera epidemic and a printed notice by the Board of Health (Benjamin Lincoln, Secretary) "To the Inhabitants of the Town of Burlington and its Vicinity," June 25, 1832

Dr. Arthur T. Lincoln was the son of Thomas Lincoln. These two typed letters to Mrs. (Anna?) Lincoln from Frederick F. Black, Searsport, Maine, and from George Cheever Shattuck, Harvard Medical School, relate to the disposition of Benjamin Lincoln's books and papers.

Receipts and notes.