Series III. Business and Personal Papers contains correspondence, legal, financial, and miscellaneous papers. The correspondence illuminates events in Loring's political career and in national politics: the celebration of Thomas Jefferson's birthday (1859), including the responses of Jefferson Davis and United States Secretary of the Treasury Howell Cobb to celebration invitations; Loring's support of the Lincoln administration against the supporters of George B. McClellan (1864); the assassination attempt made on President Garfield (1881); inner political conflicts in the government, recorded while Loring was United States Commissioner of Agriculture and a United States Representative; and Loring's tenure as a United States minister to Portugal (1889-1890). The correspondence also includes personal letters regarding real estates and stock investments, the estate of William Pickman, Loring's will, and the Osgood family genealogy. Of special interest is a letter from Ralph Waldo Emerson (November 23, 1853), reflecting Loring's avid interest in literature. Loring's legal and financial papers often include or are authored by his brother, Boston attorney John Alden Loring. These records include deeds for stock, real estate, and the Pickman farm. The miscellaneous papers contain Honorable Joseph S. Cabot's speech delivered at the 1859 Thomas Jefferson celebration, poetry, eulogies on George Loring, and an undated survey of Salem property.