The Daniel W. Chester Papers is a collection consisting largely of personal correspondence with family members, primarily Chester's wife, and papers related to the ship Dauntless, of which he was master.

This collection contains 51 letters sent to Henry Wheatland by his sister Martha Bemis and her husband, Robert E. Bemis. The correspondence is ordered chronologically, dating from January 1831 to December 1846. Materials generally concern family matters within the Wheatland and Bemis families, including the death of Martha’s daughter Hannah in 1835.