Alice Noble Waring of Hughes, Arkansas, great-great-great granddaughter of General Andrew Pickens, collected photostatic copies of original correspondence, documents, and papers which she used in writing The Fighting Elder: Andrew Pickens, 1739-1817, published in 1962. These copies were acquired from major research libraries, including the Library of Congress, the State Historical Society of Wisconsin (Draper Collection), William L. Clement Library, the Huntington Library, Duke University, and the New York Public Library. Mrs. Waring owned some originals, and she donated the original deed of Tamassee to the South Caroliniana Library, Columbia, South Carolina.

The collection includes: Inventories to 101 folders and three scrapbooks of photostatic copies of late 18th and early 19th century correspondence and documents concentrating in Pickens' military correspondence and activities during the revolutionary campaigns in the Carolinas; copies of Captain Andrew Pickens' will, November 5, 1756; a plat of Tamassee, October 2, 1819; Scattered letters on family and business matters in the post-war period; three scrapbooks of photostatic copies are from the Draper Manuscript collection. Noble listed items in each volume and made annotations on the scrapbook pages.