Discusses political topics of the day, including the Congressional Committee's report on Kansas and its prospects of becoming a free state, the upcoming elections, and his lack of respect for President Filmore. Copies lines from The Memoir of Miss Lyon (of Mount Holyoke) from the chapter entitled "Tendencies of the Principles Embraced and the System Adopted in the Mt. Holyoke Female Seminary." Gives details of a street meeting of the republican party in Baltimore. Comments on the increasing violence in the city. Learns of the death of his sister-in-law Jane (Mrs. Charles William Grant).