Richards writes about loss of her dear Sarah. Mr. Lawrence has broken up his house and sent his children to relatives. She reports additional family news. She feels older and more broken down than their sister and is not up to writing.

Six letters to family members.

Wessells writes about her mother's health, her constant thoughts about Frankie and Sarah, and Mary's health.

Wessells writes from Brooklyn about travels of family members, their residence, her daily routine, news of family and friends, her happy marriage and good husband, and Jim obtaining a piano.

Wessells writes from Brooklyn about getting Adams a dress, her health, recent visitors, news of family and friends, being alone and what she is reading.

Wessells writes from Brooklyn about her and her husband's health, the New York Fair and Sanitary Commission, dining at Willow St., and news of family and friends.

Wessells writes from Brooklyn about Adams's fifty-ninth birthday, well wishes from friends, recent visitors, and socializing.

Wessells writes from Brooklyn about her fathers's sixtieth birthday, her loneliness without her husband, and family news.

Five Civil War letters written in camp near Alexandria, Va.

Breck, who is married to Sarah Bullard, a niece of Joseph, writes to inform Adams that his sister Elizabeth has died.