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Lucretia Mott writes about recent events involving family and friends, including her husband James' health problems. She mentions reading an essay on women's culture from the "Catholic World, likely referring to an essay by Félix Dupanloup titled Learned Women and Studious Women." She references some divisions within the women's rights movement and states that she will not "put on paper anything of complaint of our loved co-adjutors, till they had had more time for defense and explanation." However, she does note that "Elizabeth Stanton's sympathy for 'Sambo' is very questionable" and that she will not subscribe to the "Revolution" (a newspaper started by Stanton and Susan B. Anthony), calling it "not satisfactory." She talks of plans to withdraw from office despite Lucy Stone's protests. A portion of this letter is written over a letter from Julia Holmes to Lucretia Mott dated October 8, 1867.

Mary Townsend was an author and close friend of Graceanna Lewis'. She has been ill for some time and has been attended by many doctors. She tells Lewis of a new physician who has been treating her, a woman named Miriam De Bonneville, and discusses the treatments De Bonneville uses. She also discusses Fredrika Bremer's travels in the United States, mentions a school that Lewis has been working at, and talks of paranormal phenomena reported at Rochester. The letter also includes several pages written in pencil by someone else, possibly Lewis's brother-in-law Dr. Edwin Fussell.