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Mary Taylor Stone taught with Martha Schofield at the Schofield School in Aiken, South Carolina, from 1868 to 1869. Stone has just read a letter from Schofield in which she confided that she was heartbroken over a lost love who is not identified. She expresses love for Schofield and wishes that she could be with her during this trying time. She also describes her activities since arriving in Charleston, including attending the circus.

Martha Schofield met Sadie Brouwer in 1859 while teaching at a school in Harrison, New York, and the two remained close friends. Schofield's neighbor and close family friend Joseph Dodgson has died, and Schofield describes in detail the service for him, which included speeches from many prominent Quakers. She thanks Brouwer for the book she sent her but indicates a preference for non-fiction over fiction. She then lists the books she has recently read. She mentions that they will be having another concert benefit for the hospital and that "Contraband meetings" are being held at her house every week. She thanks Brouwer for the description of her bedroom and says she longs to be in it with her. She sends a ring to Brouwer and signs the letter "thy devoted lover."

Anna Webster Bunting was a close friend of Martha Schofield's. She writes about her recent activities and talks about her school. She asks for details about Schofield's school and the town where she is living in South Carolina. She supposes that the black students Schofield is teaching are not as "intelligent as white children."

Lydia Schofield was Martha Schofield's sister. She expresses sympathy to Martha Schofield over the recent engagement of her closest friend Sadie Brouwer to Thomas Chalkley Bartram. She says that she understands the grief of no longer being "first in the heart" of one's "dearest and most cherished friend." She then shares a "secret" that her close relationship with someone named Jeannie has been "ruptured, and the severing of the relationship was not the choice of either woman but rather caused by what she refers to as the dividing chord." She also discusses her faith, her desire to help those in need, and the recent deaths of some friends and neighbors, including a murder.

Martha Schofield met Sadie Brouwer Bartram in 1859 while teaching at a school in Harrison, New York, and the two remained close friends. She writes that she believes Bartram is her most loyal and true friend. She talks about several funerals she has recently attended and her admiration for Washington Irving. She discusses the Civil War and her concern after the Union defeat at the Battle of Chickamauga. She praises Governor Andrew Curtain of Pennsylvania for "how nobly he worked for the soldiers comforts." Schofield also mentions the upcoming 25th anniversary of "Uncle and Aunt" (likely Bartram's uncle and aunt) and expresses her admiration for couples who are married for many years.

Major William Stone was a Union officer and Freedman's Bureau agent who later served as Attorney General of South Carolina. He married Martha Schofield's friend and co-teacher in Aiken, Mary Taylor Stone. Discusses the visit his wife is currently paying to Schofield. Comments on Schofield's poor health and discusses his views on death and theology. Praises Schofield's educational work and mentions her success getting General Howard's support for a new school house. Mentions her neighbor Aunt Amy's need for a deed to her own house. "We thought that slavery was *the* monster evil of the country—and so it was—but now that it is abolished, we have to fight daily with the evil training it left on peoples, perverting their morals and destroying their sensibility. When this state of things is remedied, other evils hardly thought of now must be met by an equally hard front."