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Mary Townsend was an author and close friend of Graceanna Lewis'. Lewis recently attended an antislavery meeting where Elijah Pennypacker, her brother-in-law Edwin Fussell, and a Baptist minister named John Collins discussed communal living and its relationship to progress; the letter summarizes their positions. "Miss Abby" (likely Abby Kimber) was also there. Lewis discusses ideas of morality and religion; she also mentions attending a meeting of the Royal Spring Temperance Society and an anti-tobacco pledge that has been circulating.

Edwin Fussell was Graceanna Lewis' cousin who married her sister, Rebecca Lewis Fussell. Lewis enjoyed Fussell's recent visit and mentions the possibility of attending a convention in Ohio in the fall. Some girls at her school in York have decided not to eat meat, and Lewis expresses interest in utopian communities and the principles of social reformers (she alludes to Albert Brisbane's work and mentions Charles Fourier). She dwells on religious themes around death and temptation and expresses sorrow at some of her friends having left York. Finally, she makes several mentions of a "Liberator Company" and discusses a group of Antislavery Friends who passed through York.