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Major William Stone was a Union Army officer, Freedman's Bureau agent, and later served as Attorney General of South Carolina. He also married Martha Schofield's friend and co-teacher in Aiken, Mary Taylor Stone. He has a letter for Schofield from Major Emerson, who had done Schofield a favor. He is looking forward to being reunited with his fiance, Mary Taylor, and they will go to New England because he has received orders relieving him of his duties. He has had several recent speaking engagements where he has been talking to freedmen about education. He also discusses attending Fourth of July celebrations.

Major William Stone was a Union Army officer, Freedman's Bureau agent, and later served as Attorney General of South Carolina. He also married Martha Schofield's friend and co-teacher in Aiken, Mary Taylor Stone. He is glad that Schofield knows about his engagement to Mary Taylor and says he must "claim her" before she can work another year at the Schofield School. He also discusses the weather and shares his thoughts about Quakerism.

Mary Taylor Stone taught with Martha Schofield at the Schofield School in Aiken, South Carolina, from 1868 to 1869. Discusses her trip to meet her husband in Washington, D.C. Describes their new apartment and living arrangements. Invites Schofield to visit. Describes going to the theater. Expresses concern over Schofield's poor health and grieves over the recent death of her nephew Lawrence P. Corbin (1868-1870).

Schofield describes hosting her former co-teacher Mary Taylor Stone and her husband Major William Stone for a lengthy visit, which included a "masked party." She discusses her attempts to encourage "Bureau money" to be allocated to build a non-sectarian school building on her lot of land, rather than being given to the Methodists to build a church and schoolhouse. She hopes that if the Freedmen's Bureau is dissolved they put General O. O. Howard at the head of the Educational Bureau and "all will be right." She expects to spend Easter with Carrie Taylor Corbin, Major David Corbin, and the Stones in Charleston. She also adds that she is keeping busy trying to get her former students settled, including Lawrence Obanyon Posey and Allen A. Scott.

Major William Stone was a Union Army officer, Freedman's Bureau agent, and later served as Attorney General of South Carolina. He also married Martha Schofield's friend and co-teacher in Aiken, Mary Taylor Stone. He is very sad over the death of his nephew Lawrence Corbin. He writes that he talked to Major Edward Deane, who told him that he will most likely be able to have a schoolhouse built on Schofield's lot of land. He adds that he will be glad to be of any further assistance to Schofield regarding the matter.

Major William Stone was a Union Army officer, Freedman's Bureau agent, and later served as Attorney General of South Carolina. He also married Martha Schofield's friend and co-teacher in Aiken, Mary Taylor Stone. Encloses a letter from an unnamed man (no longer attached). Has recently helped Schofield with matters concerning her school; briefly discusses Schofield's and Mary Taylor Stone's work. References events/activities concerning his relationships with Schofield and Mary Taylor Stone and considered visiting Aiken. Mentions multiple individuals. Criticizes orator Anna E. Dickinson, saying "I think her pretty face has done more for her reputation than the quality of the matter she has doled out to the lecture-going public."

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."