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Jane Stuart Woolsey was an influential figure in relief work and nursing as well as a teacher of freedmen. Written on U.S.A. General Hospital, Fairfax Seminary stationery. Discusses recent events concerning army hospital personnel, including the controversies surrounding Surgeon General Hammond. Describes the substandard conditions of a regimental hospital and rebukes the inefficiency and ineffectiveness of the Medical Department. Disapproves of the social receptions held exclusively for the officers and ladies. Is working to establish a reading room and asks for donations of surplus books and magazines. Mentions the misplacement of a box of supplies sent to Gibbons. Says that Gibbons "can certainly influence the right people" within the Medical Department.

Jane Stuart Woolsey was an influential figure in relief work and nursing as well as a teacher of freedmen. Discusses herself and her sister Georgeanna Muirson Woolsey Bacon taking over the positions of Gibbons and her daughter Sally at the hospital in Point Lookout, Maryland. Georgeanna will fill Gibbons's position as Lady Superintendent. Discusses Georgeanna's current work at Gettysburg. Requests information about the Ladies Department at Point Lookout and the duties that would be expected of them.

Jane Stuart Woolsey was an influential figure in relief work and nursing as well as a teacher of freedmen. Written from Fairfax Seminary Hospital on United States Sanitary Commission stationery. Requests information about a nurse named Miss Heald whom she suspects was fired from her previous position under Gibbons at Point Lookout. Asks for a letter concerning Miss Heald from Gibbons to use in case Dorothea Dix tries to assign Miss Heald to work with her in Fairfax.

Jane Stuart Woolsey was an influential figure in relief work and nursing as well as a teacher of freedmen. Requests a personal interview with Gibbons to learn the details about the hospital positions that she and her sister Georgeanna Muirson Woolsey Bacon are willing to take over. Her sister and mother just arrived back from Gettysburg. Expresses sympathy over the destruction of Gibbons's home in the New York draft riots, which has led Gibbons and her daughter Sally to require replacements for their positions in the army hospital at Point Lookout, Maryland.

Abby Howland Woolsey was an influential figure in relief work and nursing. Discusses the current national financial troubles and its effect on charitable services. Her sister Jane Stuart Woolsey has profitable work tailoring for the government and southern plantations. General Samuel C. Armstrong is struggling to teach useful vocational skills to African Americans at his Hampton Institute. Will donate money to one of Gibbons's charities and discusses the financial issues surrounding Gibbons's "laundry" service enterprise.

Abby Howland Woolsey was an influential figure in relief work and nursing. Discusses the work of her sisters Jane Stuart Woolsey and Georgeanna Muirson Woolsey Bacon as war nurses in the hospital in Beverly, New Jersey. Thanks Gibbons on behalf of her mother for her sympathies, possibly referring to the death of Woolsey's sister Mary Elizabeth Watts Woolsey Howland in 1864.