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Written on Hammond General Hospital stationery. Dr. Anthony Heger was the successor of Dr. Wagner as Medical Director of Point Lookout. Is happy that Gibbons' family and valuables were recovered safely from the New York City draft riot that destroyed her home. Hopes she will be able to return to the hospital soon, saying "you have become almost identified with its rise and progress." Discusses recent events that have transpired while she's been away; there have been multiple "visitors of high official character" who have approved of the hospital conditions, including Dorothea Dix. A prison camp for Confederate soldiers is going to be established at Point Lookout.

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.

Fragment. Envelope says "picked up after the Riot, referencing the sacking of the Gibbons home in the New York Draft Riots. The letter is William Gibbons's first letter from college in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Thanks him for offering to shelter her family after the destruction of her house in the draft riots in New York. Details the destruction and looting of her house. Mentions that her father Isaac T. Hopper's personal papers were burned. Her daughters with the help of John Choate were able to save some valuable items by carrying them over the rooftops to safety. They have since been staying in her brother's home, but hope to move into a new house by the autumn. Says "because this calamity has overtaken us is no reason why we should sit with folded hands." Will be returning with her daughter Sally and five new women to work as nurses at the army hospital in Point Lookout, Maryland. Says "I still hold the control of that Hospital and shall continue my interest supplying it with stores and with nurses. Being identified with its rise and progress, and having been steadily in it for six months past I cannot easily give it up without loss."

Ellen Sever Tebbets was the wife of Theodore Tebbets, who authored "A Memoir of William Gibbons." Enclosed with a letter to John Hopper (A00181399). Has just learned about the draft riots that damaged the Gibbons home on 29th street. Feels anxious knowing "how glad the pro-slavery demons would be to wreak their hate upon" his family. Wants him to know how highly she thinks of his family and all that they do and knows they will not give up the cause no matter what.

George Ellis Baker was a writer, editor, and prison reformer, and worked in multiple governmental roles, such as private secretary for Senator William H. Seward. Discusses the draft riots in New York and offers sympathies over the destruction of her home. Discusses the plight of African Americans and contrabands (a term used for slaves who escaped to union lines during the Civil War), and mentions land allotted for an Asylum.

Fragment. Describes the aftermath of having "home taken away, and everything that made it home, presumably in reference to the New York City draft riots of 1863 when Gibbons's house was looted and burned. Will travel to Point Lookout. Discusses recent news concerning family/friends, including the activities of several doctors.

Written from Dolores. Marie Louise Craven was the wife of Commander Tunis Craven. Expresses sympathy for the destruction of Abby's home in the New York City draft riots of 1863 and asks if she can be of service. Discusses her recent illness and the recent death of her son, Lieutenant Augustus Craven. Plans to go to New York in the autumn so her children can attend school there.

Walker was president of Harvard University from 1853 to 1860; Gibbons's son William died in 1855 while a sophomore there. The letter discusses the New York City draft riot and offers sympathy for the resultant destruction of Gibbons's home and the papers of her father Isaac T. Hopper. It also talks about some issues of human nature and moral philosophy. "Our activities do much, but our sufferings do more."

Pages 5 and 6 contain a letter from Caroline Choate; the rest is from Julia Gibbons. Describes the destruction of the Gibbons's house in the New York City draft riot, the belongings the family managed to save, their escape from the house, et cetera.