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See also Wilbur's journal briefs (mc1158_06_03_001), in which she highlighted significant events recorded in this diary.

See also Wilbur's pocket diary for 1865 (mc1158_01_02_004).

Selected papers from the Daniel Neall collection, primarily letters from Daniel Neall Jr. to John Priestly. Also includes a description of the destruction of Pennsylvania Hall, an account of the tarring & feathering of Daniel Neall Sr, and a note delivered to John Greenleaf Whittier by Daniel Neall Jr, Isaac Clothier, and Dillwyn Parrish.

Wilbur wrote page-length entries summarizing personally significant events for each day of the year. Primarily documents her charitable work in association with the Freedmen's Bureau, and social/political events in the early postbellum period. Actively observed and commented on governmental proceedings in Washington, D.C., such as the passage of the Reconstruction Bill, and attended multiple White House receptions. Attended various lectures throughout the year. Spent extensive time with her family in New York. The memoranda at the end include statistics regarding the Civil War.

See also Wilbur's pocket diary for 1867 (mc1158_01_03_002).

Lucretia Mott discusses the honeymoon of her niece Ellen Wright Garrison. She expresses disapproval of gymnastics and mentions her nephew Frank Wright's "cruel treatment" of freshmen. She also mentions that James Miller McKim has gone to Washington to "attend to the interest" of African-American freedmen; Mott dislikes the government's selling of captured Southern plantations. "Let geese continue gymnastic exercises, not sensible women."

Mary H. Child was Martha Schofield's mother. She reflects on the past year, including the end of the Civil War and the abolition of slavery. She expresses sympathy for the "thousands who have been made free and are yet suffering in the transitive states." She talks about several friends who have recently died and describes the family's Christmas activities.

These letters were written by two or three of Schofield's former students of the Aiken School who had just moved to the Hampton Normal and Agricultural School in Hampton, Virginia. They discuss conditions in the children's new home.

Lydia Schofield was Oliver Howard Ash's aunt and the sister of Martha Schofield. Is visiting Martha on St. Helena Island, South Carolina. Discusses simple Christian theology and briefly relates interactions with African American children.

Fragment; possibly fragments of multiple letters. The first two pages seem to be addressed to Martha Coffin Wright, and the last four to Martha Mott Lord. Date uncertain; partly written over an 1867 printed circular for the American Equal Rights Association, and also discusses the engagement of Lucretia Mott's niece Sarah Yarnall, who married William H. Abbott in late November 1866. Lucretia Mott writes about her plans to attend a women's rights meeting in Brooklyn. She has received a visit from a Mrs. Ricks, who is working with freedmen in Washington, D.C., for the Freedmen's Bureau (Mott also mentions a visit from Ricks in a letter dated 1866-07-20). She briefly discusses the annual meeting of the Rosine Association, where a speaker discussed attitudes towards domestic servants; Mott adds her own comments about anti-Irish prejudice. She also writes about a discussion she, James Miller McKim, and William Furness had on integrated education. She discusses a debate in the ''Women's Tributary Branch'' about a divisive proposed ''union.'' After discussing her niece Sarah Yarnall's engagement, Mott also gives a detailed account of her day's activities and makes passing references to Dr. Hannah Longshore. She closes by talking about Frances D. Gage, who is raising money to aid African-American freedmen, and briefly discussing her own fundraising for freedmen's education.