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Written on The Northampton Lunatic Hospital stationery, where Prince was the first superintendent. Requests photographs of John Hopper, Abby Hopper Gibbons, and her children. Inquires about obtaining some Contrabands to do farm work ("Contraband" was a term used for slaves who escaped to Union lines during the Civil War). He originally bought the farm for the purpose of patient rehabilitation, but he now plans to use it for the benefit of African Americans and seeks the assistance of John Hopper and Abby Hopper Gibbons.

James Wood was a Quaker who was very active in prison reform; he was a member of the Executive Committee of the New York Prison Association. He explains to Anna Jackson that the "so-called fight" that she heard about at the Matteawan State Hospital for the Criminally Insane was an exhibition put on for the inmates by a noted pugilist. He believes it was an innocent event, but he directs her to express her concerns to Dr. Robert Lamb, the superintendent of the hospital, or to Cornelius V. Collins, Superintendent of State Prisons.