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Written while minister Mary Kite was visiting Quaker meetings in the Southern states. Discusses her travels through Virginia, including the landscape and various transportation projects they saw in progress. Also talks about religious matters. Mentions an encounter with a female slaveholder who Kite thought treated enslaved people very kindly.

Elizabeth Cope Collins married Rebecca Collins's stepson William Morris Collins. She discusses Mary, likely Collins's daughter Mary Forster Walton, whom she supposes is now at sea headed South ''in exciting times.'' She reflects on what she's heard about the South, including from a letter written by Ellen Murray, and says she would like to spend a winter there. She also mourns her late husband and discloses that her daughters are still struggling over the loss of their father.

Written while minister Mary Kite was visiting Quaker meetings in the Southern states. Discusses her travels, the ill health of her travelling companion Pennock Passmore, meetings which she attended, and her religious feelings. Also briefly comments upon the conditions of African American slaves.

Written while minister Mary Kite was visiting Quaker meetings in the Southern states. Discusses her travels south through Maryland and Virginia, including the landscape, people she met along the way, natural resources, and local customs.