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M. Carey Thomas responds to a letter from Mary Garrett, in which Garrett asks that teachers' schedules that had been sent to Thomas for review and revision be returned to Garrett. Thomas ends the letter by praising the efforts of Garrett and the rest of the Committee in resolving the issue of the German language teacher.

See also Wilbur's journal briefs (mc1158_06_03_001), in which she highlighted significant events recorded in this diary. Semi-daily entries describe Wilbur's daily life; travels; teaching career; participation in the anti-slavery movement, including membership in the Rochester Ladies' Anti-Slavery Society; attendance at various lectures and meetings on subjects including science, religion, temperance, teaching, abolition, and women's rights; and domestic life and family relationships. Includes several pressed plant specimens.

Mary Garrett writes to M. Carey Thomas and Mamie Gwinn regarding the logistics of making decisions and arrangements for new teachers for Bryn Mawr School. Included with the letter was a check to cover possible expenses related to the arrangements that were to be made.

Journal of Julia Wilbur containing brief entries summarizing personally significant events, dated May 1, 1844 to December 31, 1862; there are corresponding entries in her larger journals where content is elaborated upon. Documents Wilbur's teaching career; participation in the anti-slavery movement, including attendance at anti-slavery meetings, work on the Underground Railroad, and association with Frederick Douglass; observations of racism against African Americans and racial discrimination in education; extensive attendance at various lectures and meetings on subjects including science, temperance, teaching, abolition, and women's rights; presence during speeches of prominent abolitionists such as Frederick Douglass, Wendell Phillips, Lucretia Mott, and William Lloyd Garrison; participation in the women's rights movement and association with Susan B. Anthony; family relationships, particularly with her niece Alfreda Bigelow; and work during the Civil War aiding Contraband (fugitive slaves who escaped to Union territory during the war).

The first two pages of the letter were written by Mary Kite and the third was probably by Rebecca Kite Brown. Discusses Rebecca Walton's upcoming teaching position at Nine Partners and her stay with Samuel Wood.

Wilbur wrote brief, one-line entries summarizing personally significant events for each day of the year on the "Memoranda" pages of the almanac (pages 11, 15, 19, 24, 28, 32, 36, 40, 44, 48, 52, 56).

Martha Schofield met Sadie Brouwer in 1859 while teaching at a school in Harrison, New York, and the two remained close friends. She is very concerned about Brouwer because of the draft riots that have been occuring in Brooklyn. She hopes to hear from her soon that she is okay. She blames the riots on the Copperheads, Northerners who opposed the Civil War and advocated for political compromise. She describes her work gathering and delivering supplies to the soldiers. 600 wounded from Gettysburg have come to the hospital where she volunteers, and she describes her work at the hospital and some of the people she has helped. She reflects on her time teaching at the school in Harrison, and discusses her health. She sends Brouwer a copy of a poem that she wrote for John Bunting about their friendship. She reflects at length on her close friendship with Bunting and states that she has never had a desire to be more than friends with him.

Discusses various topics including their correspondence, Passmore's views on the afterlife and remarriage, her role in teaching the children of an African American neighbor, and White's deceased sister Hannah White Richardson.

M. Carey Thomas writes to Mary Garrett about taking a break from visiting Atlantic City to deal with college business. She writes about the college's struggle to hire qualified biology professors and fundraising efforts for new laboratories. Thomas also updates Garrett on the Bryn Mawr School's schoolyard renovations and hiring teachers as well as on the progress of the medical school committee. Thomas then reminisces about her early summers Atlantic City, where she is now staying. Included with the letter is a newspaper clipping about an incoming Bryn Mawr School teacher.