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Rebecca Lewis Fussell was Graceanna Lewis' sister. Lewis discusses the details of selling Sunnyside, the family farm. She does not think she will get the position at Vassar College that she applied to; she believes that they would prefer to hire a man, even though she has gotten references from several scientists. She mentions that her cousin Susan Fussell is working with children in poorhouses and alludes to the financial difficulties she and Fussell have experienced.

Written on the letterhead of the First National Bank by cashier Allen Mosher. Discusses Howland's financial affairs and business with the bank.

Consists primarily of financial records. Also contains journal entries, lists of students Howland taught, records of supplies she received, and other occasional miscellany, including reports to military officers about her teaching and notes from her medical studies. Most of the contents date from Howland's time working with freedmen in the 1860s, but some parts are later; the financial records in particular often last into the 1870s, with a few reaching into the 1890s. The book was often written in upside down and from back to front. Therefore, in this digital facsimile some pages are presented upside down and should be read from the back of the volume to the front.

Record of Howland's expenses, including those from her travels in Europe in the summer of 1885.

Written to Howland's nephew Herbert. Tells of Howland's time in Heathsville, Virginia, with Caroline F. Putnam, Helen Pitts Douglass, and Anna M. Stanton. Discusses a mortgage.

Miscellaneous receipts and financial records: a 1908 notice from C. A. Morgan about coal prices; two 1913 receipts for butter from the Poplar Ridge Elgin Creamery; an 1851 receipt for German lessons from Martha Kimber; an 1866 acknowledgement of a donation for freedmen in Columbia, South Carolina; an 1863 receipt for the shipment of goods for freedmen from Alfred Love; an 1874 receipt for a registered letter to Jane M. Golden; a 1923 notice that the subscriptions to the "Bird Lore" periodical Howland had paid for several African American schools was about to run out; an 1883 account of the finances of Howland's school in Heathsville, Virginia; an 1882 invitation to a meeting of the Cayuga County Historical Society; an undated request for a membership fee from the National Association of Audubon Societies; an 1867 order for Howland's transportation from Heathsville to Baltimore; and an 1882 petition to the U.S. House of Representatives against the Chinese Exclusion Act.

Mary Anna Longstreth was Rebecca Collins's niece. Primarily discusses news concerning family/friends and describes her work with inmates at Eastern State Penitentiary (i.e., Cherry Hill) through the Prison Committee.

Incomplete letter from Cornelia Hancock, a Quaker reformer and educator who founded a school for African Americans in South Carolina, forwarded to Howland by Hancock's niece Isabel Churchman Child. Hancock's letter discusses her recent activities, including starting a "social center" for African Americans, as well as her financial situation. Child's letter gives news of Hancock, who had just left for South Carolina.

Financial records and receipts of Rebecca White dated from 1873 to 1906-02-13. Includes miscellaneous bills; property taxes, sales, and payments; investment receipts; personal account records; and content regarding the estate of Hannah White Richardson.