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Esther Fussell Lewis was Graceanna Lewis' mother. Addressed to "Relatives." Discusses a variety of topics, including her mother's virtues; a relative's marriage; a lecturer from a school in Berea, Ohio, who visited Lewis's school; a pair of lecturers on phrenology from Dartmouth who visited Lewis's school and gave phrenological examinations of her and her students and family (she reproduces her own in full); a visit from a chemist with very unusual ideas about universally intelligible writing; 10 runaway slaves who were sheltered by local abolitionists while pursued by a large group of men at the behest of a female slaveholder; and several other topics.
