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Thesta Dana was the wife of Brigadier General James Jackson Dana and a member of the National Association for the Relief of Destitute Colored Women and Children. Much of the letter is concerned with arrangements for an African-American boy named William David Norris, in which Abby Hopper Gibbons, Thesta Dana, Leah Dorman, and a Mrs. Sinclair are involved. Dana says Emily Howland believes that African-Americans "cannot, for a generation at least, trust white people," and she thinks this is why an African-American man "associated with his natural enemies, the Irish papists." Also discusses looking for a friend's son who may have died of war wounds, her husband's career, and military promotions. It is possible that not all pages belong together.
