Many letters relate to the school at Manassas, suffrage, and mentions of the San Francisco earthquake. Letters from William James Edwards discusses the purchasing of plantations in the South by Northerners and his wish to buy a plantation. Correspondents include Jane E. Thompson, Caroline Putnam, Harriet May Mills, Harriet Taylor Upton, Adella H. Logan, William R. Carter, William Henry Holzclaw, Henry Davidson, William James Edwards, Amanda Deyo, Jennie Dean, Lyman Ward, and William Taylor, among others.