Includes a letter from Seraphine Dewey at the American Mission in Mardin, Turkey, about the death of Esleem, a woman Howland had sponsored, and Wordie, who had recently married. Includes photographs of Esleem and Wordie (September 25). Correspondents include Caroline Putnam, Emily C. Wheeler, Mary McLeod Bethune, Harriet Taylor Upton, Sallie Ely, Henry D. Davidson, Oswald Garrison Villard, Booker T. Washington, Emanuel M. McDuffie, A.W. Nicholson, Leslie Pinckney Smith, W.S. Montgomery, Emma M. Gillett, William J. Edwards, Martin Menafee, and William R. Carter, among others.