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Visited Rutherford B. Hayes. Attended a woman's suffrage convention and heard Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton speak. Notes Rep. John Atkins' service in Congress. Comments on "a little flutter in the color line," discussing [Bruce Kelso] Bruce, an African American Senator. Notes other Senators visiting and offense raised by Mrs. Bruce visiting around town with a "tolerable black" friend. Written on printed U.S. Coast Survey Office stationery.

Ink and watercolor illustrations of scenes relating to Uncle Tom’s Cabin, with poem captions that use racialized dialect. Vignettes of Eliza, Legree, and Topsy. Bust portrait of Harriet Beecher Stowe which is stylized to look like a toe accompanying a word-play caption "Fancy Portrait here we show Mrs Harriet Beecher S'towe."

Military discharge from 25th (Colored) Infantry; Smith had enlisted in 1875 to serve five years. On vellum.

Concerning the death of three African Americans; "this month there were already 3 negroes killed all 3 shot 2 of died 3d expected to die 2 of them were shot in one day..." On printed "Wm. Davie & Co., Distillers" stationery.

Inquest into the accidental drowning of Marcus Robbins, an African-American boy. Whittemore was a trial justice in Barnstable County, Massachusetts.

Commissions Smith as a sargent in "C" Company of the 25th (Colored) Infantry Regiment. On Vellum.

Typescript of a biography of Rev. John Rankin, "Rev. John Rankin--February 4, 1793 - March 18, 1886". With an endorsement in the hand of Mary Rankin: "For Mr. Rule" [Lucien V. Rule].

Description of performance by "Blind Tom", the famous black pianist; "I went to hear 'Blind Tom' play on the piano Saturday night at Entertainment Hall Exposition Building. He could imitate nearly every instrument on the piano."

Mr. Douglass has gone to Charleston, South Carolina. Expresses her appreciation for the photograph and congratulations sent by Adams.

Douglass notes that his schedule in August, September, and October is "full of Congresses to promote various objects, moral, scientific social and religious." He praises the World's Columbian Exposition. Written on printed "Exposition Universelle de Chicago, Pavillon Haïtien" stationery.