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Apologizes for not writing more and is now writing to her during a debate on Black Rock Harbor. Would prefer to be with her. Is hopeful that his efforts in regards to the "Notaryship, and the situation in the Bank" will be successful. Discusses acquaintances in Albany and New York City. Brief religious notes, including attendance at Episcopal and Baptist churches in Troy, New York.

Preaching log for tour of the southern states. Revival in New Hampshire.

Sermon notes on the folly of wisdom, on summer, on the death of Lucy Richards, and on "Quench not the Spirits." and V. M. Coryell ALS to Elias Bowen; Waverly, [New York], March 28, 1851 (2 pages).

Description of climate and agriculture. Religious groups in Ohio and Kentucky. Seeks funds for their growing Catholic congregation in Prairie du Long. Jesuits.

Regarding payment of rent for church pew.

Written shortly after Leavitt's move to New York City to work as secretary of the American Seamen's Friend Society and editor of the Sailor's Magazine. Describes his plans for establishing various institutions to "repay a part of what we all owe to the poor sailors, by whose toils, dangers, and ruin we obtain almost all the comforts of civilized life." Description of home in New York. Preaching at the New Colony Church in the Bowery; preaching to sailors.

Asks the Home Missionary Society for their support in retaining Mr. Clark as minister, as "the exertions of the prosperous wicked" are against him. Includes, on the same leaf, ALS from Wm. Wisner asking for the Society's aid for one year longer to retain Clark.

Cook's list of items procured for an ordination. Includes vendors' names, price.

Thoughts on Meade's election as bishop.