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Gives an astrological reading, predicting Lucy Stacy will suffer from some illness, has a respectable and wealthy family, and will marry a man from the north. Describes her future husband and where they will meet.

Original manuscript located in Belief, Faith, and Other Collection

Letter to his sister and brother-in-law residing in LaSalle County, Illinois, providing unfavorable updates from Windham County, Connecticut. Mr. Walker thought to be "deranged" after attempting to cut his wife’s throat. Describes the attempted murder and subsequent detention in jail. Many deaths, including two suicides. Refers to it being “a general time of health about here,” and describes people dealing with cancer and consumption. Mentions many accidents including a man losing his fingers due to being shot, a mining accident resulting in a man losing an arm and an eye, and a man falling into a fire and burning his eyes out before passing away, and others. Poor weather, very little rain. News of acquaintances, including a number who have "turned millerite" “May you and every son and daughter of adam believe that endless misery is out of the question.”

Writes regarding notes on his speeches, which he has not been able to review as he has been away from home.

Appreciated Avery's letter of consolation regarding the death of Stibbins' young child, Mary. Reflects on Mary's character and her death by croup. "It was agonizing to feel that nothing could relieve her, that she must 'choke to death' without the possibility of help- but so it was to be. On Thursday the Physician was first called, she lingered suffering most intensely till Tuesday March 4." Includes religious reflections.

Letter from a Montreal physician to Brigham at the Asylum for the Insane in Utica, New York, with the history of a boy taken under their care. The patient is healthy and from a respectable and well-off family, but his parents neglected and were displeased with him. Notes a change in the boy's temperament towards volatility and the development of "monomania," which Campbell discovered after the patient offended a lady of means. Acknowledges that "lower Canada" has no places for the "treatment of the insane" except jails. Notes his high "venereal appetite" and case of syphilis, but does not believe him "addicted to masturbation." Mentions some family history with insanity.

Account of sickness in the family, describing her symptoms of fever, vomiting, and swelling. Fears her children are too sickly to be able to go to the city to be educated and spinal trouble eliminates the possibility of mechanical employments. Notes on benevolence and religion.

Sends thanks for the gift of books. His wife has not answered their letter on account of their children taking ill, with one struck with bilious fits. Medicine, diet, and exercise have failed to subdue his heart disease, “so that I have not been able to walk twenty paces without stopping from a sense of suffocation attended with palpitation and pain in the side and arm.” Met with Dr. Jones and Dr. Pelton locally and with Dr. Buckler and Dr. Hale in Washington, D.C. Discusses symptoms, doctors’ explanations of them, and attempted remedies for nosebleeds. Comments on the effect of climate on his health. Remarks on the Chesapeake & Ohio canal, the New York & Erie Railroad, politics, and nativism.

Comments on Iowa. Believes himself to be the "No 1" physician in the area, "though there were seven or eight Physicians here when I came now there are but six and two of these are Herb Drs." Asks after Charlotte Fisher's health, as he has an obstetrics patient with similar symptoms which he cured when he "removed the foetus by an operation." Details of the house he is constructing and the possibility of building a "business house" as well. Believes there are more opportunities for business in Iowa than in Flushing, Ohio.

Farnsworth, a man who is "engaged in dispensing & vending medicine" criticizes doctors for causing more harm than good and for practicing without training. The city of Memphis is growing and agricultural and manufacturing prospects are good.

Surprised that Gov. Seward based his defense of his client, Wyatt, on the grounds of moral insanity. Believes such a case shows the depravity of the times, corruption of the judicial system, and threatens to absolve criminals of guilt. Wonders if Seward will defend William Freeman on the same grounds. The temperance cause is doing well in his area. Invites Walsworth to visit and attend his Sabbath service.