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Tintype taken by Frimmer, Comic Photographer, of four men in suits and hats seated before a prop tree and backdrop, with a note to mother written on the paper wrapper. "Rather a despondent looking group, aren't we? We were all hungry and that accounts for our 'pinched' appearance."

Woman’s Chicago and Harvey Land Company profit investment bond for Addie B. [Geneva?]. Signed by Annay Byford Leonard and Emily A. Kellogg.

Mentions his cousin Tilly, telling his mother not to worry about him “getting too familiar” with her and stating that he used to go over there, but then “heard some outside remarks so stopped.” Mrs. General George A. Custer “the first woman that ever went buffalo hunting” was coming to speak, he does not plan on attending. Provides updates about the family, including that he went to see Fanny Davenport in Cleopatra with Alice. On illustrated letterhead for the Young Men’s Christian Association of the City of Detroit, with an image of the outside of the building flying the YMCA flag.

Newspaper fragment including the article “Women of the World: Mrs. Frank Leslie says they are like Electricity and Yeast” regarding the position of women in society. [Note: Item housed in Oversize Manuscripts.]

Description of home, surroundings, friends, activities, and news in Valrico. Notes Northerners moving to the area. Mentions the formation of a Mutual Aid Society. Enclosed: piece of decorated, embroidered lace.

Happy that Mary is settling in at Sherburne, New York. Comments on having a good religious meeting and a local woman's expressed interest in conversion.

Mechanically reproduced copy of a letter inviting the recipient to fill out an application to the "Yellow Kid" Corresponding Society. Members have their names printed "in our neat and attractive list." "This is not a matrimonial agency, but an organization of refined and well-known ladies and gentlemen. The initiation fee for gentlemen is ten cents, no due ladies." On "Yellow Kid" Corresponding Society letterhead.

Call Sheet for the Boston Ladies’ Military Band directed by D. W. Howard. Bottom of the call sheet features the Pratt’s name typed, naming him as the Business Manager. States that the next stand will be in Herkimer New York, which they will get to via the R[ome] W[atertown] & O[gdensburg] Railroad. Many menus from various hotels and events are pasted on verso.

Comments on his marriage proposal and thoughts of moving to Oberlin, Ohio. Preparations for their wedding, noting time necessary to order invitations.

Registered letter enclosing a $300 death benefit from the Ústřední Vỳbor Sesterské Podporující Jednoty, a women's benevolent society for Czech immigrants, sent to the sister of Anne Buchacek, living in Racine, Wisconsin, for distribution among her heirs. Written in Czech on illustrated stationery for the society featuring a flying dove with an olive branch in its beak, with embossed seal.