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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.

Costs of producing colored fabric flowers. Includes cut-outs of designs with prices.

Valentine’s Day poem to William, the author’s husband. Addresses their lack of children, reassuring him. “Though married now for many years, / Your children didn’t appear; / Your friends they look and smile at you, / And say it’s very queer. / … / But William, you just try again, / For you are hail and stout; / If you will do it with a will, / You’ll bring the thing about.” Includes a drawing of a man holding the hands of a young boy and a young girl.

Comments on her loneliness and preparations for winter.