Collections : [University of Michigan William L. Clements Library]

Report listing new members and deacons, baptisms, establishment of Bible class and Sabbath School, additions to the Abstinence Pledge, attendance, contributions, and a request for aid in the form of $50 with a note from the deacons reiterating the request. Letter followed by incomplete draft of society's refusal.

Social calls during and after New Year's Eve. Followed by "streat girls" after visiting a patent medicine proprietor. Disagreement between a southern student and northern student during a medical lecture. Expected difficulty of establishing a medical practice and building a professional reputation after two more years of study.

Has written twice since leaving Canada and expects mail to take six to eight weeks, although he has determined sending mail via New York, Charleston, and New Orleans will be more efficient. His brother served with General [John Ellis] Wool in Chihuahua, Mexico, and has since gone to Monclova where they hoisted the American flag in the plaza unopposed despite volunteer forces being raised. Comments on health of troops, speed of movements, and Mexican climate. Describes San Antonio, manufacturing of wool blankets, and how the army sends mail, with one recent Express Mail "composed of Four Mounted Horseman" attacked by fifteen Lipan Apache. Notes strength of Native Americans in the area and the number of soldiers that would be required to wage war against them.

The woman Stearns previously applied for admission to the asylum has recovered.

Loose newspaper clipping: three panel illustration titled "MEMPHIS (TENNESSEE) BEFORE THE WAR-Sketched by Porte Crayon." Panel 1: "OLD BATTERY AT THE NAVY-YARD." Panel 2: "STEAMBOAT LANDING." Panel 3: "THE COTTON LEVEE." Verso: map of Virginia that includes parts of Maryland and North Carolina, a portion of the Chesapeake Bay, railroad routes, and towns.

Mentioning that an enclosure answers her question [enclosure not present]. On printed, illustrated The Public Library of the City of Boston stationery.