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[Says she would like to know if her letter containing reminiscences of her honored friend Judge [Ware] has reached him; says she is certain, should there be interest, any New Yorkpaper would be glad to have them; asks for a reply.]

[Encloses a volume of poems by Caroline [Briggs]of Marbleheadwhom she thinks highly of; asks him the favor of receiving them.]

[Asks her to write a few lines which will be engraved on a plate; describes the picture on the plate in detail; says she can offer her only $5 for her endeavors as her publishers are not very liberal; remarks on how well received Osgood is in Philadelphia. ]

[Relates some gossip in regard to "Stonewall" Jackson's wife [ Anna Morrison Jackson]; says that, according to family gossip, Harriet Beecherproposed to Dr. Storrs after his first wife died; says that Dr. Storrs' first wife was related to Smith and was a daughter of theologian Bennett Tyler; promises to send Baldwin autographs of her friends.]

[Reports on her election to "Worthy Chief Templar" of the Grand Lodge of the State of North Carolina; says she was also elected delegate to the Grand Worthy International Lodge; sends him a few autographs upon request; says she is disappointed not to find her contribution in the October issue of Baldwin's Monthly. ]

[Sends him an autograph of Mrs. Eames; gives an account of her life: Mrs. Eames' father forced her to break off her engagement to Horace Greeley; says Eames wrote some poetry which interested Edgar Allan Poe; thinks of Eames as interesting in a weird way.]

[Says she is recovering from illness; longs for snow while suffering through North Carolinaweather; tells him that [Appleton] is clearing woods and trying to repair the yacht in which he was almost wrecked; hopes to escape the fevers next autumn by going away; says she has been elected "Worthy Chief Templar" by the local lodge and she is also superintendent of the Sunday School; describes poverty of the local people; the flag at the lodge is at half-mast because of Vice President Henry Wilson's death; talks about the mischief done by Northern scalawags to the colored people; feels that the colored are seeing through it all; stresses that the colored are in need of schools and instruction of every kind; she and her group are enrolling coloreds in their own lodges; believes that the Negroes are unwilling to work and do so only when driven by necessity.]

[Adds to her earlier letter regarding colored people in her vicinity; claims the coloreds are not persecuted by the whites and that they prefer to live close to their old masters; gives examples to prove that the coloreds prefer slavery to liberation; believes and gives examples that because of their tropical blood, coloreds are averse to toil and work only by necessity; tells him that the white lodges are unwilling to accept the coloreds, who prefer to be among themselves; the Grand Templars have helped to install coloreds into lodges of their own and are not opposed to colored lodges as long as separation is maintained; says that temperance lodges have sprung up all over North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Kentucky, and Virginiaand have tens of thousands of members who do "grand Work" for the colored men like going to them as speakers, etc.; explains that she thought that this clarification of her previous letter was necessary.]