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Scope and Contents Sends various goods she purchased for the Galts. News of the family. Margaret McNaught is to marry Mr. Vaughn, but her friends are not pleased.

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Scope and Contents Torn and faded.

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Scope and Contents Describes "this outlandish place." Still hopes to join Alexander in farming the Quarter.

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Scope and Contents Account for grey cloth, suspenders, cotton, buttons, cotton thread, and hanks of silk.

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Scope and Contents Edwin died October 8, but the writer did not know until after he was buried, though he was not too surprised. Quotes prices on a plain hair-covered sofa. Their banks have suspended payments "in self defence." Mentions Mr. Enders, Mr. and Mrs. Saunders, Miss Barbara Page, Maria, Lucy Ann Claiborne, and Col. Bassett. Letter is torn.

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Scope and Contents News of their family. Describes St. Paul's Church and the consecration service there. "Nothing is now talked of but the suspension of special payment-- the hard times..." Will have to make her annual report on the Orphan Asylum. Knew of the death of Elianna's little boy, but imagines he is happier with his mother in heaven.

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Scope and Contents Concerns money for John Galt in Philadelphia.

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Scope and Contents Sends various items from the garden.

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Scope and Contents Describes work among the many yellow fever patients. Letter is faded.

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Scope and Contents American ships are very necessary in the area since fishermen have received hard usage from British cruisers. Describes the town and surrounding area.

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Scope and Contents Sends four letters to Professors in Philadelphia which he can use or not, but which the writer suggests will give him certain advantages. [Note: This letter is quite confusing since at about this time John Minson Galt II was himself going to Philadelphia to study medicine. However, various other John M. Galts became doctors, and perhaps one of these wrote the letter.]

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Scope and Contents A family scene at home. Mrs. Richards recently died. The empress of Mexico was at the Springs while the writer was there. Describes Judge Scott's home.

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Scope and Contents Describes the trip to Philadelphia, which he and John Coke have just completed. Describes his rooming house. Asks to be remembered to Mrs. Millington.

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Scope and Contents Gives a more detailed account of his trip from Williamsburg to Philadelphia, and of the boarding house where he is living. Is homesick.

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Scope and Contents Account totalling $7.00.

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Scope and Contents Certificate that John M. Galt of Virginia has matriculated in the Medical Department of the University of Pennsylvania for the 1839-40 session. Signed by Wm. E. Horner M.D., Dean.

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Scope and Contents News of the family. Asks John to send him "Seymore on the medical treatment of Insanity and Doctor Castle's translation of the London Pharmacopaica." He and Mrs. Galt rode to Martin's Hundred. Mrs. Saunders has offered her carriage when Alexander, Jr. is able to use it.

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Scope and Contents Sends extracts from Mary Browne's letter of October 15. Has sent various goods, presents, and magazines. Describes a Quaker wedding in which the groom was 72 and the bride 60.

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Scope and Contents Hopes John will punctually attend the lectures on anatomy, physiology, and surgery.

Scope and Contents Scope and Contents Describes the other boarders and his activities in Philadelphia. "Mrs. Jackson knew a number of the Aristocracy of Virginia, but of its institutions she knew nothing; not being aware for instance... [of] William and Mary." One home had central heating, which he was unfamiliar with. Are colored servants in every family. Most people are more "violent against the abolitionists than we are down South." His first impressions of the professors and the dissecting room. Saw Moore...

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Scope and Contents Account for $10.00 for altering a coat and "making over" a coat.

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Scope and Contents Speaks of someone in Pensacola who he seemingly hopes to marry. "For Yankee hospitality, I'll not allow one syllable against it..."

Scope and Contents Scope and Contents Describes the stock of the bookstores, and the many Newfoundland dogs he has seen. Finds the professors at "the Jefferson" better lecturers than those at "the Old School." Summarizes a lecture on the hospit and surgeons of London. "Took the ticket" of the Pennsylvania Hospital instead of that of the Blockley since the former is closer and has more operations. Lists some of the books he bought. Hopes Alexander has "got to college" but doubts it. Mentions "Fat Tailor" and...

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Scope and Contents Describes social calls, a visit to Girard College, and his professors. Has become "much less in favour of abolition than before..." Has seen many small gardens reminiscent of Sally's. Mentions Mrs. Stewart, Cousin W. Saunders Gresham, Miss Douthat, and Miss Marty Carter.

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Scope and Contents Encloses a letter of introduction to Mr. Josiah Randall.