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Discusses the financial and legal status of her lots in Richmond. [First sheet only.]

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Because of Professor Preston's death the chair of Greek and German at the College is vacant, and wonders if Galt would be interested.

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Would like some more of Elizabeth J. Galt's writing. She already has "The Old Garden" and "Lines Written in Sickness." Inquires about Mr. Vest, Sallie's garden, Galt servants, Mary Williamson, and Rosa. This is her fiftieth birthday.

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Encloses her rent from the lot on Main Street.

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Gay Williamson and her brother, James Woolfolk, spent the morning. The writer's brother [John M. Galt II] especially liked Woolfolk and Cousin Sarah Saunders, and said they had the "soft green of the soul."

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Requests him to pay part of his long-standing debt.

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Recently heard of the deaths of his two brothers. Asks her to prepare an obituary "for the Press" on the death of his dog.

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Would like to borrow "Political Ethics" by Francis Lieber. [Note: This letter is badly torn, so that date and signature are now lacking.]

Scope and Contents From the Collection: Professional and personal papers; 1745-1892; of the Galt family of Williamsburg, Virginia. Papers primarily concern the Galt family's work at the Eastern State Hospital, including apothecary shop daybooks, account books, medical daybooks, clinical notebooks, weather diaries, commonplace books, reports, medical notes, lecture notes, correspondence, and other. The personal papers consist of diaries, letters, scrapbooks, school notes, financial papers, memoirs, and other material....