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Scope and Contents Support for Capt. Peck against Mattingly; income of steam boat company reduced "owing to the times throughout the country"; strictest economy being observed.

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Scope and Contents Lack of cost kept by Edwin Robinson for railroad iron; financial affairs of the Bay Co., Line; negotiations for Savage to buy out Falls; instructions for Bragg to get detailed instructions from Moncure Robinson for "mode of connecting the rails."

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Scope and Contents Meeting of the Board of the steamboat line; conflict over election of a director, finances, etc.

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Scope and Contents A trip to Norfolk and Richmond, where he wishes to meet Edwin Robinson and Mr. Daniel, President of the R.F. & P. R.R.; Parker of the B. & O. R.R. has now suggested through conductors from New York to Richmond, as well as through tickets.

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Scope and Contents Mail contract and Bd. of Public Works; competition with the Central R.R. from Washington; negotiations with Dove of the Philadelphia and Baltimore R.R.; difficult relations with Peter Daniel, President of the R.F. & P. R.R.,and "his board"; number of accidents suggests that trains are running faster than they should. 

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Scope and Contents Mail contracts; through tickets and Parker of the B. & O. R.R.; enclosing list of stockholders in the R.F. & P. R.R. who own no R. & P. R.R. stock, urging Edwin Robinson to get they to buy in order to control both roads; criticism of the way rails were laid; more train accidents.

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Scope and Contents Mail contracts; influence with Board of Public Works directors and stockholders meetings; conflict with Rives; R.R. and steamboat line finances; newspaper schedule advertisements of connecting trains. 

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Scope and Contents Purchase of iron for tracks; R.R. and steamboat finances; R.F. & P. R.R. stock down to 70.

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Scope and Contents Advice concerning studies leading to an engineering degree under Prof. Eustis; comparison of the abilities of John M. Robinson with those of his brother, Edmund, who is studying at the same place (Harvard University); enclosing a check for each son.

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Scope and Contents Enclosing $100 to get John M. Robinson out of debt; advice on studies and criticism of letters; greetings of Agnes, Bev, and mother of John and Edmund. Advice concerning unworthy friends, especially Crawley, who has left a bill at the Brattle House; quoting scene from "Hamlet" at length; enclosing checks for John and Edmund.

Scope and Contents Scope and Contents Enclosing a check for John and his brother, Edmund, that might have to be cashed in Boston; advice on expenditures; advises that if he cannot graduate cum laude in January, that he wait another term. Advice on studies leading to graduation in July. Request for more money "creates in me a good deal of surprise"; "unfortunate companions at Cambridge and "you may have vices I have not before suspected"; asks for an itemized statement. Candor of last letter from John M....

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Scope and Contents Bills to be presented to the Virginia Legislature; the sharing of mail contracts with other lines; troubles with Fontaine of the Louisa Co., and with officials of other competing lines; financial problems of the R.F. & P. R.R.

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Scope and Contents Reprimand of Edwin Robinson on money matters; increasing financial problems; bill before the Virginia Senate and others before the Maryland Legislature; injunction case before the courts; enclosing letter from Anne W. Coleman and draft of letter from Moncure Robinson to C.W. MacMurdo, Jr. 

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Scope and Contents Degree to be received in July from Cambridge, working under Prof. Eustis; check enclosed for John and Edmund.

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Scope and Contents Bills before the Virginia and Maryland legislatures; railroad finances, railroad stocks and bonds; enclosed articles on railroad rates, problems of lost baggage, and danger of speed of 35 mph.

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Scope and Contents Railroad bonds; bills before the Legislature; iron for rails.

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Scope and Contents Enclosing check; advice on study; problem of Edmund and pistols.

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Scope and Contents Effort of Falls to direct passengers to the Bay Line; an agent in the North to sell through tickets.

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Scope and Contents Advice on ompanions and study; check enclosed for Edmund. Moncure Robinson, Philadelphia, to his son, John M. Robinson. Letter from Charles Wadsworth concerning the Ecole des Mines, where John M. Robinson may go after taking his Bachelor of Science degree at Harvard.

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Scope and Contents The future career of John M. Robinson and the possibility of his going to the School of Mines in France.

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Scope and Contents Possibility that John M. Robinson will not get his degree; advice on a "conversation" with Prof. Eustis in this direction.

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Scope and Contents Advice on the coming examination; comment on the assault of Brooks on Sumner and the pro-slavery feeling of the Southern members of Congress. Enclosing letter from Prof. Eustis giving assurance of a degree for John, which is to be kept secret from Edmund. Encouraging John M. Robinson; enclosing check.

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Scope and Contents Reporting that Thompson Brown is recovering with the nursing Fanny; economy on railroad and boat line; contracts for rails and spikes; through tickets; plan to go to "the new Philadelphia Bathing Place, Atlantic City."

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Scope and Contents A mistake in interest payment made to Moncure Robinson by C.W. MacMurdo.