Scope and Contents Scope and Contents Concerning news of the family; social and political news; the completion of his medical studies and various attempts at practicing medicine; his many financial problems; the health of his wife, Georgia Powell and his mother Julia Gardiner Tyler; his hope that his rother [Robert Fitzwalter Tyler] might settle on "some fixed purpose" in life and his sister [Pearl Tyler] might find her own "particular niche"; the bitterness felt towards his step-brothers and sisters;...