Including correspondence with brother Lachlan Tyler?, brother David Gardiner Tyler, mother Julia Gardiner Tyler, and brother Lyon Gardiner Tyler concerning news of family and friends; financial poblems; social news; his search for a profession; his caretaking of the family home in New York; his medical studies at columbia; the death of his sister [Julia Tyler Spencer]; his anger over his brother's [John Alexander Tyler] decision to join the German Army. 22 items.