Abbott thanks Markham for a letter and poems, including those inscribed for Rev. Leon Rosser Land, leader of the Bronx Free Fellowship. Abbott also writes of the death of his wife, which was a release from her affliction [multiple sclerosis].
Four-page letter dated December 27, 1878, from Daniel McFarland in South Bend [Indiana] to Lysander Spooner [probably in Boston, Massachusetts], discussing mutual acquaintances.