Collection consists of part of an unsigned letter written to My dear Annie, dated July 4. The year is not given, and the letter is incomplete, lacking one or more pages. Much of the letter deals with the writer's defense of the treatment of enslaved people in the South.

She explains that a man is careful with that which will cost him money. She goes on to explain, "We bought a girl 14 years old for $1050 knowing that we would need help and after the New Year it would be hard to find-and she has been sick since & we think she has the consumption. The old woman we got for cook likewise got sick & finally her master, one of our elders, took her home as he found se was only trouble."

The author also writes about that her husband, who is a Presbyterian minister, had to leave the church in Kentucky due to factionalism. She writes that they now live in Clarksville, Tenn.