Topics include Pratt's children and wife (second), the difficulties and expansions of his insurance companies, and his bridge and building truss and anchor designs and marketing schemes.
Topics include Della's impressions of Pleasant Lake, Indiana, the activities and health of her children, and her suspicions of her Vermont relatives' attitudes toward her.
Topics include managing Edward's accounts through agents in Vermont, the birth of his daughter, the health of his family, the climate in California, and selling his Milk Pans.
Topics include Henrietta's collecting of debts for Edward, a large fire on the wharf in Sacramento and the steam fire engines that dealt with it, and Edward's new business activities.
Topics include an injury he incurred while trying to put a halter on a wild mustang, arrangements for receiving sugar from Craig, and plans to send canned fruit and pictures.
Topics include the improved health of his daughter, his accounts in Vermont, and the potential trade of goods between Vermont and California, especially sugar.
Topics include Edward's work managing the grocery department of the farmers' union, his intention to hunt in the mountains, the poor condition of the sugar that Craig sent, the birth of another child, and his acquisition of a house.
