Morrill writes with congratulations to President Buckham on some recent honors he has received, an offer to send a plaster cast of the Youth by Michaelangelo, with news of recent developments in the Agriculture Department, and about the academic progress of Morrill's son, James.
Morrill writes about asking the Governor of Vermont to establish a Military Hall in Burlington and the idea of giving the manuscript of his recent address to the University Library.
Morrill replies to a request from Buckham that make some remarks on an unamed topic, possibly the relationship of the Agricultural College to the University.
Topics include Morrill's son James education at the University of Vermont and a piece of Senate legislation that would have allowed military officers to become instructors.
Morrill writes about prospects for new agricultural and mechanical building and an experimental farm at the University and urges Buckham to seek support from the city of Burlington.
Morrill writes about the need to acquire forty to fifty acres of farm land for the University as a means of appeasing those opposed to the University as the home for the state's agricultural college, such as the Grangers and competing institutions like Middlebury .
Morrill writes about the state of agricultural colleges in New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Connecticut, as well as the idea of having him make an address in support of keeping the Agricultural College at the University of Vermont.
Morrill writes about what he might say in an address in support of keeping the Agricultural College at the University of Vermont as well as his thoughts about the efforts to establish a school of agriculture in each state across the nation.
Morrill writes about the debate in the state legislature to separate the Agricultural College from the University of Vermont in 1890. (final page(s) missing)
