Topics include selling butter, barley and potato harvests and prices, the grasshoppers' destruction of the wheat crop, and the illnesses among family and friends.
Topics include Charles' recent illness, his religious activities in his Company during the War, his friendship with Enos Fletcher, and the situation of their camp near Fort Pickens on Santa Rosa Island, Florida.
Topics include his work for the Burlington (IA) Insurance Company, his son, Clark, and expected birth of another child, and his plans to visit Vermont.
Topics include his new position with Iowa Mutual Aid Association and his expectations of making a good deal of money, the health of his family and relatives, and the location of his brother, Levi, in Mt. Ayr, Iowa.
