Birthday greetings from Robert Woodward Barnwell to sister, Catherine Osborn Barnwell. Barnwell writes of giving up dancing parties and advises Catherine to avoid them as well.
Bishop Charles P. McIlvaine, Gambier, OH, writes to William H. W. Barnwell concerning a donation to Kenyon College that Barnwell reported in his "Episcopal Protestant."
Bp Charles P. McIlvaine, in New York, writes to William H. W. Barnwell thanking him for his contribution to his diocese. He asks Barnwell to aid his agent he is sending south and writes of many "adversaries" in New York.
Capt. Edward Barnwell, Beaufort, writes to daughter, Catherine Osborn Barnwell, cautioning her about over-doing the social scene in Charleston. He also writes of gardening and his crops, including the propagation of orange trees, and asks that Catherine care for her sick sister by giving her "tincture of bark & brandy & water."
Catherine Osborn Barnwell writes her mother from Laurel Bay plantation where she describes how she is the "principal" of the house in her mother's absence.
Charles Aldis, of Bank of America, and treasurer of the Foreign Missions of the Protestant Episcopal Church, writes to Thomas. H. Jervey acknowledging receipt of $1039 raised by William H. W. Barnwell and the congregation of St. Peter's Church for foreign and domestic missionary work.
