Received

Mira's incoming correspondence contains informative and solicitous letters, 1827-1851 from her husband Samuel (1800-1887), daughter Clara (1835-1925), father-in-law Isaac Townsend (1774-1865), assorted Townsend and Sharpless relatives and includes a variety of topics. Most of the inter-familial letters were written by female members and contain chatty discussions of domestic life and housekeeping, child raising and education, the purchase of foodstuffs and textiles, hire of servants, local and foreign travel, attendance at meeting, the courtship of young adults, the births, deaths and marriages of relatives and friends. In a letter from daughter Emily to her sister, Clara, Emily describes parties replete with instrumental music, dancing, sumptuous foods served, as well as her mother's work on Rosine Association Reports. The letters also contain comments on current events involving abolition and slavery, prison reform, and the political scene - ".. ..they all think Taylor will be President - what a pity that we must have a warrior and a slaveholder for our King."