Holograph, signed with initials.

Maria Weston Chapman wrote: "The recruiting goes on slowly. Hesse has enlisted, & 45 others." She doesn't think England will interfere in the Civil War. She says that "little Henry Cowing(?)" has gone to a war camp in Maryland. She criticizes Cassius M. Clay for playing into the hands of an English political faction which favored war. She discusses free trade at length. She mentions a book by Victor Hugo. She says that there is much "politesse proportionee" in the monarchist country.

There are two layers of writing, lengthwise and crosswise, on all pages of this manuscript.