Holograph, signed.

Mary Anne Estlin was staying with Harriet Lupton when "the joyful intelligence of Richmond's fall & Lee's surrender came" and also when the news of Lincoln's death was announced "in large placards on news boards." The previously hostile journals joined in the "common utterances of sympathy with your people & reverence for your matryed President." Mary A. Estlin joined a sewing circle for the Freedmen's Aid; it consists of members of the Lewin's Mead congregation, called by Mrs. Armstrong, and meets in the house of the minister, R. C. Jones. Considerable ignorance about the freedmen was manifested by the members. Mary A. Estlin has read Edmund Quincy's farewell to the National Anti-Slavery Standard.