No date, postmarked July 26 (no year), New York, written while in the country at Rhinebeck; three letters on one sheet (two by Mary and one by her mother, Frances). In the first letter Mary mentions that her mother is ill, that she has been to a funeral sermon, and that her "bile has worked itself off by emiting a great quantity of blood;". In her second letter Mary again mentions her mother's illness and decribes her friendly encounters with local animals. In the third letter Frances describes her illness, "a little cold" caused "by the great change in weather". Year supplied by date of preceding letter (see series "Letters to Albert Chrystie", letter 1).