In general, the letters deal with farming, religion, education, healt, and mortality. Moore Hoit writes of training t obe a doctor. Emmet Moor Hoit of dentistry, and his son, Emmet Moor Hoit, Jr., of the life of a Civil War soldier. Individual gems touch upon Yale, the drowning of a young doctor, Christmas in a female seminary, ladies' fashions, and Niagara Falls. Much of the correspondence contrasts life in Stanwich, CT, and Castleton, VT.
