Woolsey discusses a book missing from his personal library (Edward Buck's "Massachusetts ecclesiastical law" (1866) and the inability of colonial ministers to unite a couple in marriage and the post-1700 law allowing ministers to unite, with magistrates present.
Letter to Cambridge University colleague (President?) regarding his son and which college he will chose to go to; Christopher Bridge a recent graduate of Harvard, enjoying some Madeira wine, the comments of Sir Isaac Newton and procurement of books from a fellow at Eton College.
Condolence letter from Yale President Timothy Dwight to the widow of his classmate Littleton P. Franklin (Yale 1849). Dwight writes of remembering his classmate from college days.