Cornelia E. Boardman writes to her mother Mary Anna Whiting from New York. Notes that Stephen is not in town; Ben could not get into his office; and that she is unwilling to have her mother travel in the cold. She describes the christening of her niece, Cornelia Elizabeth Schroeder, who was baptized by the Bishop and notes that as this event has concluded there is nothing to keep her in New York and will return home as soon as her Aunt Betsy is ready to come. Her sister Cornelia Boardman Schroeder is unwilling to be left alone.