Scope and Contents Cornelia E. Boardman writes to her sister Caroline Schroeder thanking her for her letter, and notes receiving one from Aunt Betsey. She is sorry to hear of their illnesses. Gives Henry’s travel plans noting that he is a homebody and she “cannot move him.” Reports trying to persuade him to go to Washington to see Congress in session. She describes a man injured on the railroad the previous Monday saying he, “lingered in perfect agony being burnt all over except where his book protected him...