Letter concerning the failing health of Tapping Reeve and Elizabeth; requests Cushman to take care of "Burr" who is presumably a grandchild named Tapping Burr Reeve.

Concerning a trip to Troy; news of family and friends.

Acknowledges Cushman's letter; news of family and friends; financial matters; acknowledges Maria's letter; letters from Wall Street still have not arrived.

Three letters to John Paine Cushman, two from Benjamin Tallmadge and one from Elizabeth Reeve. Tallmadge's letters report social news and plan his visit to Troy to see Cushman.

Reeve's letter describes her own and her husband's failing health and urges Cushman to take care with the money he has invested for the Reeves, as it may soon be the only sustenance of the fatherless boy, Burr, whom she and her husband had adopted.