Two letters to her brother, Frederick H. Wolcott.

Mary Ann writes to her brother to give details of their sister Laura's wedding to Robert G. Rankin. Reports that they all wished he were there; notes that Laura was a beautiful bride and gives a description of her dress (now in the collection of the Museum of the City of New York); requests that Frederick be careful of his health; details their father's work in the garden; notes that the parlor and dining room have been papered and painted; teases him about a pretty girl.

Thanks her brother for his letter; asks him to take care of his health; notes that the decease of their father can only be fully realized in Litchfield, states "I did not know how entirely dependent for happiness I was on Papa, till since his removal." Remarks that their father had taken comfort in none of his children behaving dishonorably; gives other family news.