Letters; Milroy family--Correspondence; Typhoid fever; Home life; Domestics--Indiana--Rensselaer
A letter from Milroy's wife, Mary, writing about the children and the neighbors. The James family is sick with typhoid fever and Mary sent her servant over to help them out.
Letters; Milroy family--Correspondence; Whooping cough; African American domestics--Indiana; Sick children
A letter from Milroy's wife, Mary, writing of family and friends. The children have whooping cough. She tells Milroy of those from Rensselaer who have returned from the war - dead and alive.