Cholera

Letter from George W. Strong, New York, to John Nelson Lloyd, Lloyd Neck, enclosing a letter from Eloise to Lloyd, discussing his plans for his daughters' property on Lloyd Neck and his conversations on the subject with Eloise's fiancé, Elias Hasket Derby III, and briefly, a bad report from the Board of Health and his plan to leave the city.

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Letter from George W. Strong, New York, to John Nelson Lloyd, Lloyd Neck, regarding papers and instructions required for Conklin Gould's purchase of a property from a Mr. Beach, the reoccurrence of cholera in New York, and his family's removal to Whitestone (excepting Eloise and Strong himself).

Letter from George W. Strong, New York, to John Nelson Lloyd, Lloyd Neck, regarding the health of Lloyd's son John, the harmfulness of drinking cold water and the healthfulness of brandy and water, the passing of the detested Fourth of July holiday without incident, the return of cholera, his dislike of temperance societies, and the settlement of the estate of William Jauncey in which Strong secured the bulk for Herman Thorn, husband of Jauncey's adopted daughter and niece, Jane Mary Jauncey Thorn.

Letter from George W. Strong, New York, to John Nelson Lloyd, Lloyd Neck, regarding the death or Mrs. Gilbert Platt, his brother Thomas's poor health and grief following the death of his daughter, Eliza, Strong's dyspepsia, his fear of cholera returning to New York, and an upcoming visit to New York by President Andrew Jackson who is in poor health and had recently been assaulted, and inquiring about the health of Lloyd's son John and other family members.

Letter from George W. Strong, New York, to John Nelson Lloyd, Lloyd Neck. Having returned to New York from Wilton, Connecticut, Strong discusses his anxiety about cholera which is mostly gone from New York but continues elsewhere and which he worries will reoccur in the spring, the upcoming presidential election which he believes Andrew Jackson will win to the detriment of the country, meeting Albert Gallatin while in Connecticut by whom Strong was greatly impressed.