The letter concerns personal real estate transactions and troubles along the Missouri-Kansas border between free state and pro-slavery partisans. Letter is written on back page of "Appeal of Kansas to the voters of the Free States" dated Topeka, July 4, 1856. This printed appeal concerns the contested election of 1856 and an appeal for Kansas to join the Union as a free state.

Correspondence from Homer Reed to Professor Richard T. Ely in Kansas City, Missouri, dated December 24, 1887, regarding land exemption.