| Summary: | Lucy was the widow of naturalist John Audubon, who was a close friend Mary's husband, Edward. In the letter she mentions that she is recovering from "a most severe illness, produced by sorrows mental and physical." She explains that she will no longer be able to teach, and that her granddaughter "does all she can to aid in our support, but to see a young and gentle being like her toil from eight in the morning till half past five in the afternoon with only one half hours [sic] respite is more than I can bear." She discusses plans to raise money, including the sale of property and her husband's artwork: "My original drawings I must sell for what I can get, and the copper plates by weight as old copper! thus as my poor ruined Brother writes 'the work of years of toil, and such as will never again be seen are banded about like an old newspaper, and the widow of such a man not sure of a living.'"
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