These papers include correspondence concerning the publication and republication of Wood's "Dispensatory of the United States" and "Treatise on Therapeutics and Pharmacology, or Materia Medica" by J.B. Lippincott & Co. Also included are twelve diplomas and certificates of membership in American and European professional societies.

This volume contains sections pertaining to the theory and practice of pharmacy, a distribution of medicinal simples, directions for extemporaneous prescriptions, and an instruction for disease diagnosis.