These letters are from Cordelia to her mother. They are particularly interesting because they are the only letters in the collection from Cordelia and they show another close female relationship typical of the era. Carrol Smith-Rosenberg wrote in her article, The Female World of Love and Ritual: Relations between Women in Nineteenth-Centruy America, "An intimate mother-daughter relationship lay at the heart of this female world. The diaries and letters of both mothers and daughters attest to their closeness and mutual emotional dependency. Daughters routinely discussed their mother's health and activities with their own friends, expressed anxiety in cases of their mother's ill health and concern for her cares." (page 15)

These letters appear typical of what one would expect a daughter to write her mother while traveling with descriptions of the weather, accommodations, general health, travel companions, visits to relatives, and well wishes. Cordelia Green Drumm's mother, Mary Elizabeth Chauncey Green, will live with the Drumm's later in her life until her death in 1896. The letters have a chatty quality. The Drumms will travel to Chicago, Baltimore, and Philadelphia to visit various schools for underprivileged young people.