This 8 page letter contains many details about Bailey & Nichols ancestry. The parents of Elwood Bailey are William Haskell Bailey (1813-1903) and Mary Chadbourne Nichols (1831-1885) and was written March 15, 1964 to Mary Bailey Adair from her first cousin Edna, daughter of Elwood's brother Alfred Corwin Bailey and Minnie Riley.
The last page includes note written by Mary with special attention "to Dorothy".