Nine letters by Dr. Means to Oreon or Orean M. E. Mann (later Mrs. Rufus Smith, 1832-1907), who taught at the Southern Female Masonic College in Covington, Georgia, from 1853-1855. The collection includes a letter to Professor Rufus Smith, president of LaGrange College; a letter from T. Henry Hammond; and one from Dr. J. N. LeConte. There are also notes by Lena Martin concerning the letters and Mann family genealogy.