Concerns a reply to Mood of various unstated questions concerning De Vries selection as a Second Congressional District of California Candidate by the Democratic, Populist and Republican parties. De Vries states that he cannot remember any satisfactory recollection of the process.

Miscellaneous correspondence, chiefly letters concerning requests for congressional patronage or support while De Vries served in the U.S. House of Representatives, and letters attempting to influence him while he served as a judge for the U.S. Court of Customs Appeals.