Correspondence between various members of the related Throop, Goldsmith, and Cole families, containing comments on a Fourierist colony in Madison County, New York, the Millerites, and the temperance movement. Also, a reprinted article from Antiques, "Deborah Goldsmith, Itinerant Portrait Painter" (1943, by Jean Lipman), concerning the work of Deborah Goldsmith, George Throop's wife.