The letters are not addressed jointly to her parents but separately to "Mother" or "Father" until the death of her father in 1899. There are also letters to her sister Mary (Gum) Berenson, to her brother, Logan Pearsall Smith, and to her nieces Ray and Karin Costelloe. There is a letter to Emily Dawson. Two letters are addressed to "Girls". Alys copied out a letter from Alwen Ward to her mother. There is a letter from Gertrude Weston Ellis to Hannah. There are also letters from Hannah.