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Several letters to the editor are presented in response to articles in previous issues including "The Foreign Service Blogosphere in 2011" in the June 2011 issue, "Cook Stoves: From Bane to Boon," by Satinder Bindra in the April 2011 issue, and "The Foreign Service Juggling Act," by Shawn Zeller in the May 2011 issue.

The article focuses on Selden Chapin, the first director general of the U.S. Foreign Service. Chapin left his career in the U.S. Navy in 1925 to become a Foreign Service officer and became director of the Office of the Foreign Service in 1945. The article offers detailed information on Chapin's role in helping to create the Foreign Service Act of 1946 and getting it passed in Congress, along with problems with the Bureau of the Budget (BOB).

The article profiles Jack R. Binns, a former U.S. foreign service officer. Topics include his business venture in antique dealing where he failed to expand his profit margins, the leadership in a consulting team which conducts emergency planning exercises at the U.S. Bureau of Diplomatic Security, and the participation of his at the League of Women Voters, a local country club for foreign service retirees.

Letters to the editor are presented in response to articles in previous issues including "Building the Deep Bench" by Barbara Stephenson, and "Ethnic and Sectarian Conflict: Two Core Issues" by Andrew Sens; and an obituary of Jonita Whitaker, of the U.S. Bureau of Political-Military Affairs.

Several letters to the editor in response to the articles including "Bring Back Professional Diplomacy", "The Foreign Service Needs a Cultural Shift" and "Talking Point" in the April 2013 issue are presented.