Helena wrote to enquire after her daughter’s health, and Katriina was looking for a roof over her head. On the one hand, the fact that these working-class women contacted one institution while residing
Percival, of Manchester, who wrote moral tales for Edward to give to me. When you write again to Catherine, thank her on my part for her very kind and welcome mark of friendship; I shall value such a brooch very much. Good-bye, my dearest Cassandra. Yours very affectionately, J. A....
In the following year, she wrote a series of letters to one of the Rothe children, the now adult Clara Rothe, who had married a few years earlier and moved to Europe. Beaudhuy's three letters are a rare testimony to her as a person and the time she lived in. The letters project ...
You might very safely, for there I was. On Wednesday morning it was settled that Mrs. Harwood, Mary, and I should go together, and shortly afterwards a very civil note of invitation for me came from Mrs. Bramston, who wrote I believe as soon as as she knew of the ball. I might li...
Ida and Amanda approached Mäkinen to inform her of their present whereabouts, Helena wrote to enquire after her daughter's health, and Katriina was looking for a roof over her head. On the one hand, the fact that these working-class women contacted one institution while residing in another...
One rhetorical barrier that Haspel faces is the attitude of the audience; many readers of her articles had strong negative responses to her prior pieces and disagreed with her facts. For example, in paragraph 5 Haspel recalls, “In July, when I wrote a piece defending corn on the calories-...
that John Adams, the second President of the United States, corresponded with his despised adversary and fellow Federalist, Alexander Hamilton, after they lost the 1800 election. Adams wrote to offer his condolence for the death of Hamilton’s son. But soon his rage shows up. The two pug.....
“I want you to know that you mean all the world to me” Phyllis says it’s worth carving out time to write love letters, even when that time may be hard-pressed. She cherishes some letters her husband, Ken, wrote years ago. For example: ...
2 o’clock, p.m.–When I wrote last, I thought we had had our share of contrary winds and foul weather. Ever since, we have beaten about the bay with the variety of a favourable gale one night for a few hours, and a dead calm yesterday, in which we almost rolled our masts out...
In a letter to George Wythe, a lover of classical knowledge, Jefferson wrote: In the latter country my time allowed me to go no further than Turin, Milan, and Genoa; consequently I scarcely got into classical ground. I took with me some of the writings in which endeavors have been made...