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 ...
Today's technology makes it easier and faster to stay close to people. Long ago, people wrote letters to keep in touch. Letters were once carried by horses. Then trains began to carry letters from city to city. In the early 1900s, planes were a faster way to carr...
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...
Anna Seward - Poet, Letters, Queer Studies: Seward wrote profusely about her foster sister Honora Sneyd. The particulars of the two women’s relationship remain a subject of scholarly speculation. From a critical standpoint, Seward’s arguably obsessive
“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: ...
My mother wrote to her a week ago. Martha's rug is just finished, and looks well, though not quite so well as I had hoped. I see no fault in the border, but the middle is dingy. My mother desires me to say that she will knit one for you as soon as you return to choose the...
In the 15th century, singing and spoken valentines were slowly replaced by written letters in Europe.The first written valentine is credited to(归功于)Charles, the Duke of Orleans, who wrote love poems to his wife while he was in prison in 1415.By the beginning of the 16th century, valent...
Theater, making her the first American woman to have a play produced in Boston. There as well she wrote and published her magnum opus, The Gleaner, a three-volume "miscellany" that included poems, essays, and the novel-like story "Margaretta." After 1800, Murray's output diminished and ...
Chafing at his brother’s inaction, on 1 July 1863 J. Bass wrote an unnamed brother-in-law. After sharing news of camp conditions and asking about family, he circled back to his earlier query: “I wante you to rite to mee Whate Ephreigm has don with them negros, Whether hee has so...
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...