Be You Blithe and Bonny

I found among my father’s papers a typed transcript my great-grandfather financed of a very old book of records of the proceedings of the to...

A few years ago I ran across a letter written to my 3rd-great grandmother about a scandal in the Barnes family, the family my grandmother wa...

I have not been able to write for a few weeks due to the illness of one of my household members; but things are looking up and I am anxious ...

When I told my friends that I was finally reading Alexandre Dumas’ novel The Count of Monte Cristo , a number of people told me Edmond Dantè...

Here is the final installment of letters written by Mirinda Piper to her soon-to-be husband, John Andrews, in the summer of 1858. Lincol...

Lincoln, May 12, 1858. Dear Friend: I have quite a task before me to answer three letters; but as it is my own fault (and really I do no...