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Historical Letters

An equal pay appeal for Black Civil War soldiers

Posted on January 26, 2023 by Historical Snapshots

Background For the beginning years of the Civil War, the U.S. government paid black soldiers $6/month less than white soldiers (black soldiers were paid $10/mon...

Historical Letters

Abraham Lincoln letter, 1836.

Posted on September 19, 2022 by Historical Snapshots

Dear Colonel, I am told that during my absence last week you passed through this place, and stated publicly that you were in possession of a fact or facts which...

Historical Letters

President Abraham Lincoln letter to General Grant

Posted on April 8, 2022 by Historical Snapshots

I do not remember that you and I ever met personally. I write this now as a grateful acknowledgment for the almost inestimable service you have done the country...

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Anne Sullivan letter on first year in Tuscumbia

Posted on December 31, 2021 by Historical Snapshots

My dear; –It was a year ago yesterday that I arrived in Tuscumbia. Did you realize it? How forlorn and weary I was, nobody, not even you can imagine. I remember...

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Mark Twain: “A marriage makes of two fractional lives a whole”

Posted on September 8, 2018 by Historical Snapshots

A marriage makes of two fractional lives a whole; It gives two purposeless lives a work, And doubles the strength of each to perform it. It gives to two questio...

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Thomas Jefferson love letter

Posted on July 25, 2018 by Historical Snapshots

“To Marisa Cosway Paris Octob. 12. 1786. [My dear] Madam Having performed the last sad office of handing you into your carriage at the Pavillon de St. Den...

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Marilyn Monroe love letter to Joe DiMaggio

Posted on July 11, 2018 by Historical Snapshots

“I don’t know how to tell you just how much I miss you. I love you till my heart could burst. All I love, all I want, all I need is you—forever. I w...

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Ronald Reagan love letter to Nancy

Posted on July 5, 2018 by Historical Snapshots

  Dear Mrs. R, I still don’t feel right about you opening an envelope instead of a gift package. There are several much beloved women in my life and ...

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Mark Twain love letter to his wife

Posted on July 4, 2018 by Historical Snapshots

Livy darling, Six years have gone by since I made my first great success in life and won you, and thirty years have passed since Providence made preparation for...

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A letter from E.B. White

Posted on April 28, 2018 by Historical Snapshots

In 1973, E.B. White wrote the following reply to a Mr. Nadeau, “who sought White’s opinion on what he saw as a bleak future for the human race.̶...

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