An equal pay appeal for Black Civil War soldiers
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...
Category: Historical Letters
Abraham Lincoln letter, 1836.
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...
President Abraham Lincoln letter to General Grant
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...
Anne Sullivan letter on first year in Tuscumbia
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...
Mark Twain: “A marriage makes of two fractional lives a whole”
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...
Thomas Jefferson love letter
“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...
Marilyn Monroe love letter to Joe DiMaggio
“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...
Ronald Reagan love letter to Nancy
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 on Chri...
Mark Twain love letter to his wife
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...
A letter from E.B. White
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.̶...