Corwin still living; wonderful tenacity of life. Macaulay, speaking of Sydney Smith, said to Mrs. Stowe: "Truly, wit, like charity, cov...

July 10, 1859 Dearest Mother: Emerson says, “To-day is a king in disguise”; and it is sometimes odd to think that these men and women...

Headquarters Del. Dept., Wilmington, Del. , Aug. 17th, 1863. My dear Mother: The month is rapidly passing away, and I am awaiting i...

Will nobody stop these Beechers? Here is Mrs. Stowe getting into trouble again. The "Christian Watchman " has his eye on her. Jes...

Bird's Point , October 10, 1861. I have just finished a dinner of cider, cake, bread, butter, etc. We have just been paid off and o...

I have had little to record here recently, for we have lived to ourselves, not visiting or visited. Every one H–– knows is absent, and I ...

The battle has been raging at Atlanta, 1 and our fate hanging in the balance. Atlanta, indeed, is gone. Well, that agony is over. Like Dav...

All things are against us. Memphis gone. Mississippi fleet annihilated, and we hear it all as stolidly apathetic as if it were a story of t...

Mr. Chesnut fretting and fuming. From the poor old blind bishop downward everybody is besetting him to let off students, theological and ot...

Theodore Barker and James Lowndes came; the latter has been wretchedly treated. A man said, “All that I wish on earth is to be at peace and...

A letter appears in the Richmond Enquirer from a gentleman just arrived there from Europe, apparently one of the numerous secession emissar...