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Showing posts with label Theodore Winthrop. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Theodore Winthrop. Show all posts
Tuesday, January 8, 2019

Thomas Wentworth Higginson to James T. Fields, January 1862

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Dear Friend: I send the “Letter to a Young Contributor,” which will cover nine or ten pages. I am sorry to say that this household u...
Friday, January 9, 2015

Diary of Mary Boykin Chesnut: June 12, 1861

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Have been looking at Mrs. O'Dowd as she burnished the “Meejor's arms” before Waterloo. And I have been busy, too. My husband has go...
Sunday, December 7, 2014

John Lothrop Motley to Mary Benjamin Motley, June 20, 1861

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Washington, June 20th, 1861. My Dearest Mary , — I told you that I went with Seward in the evening of Monday to see the President. He...
Sunday, November 30, 2014

Theodore Wintrhop to Elizabeth Woolsey Winthrop, June 1, 1861

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HEADQUARTERS DEPT. OF VIRGINIA, Fortress Monroe, June 1st, 1861. My Dear Mother , — Somehow I find myself here on Gen. Butler's s...
Saturday, November 29, 2014

Charles Eliot Norton to George William Curtis, June 16, 1861

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Shady Hill , 16 June, 1861. . . . Here at home we are all well, — and leading such tranquil lives that the contrast between them and th...

Theodore Winthop to L., May 31st, 1861 – 10 p.m.

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Fortress Monroe, May 31st, 1861. Dear L., — Thanks for your kind letter and the hamper. I saw Gen. Butler at Washington. He invited me ...
Friday, November 28, 2014

Theodore Winthrop to Elizabeth Woolsey Winthrop, May 10, 1861

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Camp Cameron , Near Washington, May 10th, 1861. Dear Mother , — I have been disabled from writing for several days by an inflamed eye. ...

Diary of Josephine Shaw Lowell: June 10, 1862

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This is the anniversary of Theodore Winthrop's death, and we've just got used to missing him. As Mother said today, “It doesn't...
Sunday, November 2, 2014

George William Curtis to John J. Pinkerton, July 9, 1861

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North Shore, Richmond Co., N. Y., July 9, '61. My Dear Pinkerton , — I have been long meaning to say how d’ ye do, and now your n...

George William Curtis to Charles Eliot Norton, July 30, 1861

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July 30, '61. What a summer it is and has been! That nothing shall be wanting, we have a comet, too; a comet seen last when Charle...