19th Century Love Letter Holds Up. ... At the moment I write this letter, ... What the restorer found in the antique chair was a letter — a 200-year-old love letter.

The auction today includes more than 300 other items, including letters and autographs from U.S. presidents — such as John F. Kennedy and Franklin D. Roosevelt — to 19th-century soprano Jenny ...

Take Jane Welsh Carlyle, one of the greatest practitioners during Britain’s golden age of letter writing. Married to 19th-century historian Thomas Carlyle, her work was not published in her ...

One of the women in the book, Alice Grierson, physically separated from her husband in 1871 when their seventh child died at 3 months old. In a letter to him, she left a description of her ...

Advice books in the 19th century had awfully long titles. Take, for example, the subject of this article, The fashionable American letter writer; or, The art of polite correspondence.Containing a ...

In the 19th century, several English women wrote accounts of their world travels. While considered by some as second-rate travellers, they were just as restless as their male contemporaries.