My dear Miss Sewell, Miss Cleveland did not put her direction in full so that I must ask you to be so kind as to enclose this note to her. I am afraid people would have an over dose of America if I put in both journals together and I don’t think the contrast would be so much in favour of the North as she thinks, since these holiday makings, so pleasantly described are not quite ... continue reading

My dear Miss Cleveland, Thank you for your very interesting despatch, which we read with much enjoyment. The account of the Freedmen is especially interesting, and I feel quite sorry to have to put it off so long, as I shall be obliged to do, in order to get to the end of the Southern journal. I shall however have a letter written from Philadelphia in the next number, giving the account of the general mourning ... continue reading