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

My dear Miss Wordsworth, Sometimes one meets with a thing like an echo to one’s own thought (only that one’s thought did not set it going) and your Versailles poem strikes me just in that way. I saw the place on a bright August day in 1869, and it was quite an oppression to me. Those two Trianons both built to escape from the horrible dreary pomp when royalty had made it unbearable told ... continue reading