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Archive for the Letters Category (11 Posts)

Monochrome head and shoulders portrait of Philip Schuyler in mlitary uniform.

The Manuscript Division Transcribes Fifty-Six Letters from Philip Schuyler to Alexander and Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton

Posted by: Elizabeth Novara

Posted in: Digital Collections, Early America, Letters

Embroidered cloth showing a cartoon GI Joe-cupid character shooting a heart with the message "1943 To my eternal Valentine Dorsey Wife from Husband Dave, London."

This Just In: Newly Processed Manuscript Collections

Posted by: Lewis Wyman

Posted in: African American History, Civil War, Diaries, Journalism, Labor, Letters, Politics, Science and Technology, War and Society

Head and shoulders portrait . Printed at bottom: SAMUEL EDMUND NICHOLS. DURING THE WAR

Of Note: Trust Your Gut: A Civil War Soldier’s Thanksgiving

Posted by: Andrea J. Briggs

Posted in: Holidays, Letters, Of Note, War and Society

Handwritten copy (with deletions crossed out and additions added) of the first few sentence of Jefferson

If You Can’t Say Something Nice…: James and Lucretia Garfield on Abraham and Mary Lincoln

Posted by: Michelle Krowl

Posted in: Digital Collections, Letters, Politics

Handwritten copy (with deletions crossed out and additions added) of the first few sentence of Jefferson

What Lieutenant Ijams Saw During Operation Crossroads, and What He Didn’t

Posted by: Josh Levy

Posted in: Letters, Science and Technology, War and Society

Asian American woman in a long dress shopping in Vietnamese grocery store.

Viet Dinh, Anthony Lewis, and the Complexity of being Asian American in the Twentieth Century

Posted by: Ryan Reft

Posted in: Asian American History, Letters, War and Society

Handwritten copy (with deletions crossed out and additions added) of the first few sentence of Jefferson

“My Hamilton”: Philip Schuyler, Alexander Hamilton, and Yellow Fever

Posted by: Laura Kells

Posted in: Early America, Letters, Politics

Handwritten copy (with deletions crossed out and additions added) of the first few sentence of Jefferson

All Tomorrow’s Parties: Meg Greenfield and the Social World of Late 20th-Century Washington

Posted by: Ryan Reft

Posted in: Letters, Politics

Handwritten copy (with deletions crossed out and additions added) of the first few sentence of Jefferson

“I did not see the use of being uncomfortable on Thanksgiving day”: Tight Clothes and Big Meals in 19th-Century America

Posted by: Michelle Krowl

Posted in: Holidays, Letters