Personal Correspondence

<p><span class="deck">No matter how busy he was, Theodore Roosevelt always found time for his children. The charming “picture” letters below, addressed to his thirteen-year-old son Archie from a Louisiana hunting camp, recall a man who for millions of Americans will always live on, forever vigorous, forever young.</span> </p>

<p><span class="deck"><span class="typestyle">Thus Margaret Winthrop to her spouse, the governor of the Bay Colony. Her letters—and John’s in reply—reveal behind the cold Puritan exterior a warm and deeply touching relationship</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> The lady author modelled her famous fictional creation after her own wonder boy —and condemned a generation of “manly little chaps” to velvet pants and curls</span> </span></p>

<p>The British commander felt the rebels didn't a real army. But letters he addressed to "George Washington, Esq." were returned to sender.</p>

<p>“The damn rebels form well”</p>

<p><span class="body"><span class="body">Wilson's letters to Mary were frequent and intimate, but it </span></span>would have been political suicide to marry a divorcee by the post-Victorian standards of the time</p>

<p><span class="deck"> Unpublished letters from Dean Acheson to Ex-President Harry Truman</span> </p>

<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> Newly Discovered Eyewitness Accounts of the War for Independence</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> A trooper’s firsthand account of an adventure with the<br />
Indian-fighting army in the American Southwest</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck"><span class="typestyle">An exasperated Ralph Waldo Emerson said of his rudest, most rebellious—and most brilliant—protégé. Their turbulent relationship survived what one newspaper called “the grossest violation of literary comity and courtesy that ever passed under our notice.”</span> </span></p>

<p>A World War I soldier writes home about the Christmas holiday in his hospital, "one of the merriest, happiest seasons of my life"</p>

<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> A cache of letters, discovered in 1928 and published in the</span> Atlantic Monthly, <span class="typestyle"> proved that Abraham Lincoln had really loved Ann Rutledge. Or did they?</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> Original documents tell the story of a Civil War steamboat captains sorrowful cruise with the most destructive cargo of all</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> Harry Truman’s lifetime correspondence with his adored Bess opens a window on their time</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> Happy marriages may have been all alike in the eighteenth century, but the unhappy ones<br />
fought it out in the newspapers</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck">Two letters from a Navy lieutenant to his wife tell the story of the last hours of World War II.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">Extraordinary correspondence, never published before, takes us inside the mind of a military genius. Here is William Tecumseh Sherman in the heat of action inventing modern warfare, grieving the death of his little boy, struggling to hold Kentucky with levies, rolling invincibly across Georgia, and—always—battling the newspapermen whose stories, he believes, are killing his soldiers.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">The Johnsons and the Kennedys are popularly thought to have shared a strong mutual dislike, but stacks of letters and a remarkable tape of Jacqueline Kennedy reminiscing show something very different and more interesting.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">This magazine’s publication of wrenching wartime letters between the author’s parents brought her to international attention. At the same time, it initiated some very heartfelt conversations with our readers.</span></p>