Date: 1777
"The consciousness of what I mean by this letter to reveal, hangs like guilt upon my mind; therefore it is that I have so long delayed writing."
preview | full record— Mackenzie, Henry (1745-1831)
Date: 1800
"I merely write to allay those tumults which our necessary separation produces; to aid me in calling up a little patience, till the time arrives, when our persons, like our minds, shall be united forever."
preview | full record— Brown, Charles Brockden (1771-1810)
Date: 1854
"t was altogether unaccountable that a young gentleman whose imagination had been strangled in his cradle, should be still inconvenienced by its ghost in the form of grovelling sensualities; but such a monster, beyond all doubt, was Tom."
preview | full record— Dickens, Charles (1812-1870)