Several years ago I started a site called Past Voices: Letters Home. It is chock full of letters from long ago. The
letters are so wonderful to read -- they speak of illness in the
family, deaths, births, crops, weather, family, and friends. The site now holds many
Canadian and American letters. Here's a few:
Letter to James A. McChesney, Esq., Port Ontario, New York, from A. C. Dickinson, Smith Town, July 13, 1844; postmarked Peterboro, U. C., July 22, 1844, and Kingston, U. C., July 24, 1844
Letter from Albert Bertram Mudge during WW1 to his mother in Guelph Ontario, 1915
Letter to William Robertson McGillivray in Ontatio, Canada from his brother James McGillivray in Egilsay, Orkney Islands, Scotland, 1857
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Letter to Alvah Bush, Albany New York, from her sister, M.M. Bush, Cooperstown, New York 1843
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| 1915 Letter in French |
Letter to Mr. John H. and Anna Northrop, Hebron, Washington County, New York, from Lydia Wells, Lisbon 1829
Letter to Jacob Sharpless, care of Dr. Parrish, Philadelphia Pennsylvania from Blakey Sharpless, Weston
Letter from John McCoy, Captain of the Augusta Co. Militia during the Revolutionary War from Staunton, Augusta Co.Virginia to Thomas Jefferson, 1781 (yes, THE Thomas
Jefferson!)
Letter to unidentified person from Simeon Baldwin, New Haven, [Connecticut], January 4, 1808
Letter to Mrs. Mary Bradford and sister Sarah Jane, Northumberland,Pennsylvania, from Louisa, York Pennsylvania, 1839
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| 1810 letter from Washington DC |
Letter to Miss Mary C. Cook, Great Falls, New Hampshire,from Fanny, Concord, New Hampshire, 1847
Mr. S. Newton Dexter, Whitesborough, New York, from Miss Mary Dexter, Providence, Rhode Island, 1823
Letter to Mr. Franklin Hoskins, Sheffield, Berkshire County,Massachusetts, from Wm. Gleason, Jr., Moresville, New York 1840
Letter to Mr. Samuel V. King, China Grove, Georgetown, South Carolina, from M. L. Wilkins, Springfield, 1842
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