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I often said to a younger girl friend: “If you are marrying without love, after all, do not talk to your husband. Please him as much as your nature can tolerate; do not argue with…

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Rahel Levin Varnhagen

Places:

Berlin, Kingdom of Prussia (Berlin, Germany)

Date:

1799–1800

Subjects:

Marriage, Love, Salon, Women, Letters

Categories:

Firsthand accounts, Memoirs & diaries, Letters
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The negro movement is still a most vexatious and mischievous one, and its effects are painfully felt in every Southern household. This morning Cy came to high words with George and…

Contributor:

Emma Mordecai

Places:

Richmond, Confederate States of America (Richmond, United States of America)

Date:

1864–1865

Subjects:

War, Slavery, Military, Agriculture, Family, Letters

Categories:

Firsthand accounts, Memoirs & diaries, Letters