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1Author:  Case, Adelaide E.Add
 Title:  Letter from Adelaide E. Case to Charles N. Tenney, May 26th 1862  
 Published:  2004 
 Subjects:  The Corinne Carr Nettleton Civil War Collection | UVA-LIB-Text | UVA-LIB-Nettletoncivilwarletters 
 Description: My school room is unoccupied with the exception of one lonely being and how thankful she is to obtain that solitude for which she has all day wished, But is it right for her to be alone? Alone to those torturing thoughts which cling to her sleeping or waking. and which nothing but a letter from that idolized being can drive away? Oh Charlie! My own loved one. if it is in your power. why do you not break the silence between us Three long lingering weeks have passed since last I heard from you and God only know how much longer time will pass before I shall. Are you ill darling and not able to write. If so why not let me know. I could bear that Or - Oh. no I will never write that thought, If I did I should feel every letter sinking into my heart. as if written with a pen of fire, Ah! those tears thank heaven for them,, But they are but few to what I have shed over my dreams. The thoughts while waking are not enough to torture my poor heart but dreams. frightful dreams! Oh I can not think of them, If the cruel monster Death - My God must I write it - has done his work. why do I not know it for then yes then. I might die. Die! Ah. what is death to this fearful suspense. It is nought. And then I might meet my idol, Here again I am thinking that it must be so. just as my dreams picture to me. and not only thinking but writing it, Is this madness? or is it caused by short And yet at times sharp pain around my heart
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