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Because the letters are about numerous topics, most of them will appear under more than one subject.

Click the subject heading to get to the first page of transcribed letters. The > will take you to the additional pages on the same subject

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African Americans >	Female Seminaries
Astronomy	Food & Diet
Bachelorhood	Foreign Countries
Benevolent Societies	Household Help
Books & Reading	Indians
Business Accounts	Land & Household Description
California Gold Rush	Legal Documents & Discussion
Canals	Letter Writing
Caregiving	Livestock, Hunting & Fishing
Charitable Organizations	Medicine, Illness & Homeopathic Cures
Child Rearing	Merchants & Industry
City Descriptions	Missionaries
Civil War	Music & Singing
Communal Living	Newspapers & Periodicals
Courtship, Weddings & Newlyweds	Politics
Death	Pregnancy & Childbirth
Dissipation	Quotations
Drawings	Religion
Education	Shipboard Travel
Entertainments	Slavery
Ethnic Groups	Travel
Farming	Westward Expansion