A selection of letters by Laura Ingalls Wilder to her husband in which she describes the highlights of her visit to the west coast in 1915.

It started as an assignment. Everyone in Caitlin's class wrote to an unknown student somewhere in a distant place. All the other kids picked countries like France or Germany, but when Caitlin saw Zimbabwe written on the board, it sounded like the most exotic place she had ever heard of -- so she chose it. Martin was lucky to even receive a pen pal letter. There were only ten letters, and forty kids in his class. But he was the top student, so he got...

We are often amazed by the curiosity of children and the questions they ask. And letters to and from children are always appealing, especially so when they are written to someone famous. In Dear professor Einstein, Alice Calaprice has gathered a delightful and charming collection of more than sixty letters from children to Albert Einstein. Einstein could not respond to every letter written to him, but the responses he did find the time to write reveal...

Letters written between 1908 and 1976, which are at the same time a biography and the history of an era.

Forms a kind of autobiography of at least one aspect of Sylvia Plath's very complex life; it also documents the flowering of a bright young woman with promising talents into a full-blown genius, one of the greatest writers of this century.

"This book covers the use of two of the most effective sets of genealogical information available to genealogists: Census and military records. Topics include: Federal censuses: what they are, how to use them, pitfalls and issues concerning the information found in them; Mortality schedules: a frequently overlooked gold mine of little-known genealogical data; State censuses: genealogically rich resources; Military records: where and how to find them,...

"Inspired by a segment originally aired on The Undefeated, ESPN Sports Center Anchor Elle Duncan shares a moving letter written for her daughter that will resonate with moms and daughters everywhere"-- Inspired by Elle Duncan's contribution to The Undefeated's "Love Letters to Black Women" segment, For You, I Will is an intimate yet universal celebration of growing up. The poetic text and heartwarming illustrations depict a mother teaching her daughter...