Early 1860s – A letter from “N. M. G.”. to a friend, Clarissa, describing Yalesville, Connecticut social life including an emotional but non-sexual sleeping relationship with a friend, Ollie
Yalesville, Connecticut: Early 1860s. This three-page letter is datelined “Yalesville, August.” It was written in a female hand by “N.M.G.” and the content also suggests the writer was a young woman. It is enclosed in an enveloped franked with a 3-cent Washington stamp that bears a circular Wallingford, Connecticut post..... More