Dear Friend Robert Merry: Letters from nineteenth-century children
Introduction

How to use this book

1840s: 1841 • 1842 • 1843 • 1844 • 1845 • 1846 • 1847 • 1848 • 1849

1850s: 1850 • 1851 • 1852 • 1853 • 1854 • 1855 • 1856 • 1857 • 1858 • 1859

1860s: 1860 • 1861 • 1862 • 1863 • 1864 • 1865 • 1866 • 1867 • 1868 • 1869

1870s: 1870 • 1871 • 1872

About the Merry Cousins

Appendix

Index & gloss

Sources

The Cousins’ Greatest Hits

Some of the Merry Cousins’ Greatest Hits:
or, Some Letters Especially Delightful & Educational

Numbers given are those of letters: year.volume in that year.page number(s). All are linked to the letter appearing in this work. Some subjects are explained in a note, with sources.

1842

  • James names his dog

    • 1845

  • Franklin Bostwick does some tall-talking
  • “A Friend to Merry” takes a steamboat down the Red River

    • Paris endures the Revolution of June 1848

    Lizzy G. tours Paris, France

  • 1849.2.158-160 • 1850.1.157-159 • 1851.2.63-64 • 1851.2.92-93

    • 1849

  • A Southern family spends an evening together
  • Zachary Taylor visits Pittsburgh

    • 1851

  • Phoebe Preston gets a piano

    • 1854

  • Robert Stuart Turner travels through Texas
  • Hartford, Connecticut, celebrates Independence Day

    • 1855

  • Imogen Latham lampoons her older brother
  • William Hoyt Coleman gets caught in the rain

    • 1856

  • New York City is buried by snow

    • 1857

  • Edward Winslow Paige solves a word puzzle

    • 1858

  • Flora P. Stearns visits the editors

    • Some Southern boys and Northern girls pre-fight the American Civil War

  • 1859.1.93a • 1859.1.123-124 • 1859.2.60-61 • 1859.2.126-127 • 1859.2.185b

    • 1860

  • Delor C. York gets poetic about his town

    • 1863

  • William Hoyt Coleman nurses soldiers at the Patent Office Hospital
  • Charley F. Speck declines to engage the Confederates during their push into Pennsylvania

    • 1868

  • May Hawk reminisces
  • Hattie McDonald remembers when Rebel guerillas attacked Parkville, Missouri
    • a flourish
    Introduction

    How to use this book

    1840s: 1841 • 1842 • 1843 • 1844 • 1845 • 1846 • 1847 • 1848 • 1849

    1850s: 1850 • 1851 • 1852 • 1853 • 1854 • 1855 • 1856 • 1857 • 1858 • 1859

    1860s: 1860 • 1861 • 1862 • 1863 • 1864 • 1865 • 1866 • 1867 • 1868 • 1869

    1870s: 1870 • 1871 • 1872

    About the Merry Cousins

    Appendix

    Index & gloss

    Sources

    The Cousins’s Greatest Hits

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