From Family to Fiction
David O. Stewart is writing a series of novels called the Overstreet Saga, and I had the pleasure of endorsing the first of those novels, The New Land, with this
David O. Stewart is writing a series of novels called the Overstreet Saga, and I had the pleasure of endorsing the first of those novels, The New Land, with this
Recently, I posted a letter discovered in my mother’s mementos and written by Reverend William Bell to his offspring, in particular his daughter Isabelle Mallock. Isabelle’s husband, John Mallock, wrote
While going through some of my mother’s mementos [she’s still alive, but we were clearing out a few boxes], I found a letter dated 18th February, 1842. It was addressed
My grandmother’s second wedding was in October of 1977 when she was seventy-five. Unfortunately, my husband and I were students living in Vancouver at the time with insufficient funds to afford
Continuing to bring together popular posts on A Writer of History. These are from 2016. The Art of Esoterica or Historical Fiction Research Using Paris in Ruins as an example, this
Henry’s last letter in the collection that my husband has. Lindi (On the Coast) – 19th December 1918 I have just received three of your letters dated July and August
31st October 1918 I have just received a big batch of your letters dated April and May [5 months ago] and have more or less digested all of your news.
Without any of your letters to acknowledge I am writing this on top of the news of the Armistice. Events of course had been leading up to it but it
On the Rovuma – 7th October 1918 I have not been able to get a letter off to you since August, when we started on a very long trek from
In Europe during August 1918, the Hundred Days Offensive was underway. This was the Allied offensive which ended World War One. The campaign in Africa was proceeding at a different
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