Memoirs and Letters of Dolly Madison - Wife of James Madison, President of the United States #225378

I propose to lay before the public a se ries of private letters, written, without the most remote idea of publication, by a wo man to her nearest and dearest relations; and their value consists in the fact, capa ble of no misconception, that they furnish an exact transcript of the feelings of the writer, in times of no ordinary trial. If it were possible to get at the, expres sion of feelings by women in the heart of a community more frequently, recorded in a shape designed to be confidential, it would serve to present the surest and most unfailing idea of its general char acter.