Letter from John Finley Crowe to Esther Alexander about his stay in Philadelphia. Crowe claims that he is sick of city life. Crowe laments at the formalities of society and the visible differences between classes of people....
Crowe spends the letter parsing out the role of social roles in society and the norms that people ignore in the comfort of close friends. Additionally, Crowe talks about the pain he experiences apart from Esther. Along the same...
A letter from John Finley Crowe, dated 15 may 1814, to his wife Esther Crowe over his journey to Philadelphia. Crowe talks about exchanging horses twice so that he can still journey onward. In the letter Crowe expresss the hope...