Excerpt from Some Letters of an American Woman Concerning Love and Other Things<br><br>Dear, you have been everything to me; you can scarcely know what this year's life with you has done for me. From you I have learned much. My mind, through intercourse with such as yours, has enlarged. I can never be too thankful for the happy hours with you. Can you imagine, beloved, what it means to one like me, brought up quietly, conservatively, always repressing my real self, to come across such a spirit and mind as yours? TO feel that I could give myself out wholly, unreservedly, feeling sure nothing I said, nothing I did, was misunderstood by you. I have felt like a flower kept in the shade, and taught to keep its petals closed, suddenly picked by a strong hand and put in the sun, and told to unfold its petals to the full, and drink in the glorious sunshine Of Heaven. How delightful the warmth that steals to the very heart, the sense of ease and comfort that reaches to the very finger tips! Thank Heaven, you say that I have been so much to you. Everything a woman could be. Those dear words Of yours ring in my ears and keep me buoyed up also your promise, if danger of war is over, and there is any chance Of your being stationed at some port for a length Of time.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.