Rosalie Morris Johnson and her husband R. Winder Johnson were

born into upper middle-class families in Philadelphia during the mid

1800’s. They married at the height of what Mark Twain and Charles

Dudley Warner termed the Gilded Age. While life was good, it could,

nonetheless, be short. Rosalie Morris Johnson wrote the thirteen letters

presented here, between 1893 and 1903, providing a brief but telling

glimpse into the life, love and family she shared with husband.