SHERMAN, William T. Archive of 9 letters signed ("W. T. Sherman") to Mary Audenreid, 20 January 1886 -- 18 October 1886. Together 35 pages, 4to, most on Garrison Avenue stationery . "YOU WERE ALWAYS AFFECTIONATE TO ME. EVEN IN THE HEY-DAY OF YOUR YOUNG MARRIED LIFE YOU TOLD ME YOU LIKED ME BETTER THAN AUDENREID" A REVEALING GLIMPSE OF BOTH SHERMAN'S PASSIONS AND HIS ACTIVE POSTWAR CAREER AS A NATIONAL SPEAKER. "If you want to hear from me often," Sherman tells Mrs. Audenreid, "you must write often, for by your own orders I destroy your letters after the answer. You can do with mine as you please, only it might be prudent to destroy them also." Strong passions seethe throughout this correspondence. Writing about Audenreid's daughter Florence, he says: "She must know that marriage...is a serious thing, and that to be tied to one man for life is the law, and that she should be correspondingly careful that this man be the Right one. She is very beautiful, of the very kind that make men crazy to possess her, with all the arts & coquetry so charming in a young girl." There are some references to poor health: "I think the lungs are delicate if not diseased." Otherwise he is a tireless traveler and speaker. The letters are peppered with references to his engagements before G.A.R. crowds and Army of the Tennessee alumni encampments in Illinois, New York and California. He complains of being swamped by letters from struggling veterans who think he can "aid them in getting a pension." Mostly, however, these letters express Sherman's strong and intense feelings for Mrs. Audenreid. 21 June 1886: "You were always affectionate to me. Even in the hey-day of your young married life you told me you liked me better than Audenreid. This was not exactly proper, but no man dislikes such a compliment. If now I could do anything to give you pleasure I would. And although you may be a grandmother within a year, I feel to you as a mere child. Of course I take it for granted that you will marry some fellow and I will say Amen...I promise you on my honor as a soldier that no letter will remain in my files from you indulging in expressions of love and affection. So you ought to be equal in this, and destroy all of mine now..." As ardent as he was to Audenreid, she was not the only woman who captured his attention. Living in New York in the 1880s, "he gained a reputation for kissing young women, and he sought feminine companionship every chance he had" (John F. Marszalek, in American National Biography ). (9)
SHERMAN, William T. Archive of 9 letters signed ("W. T. Sherman") to Mary Audenreid, 20 January 1886 -- 18 October 1886. Together 35 pages, 4to, most on Garrison Avenue stationery . "YOU WERE ALWAYS AFFECTIONATE TO ME. EVEN IN THE HEY-DAY OF YOUR YOUNG MARRIED LIFE YOU TOLD ME YOU LIKED ME BETTER THAN AUDENREID" A REVEALING GLIMPSE OF BOTH SHERMAN'S PASSIONS AND HIS ACTIVE POSTWAR CAREER AS A NATIONAL SPEAKER. "If you want to hear from me often," Sherman tells Mrs. Audenreid, "you must write often, for by your own orders I destroy your letters after the answer. You can do with mine as you please, only it might be prudent to destroy them also." Strong passions seethe throughout this correspondence. Writing about Audenreid's daughter Florence, he says: "She must know that marriage...is a serious thing, and that to be tied to one man for life is the law, and that she should be correspondingly careful that this man be the Right one. She is very beautiful, of the very kind that make men crazy to possess her, with all the arts & coquetry so charming in a young girl." There are some references to poor health: "I think the lungs are delicate if not diseased." Otherwise he is a tireless traveler and speaker. The letters are peppered with references to his engagements before G.A.R. crowds and Army of the Tennessee alumni encampments in Illinois, New York and California. He complains of being swamped by letters from struggling veterans who think he can "aid them in getting a pension." Mostly, however, these letters express Sherman's strong and intense feelings for Mrs. Audenreid. 21 June 1886: "You were always affectionate to me. Even in the hey-day of your young married life you told me you liked me better than Audenreid. This was not exactly proper, but no man dislikes such a compliment. If now I could do anything to give you pleasure I would. And although you may be a grandmother within a year, I feel to you as a mere child. Of course I take it for granted that you will marry some fellow and I will say Amen...I promise you on my honor as a soldier that no letter will remain in my files from you indulging in expressions of love and affection. So you ought to be equal in this, and destroy all of mine now..." As ardent as he was to Audenreid, she was not the only woman who captured his attention. Living in New York in the 1880s, "he gained a reputation for kissing young women, and he sought feminine companionship every chance he had" (John F. Marszalek, in American National Biography ). (9)
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