Titcomb’s Letters to Young People, Single and Married

Josiah Gilbert Holland

Tenth Edition

New York:
Charles Scribner,
No. 124 Grand Street

1858

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CONTENTS

Letters to Young Men

1. Getting the Right Start
2. Female Society — The Woman for a Wife
3. Manners and Dress
4. Bad Habits
5. The Blessings of Poverty — Office and Effect of a Profession
6. Food and Physical Culture
7. Social Duties and Privileges
8. The Reasonableness and Desirableness of Religion

Letters to Young Women

1. Dress – Its Proprieties and Abuses
2. The Transition from Girlhood to Womanhood
3. Acquisitions and Accomplishments
4. Unreasonable and Injurious Restraints
5. The Claims of Love and Lucre
6. The Prudent and Proper Use of Language
7. Housewifery and Industry
8. The Beauty and Blessedness of Female Piety

Letters to Young Married People

1. The First Essential Duties of the Connubial Relation
2. Special Duties of the Husband
3. Special Duties of the Wife
4. The Rearing of Children
5. Separation – Family Relatives — Servants
6. The Institution of Home
7. Social Homes, and Blessings for Daily Use
8. A vision of Life and its Meaning

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