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The widely scattered members of the Beecher family had a fashion of communicating with each other by means of circular letters. These, begun on great sheets of paper, at either end of the line, were passed along from one to another, each one adding his or her budget of news to the general stock. When the filled sheet reached the last person for whom it was intended, it was finally remailed to its point of departure. Except in the cases of Mrs. Stowe and Mrs. Perkins, the simple address “Rev. Mr. Beecher” was sufficient to insure its safe delivery in any town to which it was sent.
Houghton, Mifflin and Company, The Riverside Press, Cambridge, 1889.
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