dr. bonner, and he will give it to me. if you have my love for your poor old mother, pray, come or send to me. my dear son, i love you with all my heart. hannah von buskirk. >> this is a letter to dinah, september 19, 1858. i take the pleasure of writing you these few words with much regret to inform you that i am being sold to a man by the name of pearson, a traitor who stays in new orleans. i am here yet, but i expect to go before long. and when i do go, i want to send you some things. but i don't know who to send them by. but i will try to send them to you and my children. give my love to my father and my mother, and tell them good bye for me. and if we shall not meet in this world, i hope to meet them in heaven. my dear wife, for you and my children this pen cannot express the grief that i feel to be parted from you all. >> we're taken behind the public facade of scholars and activists. dr. martin luther king's letter from a birmingham jail is here along with his private message to his wife who in 1960 he writes from a