Crossword-Solution: SORTINGS 8 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 9

From this year--1851--date the earliest letters preserved in the series of thirty-four boxes which contain the sortings of his vast correspondence.

These responded to every properly-modulated thought wave passing through them and made the same careful sortings as a human cell absorbing matter from the world.

After tedious re-sortings, some sixty standards were provisionally selected, and the whole laid by for a few days.

That was the case for the general, and for every particular, impression of Will Temple, thanks to his early death in battle--at Chancellorsville, 1863; he having, among the quickened forces of the time, and his father's record helping him, leaped to a captaincy in the regular Army; but I cling to the idea that the siftings and sortings of life, had he remained subject to them, would still have left him the lustre that blinds and subdues.

But she did suggest to me, on seeing her again after so long an interval, that it is rather a melancholy mistake, in this uncertain life of ours, to have founded oneself on so many rigidities and rules--so many siftings and sortings.