All too often the stuff of daily life is not what makes it into the history textbooks but it is that every lack of the extraordinary which makes these letters so appealing. Emma's garden, CN's business and Stanly's college days at Princeton seem so vivid because they have not been overshadowed by greater historical events. Thanks to thirty-three brittle letters, three people who lived one hundred years ago come to seem like people we know. In their affection for each other and their desire to share the events of their lives during a year apart they also teach us, today, about a world so like and yet so different from our own.
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Heather Palmer has worked as Director of the C. S. Roberts House, as Curator at several properties for the National Trust for Historic Preservation and as Historian at Blair House, the President's Guest House. She has taught college courses and elderhostels on historic editing and has authored hundreds of published articles on nineteenth century history. Her books include three history workbooks for children and several history books.
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