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Precious and Adored: The Love Letters of Rose Cleveland and Evangeline Simpson Whipple, 1890–1918 Paperback – May 1, 2019

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Lizzie Ehrenhalt is the editor of MNopedia, the online encyclopedia of Minnesota.

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In spite of her exclamations that she failed or declined to find the language to express her love for Whipple, Cleveland did, in fact, do exactly that. Falling back on the standard vocabulary of Victorian affection used by friends as well as lovers, she made Whipple her beloved; darling; everything; Love; Sweet; and Sweetheart. The combined impact of the epithets throughout Cleveland’s letters suggests a longing that bordered on obsessiveness. The US Post Office delivered the mail twice a day during Whipple and Cleveland’s courtship. Cleveland’s rapid frequency of correspondence and demand of prompt replies from Whipple during this time of heightened emotions can appear, at times, oppressive: Eva, do you know in what distress I was? No word from you at all since you had my letter written after receipt of your telegram and in anticipation of what your letter (it promised) should contain. The letter came on Thursday by Orange Belt and another by regular evening mail. Then on Friday one in Orange Belt and one in evening mail . . . your happiness & mine are floating somewhere―impossible to get hold of!! Cleveland’s insistence on possession, however, nudged the relationship into erotic and even conjugal territory. Cleveland repeated the epithet “my Eve” fourteen times throughout the letters written between 1890 and 1893. During the same period, she announced, “I will not longer fear to claim you; you are mine.” Legal language―references to oaths, contracts, and evidence―appeared in many of Cleveland’s letters. “You must swear, Eve,” she insisted in the spring of 1890. “Take all the oaths you can to keep me easy until I have you.” Around the same time, she begged Whipple to sign a written statement of commitment. She later referred, teasingly, to a similar promise: “Please remember, Madam, that I have a writing that can appear as evidence, if you do not fulfill your contract.” In the most dramatic example of legalese, Cleveland invoked a marriage vow, telling Evangeline, “You are mine, and I am yours, and we are one, and our lives are one henceforth, please God, who can alone separate us.” The officiant’s blessing used at many Protestant weddings in Victorian America used similar language, adapted from Mark 10:8: “What therefore God has joined together let no man separate.” Without a vocabulary to express the seriousness of her love for another woman, Cleveland turned to a traditional and legitimate institution―Christian marriage―to confirm her commitment.

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