Practical Strangers: The Courtship Correspondence of Nathaniel Dawson and Elodie Todd, Sister of Mary Todd Lincoln

Book Overview

These letters chronicle the wartime courtship of a Confederate soldier and the woman he loved a sister-in-law of Abraham Lincoln. It is a relative rarity for the correspondence of both writers in Civil War letter collections to survive, as they have here. Rarer still is how frequently and faithfully the two wrote, given how little they truly knew each other at the start of their exchange. As a romantic pair, Nathaniel Dawson and Elodie Todd had...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0820351024
• ISBN13: 9780820351025
• Release Date: June 2017
• Publisher: University of Georgia Press
• Length: 338 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"