If Ever Two Were One

A poignant memoir of love and loss chronicles the Victorian-era romance between Harvard student Francis Ellingwood Abbot and his much-loved wife, Kate Loring, as told through Abbot's personal journal and correspondence, which record their courtship, marriage, tea with Emerson, a dialogue with Thoreau on poetry, his brother's death at Gettysburg, and Kate's death. Reprint. 10,000 first printing.