Affection, Volume 1

Awarded First Prize in Family History, Conn. Society of Genealogists, 2010. Letters between family members from the 1850s to 1930s, a chronicle of lives in 19th century New York, Brooklyn, and Minneapolis. By the 1870s the families lived in the gorwing manufacturing center of Waterbury, Conn. Letters written from the American South, from European cities. These voices evoke late 19th century and early 20th century customs and proeeucpations. Fully edited with notes estalbishing context and place. Fully illustrated with images from vintage photographs.