Susan Elizabeth Blow and James Jackson Putnam were an unlikely pair. She grew up in Hegelian St. Louis and he in Emersonian Boston. She was a bit older and a spinster and he firmly married with five children. He was robust and an outdoorsman; she was bookish and had no appetite for exercise. Even so, they had keen interests in common: religion, philosophy, science, the nature of man, how the mind works and the presence of God. They met when Susan...
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