A deeply moving look into romance and tragedy in the life of a Victorian-era Harvard student and his beloved wife, through journal entries, letters, and images of the actual diary. Her soul was the violet of my home, fragrant with heaven's own breezes, and lovely with a modest charm that kept me and keeps me her lover as in the days of yore. --Francis Ellingwood Abbot, 1894 In 1857, at the age of twenty, a Harvard student named Francis Ellingwood...
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