My Dear Governess: The Letters of Edith Wharton to Anna
An exciting archive came to auction in : the papers and personal effects of Anna Catherine Bahlmann (),a governess and companion to several prominent American families. Among the collection were one hundred thirty-five letters from her most famous pupil,Edith Newbold Jones,later the great American novelist Edith Wharton. Remarkably,until now,just three letters from Whartons childhood and early adulthood were thought to survive. Bahlmann,who would become Whartons literary secretary an