edited and introduced by Craig Brandon
The letters behind the Adirondacks' most famous murder case.
Every word of the correspondance between Grace Brown and Chester Gillette from 1905 and 1906 is included along with photographs of some of the original letters and their envelopes.
Also included are extentive footnotes and an introduction explaining the letters' signficace by Craig Brandon, author of the bestselling book about the case: Murder in the Adirondacks.
“I have been bidding goodbye to some places today. There are so many nooks, dear, and all of them so dear to me. I have lived here nearly all of my life. First I said goodbye to the spring house with its great masses of green moss, then the apple tree where we had our playhouse, then the “Beehive,” a cute little house in the orchard, and of course all the neighbors that have mended my dresses from a little tot up to save me a thrashing I really deserved. Oh dear, you don’t realize what all of this means to me. I know I shall never see any of them again.”
Those words, written a century ago by a 20-year-old pregnant farm girl to her lover, Chester Gillette, were intended only for him. Later that year they caused a national sensation when they were read at her murder trial. Her words were on the front page of newspapers across the country, were transcribed into An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser and A Northern Light by Jennifer Donnelly. They were also part of Tobias Picker’s 2005 opera, "An American Tragedy."
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