Imagine the thrill for a professor of Western history to discover a box of letters dating from 1870-72. As Daniel Tyler cautiously opened the correspondence between 27-year-old Leroy Carpenter and 17-year-old Iowa schoolteacher Martha Bennett, he realized he held the voices of emerging love, as well as articulate social commentar


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