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Title: If You Love That Lady Don't Marry Her": The Courtship Letters of Sally McDowell and John Miller, 1854™1856 by Thomas E. Buckley, John Miller, Sally Campbell Presto McDowell ISBN: 0-8262-1278-6 Publisher: Univ of Missouri Pr (Txt) Pub. Date: July, 2000 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $44.95

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Average Customer Rating: 5 (1 review)

Rating: 5
Summary: Great Story. Meticulous research. A "must have" resource.
Comment: Buckley's work on the agonizingly long and complex courtship of a distinguished Presbyterian minister (and later Confederate officer) and the divorced daughter of a Governor of Virginia is extraordinary.

The number of letters contained in this volume, PAINSTAKINGLY transcribed from handwriting that is (at least 50%) illegible, is astounding. The story told is compelling for even a cynical 21st century observer of love and life . . . and a rare chronicle of the political and personal impact of 19th-century Presbyterian varying "insights" into the mind, will, and intent of an sometimes angry and always fearsome God.

The notes and bibliography are priceless. They alone make the book a must-have resource for anyone interested in the 19th century history of southern Presbyterian protestantism, women's rights, religious bigotry, Rockbridge County, Lexington and most of the rest of Virginia. . . . . not to mention the geneaologies of perhaps half the population of the entire valley of Virginia.

Detailed, execellent, and pound for pound . . . no better value.

A credit to an editor's labor of love . . . and to the University of Nebraska Press for publishing it.