Natalie Wexler

Copyright 2006 by Natalie Wexler

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Kalorama Press

Print edition ISBN 978-0-6151-3516-8

This book incorporates a number of historical documents, but it is essentially a work of fiction. Although most of the characters are based on real people, and many of the events described actually transpired, much of the plot and virtually all the dialogue are invented. Spelling and punctuation in the documents have been modernized.

Acknowledgments for permission to quote from various historical documents can be found in the acknowledgments section at the end of the book.

Cover art: Gilbert Stuart, Mrs. Thomas Bartlett (Hannah Gray Wilson), about 1805; bequest of Minna B. Hall. Photograph © 2006 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston