In 2008 Professor James Valentino, while engaged in research, discovered a series of letters from Lucy Shaw to her mother in Maine during a seminal time in Texas history. He subsequently decided to publish them along with additional research to make history come alive. This notable woman of letters recorded not only the mundane, but the family's struggles of life and death in early Galveston and of those she left behind in Maine. The reader will not soon forget them.
