Dear Master: Letters of a Slave Family

For those interested in Stevenson or the writers he influenced--Borges and Greene, among others. This collection of more than 200 letters--including seven discovered since the book's original appearance in 1978--reveals the relationship of two generations of the Shipwith family with the Virginia planter John Hartwell Cocke. With a new preface to this edition by editor Miller (history, Saint Joseph's U., Philadelphia). Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR