Includes two transcriptions of Mary Estelle Elizabeth Cutts's manuscript as well as a study of Cutts's authorship and women's historical writing in the nineteenth century.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contexts. The lady vanishes: Mary Estelle Elizabeth Cutts's Memoir of Dolley Payne Todd Madison / Catherine Allgor -- History, memory, and Dolley Madison: notes from a documentary editor / Holly Cowan Shulman -- Miss Cutts / Elizabeth Dowling Taylor -- Texts. Editorial note ; Cutts memoir I ; Cutts memoir II ; The last letters