In Which Our Heroine Finds A Telegram That Brings Her To Tears

Time for a brief bit of history . . .
In researching old photographs of Chicago for the writing of Hexbound, I posted over at Write What You See a few minutes ago about the photograph collections available from the Library of Congress's online American Memory project.
I also thought I'd see if the collection housed any images of Chicago's Kimball mansion (the model for Cadogan House). A word search for "Kimball" pulled up a pretty lengthy list. As I was scanning it, I came across the...