Heading (Acknowledgments)
Introduction: The Heart in the Glass Jar  
Section 1: The Letter of the Law
Section 2: The Lettered Countryside  
Section 3: The Body of the Letter  
Postscript
Notes
Bibliography
Index

William E. French is an associate professor of history at the University of British Columbia. He is the author of A Peaceful and Working People: Manners, Morals, and Class Formation in Northern Mexico and the coeditor of Gender, Sexuality, and Power in Latin America since Independence.

A history of love and courtship in Mexico from the 1860s through the 1930s based on love letters preserved in legal cases involving courtship.