<p><span class="body"><span class="body">Wilson's letters to Mary were frequent and intimate, but it </span></span>would have been political suicide to marry a divorcee by the post-Victorian standards of the time</p>
<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> Happy marriages may have been all alike in the eighteenth century, but the unhappy ones<br />
fought it out in the newspapers</span> </span></p>
<p><span class="deck">Her son had her committed. She said it was so he could get his hands on her money. Now, 130 years after this bitter and controversial drama, a trove of letters—long believed destroyed—sheds new light on it.</span></p>