Print version: My dear boy : Carrie Hughes’s letters to Langston Hughes, 1926-1938. Athens : University of Georgia Press, [2013] xxv, 199 pages ISBN 9780820345659
Following Langston: A foreword by Nikky Finney -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- Chronology -- Prologue -- The letters: Dreams deferred, 1926-1929; Zenith and descent, 1930-1934; Things fall apart, 1935; Dear lovely death, 1936-1938 -- Coda -- Epilogue -- Second coda.
"Tidwell and Williams analyze the causal relationships in her interactions with Langston and other family members through the use of psychiatrist Murray Bowen’s Family Systems Theory (FST). . . . The editors have grouped the 250 letters chronologically into four sections, each preceded by a brief contextual introduction" -- Provided by publisher..