The Celebrated Trial Madeline Pollard vs. Breckenridge. The Most Noted Breach of Promise Suit in the History of Court Records

[np]: American Printing and Binding Company, 1894. 394 pp. Pages fragile but complete with illustration. Madeleine Pollard was a young Kentucky student when congressman William Breckenridge seduced her it what became a 10-year affair. He promised to marry her when is wife died. He backtracked and refused to marry Pollard, and she sued him for breach of promise. Along with this copy is Elizabeth DeWolfe's new book Alias Agnes, The Notorious Tale of a Gilded Age Spy which tell the story of the young Maine woman who was hired by the Congressman to spy on his mistress.