The Gentle Giant's Lady and Her Friend: Selected Letters of Veronica Boulter Toynbee, 1964-1980

This collection of letters chronicles a sixteen-year friendship between Lois Wiegardt Whitaker and Veronica Boulter Toynbee, wife (and then widow) of historian Arnold Toynbee. The letters also record the contemporaneous development of Whitaker's own family of three children, one of whom became the well-known Spanish-language scholar, Daniel S. Whitaker.