Ships that Pass in the Night by Beatrice Harraden, first published in 1894, is a rare manuscript, the original residing in one of the great libraries of the world. This book is a reproduction of that original, which has been scanned and cleaned by state-of-the-art publishing tools for better readability and enhanced appreciation. Restoration Editors' mission is to bring long out of print manuscripts back to life. Some smudges, annotations or unclear text may still exist, due to permanent damage to the original work. We believe the literary significance of the text justifies offering this reproduction, allowing a new generation to appreciate it.

Reproduction of the original: Ships That Pass in the Night by Beatrice Harraden

In March of 1953, Donald Watkins, a former Marine who served in China during the Japanese invasion of 1937, murdered his wife and mother-in-law. After serving twenty-two years in Farview State Hospital for the Criminally Insane, he was released and eventually married again. A decade later, Donald may or may not have been the cause of his second wife's death, as well. Author Diane Cameron uncovers the true story of her stepfather, Donald Watkins. Was he a traumatized veteran? A victim of abuse in the mental-health system? Was he a criminal? Mentally ill? Or just eccentric? As she unravels this mystery, Cameron finds healing and understanding with her own struggles and history of family abuse. She discovers an unlikely collection of role models in the community of the China Marines, as they were known. Together, they help put the pieces of shared war experience in perspective and resolve the more complex issue of understanding trauma itself. With insights drawn from diverse experts such as Thomas Szasz and Bessel van der Kolk, Cameron unlocks the connection between the experience of veterans of past wars and those who deal with the war trauma today. Diane Cameron is an award-winning columnist. An excerpt from Never Leave Your Dead was first published in the Bellevue Literary Review and was nominated for a 2006 Pushcart Prize.

This collection of Dr. Wells' writings includes selections from previously published works, as well as some new ones. His work ranges widely: religion, politics, poetry and the arts, the earth, social concerns, holiday reflections, the human condition and more. Previously published works include "Sunshine and Rain at Once", a Skinner House Book, 1981 (Unitarian Universalist Association); material from "Banquet Prayers, Other Essays, Poems", copyright 1972 by Clarke Wells; "Both, Both My Girl," copyright 1975 by Clarke Dewey Wells, "The Strangeness of This Business, 1975 (Unitarian Universalist Association); "Ouch and Alleluia, a new book of essays, poems and a sermon on Sappho, copyright 1993 by Clarke Dewey Wells, "Past the Size of Dreaming, 30 selected poems and 6 essays, copyright 2005 by Clarke Dewey Wells. Selections included in "100 Meditations, Selections from Unitarian Universalist Meditation Manuals, ed. Kathleen Montgomery, Skinner House Books, 2000 and in "Singing the Living Tradition" (Beacon Press, Boston, The Unitarian Universalist Association, 1993) The editor, Barbara Carlson is Dr. Wells' legally appointed representative following his death on November 8, 2006.