"Because of social disdain for the acting out of same-sex attractions, nineteenth-century actors were reluctant to record their feelings or describe in their diaries the serious flirtations or outright trysts in which they engaged. Peter C. Baldwin has managed to overcome the evidentiary consequences of that reluctance, through the discovery of that rare memoir that offered some behavioral details of queer erotics and because he has performed due diligence in recovering erased or partially erased entries that reveal important aspects of Warren's relationships with other boys/men with whom he 'frolicked' or 'slept.' This is a fascinating historical narrative." — John Corrigan, author of Business of the Heart: Religion and Emotion in the Nineteenth Century
