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COLLECTION DESCRIPTION From the Collection: Memoir, "Letter to Ellie - 2007," recounting a love affair with a young woman from Connecticut that took place during the author's undergraduate years at Cornell University. The story, largely told through letters and poems, begins with his boyhood in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia, recalls their 1967 meeting in New Haven, and continues through his service with the U.S. Marine Corps and subsequent studies at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge University. The tale ends with his marriage to...

COLLECTION DESCRIPTION From the Collection: Memoir, "Letter to Ellie - 2007," recounting a love affair with a young woman from Connecticut that took place during the author's undergraduate years at Cornell University. The story, largely told through letters and poems, begins with his boyhood in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia, recalls their 1967 meeting in New Haven, and continues through his service with the U.S. Marine Corps and subsequent studies at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge University. The tale ends with his marriage to...

COLLECTION DESCRIPTION From the Collection: Memoir, "Letter to Ellie - 2007," recounting a love affair with a young woman from Connecticut that took place during the author's undergraduate years at Cornell University. The story, largely told through letters and poems, begins with his boyhood in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia, recalls their 1967 meeting in New Haven, and continues through his service with the U.S. Marine Corps and subsequent studies at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge University. The tale ends with his marriage to...