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     MANUSCRIPTS and ARCHIVAL MATERIAL

Epistolary fiction

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 1 Collection or Record:

Anonymous handmade book

 Collection — Box BW 27, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS-16491
Content Description

This collection contains one original typed humerous in a handmade book. The book is bound with a faded silk tie at the spine, and made up of clippings, magazine pages, typed pages, and illustrations. A humorous epistolary story, it is told by a soldier stationed at Camp Lee outside Petersburg, Va., who falls in love with the voice of a woman who sells him a book over the phone from the longtime local booksellers T. S. Beckwith & Co.

Dates: c. 1919