In 1945, a sixteen-year-old English schoolboy and a fifteen-year-old North Carolina girl began a correspondence that would span over forty years. Through these letters, Goolsby and Campbell reveal personal hopes and disappointments, witness history, and develop a highly literate and supportive friendship: 
"And now, I don't think of you as a pen-friend, but as Elaine, a girl on the other side of the world who knows more about me than any person in-between -- a friend who doesn't kick too hard when letters go unanswered, and who has troubles." 
Letter from Graham to Elaine, August, 1949, Liverpool.

Letter in a Bottle

Literature & Fiction

Goolsby, Elaine L.

Campbell, Graham G.

Contemporary

Carolina Wren Pr

In 1945, a fifteen-year-old North Carolina farm girl and a sixteen-year-old Liverpool schoolboy began a correspondence as part of a school project that would endure for more than fifty years. Their mutual love of books and writing and their similar backgrounds helped bind the two in a relationship that poet and assistant professor Steve Katz of NCSU calls born of the pen. Goolsby's initial letters were thought to be missing when their successful book LETTER IN A BOTTLE was published in 1991. Found in Graham's tool shed in London in 1993, they now appear in their entirety in LETTERS LOST AND FOUND for the first time.

Letters Lost and Found

Booher, Blythe

Parenting & Relationships

Carolina Wren Press

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