AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED (ALS)

College Park, MD, 16 February 1972. Letter. Faint crease from mailing. Fine. A charming one-page AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED (ALS) on a sheet of blue 5-3/4" x 7-3/4" paper to William S. Gray, an English professor at Randolph Macon College. In part: "That is a charming Valentine you sent me, and I remember the past as happy and full of good omens that came true when I receive a letter from one who remembers me from the far past-- or the nearer past, as in your case. When you tell me you have known my work, and in such terms, I am receiving now a happiness that has been in store for me all this time!... [I] shall be happy to see you, grown up-- who wrote me (truncated) a letter when you were a child!" With the envelope addressed in Porter's hand. (Inventory #: 021018)