@article{correspondence:2552,
      recid = {2552},
      author = {Cummins, Maureen},
      title = {Far Rockaway : a romantic correspondence / edited &  with an introduction by Maureen Cummins.},
      address = {2005},
      pages = {xi, 61 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.},
      note = {In 2000 artist Maureen Cummins purchased a shoebox of  about 100 love letters at a flea market in Manhattan, all  written to the same man between 1906 and 1908, and most of  them addressed to Far Rockaway, New York.  Attracted by the  physical beauty of the writing and the stationary she  purchased them largely unexamined.  Upon reading them she  discovered that the writer was, in fact, another man.  In  Cummins' words, "... they constituted a rare and precious  treasure, being both an engaging testament of unrequited  love, and a fascinating record of homosexual life in the  early twentieth century." "This unique edition is limited  to five hundred copies of which fifty deluxe  copies,...coptic bound and boxed, contain facsimiles of  selected letters, and are numbered 1-50.  Four hundred and  fifty regular copies are bound in soft covers, slipcased  and numbered 51-500."--Colophon.},
      url = {http://digitalcoll.skidmore.edu/record/2552},
}