"Inadvertently, unwittingly, through the years Greg and I seem to have composed a kind of double portrait that, at the outset, in 1975, neither of us could possibly have imagined; nor could I have imagined that Greg would be my primary correspondent through most of my adult life," Oates writes in her introduction to a selection of these letters, which will be published in March.
January 25, 1995Dear Greg, I'm enclosing the London Review since they've sent me several extra copies, and I thought you might find the publication attractive.