Dear Craig,

Ah to be found at last.  I would have written much sooner, but I stupidly threw away the envelope with your address.  I too was about to write c/o your home address.  It was any way a rare pleasure to read your essay on writing of a couple of letters back.  Its pleasure grows with each reading.

So many things have happened since I last wrote — I graduated from school, spent many hourse and much energy looking for work for next year and finally did.  My mother and my sister came up for my graduation.  I got a car and my driver’s license and my Connecticut No-Fault Auto Insurance and the longest sore throat I can remember (7 days) and yes, I came back to Kamp Kewanee.

I will be working next year at Suffield Academy — it is a private boys’ high school as Director of Music.  Along with my position as Musical Director of the Plainville Choral Society.  They are both part-time positions, so I will have some time to myself and still plenty of money to live on.  My needs are simple.

Well this class is nearly over and I must go to my next activity.  Please write soon.  One more thing — I miss you and think of you often.

Larry

19 July, 1973
La Plume, Pa.

Below, Lawrence (front row, far right) at Kamp Kewanee, near Scranton, Pennsylvania, 1973.  – CHC

Photo credit — www.kampkewanee.org