Alice and Julius met through a personal add Alice posted in the Saturday Review of Literature on September 14, 1935. They corresponded for six months and wrote a play together by sending it back and forth. Their correspondence seems to reveal two people very meant for each other finding each other across the US Postal Service. Alice was on Staten Island and Julius was in Madison, Wisconsin. Here is her original ad:
Family history reports that Alice received over 50 responses from various highly educated men (all Ivy League, of course). There are rumors that these letters have been viewed by someone other than Alice. It is hard to really know who reports that. Here is Julius’s response:
Julius made an impression. Much of their correspondence is below. Alice was better at keeping the letters, so we have more of Julius’s letters and, when she kept carbons of her letters, we have some of hers. Scroll right for the entire correspondence.
