Richard Chase to Dean Trivette, undated; MCR 3.1b

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Title

Richard Chase to Dean Trivette, undated; MCR 3.1b

Description

The second page of an undated handwritten letter from Richard Chase to Dean Trivette. Chase professes his love for Trivette and cites other historically assumed homosexual men.

Creator

Richard Chase

Identifier

AC133 Richard Chase Papers 1.1 MCR3.1b

Publisher

Appalachian State University Digital Collections

Source

Courtesy of Special Collections Research Center, Appalachian State University

Transcription

You are the one real truelove in my life...beautiful and clean and "Greek." Even Daniel and Jonathan could not love "like the people of the [unintelligible]." [unintelligible] kept their love harshly "spiritual," ours was "not incomplete," as you once wrote me. It was full and joyous. Sophocles and Alexander, [unintelligible] and Whitman, knew this love. [unintelligible] died, at 80, in the arms of a beloved young friend.
Your long silence has hurt me deeply; especially because you have never let me know why.
I hope you have found happiness there where you are.

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