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The Letter Left to Me
''The Letter Left to Me'' is Joseph McElroy's seventh novel. A letter from father to son is delivered to the son shortly after the father's death. The letter receives wider and wider circulation, and its continued effect on the son's life is described.
==Plot Summary==
In January, 1946, the 15-year-old narrator (unnamed except for the "Junior" that distinguishes him from his father) receives an envelope addressed to him found amongst his late father's papers. The contents are a two-page letter of fatherly advice, identifying Senior's main regrets in life as words of warning. A few bits from the letter are quoted, they are "bland homilies" and "banal twaddle". Junior initially puzzles over the form of the letter, not really noticing the content: the fact that the letter was dated to three years previously, the fact that it was typed—which his father never did, the fact that he had no idea of its existence, the fact that the envelope itself, addressed to him, had last been seen in a safe-deposit box.
At his mother's suggestion, the letter is shared with the family. An older relative with a print shop prepares, without asking, a hundred copies, causing Junior some small embarrassment at school. And when he goes to college, the Dean gets a copy, and thinks so highly of it, he has copies prepared for and mailed to every student. Although Junior is not identified in these copies, he can't help but be obsessed by how his classmates respond to their copies. He is appalled that some of his friends think the letter is stupid or even fake. On the other hand, he is elated when others find it charming.
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