This collection consists mainly of letters from prolific crime novelist George V. Higgins to his friend, psychiatrist Martin J. Kelly. The two met as undergraduate students at Boston College and maintained a correspondence after their graduation in 1961. Higgins’ letters written in the decade post-graduation humorously lament his difficulties in dating and applying to graduate schools. He also discusses his travels around the country, his baseball skills, and the Red Sox. When the correspondence resumes twenty years later, Higgins’ more subdued letters remark on his health, his love of sailing and hatred for golf, and his writing, of which he includes excerpts for critique by Kelly. The collection also includes letters sent to Kelly by mutual friends after Higgins’ death in 1999, as well as copies of eulogies and obituaries. These praise Higgins’ illustrious writing career as well as his sincere character, deeming him the most devoted of friends.