Letters of Two Elizabeths

I once mailed a poem of Elizabeth Bishop to my late roommate T.F. (who lived in Taiwan). She loved it, thanked me profusely, and told me when she was in Germany (she once won a scholarship to study German for a summer), her teacher had chosen the name Elisabeth for her. Rereading Bishop's poems reminded me this episode. I suddenly realized, the two Elizabeths in my life, I actually knew them through their correspondences. I started reading Bishop because of her letter collection "One Art". And T.F., private and shy just like Bishop, was reserved in person but always passionate in her letters. Without those letters, my two Elizabeths would be lost to me forever.