Seven letters were selected from the Diego Delfino Papers which contain roughly twenty letters. Born in 1874 in Acciarello, Calabria, Diego Delfino immigrated to the United States in 1908 with a medical degree from the University of Naples (1903). As a physician, he practiced medicine in a number of states,

Shortly after her arrival in Canada from Italy in 1948, Antonietta Petris wrote a letter to her beloved Loris Palma who at the time resided in Venice. He had actually written a letter to her just a few days previously. The following four letters are samples from their correspondence between

Alessandro Sisca (pseudonym, Riccardo Cordiferro) was a journalist, playwright, poet and radical anarchist. Born on 27 October 1875 in San Pietro in Guarano (Cosenza), he immigrated to the United States in 1892; there he co-founded the literary journal La Follia , among other journals, together with his father. Following the