ABSTRACT
During the spring of 1941, to make room for the anticipated student enrollment, the Bread Loaf Barn had been renovated. Additional classrooms were built downstairs, and a large open dormitory for men was provided upstairs. Dean Harry Owen assigned all the men students on scholarships to the Barn dormitory. But even be fore classes began on July 1, it was obvious that the open dormitory was far too noisy and public for studying and sleeping. I spoke with Harry Owen, and he arranged for me and another student, Richard Ellmann, to move to Gilmore Cottage, and we roomed together there for the summer. Dick Ellmann already had his Ph.D. from Yale University and was a published poet, and he had come to Bread Loaf to work with Ted Morrison, hoping to secure a teaching posi tion in the freshman English program at Harvard as the first step in his academic career. In this he succeeded.
