An Unpublished Letter of Parini

William Faulkner

“…Estelle's parents insisted she marry Cornell, as he was an Ole Miss law graduate, had recently been commissioned as a major in the Hawaiian Territorial Forces, and came from a respectable family with which they were old friends. [22] Estelle's marriage to Franklin fell apart ten years later, and she was divorced in April 1929. [23] Faulkner married Estelle in June 1929 at College Hill Presbyterian Church just outside of Oxford, Mississippi.…”