Artwork Description:
ELS stands for the Emerson Literary Society, a fraternity, founded by Ralph Waldo Emerson, at Hamilton College, Clinton, NY. In the mid 1970s the college administration decided to abolish and destroy ELS, along with all the other fraternities on campus.
The artist was a member and officer of ELS in the mid 1960s. He does not know where the original, handwritten letter from R. W. E. himself--incorporating and inspiring ELS--now resides.