Scope and Content of the Collection From the Collection: Collection consists almost entirely of letters written to Jenny Dufau by an Italian lover named Gaetano Ricciulli from September 1915, to April 1917, while Dufau was performing with the Chicago Grand Opera Company. Most of these letters concern his family or hers, the events of his daily life, the fact of their separation due to the war, and his many moods. Ricciulli apparently was an active service army officer on disability leave at the time of these letters. He writes a few...