Letters from Dollie is a very personal story about a talented writer and a free-thinking feminist who immigrated with her family from Ireland when she was 11 and matured into an adult in rural Oklahoma in the first half of the twentieth century. Dollie describes her life as young woman, office worker, wife and mother, much of it through her correspondence with her girlhood friend, Hazel Hippler, later McClary, of Pennsylvania. Dollie's eyewitness accounts bring a unique and personal perspective to American history of the 1920s, ´30s and ´40s and chronicle phenomena such as the influence of the Ku Klux Klan, the Oklahoma oil boom, and the poverty of farmers in the Dust Bowl.The wit and wisdom contained in Letters from Dollie provide insights into her relationship with Hazel and an opportunity to share the emotions and experiences of this bright and fascinating woman.