An essay is presented regardng the story of college freshman student Chester Kallman and 30-year-old poet W. H. Auden in 1937 in New York. It chronicles the first meeting between Kallman and Auden until they developed a relationship, based on several manuscript collections of the Auden-Kallman correspondence in the New York Public Library. It also mentions Kallman and Auden's collaboration in opera and the factors that caused their separation.