The Lettons were brought together by an interest in the theater, to which he had come from Columbia, South Carolina, and she from Davenport, Iowa, with interim stops in the many places the family was led by her Episcopal clergyman father. Since their marriage, in the late 1930’s, Jennette has sung on all the major American radio networks; Francis has acted on Broadway and elsewhere, and they have jointly managed a small summer theater in Connecticut. For many years, they had planned to write a play and a novel about the youth of England’s first Elizabeth, and they finally got down to it after the war. The play has been running successfully in London since it was presented last year and the novel is now being published in England as well as in America.