Show author wills home to son of lost love he had wooed unsuccessfully woman he never saw NEW YORK trying to visualize a house in sussex england which was left to him as the result ot of a one sided courtship by mall mail addressed to the boys mother by matthew phipps shiel late british author a brooklyn boy of 13 has been somewhat bewildered shiel died at the age ot of 81 in february but in his win will he be left his house to the son ot of the woman he had never seen but had wooed unsuccessfully across thousands ol of miles in correspondence dating back 17 years she disclosed the strange courtship the authors letter sweetheart Is mrs anna marie miller a brooklyn housewife whose husband Is thomas E miller proprietor of an auto repair shop mrs miller said she wrote the novelist a fan letter in 1931 after she had read the lord of the sea one of his many books shiel replied e promptly and asked for a photograph to nine months and three letters later he proposed saying 1 I think you had better run away and come to me or are you married yes mrs miller was she told her pen pal so and got a wry acknowledgment know when patrick her son was born bom shiel wrote that the event Is historical in the passion of my life and added that there are times when I 1 love you with quite a special passion new to me the first of the more than 50 letters he wrote to her was addressed simply my dear miss anna marle marie the third letter starts with anna marie dear and alter after that shiel always saluted her with nance of my heart strings my husband Is very realistic mrs miller said the tact fact that there were miles ot ocean between myself and shiel meant there was no reason tor for domestic discord in our house mrs miller much to patricks disappointment thinks they will sell the house patrick wants it for a summer home or something hold on to it until I 1 get married |