In a letter to "New York" magazine, published on June 7, 1976 and written by Patricia Healy (née Goode), the wife of the Irish writer T. F. Healy, she puts forth a strident defense of Kammerer in her rebuttal to an article written by Aaron Latham and previously published in the magazine. She had been a student at Barnard College while the Beat Generation was coalescing in the 1940s in New York City. She had known several key members of the literary movement, including Burroughs, Kerouac, and Carr but not Ginsberg at the time.