Ossokosee House is a central location in Left to Themselves. The house is a summer resort where Gerald and Philip meet after the former flees from a tramp by the name of Mr. Sip (8). There are no specifics regarding where Ossokosee is in the United States. However, following this encounter, the narrator says that Mr. Sip can be seen drinking buttermilk within the hour at a cottage (8). A farmer’s daughter gives it to him because she pities him for needing to walk from “Wheelborough Heights to Patterson, in Jersey” (9). Eric L. Tribunella, the editor of the Valancourt edition, says that there is no record of Wheelborough Heights or Wheelbarrow Heights (163; n. 7). Nevertheless, according to Tribunella, Willingboro is 80 miles from Patterson, and Woodbury Heights is about 100 miles away (163; n. 7). These passages suggest that Ossokosee House might be near Patterson, New Jersey.