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Blake, James, (letters from prison to Conroy and Algren), Jack Conroy incoming correspondence, n. d., 1946-1959

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Open book Blake, James, (letters from prison to Conroy and Algren), Jack Conroy incoming correspondence, n. d., 1946-1959

Title Blake, James, (letters from prison to Conroy and Algren), Jack Conroy incoming correspondence, n. d., 1946-1959

Creator Conroy, Jack, 1898-1990

Date n. d., 1946-1959

Place United States

Language English

Subjects Authors, American, Bohemianism, New Left, Radicalism in literature, Writers' Program of the Work Projects Administration in the State of Illinois

Format Correspondence

User-Contributed Transcription July 4, 1952.Dear Jack - It is a quiet afternoon on July Fourth here in the valley, deep in the hills and I am counting the world well lost, with its frantic pursuits. I have spread a blanket on the lawn beneath the trees, and all is calm somnolent peace.In this atmosphere, it is quite a stretch to recall the rollicking depravity and duplicity of the gentlemen I knew on the chain gang and whose amiable savagery I am trying to put into a novel about my Dixie misadventures.I suggested hopefully to Nelson that I might be sent to North Africa to fester creatively with Truman (Capote, not Harry) Paul Howles and the other malign spirits. Some dark brews seem to come out of that country and that confluence.Whatever comes of this effort - and I find it is an effort to communicate what I feel through the comparatively rigid medium of words after the luxury of being as cloudy and enigmatic as I pleased in music - I shall chew away at it until I have told my tale. The awful compulsion will give me no rest.Last night, the young and prosperous farmer for whom I have been working a little took me out and got me drunk. - But that story really begins with Rimbaud. I was reading "A Season in Hell" about a week ago and came(over)

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Archival Collection Title Jack Conroy papers

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Call Number Midwest MS Conroy Box 3 Folder 129

BibID 992006198805867

Projects Tag IMLS Cares 2020

Rights Status Copyright Not Evaluated

Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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Size 4171px × 5362px 128.01 MB

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Unique Identifier NL119YBR

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