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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 Jan. 13, 1953.Dear Nelson,A few spitballs from a disorderly kitchen. See what you think.What do you think of the 49,000 missing militarists who went over the fence? Ah youth, insouciant, insurgent! There is yet hope.Ever,Blake.Box 31,Oconomowoc, Wis.P.S. The thing about the Bedevilled Baptists is coming, but slow.P.P.S. Received your letter just as I was about to mail this. About payment from La Prensa, I am indifferent and again, I am not. Not, because of the cost of my present post-moonpause affair is soaring (how do they learn so goddam fast?). But it was gratifying, in a weird way, to have them published at all, and it was a kind of thin-end-of-the-wedge, perhaps. But the failure to send me even a copy of the thing or to answer my letter, even as hobbledehoy as it was, seemed a shade contemptuous. de Beauvoir ma y be busy, but I wrote to Doris Day and got an answer and a picture, too.Your relegating of the Shores of Light reminds me that I have not yet re-read The Golden Arm. But for a different reason. I think I am afraid to find out how inept I really am in the business of words.The news about Paris is dismaying. Whatever will I do for guidance? As for Julius and Ethel, I wish you would stay out of those loaded issues. Easier to defeat by deceit than hollering. 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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