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Field, Ben (Moe Bragin), Jack Conroy incoming correspondence, 1932-1982

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Title Field, Ben (Moe Bragin), Jack Conroy incoming correspondence, 1932-1982

Creator Conroy, Jack, 1898-1990

Date 1932-1982

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 in pencil in top margin Field, Ben
St. Patricks Day 1981
Dear Jack,

Jeanette and I have just gotten home after a day at the Metropolitan Museum of Art where we are senior volunteers, having buffeted a heavy flurry of sorry Marchers in the Annual Parade and scores of drunkards. One bloody souse, crossing the street, picked up a beer bottle and broke it, met me at the curb in a get-together that almost ham strung me.
I hope things were quieter in your town!
How have the publishers been treating you?
In the past, I would get rejections. Now they simply ignore me, and thereby save postage stamps. After a while, one gets hardened to the situation. Before the skies clear, there will be more than flurries of snow. We are living in the Reagan Era, and so one continues banging away on the typewriter.
Just got the report over the radio that there will be a March on the Pentagon May 3!
Our warmest regards to Gladys.
The above is just a how-do-you-do? to one of my favorite Irishmen.

Sincerely,
Ben

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Transcription Note This document was transcribed by volunteers as part of the Newberry Transcribe crowdsourcing initiative.

Archival Collection Title Jack Conroy papers

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Call Number Midwest MS Conroy Box 10 Folder 475

BibID 992006198805867

Projects Tag IMLS Cares 2020

Rights Status Copyright Not Evaluated

Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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IIIF Resource Type Canvas

Size 4017px × 5134px 59.04 MB

Filename 992006198805867_midwest_ms_conroy_box_00010_fl_00475_000053.tif

Unique Identifier NL11A56J

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