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Bloomfield, Gary, Jack Conroy incoming correspondence, 1964

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Title Bloomfield, Gary, Jack Conroy incoming correspondence, 1964

Creator Conroy, Jack, 1898-1990

Date 1964

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 13, ?Warmholt? Road, Shepherds Bush, London W.12 England21st October, 1964Dear Mr. Conroy, Many thanks for sending us a copy of your novel and for the book you sent to Lynne. I think she must have told everyone in the vicinity that Mr. Conroy sent her a book from America. I have just finished reading "the Disinherited" and thoroughly enjoyed it, but how depressed and guilty it made me feel. I suppose the times and the hardships of those times, seem twice as bad to a person like myself, who has never experienced hunger, or had no shoes on their feet. The guilty feeling is caused when I think how easy life has been for me. Although I have never been spoilt with fancy toys, and anything I just happened to want (and sometimes as a child it was hard to understand just why I couldn't have everything I saw) I can honestly say that life has been

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Archival Collection Title Jack Conroy papers

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Call Number Midwest MS Conroy Box 3 Folder 138

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 3343px × 4206px 80.49 MB

Filename 992006198805867_midwest_ms_conroy_box_00003_fl_00138_000001.tif

Unique Identifier NL119YEW

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