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

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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 Williard?-2-of inmate thespians to begin rehearsals for the annual Christmas theatrical, a spectacle paralyzingly ecclesiastical. The mummers are a drably earnest and motley lot, the vehicle suitably innocuous. I've been sounded for the job of furnishing the organ background again, and have demurred--irreverence is too sacred a thing to dissemble, I feel--but I fear I shall end by concurring.Last year, I found some small diversion in furnishing a leitmotif constructed from vagrant bits of Gershwin's 'Porgy' score--a bracing ammoniacal whiff of breeze in an otherwise airless, moribund affair, it seemed to me. Most poignant, too, it was, I was quite moved. This year, perhaps some of the least detectable bits of Stravinsky would be nice.Let me hear, booted one.ever,JimJames BlakeBox 221.Raiford, Fla.52603-E32stamp on lower right reading Censored R.W.D.

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Archival Collection Title Jack Conroy papers

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Call Number Midwest MS Conroy Box 3 Folder 130

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 4241px × 5383px 130.66 MB

Filename 992006198805867_midwest_ms_conroy_box_00003_fl_00130_000028.tif

Unique Identifier NL119YD3

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