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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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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 Feb. 16. 54Dear Jack - Either the letter I sent you went awry or you have been too busy to reply. I cannot believe you could be indifferent to my pitiful plight. ("It is nothing to ye, all ye who pass by?") Your jailhouse pastiche, which I got via Fallow, was most amusing, also heartening - I find myself quoting Donne on the subject frequently. And the outraged Dickens.I am still chewing out my own vitals in the process of excreting a masterpiece - to make the metaphor woolier, I feel like a slug on a vast, endless cabbage leaf - Gnaw, gnaw, gnaw, with no discernible progress.Until recently, I was trying to work in a tank with about fourteen other guys, and concentration was the least, to say the most. I took my problem to the Captain, and he gave me a cell by myself. So now I'm locked in with the Thing, and there is nothing to do but work. I remember reading recently that somebody offered James Jones eight-million dollars, or some such sum, to appear on television and he said he was too busy working on his second book, that he was "living with his characters." Man, he's nowhere, I'm locked up with mine.How did you like the Warren book? I note that Eleanor, the word-mincer, found it 'repetitious.' It was a trifle solemn, perhaps, but there appears to be some sort of ferment there.Remember to lower the flag Thursday the 18, and beat the drum slowly. Got any Limey magazines? Ever, JimAren't these the gray days for the loose-living, lily-livered Liberals? How fares the College of Ku Kluxes?

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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 4242px × 5384px 130.72 MB

Filename 992006198805867_midwest_ms_conroy_box_00003_fl_00130_000004.tif

Unique Identifier NL119YCF

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