Close
Digital Collections
Statement on Potentially Offensive Materials
Help
Rights and Reproductions
Log In / Sign Up
0
Selected
Invert selection
Deselect all
Deselect all
Click here to refresh results
Click here to refresh results
Go to Login page
Loading details...
You do not have the permission to view Original image
Add to collection
Download
Share PDF
Get link
Transcription
User-Contributed Transcription
Nov 6, 54 Dear Lorraine, From Gertrude and Paul I hear that you were briefly in Chicago, and intended to winter again in Florida. Now's as good a time as any to start beseeching you to detour a little and visit me. It would be a memorable change for me, to see some faces from outer space; my relations with my fellow penitents are pleasant enough, but the same visages (with the same messages: day on day eventually pall, and the meetings and exchanges of convicts become as ritualistic and predictable as a Kabuki play the tenth time around.Also, I assume that a visit to this unusual-type joint might be of interest to you. You will hear our concert brass band, which plays in the visitor's park daily-one of the unusual features of Raiford is the visiting system. No wire mesh between me and my loved ones, rather a pleasant little pavilion where one may spread an al fresco lunch amid nodding palms. Such an arrangement presumes, of course, that you will not come loaded down with hacksaws, bombs, and booze. Easy does it, ch��ri. You will also see how sleek and contented I am, living my calm monastic existence with my music, my books, and my geraniums, the world well lost. Along that line, I'm eligible for parole the 18th of this month. I've asked the Warrens, since they live near him, to ask Dolf Loeb if he would care to help me in this matter. It may not be so, but I have an idea that letters pertaining to parole receive perhaps quicker attention from the parole board if they come from a lawyer. Perhaps it's too much of an imposition, though, and if necessary I can probably handle
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
Archival Collection Title
Jack Conroy papers
Rights Status
Copyright Not Evaluated
Newberry Open Access Policy
The Newberry makes its collections available for any lawful purpose, commercial or non-commercial, without licensing or permission fees to the library, subject to
these terms and conditions.
Contributing Institution
Newberry Library
Link to Catalog
View finding aid
|
View record
Call Number
Midwest MS Conroy Box 3 Folder 130
BibID
992006198805867
Size
4200px × 5398px 129.76 MB
IIIF Resource Type
Canvas
Filename
992006198805867_midwest_ms_conroy_box_00003_fl_00130_000022.tif
Unique Identifier
NL119YCX
Help
Need help finding, searching, sharing, or downloading? Check out our
help page
!
Projects Tag
IMLS Cares 2020
Linked assets