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April 28, 1951 This is something I am ashamed of doing. it is easier for me to steal than to beg, which is perhaps why I am here - but desperation makes mebold, so I am asking if you can contribute, as a short loan, five dollars to my Liberation Fund - I am serving the seventy month of a two year sentence in thisDixie dungeon, and I am making plans to hang it up and make my way back through the Union lines - Bud has been enormously helpful, and with the money he has sent, I am going to grease a cooperative shot-gun guard of the chain-gang I was in,but I am in need of some money for civilian clothing to negotiate the perilous passage between here and the Mason-Dixon iron curtain. Perhaps if I can give you an idea of what I have been through, you will understand my urgent desire to be altogether elsewhere - not since Oliver Twist has anybody taken such a pasting from a perverse Fate - Every day I go out with a work gang at sun-up to work on the roads with two shot-gun guards or to quarry sand or line-rock, or to dig ditches throughsnake-infested swamps while fighting off clouds of s tinging sand-gnats. Months of this heat-tearing labor has made me physically as lean and muscularas a hound, but the mental torture I have undergone at the hands of cursing half-drunken guards has been formidable (over)
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
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Call Number
Midwest MS Conroy Box 3 Folder 129
BibID
992006198805867
Size
4195px × 5415px 130.01 MB
IIIF Resource Type
Canvas
Filename
992006198805867_midwest_ms_conroy_box_00003_fl_00129_000014.tif
Unique Identifier
NL119YAJ
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