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Sept. 29. 54.Dear Lorraine,These are the days of coolness and mist in the mornings, of sunlight filtered through the autumn haze, massive brooding clouds piling into towering shapes, bursting in splenetic downpours towards evening. Prelude to the short, damp and penetrating winter of North Florida. No hurricanes yet, but one keeps hoping.Thank you for the loot, it was most opportune, and I was able to make good use of it. I've been working on some tunes which I hope to sell to Mabel Mercer, the New York 'chi-chi' chanteuse-torch-song stuff, written in an effort to ease my recent bereavement, but also with a view to making myself self-supporting in some degree.You may have heard that Paul Warren has finished the first draft of another book, a sequel to 'Next Time for Life.' I envy the boy's facility and drive, my work goes so inchingly slow, two pages in a day being phenomenal. Not that I expect to have any 'Karamazoo' at the end of it, but I feel the necessity of trying for absolute honesty. Struggling for clarity in the picture, while attempting to find the line between clich�� and monkey-cleverness - all this, with a mind sketchily educated, and veiled recurringly in loneliness and the shadow of despondency - it is a challenging task. Alors, one must pursue something, if only a chimera.I've been hung up for some time on a section which must be done convincingly and with finesse, if it is not to collapse into
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 130
BibID
992006198805867
Size
4199px × 5419px 130.23 MB
IIIF Resource Type
Canvas
Filename
992006198805867_midwest_ms_conroy_box_00003_fl_00130_000018.tif
Unique Identifier
NL119YCT
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