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 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

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Archival Collection Title Jack Conroy papers

Link to Catalog View finding aid | View record

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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Unique Identifier NL119YCT

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