Newberry Library - Carmon, Walt, (New Masses, also to H. H. Lewis), Jack Conroy incoming correspondence, n. d., 1929-1962

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Open book Carmon, Walt, (New Masses, also to H. H. Lewis), Jack Conroy incoming correspondence, n. d., 1929-1962

Title Carmon, Walt, (New Masses, also to H. H. Lewis), Jack Conroy incoming correspondence, n. d., 1929-1962

Creator Conroy, Jack, 1898-1990

Date n. d., 1929-1962

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 (2stage name. If you call Disney in your mag. Walter you'd not only be fired as senior Ed. but they wouldn't let a subsersive [sic] like you even sweep the office for fear you'd snoop in the wastbasket. [sic] My true name is Ladislaus. The Lithuanians who are true descendents of the noble Mongols who went thru Asia like diarrhea, repeated over Europe and only were stopped by the Baltic. A characteristic of even the Lets of today is they hate water, never use it, inside or out. They use sand-paper. But from their neigbors [sic] they got vodka. While suffering a godawful hangover the Poles stepped in and my name, given us by Romans, was changed to W��adys��aw (always with tilde!) When the Lithuanians sobered up and clobbered the Poles, Ladislaus came back. But the Russians brought over more vodka. and as you can see by the papers, the Lithuanians aren't sure its better or worse. If ever you need any dope on Lithuanians you can get it straight from the Mongol horse's mouth, at only slightly higher than usual space rates. Only rember [sic], never pull a rock by calling

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Archival Collection Title Jack Conroy papers

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Call Number Midwest MS Conroy Box 5 Folder 251

BibID 992006198805867

Projects Tag IMLS Cares 2020

Rights Status Copyright Not Evaluated

Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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Size 2787px × 4319px 68.91 MB

Filename 992006198805867_midwest_ms_conroy_box_00005_fl_00251_000092.tif

Unique Identifier NL11A2U4

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