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Title Farnsworth, Robert M. (Bob), Jack Conroy incoming correspondence, 1971-1975

Creator Conroy, Jack, 1898-1990

Date 1971-1975

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 UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI-KANSAS CITY
College Of Arts And Sciences Department of English
5315 Holmes
Kansas City, Missouri 64110
Telephone (816) 276-1305
May 16, 1975
Dear Jack, Doctor of Humane letters,

Here are a couple of copies of the Star article. You may have some mixed feelings about it. An interview never comes out exactly the way

you hope it will but I like it very much. It is a much more solid and yet responsive piece than I would have expected in the Star.

Thanks also for your Anvil anthology. I was particularly caught by a poem from an old friend, Alvin Foote. Your bio-note didn't say much

about him. But I knew him in the early '50's where he very reluctantly enrolled in a Ph.D. program for a couple of years. He had been doing
PR work for a couple of colleges and consistently had women and alcohol problems. He never got over his divorce from his first wife, the
suicide death crossed out of his father-in-law and the Catholic priest's refusal to bury him, the end of the Spanish Civil War when he
was about to sail from New York, and his love for the mountains. Last I heard from him he was teaching in a California State College and
apparently willingly submissive to a woman who was keeping alcoholic needs in check. Both Sylvia and I liked him immensely.

I hope you got back to Moberly without being seriously damaged by the ordeal we put you through. It was good seeing you again, and I

hope we have another less strenuous chance soon. Regards, Bob*

* He is Robert H. Farnsworth

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Archival Collection Title Jack Conroy papers

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Call Number Midwest MS Conroy Box 9 Folder 460

BibID 992006198805867

Projects Tag IMLS Cares 2020

Rights Status Copyright Not Evaluated

Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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