Newberry Library - Fink, Janice, Jack Conroy incoming correspondence, n. d., 1943-1950

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Title Fink, Janice, Jack Conroy incoming correspondence, n. d., 1943-1950

Creator Conroy, Jack, 1898-1990

Date n. d., 1943-1950

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 can sympathize with people till they are hurting other people and then by God, I don't know on whose side to stand.

I went down to the cemetery to look at Altgeld's grave yesterday. I wanted it for the novel. I had a Hell of a time finding it - what with the graves of the Armanis, Pullmans, Palmers etc being much more impressive. What happened was comic. Some guy standing there engaged me in conversation and told me he was Altgeld's butcher boy. He then gave me his version of the Haymarket riot. And was it Tribune rich! He seemed to think I was an innocent that must be set right. (I reminded him of his daughter, he said.) There was something swell about the whole scene. The grave was in a spot mixed up with a bunch of other graves and the stone had Altgeld's prize quotation on it. There were three of us, at last, one guy copying off the quotations into a little notebook. It was fun!

My best,
Janice

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Archival Collection Title Jack Conroy papers

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Call Number Midwest MS Conroy Box 10 Folder 479

BibID 992006198805867

Projects Tag IMLS Cares 2020

Rights Status Copyright Not Evaluated

Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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IIIF Resource Type Canvas

Size 3490px × 4988px 49.84 MB

Filename 992006198805867_midwest_ms_conroy_box_00010_fl_00479_000014.tif

Unique Identifier NL11A57J

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