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

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

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 4.
work out of that. I still fall back into it when I am in a crisis. I charge everybody and everything now and make out much better. But when I read that last section, I didn't know why, but it seemed like old home week to me. Of course it isn't the prostitutes that are alone. They couldn't be, not all of them. It's Algren. And I doubt if anybody has really ever got through to him, except you perhaps, I mean to a position in which he recognizes the person as always his friend. He seems constantly to be afraid of being victimized. He must live in a very dark world. (I know how it feels.) But his sympathy for the underdog is genuine and deep. The dreadful thing is you can't do anything for people like him. I have known several. They live shut up in their own prison and you can't get them out.

About Bessie, I'm sorry I told you. She's mixed up too. She keeps going around and around in circles. She never gets near to anybody either.
Forgive this bleak letter. And thank you again for the magazine.

Very sincerely,
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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Size 3477px × 4975px 49.52 MB

Filename 992006198805867_midwest_ms_conroy_box_00010_fl_00479_000010.tif

Unique Identifier NL11A57E

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