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Title Gallagher, Jack, Jack Conroy incoming correspondence, 1948

Creator Conroy, Jack, 1898-1990

Date 1948

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 in pencil 1948
Dear Mr Conroy,

Sally and I, in our reading today, went through your and Mr. Bontemps books, which you so

graciously sent to Sally. My dereliction of manners and courtesy provoke me tonight to write to you.
More, knowing you have probably seen Don already, I am mortified. Please accept my belated thanks
for your books.

Your interest in my short piece in Directories is flattering, both for its lack of academic stigma and its coming

from me whose comment I respect highly. Sparing? was no part of a larger concrete design. It was originally
one of a series of isolated studies to bring out what has lain dormant in me so long. My mining days are more vivid
to me than my war experiences, though they come first. I worked as a surveyor on a depoession? - decimated engineering
corps. I hated the work. Two dirty years, crawling among broken?-shutes? in two-foot veins, impressed me. If you will
advise me, I shall try your suggestion of making Spring? part of a larger work

I am grateful to Don for having met you this way through him. We would appreciate criticism from you in the magazine we

are to edit during the coming year. I should be delighted to hear from you. Please say hello to Don for me.

Sincerely, Jack Gallagher

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Archival Collection Title Jack Conroy papers

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Call Number Midwest MS Conroy Box 10 Folder 523

BibID 992006198805867

Projects Tag IMLS Cares 2020

Rights Status Copyright Not Evaluated

Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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