Newberry Library - Mair, Lucille, Jack Conroy incoming correspondence, 1967

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Open book Mair, Lucille, Jack Conroy incoming correspondence, 1967

Title Mair, Lucille, Jack Conroy incoming correspondence, 1967

Creator Conroy, Jack, 1898-1990

Date 1967

Language English

Subjects New Left

Format Correspondence

User-Contributed Transcription UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES Mary Seacole Hall Cable And Telegraph "University" Phone P.B.X. 76661 seal with lion, snake, book Our Reference Mona, Kingston 7 Jamaica, W.I. 13th April, 1967 Dear Mr. Conroy, I do hope you will forgive me, a complete stranger, writing you on a personal matter. My father, the late Eric Walrond, died recently, and among his personal effects which were sent to myself and my sister, was a copy of your book, with an inscription by yourself, which suggested that you knew him well. For various family reasons, I did not know my father well, but am very anxious to learn a good deal more about him, both for personal family purposes and also because some of my colleagues in the field of Caribbean literature have Note: letter does not continue. [[ From Wikipedia: Eric Derwent Walrond (18 December 1898 � 8 August 1966) was an Afro-Caribbean Harlem Renaissance writer and journalist. Born in Georgetown, British Guiana, the son of a Barbadian mother and a Guyanese father...]]

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Archival Collection Title Jack Conroy papers

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Call Number Midwest MS Conroy Box 19 Folder 983

BibID 992006198805867

Projects Tag IMLS Cares 2020

Rights Status Copyright Not Evaluated

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