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Darrow, Clarence to Mary Field Parton, Mary Field Parton-Clarence Darrow correspondence, 1915

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Title Darrow, Clarence to Mary Field Parton, Mary Field Parton-Clarence Darrow correspondence, 1915

Creator Parton, Mary Field

Date 1915

Language English

Subjects Lawyers, Legal assistance to the poor, Orators, Practice of law

Description Material relating to the friendship between Clarence Darrow and journalist Mary Field Parton, which includes sixty-one of his letters to her, several other letters, short articles by Darrow, clippings, and photographs. Included are numerous transcripts of Darrow's letters, a biographical sketch of Parton, and excerpts from her journal that refer to Darrow, all done by Parton's daughter Margaret Parton (Hussey).

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User-Contributed Transcription [[written in top margin in pencil: [no transcription] ]]Letterhead DARROW, BAILY & SISSMAN Lawyers 1202 Ashland Block Chicago Clarence S. Darrow Jacob L. Baily Peter Sissman Telephones Central 925 Automatic 44139 Dec 6th [1915]
Dear Mary
If I could write letters as you can, I would write all the time, and if you knew how I like to get them & read them you would send them to me. Really no one can write as you do & it is always a joy to get them.
Life runs on the same way with me, most of the time is spent trying to get some poor person [[?]] or keep them out & I often think it does no good for the everlasting flood [[?]] on, [[?]] [[?]] [[?]] [[?]] [[?]]- Still what does do good, & if here & there you can help one specific case it may be just as good as good as working everlastingly for a cause which recedes as fast as you approach it. What an everlasting engima is life, & how we do get lost in its dark maze - No sooner do we plant our feet in something that seems like solid ground than we find the sand shifting under us & we look for something else. I wonder how much of truth, these

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Archival Collection Title Mary Field Parton-Clarence Darrow papers

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Call Number Midwest MS Parton Box 1 Folder 6

BibID 991840698805867

Projects Tag IMLS Cares 2020

Rights Status No Copyright - United States

Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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File Created 10/28/2020

Filename 991840698805867_midwest_ms_parton_box_001_fl_006_007_001.tif

Unique Identifier NL15HIG

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