Newberry Library - Price, Erwin, Jack Conroy incoming correspondence, 1955

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Open book Price, Erwin, Jack Conroy incoming correspondence, 1955

Title Price, Erwin, Jack Conroy incoming correspondence, 1955

Creator Conroy, Jack, 1898-1990

Date 1955

Language English

Subjects New Left

Format Correspondence

User-Contributed Transcription [?] he [?] that was our old theory
of noblesse oblige.
I submit that the theory on the moral
side is good, even better in a republic
where there should be no differences
in human dignity. I cannot of course
share the old gentleman's ideas about
playing horse. We became good friends
however and I had letters from him
after my return. A correspondent of mine
informed me of his death a couple
of years before the war. I have often
compared his attitude toward the Old
Regime with that of certain Southerners
toward old ante-bellum days.
Here, nevertheless it is necessary to
admit that there is some improvement.
In Louisiana I think I have noted
a good many liberal minds. It is still,
I'm sorry to say, only a [?], but in
the white heat of war and in the
shadow of that shameless inhumanity which
happens to be in Germany but could be
here or anywhere the leaven[?] ought to

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Archival Collection Title Jack Conroy papers

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Call Number Midwest MS Conroy Box 23 Folder 1255

BibID 992006198805867

Projects Tag IMLS Cares 2020

Rights Status Copyright Not Evaluated

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Unique Identifier NL1M1E3

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