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

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User-Contributed Transcription [?] cock-eyed. You are probably
going to have a battle royal to keep your
scribblers[?] inside the garden gate. I add
by way of caution that Verlaine deserves at
least as much space as he now has.
I felt that I must get the items submitted
at this time because by good luck
there was a little lull in the storm of [?]
From which is around at this institution. Sometime
later on I shall have all South America
on my hands- probably. You know I teach
[?] Spanish (barring a few great pieces, I
don't care a damn for the whole Iberian
peninsula in literature) and some kind of
a "good neighbor" activity is under contemplation
for [?] which may require me to waste
some leisure time in a different way from
my usual methods. I am now quietly active
in efforts to convince the "Big Pat" that it is
not worth while here. Lord knows it isn't.
The trouble is that he is just a politician
and does not know whether the Latins, the
ancient Hebrews or Boss Tweed are running
the modern world. By the way he thinks
too that Mississippi is "the modern world."
If I have a reasonable correct picture
of your probable list of French figures
for this purpose I believe I can rate
them on a 1,2,3 basis; any of which

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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

Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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