Newberry Library - White, Roger, Jack Conroy incoming correspondence, 1975

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Open book White, Roger, Jack Conroy incoming correspondence, 1975

Title White, Roger, Jack Conroy incoming correspondence, 1975

Creator Conroy, Jack, 1898-1990

Date 1975

Language English

Subjects New Left

Format Correspondence

User-Contributed Transcription August 12, 1975
Dear Mr. Conroy,

I've always intended to drop you a line, but something always comes up. I'm Dorothy Hopkin's son-in-law.

Now that I've started this letter, I don't know what to say. Perhaps, something very literary. It just seemed that
since you were so close at hand - after a fashion - I shouldn't miss the chance to introduce myself.

Usually, I read on lunch hour, but this book on writing suggests letters - lots of letters - to improve one's skills

in writing. Well anyway, I read awhile back in the Daily World that you were publishing a collection from the
Anvil. That's great! I haven't read it yet, but I intend to get a copy, whenever. Lydia, my wife, went through the
New Masses Anthology in one afternoon. It was some of the first fiction I've enjoyed since college.

Funny thing, I used to read lots of fiction when I was in the service. My college English courses made novels and

short stories so uninteresting that I came out feeling that I was wasting valuable reading time whenever I read novels
or short stories.

Well, that's something else. We live in New Orleans. My wife

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Archival Collection Title Jack Conroy papers

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Call Number Midwest MS Conroy Box 34 Folder 1674

BibID 992006198805867

Projects Tag IMLS Cares 2020

Rights Status Copyright Not Evaluated

Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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