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RULES FOR PERSONS CORRESPONDING WITH INMATES, FLORIDA STATE PRISON MAIL WILL NOT BE DELIVERED THAT DOES NOT CONFORM WITH THESE RULES. NO. 1. ONLY 2 LETTERS EACH WEEK, NOT TO EXCEED 2 SHEETS LETTER SIZE 8 1-2X11 AND WRITTEN ON ONE SIDE ONLY, AND IF RULED PAPER DO NOT WRITE BETWEEN LINES. YOUR COMPLETE NAME MUST BE SIGNED AT THE CLOSE OF YOUR LETTER. CLIPPINGS, STAMPS, LETTERS FROM OTHER PEOPLE, STATIONERY OR CASH MUST NOT BE ENCLOSED IN YOUR LETTERS. NO. 2. ALL LETTERS MUST BE ADDRESSED IN THE COMPLETE PRISON NAME OF THE INMATE. CELL NUMBER AND PRISON NUMBER MUST BE PLACED IN LOWER LEFT CORNER OF ENVELOPE, WITH YOUR COMPLETE NAME AND ADDRESS IN THE UPPER LEFT CORNER. NO. 3. DO NOT SEND ANY PACKAGES WITHOUT A PACKAGE PERMIT. UNAUTHORIZED PACKAGES WILL BE DESTROYED. NO. 4. LETTERS MUST BE WRITTED IN ENGLISH ONLY. NO. 5. BOOKS, MAGAZINES, PAMPHLETS, AND NEWSPAPERS OF REPUTABLE CHARACTER WILL BE DELIVERED ONLY IN MAILED DIRECTLY FROM THE PUBLISHER. NO. 6. MONEY MUST BE SENT IN THE FORM OF POSTAL MONEY ORDERS ONLY. IN THE INMATES COMPLETE PRISON NAME AND PRISON NUMBER.

August unclear 53 Mrs. Lawrence Fellow 17?2 unclear Street East St. Louis, Ill.

Dear Lorraine- Received the fin? and confirmation of the unclear subscription you bought for me. Park of the bread I used to transport my gear from Jax, then bought a few frivolities to ease the austerity. As for the magazine subscription, I am simply overwhelmed. It could not come at a better time, laughs I madly need, in a situation (another) of rather glutinous sensuality. How I draw these ingenue lits, I don't know. How to properly thank you, I don't know. I can only say that I am profoundly heartened by your thoughtfulness. My work here now centers mostly around the Temple, as we call the prison chapel. I play the organ for both Catholic and Protestant services, and have been appointed director of the chair. In time, I hope to try some experiments in writing a sort of 'progressive' (horrible word) choral music. Ecclesiastical music as it stands (aside from Faure and a few other giants) is a hangdog affair, so Uriah Heep-ish. Paris Review tells me a thing of mine will appear in the fall issue, along with a Hemingway interview. I'm getting the benefit of a promotion stunt, 25'000 copies distributed, which gives me, in the tinplate jargon of Madison Avenue, "exposure in depth". Sounds faintly nasty. We're living in a wonderful age. How shall I entreat you to write more, to tell me what you're doing, thinking, feeling; how you're weathering it? Let me hear. ever, Jim PS. You seen Kim?

James Blake

1. 59894-J57

Box 221, Raiford, Fla.