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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. CENSORED H.R.--stamp

May 27, 1957 Mrs. Lawrence Fellow 1922 N. 23d St. East St. Louis, Ill.

Dear Lorraine: Your envelope with the loot in it followed me here from Jax-Par? which warrants thanx, sister mine, it helped to defray a few necessary expenses. I've been assigned to the music dept. again, praise be, and will probably be fairly active in the musical end of the prison chapel, as it appears now. The present organist leaves soon and I'm slated to take his place, which gives me a chance to improve on that instrument, they've got a fine big Hammond. Met the priest who conducts Catholic mass and discussed by playing for that also. Looking forward to that, a new experience, and I've always liked the music of the mass. The Father is a delightful guy, very recently from Eire with an engaging Irish lilt. It should be quite something, hearing Latin intoned with a Kildare flavour. I'm celling with a musician from Milwaukee; very quiet cat, fastidious in the extreme, very good for me, since I am somewhat of a slob. So I begin the pursuit of my M. A. in the academy. An expensive item, education. Please let me hear- Have a good summer, protect yourself at all times, and give my love to that black Irish nogoodnik. love, Jim James Blake

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