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[letterhead] CLARENCE DARROW 1310. 140 NORTH DEARBORN STREET CHICAGO Telephone central 925

Feb 13- (1913?)

Dear Mary I have been in N.Y. for three weeks and did not have your address at hand or would have written you sooner. It was mighty good of you to get Tom O'Coner off to San Quentin, I was very glad of it & also glad to learn about J. B.'s attitude and his request for you to help some one else. I wish you & Tom would go once in a while & cant you have Gertrude go. I would like to do all that can be done for them & of course we must try to get J. B. out before very long. I have been heartsick over the frenzy that is sweeping in the country have been speaking and writing on it. I am inclined to think that the [circled unclear word] have got [circled unclear word] and that the worst is over - still its a hell of a world with very little to recommend it. I am not anxious to go through it again (or have it go through me again) nor do I want to take a chance on any other - It might probably be worse, though I don't know how. Saw [?Margaret?] the other day & of course she talked