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in pencil in top margin Lacey, Patricia

4834 N. Damen Avenue Chicago 25, Illinois November 26, 1955

Dear Mr. Conroy,

 Thank you for your careful and kindly criticism of my poems.  I am so familiar with them that it is difficult to be objective.  You have given me quite a lot to think about.  I realize with a shock that if some of them are "obtrusively stereotyped," this could very well be because I also am!
  Emily Dickinson used to be a favorite of mine; so you say,