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in pencil in top margin with line pointing to The Disinherited please return

704 So College St. Fort Collins, Colorado, Nov. 4, 1935.

Dear Conroy:

     I have been delayed in answering your letter by difficulties encountered in getting underlined:  The Disinherited.  I don't know how much you know about the proletariat in the West, but to this observer, anhow [sic], it doesn't seem very conscious so far.  That's why I had difficulties finding underlined: the copy in Denver
     The radical movement appears to center around the proprietor of the Bookery there.  He's a nice guy, Rosenfeld by name, and does real service for the movement.  Everytime you go there the place is pleasantly lousey with communists or almost communists like myself, cussing and discussing the latest radical book, Robert Forsythe's latest in the underlined:  New Masses or recounting personal experiences with the radical movement elsewhere.  Elsewhere seems to be the trouble, for it is a distinctly small group in Denver and doesn't appear to have very definite alignments with the workers.  I'll admit that's difficult out here.  The average farmer or beet-worker damns  the drought rather than the system.  They've taken the punches that come their way rather complacently and don't seem to have been pinched as often as the workers farther east or west.  But Rosenfeld gets in a great many left-wing books, sponsors a lending library that contains most of the late ones, and shows Robert Forsythe's articles to everyone who comes in the store.  I understand he contributes generously to recent things that come along, too.  I interested him in the underlined:  Anvil and he says he'll be glad to sell as many copies as he can.  I'm sure he will sell quite a number, if you send them to him.
   Despite the underlined:  New Republic etc.,  I like your underlined:  World to Win better than the underlined:  Disinherited, which I nevertheless regard as damn well deserving the Guggenheim.  I'm surprised, frankly, they showed good enough sense to give it  you.  underlined:  The Disinherited is probably a more evenly good book than your last.  It never lets me down very much, and it certainly contains a vast amount of material on the situation today presented with amazing succinctness.  Some of the scenes are unforgettable.  You gave me a bad hour t'other  day while I