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letterhead JEANNETTE ST. L. SOMERS 11209 Vernon Avenue Chicago, Illinois

April 11th, 1943. Dear Mr. Conroy,

I don't know whether I can convey to you how intensely interested I found your letter, even though I have

waited so long to tell you. That you got your education the hard way explains some of the quality of your writing, but very fortunately you have escaped the thing that often goes with self made people in any line, but especially in education: you haven't lost your individuality. I suppose it's high treason to my profession to say it, but you didn't miss anything by not going to high school. I put in four years of torture, every day of which I hated, but I knew that I had to stick it out, because the family was determined to make a teacher out of me. Looking back, I can see that all I got out of it was a good