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copy for Jack Conroy- Dear Norman: I am so glad that you are recovering so nicely. Actually was becoming rather depressed worrying about you along with my ordinary baggage of worries. I feel much relieved now that I have read this letter + your letter of Dec 4th- Gratefully- Norman

Dec 8, 1969

NORMAN HOLMES PEARSON 2731 HGS YALE UNIVERSITY NEW HAVEN-CONN 06520 December 5, 1969

Dear Norm,

You must never think that your letters to me go astray. My silence has been due only to trying to be as little at the office as I can. In other words my silence is really due to the attempt to follow your own instructions. But I am getting stronger all the time and before long it will only be a historic episode.

It was certainly kind of Paul Engel and Mr. Barr to send the xeroxing to you. I hope that you kept copies for your own records although they may not be things which you necessarily want to include in your collected works. Still for the scholar it will be valuable. Actually however there can't be any high school periodicals that have been able to print things as good as yours. There was a real style to them even then. I am thinking particularly of the prose, but the prize poem was a good one too.

I didn't like the prize poem but one of the others I thought not too bad as an exchange? of un-informed unclear can't unclear NM

That was a first rate letter you wrote to Kurt Wetzel about William F. Dunne.

Note- Wild Bill Dunne- leader of the strike of Butte Mines? in Montana? during WWI

People will certainly be grateful for the chance to get copies of a letter like this. Your envelope with the review by Granny Hicks was welcome. I certainly don't think he got at the idea of what was behind Pagany, but on the other hand Hicks has turned into such a conservative that he has carried this into every corner. I have by the way ordered another copy of A Return to Pagany from the Beacon Press sent directly to you at Pembroke. This will really save time as against having it sent here and resent on to you to inscribe to your mother for Christmas. I was much taken with the content of Richard Johns' book although the writing of it seemed to me to be a little stodgy at times. But what it contains is invaluable and for that reason I am sending a copy to Horace Gregory for his Christmas.

My how your college notes carries one back to the twenties! I did enjoy reading them and they have set my mind running back over its own path. I may have come from the East, but I was a small town boy before I went off to school. It was only a few blocks from my door to the open woods, and we usually headed in that direction. The sophistication I picked up at Andover and Yale really is nothing but lacquer painted over very ordinary pine wood

Perhaps I sent the xeroxed material to Neshaim- the unclear of stuff I wrote for the U. of Iowa humor magazine, Frivol- I don't remember.

I am not quite sure when your visit to Texas takes place, although you certainly have told me specifically enough. But I do hope all goes well. I should have no fears about Skye. She is certainly devoted to you but I imagine would like nothing better than a chance to be on her own for a few days. Your Professor Wolf sounds like an excellent person and I know what fine men the Norwegian resistance fighters were. If you tell him that the Norwegians made me a Knight of St. Olaf he will know that I know. Since this letter was in the same issue with the announcement of your poems in the "Southern Poetry Review" I can say once again how much I liked them but even more so how pleased I am that you are writing your poems again. There is really no reason why you should not. I

Dear Jack- you may keep this if you like- Norman Dec 8, 1969