Letters to John C. Rogers [manuscript] 1970-1976.

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Letters to John C. Rogers [manuscript] 1970-1976.

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Jack Conroy writes about mutual friends, his disillusionment with current events, & his book. Dee Alexander Brown talks of his move to Arkansas & sends photos (included) to identify. Murrell Edmunds mentions his new book. R. Bruce Crawford dicusses religion and pacifism, and encloses an article. Wörden Day reminisces about Harpers Ferry. Julian Lee Rayford discusses performances in Kansas and on Studs Terkel's radio show. There are brief notes from Benjamin Albert Botkin, Paul Bowles, Isobel Fabre, Curt Johnson, J. J. Kilpatrick, and William H. Mauldin, and a broadside for Foolkiller etc. and folk university cultural campout. The collection also contains a tourist brochure from Bulgaria' s Southern Black Sea Coast; a flier from a National Socialist White People's Party rally in Washington, D.C., 197? October 18; an exhibition catalog, 1975, of the Miniature Painters, Sculptors, and Gravers Society of Washington, D.C., listing works by Rogers for sale; and a program for Foolkiller Etc and Folk University Cultural Campout, 197? August 2-10.

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