Typed letter signed : [Los Angeles?], to Mr. Leigh, 1925 Mar. 12.

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Typed letter signed : [Los Angeles?], to Mr. Leigh, 1925 Mar. 12.

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The novelist Jim Tully writes about a planned lecture tour which is to include presentations on his books Vagabonds in Literature and The Psychology of the American Hobo. He quotes from laudatory reviews of his works by H.L. Mencken, Gouvernor Morris, and others (the New York Herald, he says, "has placed me ahead of Jack London and George Borrow as a writer of tramp life"), refers to film magazine articles about him, and lists articles he has recently written and which are about to be published. He also provides this biographical information: "I will be thirty-five years old this coming June -- born in Ohio in 1890, son of an Irish ditch-digger, I was an orphan -- farm-boy, teamster, circus hand, jailed five times for vagrancy, laborer, chain-maker [...], newspaper reporter, hobo, pugilist, tree surgeon, a friend of Jack London, movie actor, publicity writer -- and now I'm set to realize my life-long dream -- to eventually become a real writer."

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Tully, Jim

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Tully was born on June 3, 1891 near St. Marys, OH; worked successively as a farm laborer, link heater, tramp, circus roustabout, chainmaker, profesional pugilist, reporter for the Akron press and Beacon journal, and tree surgeon; he tramped across the US three times; first verse appeared in the Cleveland plain dealer, 1911; became novelist, and a chronicler of the Hollywood scene; publications include Emmett Lawler (1922), Life of Charlie Chaplin (1926), Shanty Irish (1928), Beggars abroad (1930...

Leigh, Mr.

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