Typed letter signed : place not specified, to Albert Sperisen, ca. 1942.

Record ID: 
373195
Accession number: 
MA 5142.86
Author: 
Price, Robert Glenn, 1918-
Credit: 
Bequest of Kenneth A. Lohf, 2001.
Description: 
1 item (3 p.) ; 15.8 cm + envelope
Notes: 

Envelope is addressed to "Mr. Albert Sperisen / 1515 Russ Building, / San Francisco, California."
Envelope with postmark and stamp; postmark is illegible.
Price gives the following return address: "Pvt. Bob Price, 19803858, / 47th Fighter Sqd., AC / APO 959 / c/o P.M. San Francisco, California."
Date is based on the contents of the letter. Price is in the army, but Sperisen is still at his San Francisco address (by early 1943 Price's letters to Sperisen are sent to an army base in Colorado Springs).
This item is part of a collection of autograph letters and manuscripts of war poetry primarily related to World War II.

Summary: 

Describing the repair work he is doing on airplanes; advising Sperisen not to "let the Army take [him]"; observing that "someone in this world should continue printing books, eating and drinking as they choose, and being able to go out and buy things that they want"; remarking that he still hasn't been to town because "they keep you in the cloister of the army post"; referring to himself as a poet and saying, "I will be in the anthologies. Someday I'll be in a twenty-five cent book"; writing, "I read where [John] Steinbeck had sold his Pollyanna with the Nazis in Norway [The Moon is Down] to the movies for $300,000. After I pay my insurance and laundry I will net about $15.00 this month."

Provenance: 
Kenneth A. Lohf.