In the Clutches of the Law by Darrow Clarence; Tietjen Randall;

Author:Darrow, Clarence; Tietjen, Randall;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: University of California Press

MS: TLS, location of original unknown (copy in editor’s files). INSIDE ADDRESS: George W. Oakes Jr., | 733 Pyne Hall, | Princeton University, | Princeton, N.J.

TO H.L. MENCKEN • CHICAGO • SUNDAY 7 OCTOBER 1928

CLARENCE DARROW October 7, 1928.

My dear Mr. Mencken:

I am enclosing a copy of a letter that I sent to Mr. King, which will be self-explanatory. I am going to be in New York between the 12th and 16th and perhaps a week or ten days. I am going to make talks for Al Smith. I am glad you are going into it too. The United States has reached a hell of a pass when they would elect Hoover rather than Smith. I think Smith is a little too cultured for the job. The kind you suggest is what we ought to have, and perhaps would be better at that.

I have running in my head a story which I shall call “The Confessions of a Near Patriot.” It is in reference to the war and the hysteria of the day. I must admit that I was a near patriot and this little story will be rather biographical. I am going to show it to you when I finish it. If it looks like the thing you want you shall have it.144

I will call you up as soon as I get to New York.

With best wishes, | Your friend, | Clarence Darrow

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