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SENSTPIVE.SCURCES | r= el Nee AND METHODS INVOLVED! - MAR i967 | | rt : eennienenncaamere ' JOHN HOWARD LAWSON - Sy 948 ELYRIA DRIVE ae - LOS ANGELES, CALIF.90065 = | oe Jot March 12, 1967) “0 | | . Dear Gertrude: - a ” a ap 7 ' -~ “Tt séems tha t “we allow ‘much too much . } ‘ a a “time to pass between letters. By the time I get around , to writing you and Stefan, “% find I have forgotten \ . many of the things I wanted . to say, and regret that I have not made notes of them from one moment to another, | ee i oe se ' We spent a | day ‘down at Laguna Wills with my ; St Herb and Ann Mora 3s ,, and of course we talked of you, and, | , . they sent thei cordial greetings. i - i ! ; =: t 7 , - want especially to. mention a book aboutwhich v6 u_have had. some _correspendence with the. | t 1 I { | author, . Ethel Bertolini *, She is sénding you a copy, and J trust ‘you will give it (as ~ am sure you will) 7 — ae your senerous attention. The book, AND MY HEART WAS AT HOWE, a fictionialized, “sénii-documentary account of _ the. lifes of people who faced: the bitter struggle i an against deportation. These stories of the foreign-born, 7 : and of the remarkable work-of the Committee for their a . defense ,have a warmth and honesty which stems’ from the feeling which went into the book. | wed . he podk has received a remarkable : response from working people-- not only those who ; - were related to this exper ic ence, but. in general people 2 ah . who do not take much interest in. "Literature" have found;- something that touches and moves them-- and»I imagine this would be true of this sort of peoopie in other "| countries.. She has some remarkable letters of the sort) | L a oe Sue and I are well, ‘and poth of us are |. ‘working hard, .I received an “invitation from the film pz . association mh in Moscow ‘to come to the cinema celebra- aan tion of the fiftxeth. anniversary ,° but it is not at all- possible for us. to go abroad. |now or in the foreseeable future, me = te oo As 1 have noted in “previous letters, i - I am concent crating (along with many incidental and time! co consuming yasks) on my autobiography. I finished one. ~ “volume running only through the twenties, and received: some flattering connents , “but I, decided that. the first. volume had to go through the thirties in order to .. _. > face the. soc ial- political issues, hecause the account of | the cultural meaning of what is called. "Commitment" and how it affects the arts is the core of the book . . 1, matters, in. my opinion, on which there is wonderful .. confusion, | I wish only that we could sit down with you, and Stefan and really talk about these things. It is nice to imagine, and sad that it cannot be realized. Sue joins in love to you both, » Oencl } H i ‘ i i 5 Sb, “| i 1 i. t | H i i | Docld:32339014 Page 3
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