Description: This two-page letter, alternately paranoid and grandiose, written with a pencil, was sent by the author Jack Woodford to a person he did not know--perhaps chosen at random from a directory of the publishing industry. It is dated November 30, 1967--four years before his death in a mental institution. Jack Woodford (1894-1971, legal name Josiah Pitts Woolfolk) published a vast number of steamy pulp novels and works of nonfiction. Also a prolific journalist and a Hollywood screenwriter, he met H. L. Mencken, Sherwood Anderson, Ezra Pound, Charlie Chaplin, Mae West, Ben Hecht, and Dalton Trumbo. In his later years, Woodford was convicted of mail fraud and imprisoned. He spent the last nine years of his life in a Williamsburg, Virginia, sanitarium. As the postmark indicates, it was from there that this letter was sent.
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