| dc.description.transcription | Bradtenton, Fla.
March 23, 1971
Dear Miss Halsell,
I would first of all like to tell you that I enjoyed your book yet was disappointed at the end to find it so short. I’m doing a report and would like very much a picture of yourself as well as when you were black and now have retained your original color. I have two interpretations of how you looked, the picture of the paperback showered a bronze coloring yet a picture of the hard back book showed a greytone coloring and any pictures of your journey would be gratified.
I am interested particularly in your life now, has anything been greatly changed with the publication of your experiences as a black woman?
What color were you when you went in that beauty shop, noted in the prologue? How often did you bathe in Harlem? What all did you carry to dress in Harlem and in the South? How did you return from the South? What were the feelings of your family when they were told of your experience? What is the name of the novel and book that you are now working on?
I would like also any address I could use to communicate also with the author of Black Like Me, John Griffin.
Yours truly,
Letha Perkins
P.S. Any information would feel would be benefiting to my report. | |
