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Thursday, July 3, 2008

[A continuation of blogging from John Roy Carlson's Under Cover. (All posts in the series are collected on this page.)]

As I mentioned earlier, our friend Hillel Stavis has been doing research in the original John Roy Carlson archives, unearthing some very interesting stuff. In a file marked "Hate Mail," he found the following post card, received after publication of Under Cover [click photos for larger versions]:

Addressed to E.P. Dutton in Jew Jork:

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A publicity photo of Carlson at his typewriter:

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Finally, in a preview of things to come, here is a poster for one of Carlson's speaking engagements discussing his adventures leading up to the publication of Cairo to Damascus:

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