Wonderful ALS, two pages, 8.5 x 11, August 10, 1966. Written from Carmel Valley, a letter to blues musician and music critic David Glover, who also went by Tony ‘Little Sun’ Glover, in full: "Funny, that little block where you live, every day about towards evening you put on your shades, turn up your collar against the living air, walk out of the dingy room and fall onto the path. The same path every day—you walk into, around through the carnival of death, flirting and coughing, death, charcoal, bones, skulls, ulcers, fuck it all, it's getting to be a bore, this waiting game. Worst of all, maybe the hackers and ringmasters of the carnival haven't even noticed you stumbling around all these years. Maybe it'll be another seventy years before the[y] see how badly you want to join the circus. Funny, Tony. If you walked out the door and turned the opposite direction from the carnival and walked, maybe thirty paces into the blinding sun with your shades off and your eyes wide open (you'd wince first of all) but if you kept walking you might see fountains and streams and undiseased children playing in meadows. And if one of those children were to run up to you and take your hand, because she didn't happen to spot the skull and crossbones on your forhead [sic], you might shiver for a second at the shock, and you'd probably cry from fear at losing your death circus, but then you'd be forced to play with the children—to play living life games in the pure air—and in that meadow ablaze with sun and life and laughing, Tony, you couldn't find a dark corner to huddle, because there'd be none, and you couldn't spit blood—children don't know about ulcers. I love you Tony…I dare you, Tony…" In fine condition. Accompanied by the original hand-addressed mailing envelope, with Baez incorporating her signature in the return address field. From the Tony Glover Collection.
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