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ALS signed “Love, J,” four pages, 5.75 x 7.75, September 10 [1965]. Handwritten letter to her boyfriend, Peter de Blanc, in full: “How are you? I hope you're doing okay. I don't know. They call you Sunday, so if you've already left the hospital, call me. Jesus, damn Peter. I hope everything is going well for you. We really deserve some good times. At least I think we do. And I'm really ready. Wow, it's going to be so nice. Just to be, I mean. I can hardly wait.
I have enclosed a picture. Hope you don't think I am bombarding you. I mean, a letter every day and everything, you might think I'm coming on too strong or something. (I don't really think you do – I'm only kidding.) (You don't, do you?).
The family went to the opening football game of Laurie's school tonight. And we (the Yellow Jackets) won. We beat the Texas City Stingarees, 22-7. Yay! Yay! But of prime importance, the Hussars marched. Sigh. Laura looked so cute! She had on a big, buttony red coat w/ belts all over, & dangledy things on the shoulders, & a short white pleated skirt, $ her $30 boots (white), & a big hat w/ a red feather goodie on top of it. All in all, she looked mostly just cinched in. But she was really thrilled & so worried, & I helped get her ready, & we took pictures of her. At the game, we had Michael's binoculars & we spotted her and kept screaming, ‘There she is! There she is!’ She was really good. I was very proud, but fortunately I didn't weep this time. It was a good game. Lots of fun – even Dad was there. And of course I saw a few people that I used to go to school with (I’m an alumnus) & that was nice except that most of them were pregnant. That's nice, I guess, I just wish I could be having children.
Anyway, the picture – that's me (isn’t my hair getting long? Sigh…) in my new dress that Mother made for me as we were leaving for the game. If any of those pictures of you come out, send some to me. I love you.
But maybe you're really pretty sick, and I shouldn't be talking about frivolities. But, jeez, it's hard to talk to you when I don't know what's going on. Wow, I miss you, baby. This separation jazz is really killing me. I'll be so glad when we can be together again. Ah, well. Good night, baby, I still love you. Hope you know it. Xxxx. Get well, I need you.” In very fine condition. Accompanied by a modern printed photo of Joplin posing with her family in Texas, which pictures her parents, Seth and Dorothy, her sister, Laura, and her brother, Michael.
Before her rise as the electrifying lead singer of Big Brother & the Holding Company in the summer of 1966, Janis Joplin briefly stepped away from San Francisco at the urging of friends who had grown alarmed at her deteriorating condition. Described as skeletal and weighing just 88 pounds, she returned to her hometown of Port Arthur, Texas, in 1965, aided by a small ‘going home’ fund raised for her bus fare. There, under the care of her parents, she entered rehabilitation and soon enrolled at Lamar University as an anthropology major, embracing a more conventional appearance—including a fashionable beehive hairdo—and lifestyle. With the support of psychiatric social worker Bernard Gierritano, Joplin was able to get and remain sober.
During this period, she stayed in contact with her boyfriend, Peter De Blanc, whom she had left behind in San Francisco. De Blanc, then working for IBM in New York, traveled to Texas to ask her father for permission to marry her, and the couple became engaged in the fall of 1965. Yet the prospect of domestic life proved ill-suited to Joplin, and the engagement ultimately unraveled. By June 1966, she had returned to San Francisco, where she joined Big Brother & the Holding Company and launched her meteoric career. Joplin died tragically of a heroin overdose in 1970 at the age of 27.
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