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Lot 520
FROMME LYNETTE: (1948- ) American Criminal, a member of the infamous Manson Family who was imprisoned for her attempted assassination of American President Gerald R. Ford in 1975. A.L.S., Red (being her name within the Manson Family), four pages, 4to, n.p. (Metropolitan Correction Centre, San Diego, California), n.d., to [Charles Manson]. Fromme writes, in part, 'I got the riff ticket and sent in for a riff. I also got another letter from you & one from Blue. Both I haven't red yet. It's lamp time and the quiet has jabbering voices in it of experiences escaping Mexican prisons. I'm yawning. I read Time & Newsweeks all day yesterday & dreamt last night of Jimmy Carter & tried to chase his face out of my dream……And Jimmy Carter even has fat arms like me & the same kind of legs. Some way it's an inherited thing & I always thought it was just me who was a freak…..I understand where you are and probly (sic) most of what faces you are seeing…it's a mighty long walk in the park huh? Hard as anyone tries, there's just no back steppin'. I'm not as complicated as you think. Is there anything you could use there that you don't have? You didn't get my letter I sent or you'd have my address….It's really f-ked that they would let yer letters out & rip off mine - unless to just isolate you…..take it ez and shine on them bitches when you can….' Fromme continues her letter with a lengthy postscript, in part, 'On the fast - I don't want to lie again & keep the whole world for my own. Once you said a guy who did that got his mom's death wish. But I already thought of a long fast last week - not that long but no buts all my weakness screams and all my strength laughs at it. In my reason a voice says that if I don't fight for my life I don't get it. That's those other people's thought who tried to get me to fight. And part of me says that's right. What's the other part say? Says maybe what's it I'm not sure back & forth wonder where I put the reals real of the knowing it now and god I better wake up. What's so funny about me caring. No I don't know what Pat G is doing off into gold & left that for you to say. Only because I can't handle what I don't see & I spose (sic) I'm lazy…..No a sign post isn't my god and not Jimmy Carter with fat arms or any of that other BS'. Accompanied by the original envelope hand addressed by Fromme to Manson at Vacaville, California, and signed ('Lynette Fromme') by her in the return address. Together with an A.L.S., Sister Margaret (twice), by an unidentified lady, four pages (separate leaves), 8vo, n.p., n.d., to Charles [Manson]. Sister Margaret writes an Evangelical letter, in part, 'God made everything in the world, and he made me, and he made you. And He made everything in his image. That is, He made everything good, and He is Good, and He wants us to live for Him, and that is the greatest good. Sometimes, like Adam and Eve in the garden of Eden, we get "separated from the presence of God" (in our lives) and we have to get back together with Him, and that is LOVE and that is what He wants, and this was Christ's mission…..', further explaining that she has been away at a retreat and is sending Manson a badge given to her by one of the nuns, as well as a cross and some books, and suggesting that Manson's cell is his monastery, also writing that she is about to leave on a missionary journey, but before she leaves she 'will try take a cross to Lynette Fromme', and asking that Manson prays for the sisters, concluding 'I believe in miracles - God will help us - we just have to follow Him'. Some very light, minor age wear, VG, 2
