Typed letter signed. Regrets that he missed her call. Reports going to Louisville to give lectures, to do two press conferences, and to do two Education TV programs. Says he stayed for his friend Father Tarcisius’ eye surgery so he could report to Tarcisius’ mother on the successful outcome. He returned home exhausted and went to bed, then learned that his “old friend, Dick Gregory,” was there so Griffin got up, dressed, and went to hear Gregory’s lecture and then spend the evening with him, getting in about midnight. Tells that he spent five days at Gethsemani, and then went to Houston to photograph a new development in in tracheostomy technique for the American Journal of Nursing. Mentions that he has finished an informal and personal history of the civil rights movement over the last twelve years and a detailed account of the release of a Klansman in Mississippi who murdered Vernon Dahmer. The governor who released him had previously been his defense attorney.

Nell Dorr Papers, Amon Carter Museum of American Art Archives, Fort Worth, Texas

Nell Dorr Papers, Amon Carter Museum of American Art Archives, Fort Worth, Texas.