Letter from Philip Berrigan to Daniel Berrigan, August 1968 (?)

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Collection: Cornell University Library Date: 1968-08 Date of Digitization: 2004 Source: Daniel and Philip Berrigan Collection at the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library Original Dimensions: ? Creator: Berrigan, Philip, 1923-2002

Description:
Another letter of Philip Berrigan from prison to his brother, Daniel.

Transcription:

into the case (the appeal). I for one, see 
little point in waiting 8 mos. for 
appeal, since we will at that time, 
serve 1/3 of sentence.
	McSorley was his usual grand 
self. He came here after Tom and your-
self departed, and then stayed over-
night, merely to see us again yester-
day. Says he he’s regaining his 
strength after the pneumonia, but I 
figure he still has a distance to go. 
We have gotten to him but good - he still 
speaks nostalgically of the old game, but 
Mac has the equipment to know 
where it’s at. We will try his hand one 
of these days.
	Concerning the efforts at creative 
penmanship from Pa., it strikes me that 
we put it under the pretense of con-
versations with you. It might be well 
for you to keep an accurate calendar 
of your visits with me, and to supplement 
what we have with impressions of 
your own. This would seem to me a 
solid basis from which to work. I 
tend to agree with you that if 
people west of us take the bit in 
their teeth, the whole assembly will 
be looking out upon, rather than from