Summer, 1960: Letters to Prison

In 1960, both Anais Nin and Henry Miller began correspondence with Roger Bloom, who was serving a life sentence in the Missouri State Penitentiary for holding up a bank with a toy gun when he was 17. Anais and Henry feel Roger is a sincere, changed man and should be given parole. He reads and writes and gives lectures against crime, and at Christmas, he was allowed out with guards to distribute toys to children in orphanages. The joint effort helped to renew the friendship between Anais and Henry.