Very lengthy ALS signed only at the top, “From Robert Stroud P.M.B. 594, Alcatraz,” seven pages, 8.5 x 13, October 29, 1948. Stroud describes his childhood, evaluates his own psychology, and touches upon life at Alcatraz. In part: “You know how it worked out with me, I hated to fight, but I fought to win, I never fought unless I felt it was justified, and I still feel that I have been fully justified in everything I have done, but when I was under sentence of death I spent a lot of time thinking these things over. I could not understand why one who loved peace as much as I did should have so much war…I sent and got books on psychology…I went back over my whole life and subjected each situation and incident to careful analysis, and I found out what was wrong with me. It was not, as often said, that I was a violent tempered person. It was that I did not have temper enough and that I was a coward, a coward before people of authority.” In very good to fine condition, with staining to the lower area progressing with each page. Pre-certified PSA/DNA.
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