What with Mr Donleavy hitting Dublin next Wednesday 11th June i thought i would post this excerpt from Proud Highway. It’s a letter Hunter wrote to Mr Donleavy on December 8 1960. It goes as follows.

Mr Donleavy.

I’ve been waiting since The Ginger Man for your next effort, a thing the grapevine led me to believe would be called Helen. But all I’ve seen is yor short farce on The Beat Generation and Angry Young Men. Is Helen Out? If so where is it? And if it isn’t, have you done anythingbig since The Ginger Man?

The GM, by the way, head real balls, a rare thing in these twisted times. I heard the priests gave you a rough time with the stage version, but to hell with them. The church is on it’s last legs and if we deal them blow for blow I think we may prevail.

At any rate, let me know if you have anything new in the book stores. I’m stuck out here writing the Great Puerto Rican Novel, and i’d like to know if anybody’s running interference for me.

If you get to Big Sur, stop in.

Cheers.

Hunter S. Thompson