PEOPLE I HAVE KNOWN
PEOPLE i HAVE KNOWN LETTERS FROM NICOLA SACCO By Elizabeth Glendower Evans This is the second article dealing with the correspondence of Sacco and Vanzetti, who have been condemned to die by the...
...Yes, I saw and I were glad to have see my companion Rossina, but the depressed of her brittle and pour soul so much that I could not describe you how badly bad strike me...
...It is the- pal) of prison that has lain upon his mind...
...Long life to your truly American journal established and made famous by that one of the greatest of Americans, Robert M. La Follette, and his splendid assistants...
...By- the way, my dear mother, "you believe we will have a new trial...
...It is not the will to learn which he lacks, nor is it any lack of intelligence...
...Jack, I wish you could see Rosina, how nice she looked, while now the sufferings of today had make her look like an old woman...
...Meanwhile, give always my best wishes to •11 with my most dear and...
...Exponent of Truth Still Needed LA FOLLETTE'S puts out today as ever the most effective exponent of political and economic fundamental truths and expose of human greed and exploitation on earth...
...And I will live for humanity and for the solidarity and for the fraternity and for gratitude to all the freinds and comrades who havo worked for Sacco and Vanzetti...
...hearty greetings...
...the sunlight it shines on my face and for a brief time it is a relief to my soul, and it brightens my mind by looking at the clear blue sky and the beautiful mother of nature...
...nothing about the intricate life habits of our money producers...
...Meanwhile salute fraternally all our friends and comrades, and you dear mother of the human oppressed have one of my warm affectionate embrace from your now and for ever friend and comrade, Nicola Sacco...
...If you happen to see Mr...
...CHARLES H. V., Los Angeles, Calif...
...The day following the sentence he wrote: "Just a few words to say to you, dear mother, that though of all the indignation roaring that were boil in my soul for that iniquitous sentence, I enjoyed to have soe your lovely face in the court room, and I felt too jump over the cage and run toward you to embrace your noble soul...
...So in afternoon about one o'clock both us went in city town, and we went in a big store and we bought a brown hat, a white underdress, a blue suit, one pair brown stock, one pair brown shoes, and after she was all dress up, Mrs...
...I received the book you send to me (the Englesh-Italian Dictionary) and also the sia shells and you cannot imagene how plad I was to received your beautiful sia shells...
...Let Sacco's closing words remain with us...
...Yours forever...
...The hive is the standard ten-frame, two-story affair, universally used by beekeepers...
...Each day the bees fly away to perform their ordinary duties, but all activities within the hive arc open to the observation of museum visitors...
...The exhibit is...
...expected to prov* instructive to the laymen who know little or...
...There new was a better fellow than Nick Sacco," said George Kelly, the superintendent of the shoe factory where he worked, "nor one with a kinder heait...
...I want the sunlight aivj the green world outside...
...On April.9, 1927, he received hie death sentence in the Dedhara Court House...
...Jessica Henderson, another of the women who have ministered to him and to his family "in calvary:" "Here I am sitting alone always, but with me, in my soul, in my heart, in my mind, are all immense legion of the noble and generous friends and comrades...
...But Mrs...
...When I am free," he answers to all exhortations, "when I am free, I will learn English in a week...
...But her and the rest of my family can rest sure that I would not give them one day long of these cruel sufferance...
...So I will hope they wiU finish this long and dolorous calvary...
...and wish I could give them one by one my warm hearty greeting...
...Two months later while the hearing on the microphotographs of the markings on bullets and pistols were in process, Sacco wrote: "You can never imagine how much it was great the joy of the recluse when I see in the eourt room all the noble legion of our friends and comrades, which they work hard for forty-one month for the triumph of that consecration and inviolable of the human justicy and for the liberty of Sacco and Vanzetti...
...PEOPLE i HAVE KNOWN LETTERS FROM NICOLA SACCO By Elizabeth Glendower Evans This is the second article dealing with the correspondence of Sacco and Vanzetti, who have been condemned to die by the courts of Massachusetts on evidence that has been openly challenged by the press and able lawyers...
...The world with all its knowledge of Sacco and Vanzetti knows little of the part Elizabeth Glendower Evans has played in their defense...
...The following letters are of recent date...
...Thorn and Mr...
...Meanwhile, if you go to see my family, kiss them for me, and tell them I think of they always...
...Jack a year ago on our love day when I bought the first lovely blue suit for my dear Rosina and that dear remembrance still remains in my heart...
...The following letter written August, 1024, is the first English letter which Sacco attempted, acknowledging the gift of some sea shells: "If I do not write you before it was not because I did forget you, o, no...
...He couldn't kill a chicken...
...Thorn and Mr...
...And if they are to die, they will be as it were "lifted up" to point the way toward the promised land...
...That was the first day nineteen twelve in Milford, Mass., the celebration day of the five martyrs of Chicago, that in the mind of the humanity oppressed never will be forget...
...I well never forget the generous heart of mother, that fight without rest for the liberty of humanity oppressed...
...Beekeeping has become a science, in many ways as complicated as any trt.our food producing industries, and,it is.fitting and proper that we should know something about it...
...Hill give for me my dear and best rigard and for the splendour defence they have fairy...
...Then yesterday, after the enjoy they had to see us gather the sentence, they must had swallow pretty badly all the warm sympathy of all those lovely children (sympathizers who had been in the court room) that so kindly have gave to us...
...And at about the same date he wrote to Mrs...
...Evans, I did like very much the way Mr...
...Thus, I have been waiting and waiting like son can wait to see and hole and good old mother after her convalescence...
...Best wishes to all with warm affectionate embrace...
...Hill tbey did present the new evidence, and tor some moment they did relief the soul of the sad recluse...
...Therefore, this morning I could not go without sent you the gay warm affectionate greetings of spring, with hope, always today more than ever to see the end of mine—and of all persecution liberation...
...Here I'm alive in this terrible hole...
...A phalanx of such papers placed under the eye of the people would awaken them to conditions, cause a peaceful revolution so badly needed and put to shame the dastardly sheets that now betray their trust and act as mouthpieces for the hosts predation, thus acting as a curse and menace to the piiblic that supports them, instead of filling their legitimate role of educators for.the masses in truths and fundamental principles in human public affairs...
...and I will live for freedom and for justice that is the justice of all of us...
...Best wishes to all with warmest greetings, Your affectionate, Nicola...
...I am tol you the truth Mrs...
...I have your always with pleasure, and I enjoyed your good news and the announce of you coming over to see me...
...Perhaps .Sacco best expressed the spirit that has inspired her throughout the years of trial and delay...
...Ever since she became convinced of their innocence of the crime of which they were accused seven years ago she has given unsparingly of her talents and quite recklessly of her time, strength and fortune, in the hope of securing justice...
...Jack 1 was never ambitious to buy her diamonds and so-so, but I always bought everything that could be natural and useful...
...While George Kelly's father, owner of the Three K Factory and of the bungalow where Sac'o lived and of the plot of land which he cultivated, said of him: "A man who is in his garden at 4 o'clock in the morning, and at the factory at 7 o'clock, and in his garden again after supper and until nine and ten at night, carrying water and raising vegetables beyond his own needs which he would bring to me to give to the poor, that man is not a 'hold-up man...
...He has been much exhorted to study English during these long years of his imprisonment, and he has l>een furnished some instruction...
...Whatsoever may be the outcome of the most amazing case, let us who champion him and Vanzetti be of good cheer...
...On March 27, 1927, he wrote: "We are right into the good weather of spring, and though of all this—it seems that it, the idea of my family, the tipid ray of sunshine has warming my heart, while my thought running toward those whom have been kind and loved to me through all those struggle long years passed...
...But today his English is as illiterate .is it was seven years ago...
...Nevertheless, in his letters, in spite of faulty grammar and spelling, one discerns his highly poetical nature, his warm affe:t ions, and his most loyal heart...
...Here, where there is no life and no vegetation: but J live...
...Editorial Note, B. C. L. HEN NICOLA SACCO fell into the clutches of the law, he spoke "dago" English fluently, but of writing in English he knew not one word...
...In the first letter he ever attempted to write in English, he said: "I will never forget THE GENEROUS HEART THAT FIGHT WITHOUT REST FOR THE LIBERTY OF HUMANITY OPPRESSED...
...Proper ventilating devices insure the bees adequate air...
...Here I say I'm sitting writing to you these few lines...
...More than 300,000 will view the exhibit this year...
...To Mrs...
...If they are set free, a great day will it be for human freedom...
...So in morning May first nineteen twelve I dress up with my new blue suit and I went over to see my dear Rosina and I asked her father if he won't let Rosina come with me in the city town to buy something and he said yes...
...Cerise Jack who was giving him English lessons, he wrote: "I remember Mrs...
...In my cell I cannot learn...
...And on May 3rd came the following on a post card: "It is a beautiful morning and the gay tipid ray of sunrise warming the heart of the full sad soul, while the most dearest thought running toward you and my beloved once...
...I received yuor telegram and also your post card and always thank you o, mother untiring for the liberty of that consecration and inviolable justice of the human nature...
...Still a little later he wrote: "The solitude of this tomb it is sad and dolorous, especially when the father is far from the warm kisses of his dear children...
...Bees on Exhibit ONE of the most interesting of the present exhibits in the Arts and Industries building of the United States National Museum is a glass hive of bees, kept in a glass case with a special opening which leads through a passageway to the outside of the building...
...S. Courage and be of good cheer...
Vol. 19 • July 1927 • No. 7
