MANSON CHARLES: (1934-2017)

MANSON CHARLES: (1934-2017) American criminal who led the cult-based Manson Family, responsible for multiple deaths (including the murder of Sharon Tate) and the subject of Quentin Tarantino's film Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. Autograph manuscript, unsigned, one page, 4to, n.p. (San Quentin State Prison, California), n.d. (1980s). Manson writes in a typically rambling fashion, largely about prison life, in part (spelling mistakes retained), 'I find it almost impossible how San Q[uentin] has changed.....you get to pick what gang your in before you can go to the yard as your labled rat for walking by your self. If you dont rat & show respect you git O if you rawjaw & play fear.....as for frame of mind I lost it long ago. I got all the time in the world. NBC came & I told them to fuck off......I moved a pawn & they fell off the bord. In a way I was glad to git away from that place to long in one place. They will miss me as I was & am the high point in the rest of their lives. They will go back to living again & it will go back to crazy drs. etc. I did like a lot of the people there but they didnt like me looking at there doubts & fears. I never learnt to live with hope........There are no old men in San Q any more. 19 years olds & a lot of what we would call madness......I told the judge you may not see my world as true but I speak loud......I told him they gave me no father no man & no rights he said dont pick it back up for them & just let the rat run untill they give you your rights so now its come around that I may go back on new tryp in L.A.......so if I raze from this I'll need a place to hide'. Two small staple holes to the lower left corner and with some light creasing, VG