332 Montross Ave.
Rutherford N.J.
May 8, 1960
Dear Misses Stephens,
As a member of the New York Community Church, I have been loosely following your trial and confinement in the Leon County Jail.
Our church bulletin this week published a letter by one of your classmates, Miss Barbara Broxton to one of our members.
I have Just finished a book on the Sit-ins and the Montgomery bus boycott to be published this winter by a leading New York publisher, with the [Foreword] being written by our minister, Rev. Harrington.
As one, who has lived through the Montgomery affair and who believes in the power of non- violence, I would like to know if you couldn't help me add a paragraph or two on some of your experiences in Jail. If you could do this, I would be most grateful and of course, it would also help your cause.
I would also appreciate your alerting your fellow resisters to my request. If you could get Angela Nance, William Barkins, Charles Steel, Clement Carney and the Broxtons to add their bit, it would be most helpful in presenting a balanced picture of life in jail for a non-violent resister.
I feel the readers would be most interested in things like:-the types and amount of mail you received while in jail, your treatment by the authorities, the sentiment by the whites and Negroes in Tallahassee, and your own feelings at the beginning and the end of your ordeal.
Thank you for your cooperation. shall see that you get a personal copy of the book when it is published and that the Fla. A. &[M.] library also gets a copy.
Yours Sincerely,
[Signature] Donald W. Cox
Misses Patricias and Priscilla Stephens
Tallahassee, Florida
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