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. A.L.S., with a swastika symbol substituted for his name (as was his practice at times), six pages, 4to, California Medical Facility, Vacaville, n.d. (June 1973), to R. Thompson. Manson, writing in bold pencil, authors a rambling and occasionally incoherent letter, in part, 'What is broken cross on your hand for?....I git so much mail I need 50 people to do it, few I answer. I sent your letter to someone in another letter because I ran out of stamps….the letter I wrote you may not understand it because I thought you were someone els (sic) useing (sic) the name Ruth….I've been on my own since the year one & I've just watched everyone grow up backwards. My own company I like that also. I like my own time….I myself never learnt from books & feel enlightment (sic) comes from within…..I don't read much & wright (sic) little & care less about telling paper words to say what's already known in the heart…..the mind the truth the now is so symple (sic) that a confused programmed mind can't see it for looking & most people run from themselves in the name of looking for themselves. You think the Master comes from all races. HUH. That's proberly (sic) the easy thing for you to think…..Grase (sic) is more than a word it is a motion. Motions always changing & moveing (sic) from the soul…..As for eyes I don't even think Hitler has blue eyes. Les[lie] Van Houten (a member of the Manson Family) got brown eyes but whatever it means little…..I want my justice & that's out with my friends…..that never should of been put in cages to start…..Calif don't holds all the answers it holds me I am the answer for I'm in groove & am the answer to my world…..I don't think your superior or inferior to play superior you must also play not so superior…..it means little to nothing in knowing what brains think is what they are told when they are told right. You don't strive for perfection you are & perfection is the universe……but I'm not alowed (sic) to tell the truth so I hide in the cages. I know what I know but that's only for my self & my own knowing…..whatever it is to you I'm not sure [Lynette] Fromme (a member of the Manson Family who attempted to assassinate Gerald Ford) is a magic thing that reflects my majic (sic) motions & love. She is love because she loves above fears of past elusion & if I put it in her right she dances & sings & makes wonderfull (sic) pictures for me to feast my soul with. The Blue (Sandra Good, a member of the Manson Family and close friend of Fromme) is another magic being who grows with each day…..I am just as much the majic (sic) they gave me that I gave them that they reflected to me……Fromme got whatever I got cause I got in her a little & we got in each other…..all anyone ever seen was the bad part of them the good was much much more. Big Pattie Yellow (Patricia Krenwinkel, a member of the Manson Family) is no majic (sic) her eyes shine in the dark & her touch is as soft & gentil I should have fucked her more for she had all the good I could give her….but I didn't think she could have children…..I just looked up on the wall & its written that all white dogs must die…..I don't let people kill the spiders…..I've done my best for all but I guess it just wasn't good enough. When Mohat Mogandia (Mahatma Gandhi) got out of prison in India he had the will of the people. The English Queen had something to do with haveing (sic) him shot. That sacrifice took her top in the English money…..She helped put up that woman in India & she just lost her place over India but the English speeking (sic) woman sent her my thought & her dady (sic) laughing all the way from the bank of London. The Hendo pimps aint no better than any other pimps - you can only fuck so good & then the woman becomes peace…..I was locked up before Hitler died & before the end of War II alone & in darkness…..How can I escape from what I see what I am I can go to sleep & wake up a new me & make that day up in my own will…..it's all one big day…..each stroke in you was a 100 years & each touch a life time & I fucked you…..my own heart beet (sic) is your only life on earth & you gave me to a cell so you could suffer untill (sic) you earn me back into your soulless existence….Don't wright (sic) me no more, wright (sic) Red to begg (sic) her, you took her world, not mine…..I remain the all of nothing the nothing of everything & my me is all the love to me'. Accompanied by the original envelope hand addressed by Manson and signed ('C Manson') by him in the return address panel. Some light age wear, otherwise VG