Clyde Barrow (Bonnie & Clyde) Handwritten & Signed Letter

$94,000.00

A handwritten (in pencil) letter from Clyde Barrow to his mother (Cumie Barrow) on November 18, 1931, written from his prison cell at the Eatham Prison Farm near Huntsville, Texas.

THIS IS THE ONLY GENUINE SIGNED HANDWRITTEN LETTER FROM CLYDE BARROW, WRITTEN IN LETTER FORMAT, KNOWN TO EXIST!

Shortly before being released from his last stint in prison, 22 year old Barrow writes to his mother in hopes that she can get him "out of hear".

Barrow writes (in full):

"Dear Mother. got your Sweet letter glad to know that every one is fine. When are you going to Auston. Be sure you talk [?] yourself sure hope I can get out of hear. Tell [?] to write to me. Make S.C. bring you down real soon to see me. I sure do want to see you. You asked me if I needed anything. Nothing but to come home. Give every one my love.
come soon
Your son
Clyde Barrow"


Sold with a handwritten letter of provenance from Barrow's sister, Marie, which states that Clyde wrote the letter to their mother while in prison.

Sold with Certificate of Authenticity from The Autograph Source (Lifetime Guarantee).

Museum-caliber frame. (Framed with the handwritten letter from Marie Barrow, and photos of both Bonnie and Clyde).

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At this time, Clyde was serving a 14-year sentence for a string of robberies committed between Texas and Ohio. Unbeknownst to Clyde, his mother Cumie had nearly secured an amazing act of leniency from District Judge R.I. Monroe in Waco, reducing Clyde's sentence from 14 to just 2 years.

But Clyde grew impatient. Between the date of this letter and February of 1932, Clyde became despondent over a number of things: the state's delay in reducing his sentence, his rocky relationship with bonnie (she had started to see another man while Clyde was in prison), and his inability in keeping up with the workload in the fields of the prison farm. Turning to an inmate friend, he conspired to get off of the farm and into regular prison by having a fellow convict chop off two of his toes with an axe. As expected, Prison officials moved him to the Huntsville Prison Hospital for treatment. With Judge Munroe's recommendation and his mother's pleadings, Governor Ross Sterling agreed to the parole. It was a fateful decision.

Clyde was released on February 8, 1932, and shortly therafter he and Bonnie embarked upon their infamous crime spree across the South.

Clyde's brother, Ivan M. "Buck" Barrow, was released from Prison on March 23, 1933, having also been granted a full pardon by the Governor. He quickly joined Clyde, bringing his wife Blanche to join the group (which also included William Daniel Jones at this point). This gang of five embarked upon a series of bold robberies that made headlines across the country. They escaped capture in various encounters with the law. However, their activities made law enforcement efforts to apprehend them even more intense. In 1933 buck was killed, Blanche was captured, and then Jones was captured. Bonnie and Clyde continued on together.

After a number of highly publicized robberies and homicides, an FBI Agent obtained information that Bonnie and Clyde were en route to a safe house (the home of Henry Methvin).

Before dawn on May 23, 1934, a posse composed of police officers from Louisiana and Texas, including Texas Ranger Frank Hamer, concealed themselves in bushes along the highway near Sailes, Louisiana. In the early daylight, Bonnie and Clyde appeared in a automobile and when they attmpted to drive away, the officers opened fire. Bonnie and Clyde were killed instantly in a maelstrom of gunfire.

A timely letter from Clyde Barrow, written just before his release from prison and the resumption of his life of crime!

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