Letter from Woody Guthrie, New York, to Sing Out! magazine, 1955 April : autograph manuscript signed.

Saying that he had received the spring issue of the magazine; praising Pete Seeger: "I sure do believe that Petey Seeger is a real champion at more jobs than floggin his wire stringy banjo or singin his ever better & better & better and better folks old songs"; comparing him favorably to the British folk singer Ewan MacColl: "I don't reckon that Macall [sic] has ever walked his land from end to end like Pete has [...] nor has Macall ever tried to make his great country's own poverty and misery and deep deep unfed hunger and worries and fears and hurts and hopes all rhyme, nor beat to time of a balladsong on any musicyial instrument like Pete has and habitually does"; writing further about MacColl in terms of British song-writing and working-class protest; describing the effect that reading the lyrics of old ballads has on him; praising Sing Out! magazine: "Every word you folks print up there is printed on a high high hard hittin hard fightin level and all your printed words needs is just a blue jillion people to sing em up and out in your high militant spirit."