Hunter S. Thompson's 1958 Cover Letter for a Newspaper Job

Hunter S. Thompson's 1958 Cover Letter for a Newspaper Job

In October 1958, a pre-fame Hunter S. Thompson applied for a job at the Vancouver Sun. The Ottawa Citizen recently published the quintessentially-Hunter cover letter, which also appeared in The Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967 (The Fear and Loathing Letters, Vol. 1). Here it is:

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