LOS ANGELES, Jul. 8 – Convicted murderer Charles Manson has been writing letters to followers blaming his fate, and the world’s, on former President Richard M. Nixon.

“He wrote to us and said he was mad at Nixon and we should explain why,” said Manson follower Lynette “Squeaky” Fromme in a telephone interview from her home in Sacramento.

“The Manson family has been locked up for five years for Nixon’s conspiracy,” said Miss Fromme. “The whole country was and still is dying in Nixon’s thoughts. He walks loose after he dealt (sic) people’s blood, lied and ruined the economy and sold the United States out.”

She said Nixon should be the one in prison.

Miss Fromme said Manson had expressed these thoughts but that she was putting them in her own words.

Miss Fromme, 27, and Sandra Good, 30, original members of Manson’s roving communal “family,” have been living in Sacramento for two years, at first hoping to be closer to Manson, who was imprisoned in Folsom. He has since been moved to San Quentin near San Francisco. The two women have not been allowed to visit him.

“We’re nuns now, and we wear red robes,” said Miss Fromme. “We’re waiting for our lord and there’s only one thing to do before he comes off the cross and that’s clean up the earth.”

Asked why they wear rubes, she said, “our red robes are an example of new morality. We must clean up the air, the water and the land … They’re red with the sacrifice, the blood of the sacrifice.”

But she stressed that she and Miss Good are more interested in expressing Manson’s thoughts, than their own.

“Manson sees much more than I could ever say in 50 volumes, in 50 movies or anything,” said Miss Good. She and Miss Fromme, who camped outside the courthouse throughout Manson’s trial, have been loyal to him for some eight years.

Miss Fromme quoted one of Manson’s letters as saying, “When programs are started for the jobs that need doing and not jobs for money, the money will work like a god for the people rather than the people working like dogs for the money.”

She and Miss Good said Manson has been upset about the economic and social policies which Nixon established and feels they are being continued by President Ford.

“If Nixon’s reality wearing a new Ford face continues to run the country against the law, our homes will be bloodier than the Tate-LaBianca houses and My Lai put together,” Miss Fromme said.

Manson, 40, and three other women followers were convicted of the 1969 slayings of actress Sharon Tate and six others, including a Los Angeles couple, Leno and Rosemary LaBianca. They were sentenced to death. The sentence was later commuted to life in prison.

By LINDA DEUTSCH