Typed letter signed, 1 page. Brooklyn. The [Poetry] Handbook “seems better than ever.” “Difficult compression is gathered into very small compass - not to mention lucidity...” Offers testimony for Funk and Wagnalls.

Typed letter, 1 page. Brooklyn. She is correcting misprints in a book of her poems. She has again written to Funk and Wagnalls. “I just wish I could contribute anything solid like the Handbook.

Typed letter signed, 1 page. Rutherford, NJ. Preface [to Poetry handbook] is fine. “Your advice to the beginner is more in accord with my line.” “The silent hours of skilled attention which you devotedly served is saluted by one poet at least with gratitude.” New Directions anthology contains his “lost or mislaid poems.”

Type letter signed, 1 page. Rutherford, NJ. Disagrees with her comments on measure in [Poetry handbook]. “Measure... is the generic term. All verse starts with measure after which comes foot."

Autographed letter signed, 2 pages. Seattle. He is enclosing a reprint of Words for the wind. They have not been set to music, though Chester Kallman praised them. Thanks her for Poetry handbook. Beatrice [Roethke] was hospitalized for tuberculosis.