Typed letter signed, 1 page. Rutherford, NJ. Comments on Vivenne Koch biography [William Carlos Williams, New Directions [1950]]. She did not consult him; he saw only rough draft which he pencilled extensively. “As a biography it is, I'm afraid, unsatisfactory - even false. I'm sure in many instances in its interpretation of individual pieces... I give you my permission to rip the book to shreds only I don't think you should quote this letter.”

Autographed letter signed, 4 pages. Rutherford, NJ. Notes he has no proofs of unspecified book, and that “Van Vechten is a grand printer and friend...” who will have the book by April.

Typed letter signed, 1 page. Discusses [Choral:] The pink church. He is not a red, but pink: “the pink of life, of a pink cheek...” The poem is “anti-Catholic, anti all that the Bible damnation theorizes.. Servitus...is my saint...I particularly detest Eliot, the Catholic Church and the Dictatorship not of the Proletariat but of such rats as Stalin and all his kind.” Thinks The pink church fails, “It is, however a protest poem...against palpable abuses against reason.

Autographed letter signed, 2 pages. Dublin. He has received Coming of age...“a noble achievement...” Regards her as “a great literary personage...” Thinks many poets do not avoid “being self-consciously poetic...” Deutsch may have brought MacGreevy nearer to poetry again; although he had “intellectually accepted poetry as the most essential truth,” he had felt removed from it.

Autographed letter signed, 4 pages. Seatlle. Deutsch should by now have [his] book. Roethke wishes he could “read and work for about five years at this point, instead of having the hoorah and hullabaloo of teaching...” Thinks he may “collapse into matrimony around 50.” He is Winterset Rothberg of Last class, appearing in Botteghe Oscure V [1950].