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Autographed letter signed, 4 pages. Dublin. His study of Poussin “implies some questioning of current values” and will “be ignored or cold shouldered.” “With it I run the risk of being considered a bigoted papist and Irish nationalist.” Deutsch understands it; he feels W.B. [Yeats] would have done so also. Recounts a dream; notes Stevens said he did not use things that came to him in his sleep.

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Typed letter signed, 1 page. Rutherford, NJ. Congratulates her on recovering from pneumonia. “In my present condition that would have been the end of me.” Laughlin is bringing out five plays and a short story reprint. Williams is with a new doctor who “...may get me to Paul[?] Zukofsky's at Carnegie Hall Feb. 3.”

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Typed postcard, signed. Brooklyn. She has received “an irresistible tiny starfish” from Florida. Liked Deutsch review of Turgenef's letters. Remarks compliments paid her for the stockings Deutsch gave her.

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Autograph letter signed, 6 pages. Discusses Deutsch's A view of the Piazza [poem]. "Anyhow, the poem is an evocation not a statement. Surely Mallarmé would approve." Brian Coffey's poetry is now being recognized in Dublin. Comments on a radio reading by Tom Kinsella, religious affairs.

Description Typed letter signed, 2 pages. Rutherford, NJ. He is working on Paterson 5. He also finds inconsistencies in Paterson “...the movement within the theme...didn't brook much thought about it.” The image of the shark, Book 4 concerns “everything in the world of our thoughts which is beyond them and inimical to them.” “Home” equals “home free.” Paterson 5 was necessary because coming “home” was inadequate. Williams is convinced that “man can know nothing.” Emily Dickinson wanted to belong, but...

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Autographed postcard, signed. Brooklyn. “That explosion may lengthen my life.”

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Autographed letter signed, 1 page. Brooklyn. Moore has forbidden the soliciting of tributes to her. “Close to suicide by the exhorting of tributes to known and unknown contemporaries all through 1963-4.” “How irresistible your elegance is.”

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Typed letter signed, 1 page. Brooklyn. Charmed” by “elegant” translation of a poem sent her by Deutsch. “The mundane Penguin [sic] takes on irredescence.”

Description Autographed letter signed, 2 pages. Dublin. MacGreevy thinks he told poet James MacAuley to send his book to Deutsch; now finds a copy at his bedside. He may also have told poet Brian Coffey to send her his Mallarmé Dice translation. Perhaps if MacGreevy had read the existentialists he “would have more understanding of some of the youngsters” [including Coffey]. He didn't love Sartre enough long ago in Paris to want to read him... little Simone Weill had me so persecuted with questions that...

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Autographed postcard signed. Heidelberg, Germany. [Deutsch has sent her a card of a mosaic] which Moore comments on. “First holiday in 30 years.”