Autographed postcard signed. Brooklyn. Comments on errors in a review of [Coming of age].

Typed letter signed, 1 page. Brewster, MA. A Hy Sobiloff poem is missing from the collection [In the deepest aquarium: poems?] which Aiken had read in text, and had commented on in report on the book, later used as a preface. Of Deutsch's poems: “...are somehow just not my cup of tea -- a blindness perhaps.”

Typed postcard signed. Brooklyn. Commends the journal, [Columbia University] Forum.

Autograph letter signed, 1 page. Brooklyn. She has received Poetry in our time (Anchor Books, 1963), "...a most nutritive book." "All I can do is carry a hod or guide a donkey- (myself)."

Typed letter signed, 1 page. Rio de Janeiro. She is delighted to have “your new book” [Poetry in our time]. “I think it must be a great deal harder to re-write a whole book like that than to write an entirely new one...” “Brazil is so broke I can't imagine what they're going to do next...” Her translations of Brazilian poetry will appear in October Poetry. Takes exception to Deutsch remarks on Edith Sitwell.

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.

Autographed letter signed, 1 page. Dublin. Sympathizes with troubles of Adam [Yarmolinsky?], physical and political. “We live in the most ingnominious century since history began.” Asks how good a poet [Louis] MacNeice was; MacGreevy found him a dull talker.

Typed letter signed, 1 page. Savannah, GA. Criticizes a poem she has sent, does not agree with her on comments about poets “perhaps with the exception of WCW---this is like, and the reference to his funeral poem much to the point.”

Autographed letter signed, 4 pages. Dublin. A Yeats exhibition was held at the National Gallery. [Paul] Engle lectured recently at the American Embassy, reading a poem about John Kennedy. He has not seen Schlesinger's book on Kennedy, but thinks “the world instinct is to see him in a kind of effulgence.” Comments on his health.