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.

Autograph letter signed, 1 page. New York. Remarks Two centuries of Russian verse: “What care and experience and varied rhythms.”

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].