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., lfov, I8th. , !940. Dear Miss Macleod:I shall be sending you probably tomorrow very rare copy of my first book of poems called TWBHfY.FIVB POEMS-the book is long since out of print,and I myself possess only sixty copies which were printed by the. Contact Press in Paris--whic h was directed by Robert McAlmon,himself a, poet and at that tilll!L had the use of money with which H~':i#f:11.1111 to prin t good trri ting. · ·

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I will autograph the same for tbe Library and assume it will be placed in the Maine dept. of Maine authors. · I must however make on e demand, . that the library have it bound with tome sort of stiff covers, so that it will stand more or less usage,and am pleased to present the same. new book ANDRO COGGIN is on the press so there is hope now that it will be out soon,and fhat I will forward also as a gift as soon as I have it ih band. J(y

&l.so,I should like to ask.your co-operation,on the matter of getting some lectures in the small towns of Maine,where, there is likely to be a literary or cultural unit. I have prepared two lectures to be delivered later on a:t tba Cooper Union in ·New York--one has the title THI SOCIAL AlfD PRAC'.BICAL VALUES OF ART---and the other is called MODERN POBTRY AN. D TBR CHANGE IN TECBNIC AL FORMS Hf#l#W:8/J:Mf:'IU!lf"*'#.,.# and the latter would of course have readings from the most modern among the poets,including Auden,Oscar Williams,Ruth Pitter, ~bbie Huston Bvans,a Maine poet and a very good one,with one or so of my own,and small touches from Marianne Koore~illiam Carlos William~allace S~ve~s ,K enneth Fea~ing 1 Kemtth tchen,¥d t..~- . L like. . ~ ,.y/...e, ~ ~ , TitUt.,uo f 1V1c.c1A. If• ~ ~,,,, tJ,,t~ Ju,£&, _-(.;. <,,~~ I have previously given lectures at the Museum of Modern ~t,of New Yora--the A rt Student•s League of N.Y.,the Chigago Arts . Club, the D en ver Art M useum ,and had the honor of rea'1,ng m y own. verses to the poetry club of Mt.Holyoke College,and was house guest of President Woolley and Jeanette JC(arks,who was then prof. of english there--and have jtist recently received an inquiry from from _them as to how they can procure my three books.as they are making a collection of the works of thoae poets who have read their verses in times past.

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