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sort in Maine,and can afford to pay a nodliiial. sua for such• lecture for which they could of course sell the tickets and cover their expense. " I have just written ,to Amy Belle Adam6, the Maine poet who teac\hes english at Lincoln High School,Lin coln M aine,as they have lad Robert Coffin up there--and also to the University of Maina,who also giv• a course of lectures. I want the state of Maine to be as aware of me as possible,and besides en joying the lecturing,it will give me a chance to be better aware of the forces aild charms of my native state for which I have such love and admiration. Do

let me hear from you on this s_u~j9.ct,an d

I shall be grateful.

The rare book I speak of will go tomorrow,an d the other just as soon as it is out will b'e forwarded both as a gift to the :Maine authors collection. I do so want to go over to Augusta,and meet the library dept, and must try and do so before long. I had a remarkable exhibition during last Xmas holidays at Symphony Hall in l3(>ston in connection with the concerts,and the Widen er Library of Harvard loan! them their copies of my early poems and the prose~ called "ffl ADVBNTURBS IN THE ARTS" W!th preface by Waldo Frank--from their "Treasure Collection" if you please;;! was very set up by it. Very sine erely yours,

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