Pleasantville NY

March 31 1935

Dear Mr. Warren,

Thank you for your interesting announcement of the Southern Review. I shall read your first number with great interest. Such undertakings deserve, and usually need, all the encouragement of a practical nature that they can get. I am pleased that you should wish me to contribute to an early number. I regret, however, that work on the second volume of my Jackson biography, which must be sandwiched in among less engaging but more remunerative concerns, simply takes all the time I have. This volume is a bigger job to do from the sources than I bargained for. When, sometime in the future life, it is finished and if there is a chapter or so in it that would appeal to you you are welcome to it before it appears in book form. I am not at all sure, however, that that is the kind of material you want.

HOWARD MUMFORD JONES · WIDENER 115 · HARVARD UNIVERSITY

October 12, 1937

Dear Mr. Warren:

Nice of you to ask me, but I have
already reviewed Wecter for the Atlantic
Monthly, and I think it's a bad scheme
for one man to review a book twice. I
did it - partly through ignorance and
partly through helplessness - a year ago,
and the results look like persecution.
Try me again some time on something else.
If you want a good reviewer, I suggest
that Professor Theodore Hornberger of
the University of Texas (English depart-
ment) would do Wecter very well.

MICHIGAN STATE COLLEGE
OF AGRICULTURE AND APPLIED SCIENCE
EAST LANSING

DIVISION OF LIBERAL ARTS
DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY AND POLITICAL SCIENCE

February 9, 1942

Professor R. P. Warren
Department of English
Louisiana State University
University, Louisiana

Dear Warren:

I do not think we have ever met, but I
was at Oxford in Pipkin's time, and through the
Oxonian and other channels I have followed with
interest the fine work which you and Brooks and
the others were doing in your institution. So
I am enclosing a copy of a letter which I am
sending to Director Taylor of your Bureau of
Educational Research. I am also sending a copy
to the President's office. I do not claim to
know much about Hardy and Yeats, and I may be
talking out of turn here. But I think it is a
scandal the way fairly prosperous states will
fail to recognize the fine work which is being
done in their institutions of higher learning.
Joe Brandt got very little support for his fine
university press over at Norman, you know. But
after Princeton called him the Oklahomans suddenly
woke up and brought him back as president. I
hope that may prove to be something of a prece-
dent in your case too.

Enc.