University College, Toronto
PRINCIPAL'S OFFICE

June 23rd, 1944.

Professor F.O. Matthiessen,
Kittery,
Maine, U.S.A.

Dear Professor Matthiessen,

Principal Wallace, who is retiring from the headship of English at the end of this month, has asked me to reply to your letter of June 16th.

I think it desirable to finish each lecture, if possible, by the stroke of six. Toronto audiences seem to get dreadfully hungry, and the six o'clock bell reminds them. This will give you a maximum of sixty minutes for each lecture, except the first, where my introduction (which will be of the briefest) can hardly use less than five minutes.

I see by the Principal's correspondence with you that he has preferred three lectures to four. But if you are finding yourself cramped with two sixty-minute lectures and one fifty-five, why not plan for four lectures instead? Bush, Grierson and a number of others gave four. We should be delighted to have the four from you if it seems preferable. This would mean putting the first lecture on October 24th.

Perhaps you would write to me about the lectureship from now on.

The Principal joins me in kind regards to you, and in pleasant anticipation of your visit.

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