LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY
AND
AGRICULTURAL AND MECHANICAL COLLEGE

DEAN OF THE GRADUATE SCHOOL

BATON ROUGE

March 22, 1935

Dear Mr. Wolfe:

On June 1 the first issue of the *Southern Review* will appear. Despite its title this quarterly does not aim, especially in its literary aspect, at a sectional program, nor will it have an academic bias. We hope to provide a large quarterly which will be a real index to the most vital contemporary activities in fiction, poetry, criticism, and social thought, with an adequate representation in each of these departments. Since we are writing you almost immediately after the inception of this project, we can not, at this time, give you a precise statement in regard to rate of payment for contributions; but our budget will certainly permit something better than a cent a word for prose and about thirty-five or forty cents a line for verse.

We are extremely anxious to have some of your work in the first issue. Have you a story or sketch which you could submit at once? Or could you permit us to make a selection from among some of your unpublished material? The first and second issues will carry work by John Peale Bishop, Herbert Agar, John Crowe Ransom, Katherine Ann Porter, Caroline Gordon, Ford Madox Ford, Andrew Lytle, and Allen Tate. I give you this list, which is not inclusive, to indicate something of the character of our contributors.

Since the time for the preparation of the first issue is so short, we are anxious to have a reply at your earliest possible convenience. If it is impossible for you to send us any manuscript immediately, we shall be glad to know whether you will be willing to do so for the second issue.

Mr. Thomas Wolfe
c/o Charles Scribners' Sons
597 Fifth Avenue
New York City