June 16, 1943

Mr. Victor Reid,
THE GLEANER,
Kingston, Jamaica.

Dear Victor Reid,

I was delighted to learn from Alfred A. Knopf that they have accepted your novel and speak very highly of it! My most sincere congratulations to you!

Also they tell me that you may be going to England. If you are sailing by way of New York, be sure to stop by to see me, and to meet some of our Negro writers here.

In the anthology of poetry which I am preparing with Arna Bontemps, we are including a number of Jamaican poets. If any good new ones have shown up since my visit there, kindly let me know and ask them to send me some of their poems to see. Also if the new FOCUS is out, please ask Mrs. Manley to send it to me.

My continued good wishes to you,

VICTOR S. REID
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