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February 1, 1938

Mr Cleanth Brooks, jr
The Southrn Review
University, Louisiana

Dear Mr Cleanth,

Please let me thank you for the very prompt and cordial correction
you have made to the omission in last spring's Southern Review of
the relation between Blackmur's poem, "From Jordan's Delight" and
the book we published by the same name.

Miss Barbara Gibb's admirable translation of Valéry's "Cimtière
Marin" has led me to wonder if you are familiar with Valéry's
description of the writing of the poem. Mr friend, Hansell Baugh,
and I have been working off and on for several years on a trans-
lation of it which I am sending you with the hope that The Southern
Review might find it important enough to publish. It first appeared
in the March, 1933 issue of La Nouvelle Revue Française and later
as the preface to Professor Cohen's book on Valéry. I think it is
one of the most important statements by a poet of his own methods
and equally of value as an exposition of the most abstract kind of
poetry.

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March 8, 1938

Mr Robert Penn Warren
The Southern Review
Baton Rouge, La.

Dear Mr. Warren,

Today I received permission from Monsieur Valéry to publish
the translation Hansell Baugh and I have made of "Concerning
the CIMIERE MARIN". Very generously he asks only two copies
of the issue of the review in which it is published.

It may interest you to know that Monsieur Valéry calls the
translation "very loyal".

As I should like to tell Monsieur Valéry when to expect his
two copies would you be kind enough to let me know in what
issue of The Southern Review you intend to use it?

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July 15, 1938.

Mr. Albert R. Erskine, Jr.,
The Southern Review,
Baton Rouge, La.

Dear Mr. Erskine:

As one editor to another far be it from me to add a "tone"
to my letters to you. In fact my remark about changing the
spacing in Monsieur Valéry's essay was entirely in a spirit
of one editor to another. Personally I don't think for a mo-
ment that any objections will ever be raised. However, I
should say that when either you or I least expect concern
over such things as spaces, that is just the time when it ap-
pears. Please accept my excuses if what was more haste read
as "tone".

Thank you very much for the four copies. The
check will come in due time I suppose.

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