EDITED BY ROBERT HERRING

HERRING

PETRIE

TOWNSHEND

LIFE AND
LETTERS
TO-DAY

IFE AND
LETTERS
TO-DAY

TELEPHONE
TEMPLE BAR 7697

21.9.35.

26 MAIDEN LANE,
LONDON, W.C.2.

Dear Mr. Hughes,

I have for long been an enthusiastic reader and admirer of your poems and now that I am editing this quarterly, I am writing to say that I hope, if you ever think of sending to Europe, you will remember the paper.

If that seems impertinent, let me excuse myself; the publication of "Fine Clothes to the Jew" when I was twenty-four is still an excitement, and I think that that book, being one which suddenly showed there was living poetry which fitted, was one of the things which finally led me to take on this editing, no easy job in the Europe of to-day.

English journals (don't I agree!) have a reputation for dullness, and it is one of the results of that dullness that "Life and Letters" has come under my control. The enclosed prospectus may explain something of its new outlook - but it was necessarily worded with care. I would like to point out that the contributors include Gide, Eisenstein, Mari-anne Moore, Havelock Ellis (whom everyone has forgotten was once in prison for his sex-work), Horace Gregory, and several of the more representative younger English writers.

In the next number, there will be Wallace Stevens, Elizabeth Bishop, Osbert Sitwell, Ivan Lortonov, Malraux, and others of progressive worth. We have