The Saturday Review

25 West 45th Street, New York 36, N. Y.

Robert A. Burghardt
Advertising Director

February 13, 1956

Dr. William Carlos Williams,
9 Ridge Road,
Rutherford, New Jersey

Dear Dr. Williams:

I'm sorry to have missed your return phone call and, since I've been having bad luck trying to reach you by phone (your son's answering service intercepts my calls) I thought it best to drop you a note. One of the girls in our office informed me that you have the address of Noel Young, Publishers. We have received an air mail letter from England, addressed to him, in care of us, and we are anxious to forward it. Will you please jot the address down on the enclosed self-addressed postcard and return it to me.

Thank you very much and I'm very sorry to have had to bother you.

RAB

The Saturday Review

John Lear
Science Editor

April 29, 1957

Dear Dr. Williams:

Since we started our Science Section in the Saturday Review a year ago last March, a number of our friends have been insisting to us that science is all right in its place but that it never teaches human values and can not possibly do so because of its very nature. I believe that science invites creativity, encourages persistence, requires discipline, instills a respect for form; it can not survive without a perspective which accepts the continual evolution of truth; it demands deep faith, devotion to principle, belief in the dignity of man and in his courage to face individual responsibility. But I am not a scientist. And I would like to appeal the question to you because you are not only a scientist, but a poet. What do you think? How would you state the relationship between science and life?

I'd be most happy indeed to hear from you.

Dr. William Carlos Williams
9 Ridge Road
Rutherford, New Jersey

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