350 Western Ave.

Albany, New York

August 30th/32

Dear Dr. Williams,

I should like, if possible, to make the last issue of
the first year a William Carlos Williams number; devoted entirely to your
work and critical articles dealing with it. Would you be willing to
cooperate? I am holding the poems you sent me since I should like to run
as much unpublished work by you (both poetry and prose)/in that issue.
Will you let me know what you think about this? To give me time to secure
the articles by various other writers if you're willing.

1012 Hartley Hall
Columbia University

New York City

Sept. 12th, 1932

Dear Dr. Williams,

Thanks for your letter re- the Wms. number. I hope to
make it a really great issue and have started work on contributors for
it. Had the following note from Zukofsky; " Re-Williams no. See nothing
new I can add to the following selection which you might make and reprint,
my references to Williams in the Hound & Horn, The Symposium, Poetry, The
New Review, Preface-"Objectivist's Anthology".

Would do a paragraph if Wms. publishes a *new* work, have to cut
down on criticism for poetry's sake, Bill would appreciate the sentiment.

Additional suggestion: would reprint a selection of Wms. correspondence to me—with Bill's permission & if someone will do the typing. Write Wms. about this."

Are you willing that part of the correspondence be utilized? Any
hopes that the issue will contain a "new" work? Sending copies of the
*issue
to the English Dept. is not so funny as it seems, study of lit in college
might be a damned sight more enjoyable than it is if the faculty were
more appreciative of vital contemporary lit—speaking as one who has
sat through many dull courses, and dropped many duller courses. Hence the
mag, I'm too interested in contemporary work not to want to have something
to do with it.

First number will be out about Oct. 1st. Contains article on "new"
bibliography by Jacques Barzun, stories by Frances Fletcher & Charles
Reznikoff, article by Basil Bunting, "Preface for a new edition of THE
LAY OF MALDOROR" by John Rodker, reviews of your and Pound's "TO" books
by Gerry Reisman, and poetry by Forrest Anderson, Conrad Aiken, Frances
Fletcher, Frances Frost, Gerry Meyer, Jesse Loewenthal, & Joseph Rabinowitz.

1124 Amsterdam Avenue
New York City

Dear Dr. Williams,

Sorry I couldn't acknowledge the receipt of the correspondence
before but with mid-term exams and the 1st issue I've been pretty busy.
However, thanks for sending it for the Wms. issue. It's good stuff and good
for that purpose. What became of the 6mos. photograph idea? I still think
that's swell. And I'd be glad to see anything else you might send. What do
you think of the 1st issue? The others will be better. And, if I have material
'll run extra pages for the Wms. number. I'm trying to map out some plan
with Caldwell to issue booklets by various writers under the Lion & CROWN
imprint. Dont know how it will work out. It's hell to have so many ideas and
so little money to carry them out.

I'm getting up a private anthology (in ms.) of favorite
contemporary poets. Will you write your THE RED LILY (obj. Anth.) for it
in pencil------more permanent than ink. Just in case, I enclose paper that I
use for the anthology and, if you'll do so, will you write it on pages 1 &
3?

I'd welcome criticisms of the mag. Have heard about it from Zukofsky,
Caldwell & his friend Morang.