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Editors · FREDA KIRCHWEY · JOSEPH WOOD KRUTCH · MAX LERNER

March 10, 1938.

Dear Professor Pipkin:

Here it is finally. I am awfully sorry
that I have been so fearfully slow about it. I suspect that
this has been due not only to the disruptions caused by work
here at The Nation, but also to the fact that I have been
clarifying my thought on the whole subject and my writing
didn't go fast until I saw the business clearly.

I had meant, when I wrote you last, to deal
with the Pigou book at some length, but I found that the
other books ran unconscionably long and, besides, it is the
free market I want to discuss and not socialist theory. I
therefore brought in Pigou only to the extent that it deals
with the main subject.

If you don't like the title of the piece,
please feel free to change it, and if there any other changes
you want to make in the article, the same applies. -- a short
of changing the drift of my argument. Of course I'd like to
see proof if there is time.

I hope you will give me a chance to write
another article for you next year. I am going to Williams
in the Fall as professor of political science, and I shall have
far more leisure for sustained writing.

Professor Charles W. Pipkin,
Southern Review.
Baton Rouge, La.

WILLIAMS COLLEGE
WILLIAMSTOWN, MASSACHUSETTS

DEPARTMENT OF POLITICAL SCIENCE

May 15, 1940

Mr. Charles W. Pipkin
The Southern Review
Baton Rouge, La.

Dear Charles:

I am happy if my wire contributed at all to the birthday
celebration.

I'd like to get our ledger straight about my writing. I
guess we have both pretty much given up the idea of that article
on political realignment. It looks very much now as if the only
realignment we are likely to have for the coming campaign is one
that will adjust us to the exigencies of war. My guess is that
Roosevelt can walk away both with the nomination and the election
if he wants either. Dorothy Thompson is even going so far as to
suggest that the Democratic and Republican conventions get together
and nominate a Roosevelt-Wilkie ticket, which would mean, in effect,
the suspension of our two-party electoral system. But that isn't
worth an article.

As for the Lincoln Steffens which I have been promising for a
long time, I have finally gotten around to writing a long essay. I
gave it as one of the Stafford Little lectures at Princeton last
month, and called it *Lincoln Steffens and the Muckrakers*. It will
serve as a review both of the Filler book, *Crusaders for American
Liberalism* and the two volumes of Steffens' letters which you were
good enough to send me.

I notice, however, that your next issue will be wholly devoted
to the Thomas Hardy commemoration. Where does that leave you on
material? Will you have so much accumulation for the Winter issue
that you won't want to use this long Steffens piece? Please feel
free to tell me. The lecture still needs some cutting down and
publishing before it is ready as an article; and I don't want to do
it if it will disarrange your plans in any way.