Nov. 19, 1936

Professor Willard Farnham
Dept. of English
University of California
Berkeley, Calif.

Dear Mr. Farnham:

I have recently finished reading your book on Elizabethan tragedy. Presumptuously, perhaps, I wish to say that I have found it one of the most useful and enlightening books of the sort I have ever discovered. Its implications opened up for me many lines of interpretations and speculation about the subject concerning which I hope to learn something some day--that is, about Elizabethan literature.

For treatment in THE SOUTHERN REVIEW we are planning to include the book in a small group of studies on Elizabethan literature that have appeared in the last year. We have had some difficulty in striking on the proper reviewer for this group, for we want some one who has the equipment and reputation of technical scholarship and has at the same time shown the capacity for a critical treatment of such issues. When the review finally appears, we shall send you a copy of the issue containing it.

It occurs to me that we might persuade you in the future to do some similar reviewing for us. Of course, there would be little glory and perhaps less money in it for you. Our rates are something like 1½¢ a word for prose.

Again my heartiest congratulations on the book.
Please remember me to your wife.