Jan. 14, 1938

Mr. Herbert Agar
307-310 E. 44th St.
New York City

Dear Herbert:

We have tried very hard to visualize an essay a little more than half the length of the present piece, but we haven't been able to do it. We are under great pressure for space right now, and the present piece does raise that problem in a rather acute form. It has the discursive quality that would be right and proper, certainly, for the purpose for which it is intended, and we are greatly interested in it. If we only had a monthly magazine!

When there is some slack time in your program, can't we persuade you to do something else for us? Of course, the sooner the better. Can you make some proposals? Isn't there a forthcoming book which might provide you with an excuse for an essay.

Please give our very best regards to Eleanor. We hope that you all will not give up entirely the idea of a trip to Louisiana. I should hate to think of it as a sort of Carcassonne for you all.

Best wishes for this year.

As ever,

P. S. By the way, I have a copy of the anthology of stories for you all. I haven't sent it before, because I remembered the sad story of the other story and manuscript sent to a New York address for you. If you let me know when you are in Louisville, I shall mail it. It has a few stories in it which you might

like to keep.