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THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS
DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMICS
AUSTIN

25 March 1937.

Dear Mr. Pipkin:

Thanks for your letter. I had
already gone through a copy of the last issue of
the *Review* which Mr. Meiklejohn brought along with
him from Baton Rouge, and I am glad to have two
more.

I don't know that I have anything that would
interest you just now. The stuff I am working at
is intended to be a book and each bit of it pre-
supposes all the rest.

However, I shall be glad to have a crack at
*Middletown*. Or perhaps I should say another crack.
I took a crack at the original version in the New
Republic, and I shall be much interested to see if
my chiding took effect. Friends told me that Lynd
was much grieved by my harsh words. Will you send
it along right away? If it is as big as the original
I shall have to begin devouring it at once if it is
to be digested by the middle of May.

May 14, 1938

Professor Robert Penn Warren
The Southern Review
Louisiana State University
Baton Rouge, Louisiana

Dear Professor Warren:

When your second letter arrived I was on the point of writing
you to suggest the possibility of my reviewing a book that
seems to be attracting a good deal of attention just now --
much more than it deserves, I think -- *The Promises Men*
*Live By*, by Harry Scherman. I think something fairly lively
could be done with it. But Lewis Mumford's book is much
more important and would call for much weightier discourse.
So by all means send it on if you are minded.

About Hart, it isn't that I am chicken-hearted. The situation
reminds me of the case of Robert Lovett and Tom Lamont. For
years Lovett has been trying to get somebody to take Tom
Lamont apart and has always parried the suggestion that he
should do it with the defense that he can't, that they were
Harvard classmates. Finally one day I lit into that degree of
sentimentality which would so protect a mere classmate. Where-
upon Lovett rather shamefacedly admitted that he and Lamont
were boon companions at Harvard, co-editors of the literary
magazine, and, said Lovett, "Tom got me into Hasty Pudding, and
I sat up all night trying to get him into Phi Beta Kappa,
and if I failed it wasn't my fault." My relations with
Hart are not quite so intimate as all that, but still are
such that I don't want to be the one to smack him down.

CEA/mp

15 27 University Station,
Austin, Texas,
7 July 1938.

Dear Mr. Brooks:

A copy of Mumford's *Culture of Cities* has at last arrived, direct from the publishers, and I will get after it, together with Woolston (which isn't much, I fear), as soon as I can.

Thanks for your kind invitation to drop in on you.
Unfortunately I am tied up to our summer session for the
whole season this year, so I shan't be getting about much
for a while. But if your invitation is a standing one, I
shall be very happy to take advantage of it the first time
I do get anywhere near Baton Rouge.