1917 State Street
New Orleans

November 8, 1935.

Dear Mr. Warren,-

Here is the manuscript again with your suggestion
on pages 2 and 3. I am glad you are accepting the story. I saw
the last issue of your book.

I wonder why you couldn't get in touch with me
when you were in New Orleans. My maid must go out when I do! Was
the telephone number you called Walnut 6668?

1464 Eleanore Street
New Orleans

November 10, 1936.

Dear Mr. Warren,-

I am glad you sent the story back. I read it over a
day or so before you returned it and was going to ask for it.

I agree with your criticism of everything except the
killing scene. Additionally, I have cut out all of the detailed scene
with Miss Maime and have now only quickly sketched her in. She
is a very unimportant character and ought, I think, only to be indicated.

I have followed other suggestions of yours. But I haven't
changed the killing scene, though I rewrote it. I haven't changed it be-
cause (1) I think the second one is the better written one; because (2)
I think there is throughout the story the proper preparation for this
scene as it works out. And yet the end is not given away too much as
the story progresses. There is really no reason as the story unfolds
for Fred to kill Shoolie for money. There is no proper lead to that
angle; I don't know why I ever used it; it took unity away from the story.
Fred hated the horn. He thought Shoolie had nerve blowing.

Don't you think that for you this scene lacks the pathos
the former one had because you have read it so often and now know so well
what is to happen? The story is better written now too, I feel, and maybe
the rambling looseness of it worried you before.

I do feel awfully strongly that I am right about this
even unless I go back and emphasize still more Fred's character as one
who is fond of money. I don't see any reason for doing that. And as

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it stands I feel I ought to keep the present killing. I do hope you will
feel as I do when you read the story again and will still want to use it.

Do you like the name, The Horn That Called Bambine? If
you prefer the first one, The Horn That Blew Forever, use that one. I
like The Horn That Called Bambine. I think it's somehow a more intriguing
title than the first. But I won't insist upon it.

614 Chartres Street,
New Orleans, La.

December 27, 1939.

Dear Mr. Warren,

I am taking the liberty of sending you these poems by a student at L.S.U. I hope they are publishable and you will like some of them. If so, her address is Box 184.

I am also enclosing a short fragment of my own. Curtis Brown, my agent, does not handle poetry. I have no idea if my fragment is good or very bad. But I know you will be frank.

If you accept any of Miss Fagen's poetry, will you kindly get in touch with her? If not, please return them all to me.