ITALY AMERICA SOCIETY

CASA ITALIANA OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY
AMSTERDAM AVE. AND 117th ST., NEW YORK CITY

OFFICERS

HENRY ROGERS WINTHROP
President

FRANKLIN Q. BROWN
Vice-President

CHESTER ALDRICH
Vice-President

HENRY BURCHELL
Secretary

FRANCIS D. BARTOW
Treasurer

MAURICE A. OUDIN
President Board of Trustees

LUIGI BERIZZI
Chairman Advisory Committee

LAURO de BOSIS
Executive Secretary

Telephone: CATHEDRAL 0935

Cable Address: ITAMSOCY

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

THE OFFICERS
and

THOMAS W. LAMONT
Chairman

GEORGE F. BAKER, JR.

PAUL D. CRAVATH

CLARENCE DILLON

MARSHALL FIELD

A. H. GIANNINI

OTTO H. KAHN

CHARLES B. MITCHELL

WILLIAM C. POTTER

ALFONSO P. VILLA

Mr. Thornton Wilder,
75 Mansfield St.,
New Haven, Conn.

April 27, 1929.

Dear Friend:

We have all heard of your terrific success and
feel prouder and prouder to be your chums.

I am sending now to Italy most of the transla-
tion of the Bridge which has been for me a real school of
style. I just wanted to ask if you think they might do
the Italian edition without illustration. The book market
is so bad over there that every economy that can be made
on the price would mean quite a lot. The illustrations are
very nice but I do not know if in Italy they will appreciate
them very much.

I am sailing on May 18th on the St. Louis but will
be back the first week in July.

We are going to start in the Autumn, a magazine
called ITALY which will look like the New Republic and I
think will be very nice because instead of relying on the
monthly production of a country, we will soar in all that
Italy has produced in thirty years and pick up the very best
things from all over the field. Since they would all be un-
published in English, it would make no difference if we draw
from the whole production of Croce, Carducci or Gentile, 2rc.

Let me know your plan for the summer and if there
is any chance of meeting you somewhere. I had a delightful
lunch with your adorable sister who is one of the most charm-
ing persons I have ever met. Best Love,

P. S. I mentioned to Mr. Boni (who is a very nice man)
about the $150 balance for the translation but he seemed not
to be very informed or convinced about it.

L.