Medford, Oklahoma,

March 25, 1935

Dear Mr Warren,

Your special delivery letter of March 23
has just come. I sent you a telegram this morning in
reply to your registered letter of March 20.

If the latter part of April won't be too
late, I'll have a story to submit for the first issue
of THE SOUTHERN REVIEW. I am working hard on a book
that I've had promised for more than a year (not the
one I worked on while I had the Guggenheim), and I
hope to get it finished before I leave for Baton Rouge.
I'll do my best to have something to try on you soon
after I come home. At any rate, I'm proud to be asked,
and I'll submit stories for later issues even if I do
not make the first.

Would it upset your plans if I should come
in Tuesday afternoon, April 9th? I want very much to
hear Senator Long's address that night.

I feel rather apologetic about having my
expenses paid, inasmuch as I'm to see so many friends
and am so eager to be there, but otherwise I simply
wouldn't be able to come. I got back from England
broke about a month ago, and even though I was lucky
enough to sell a story on my way through New York, I
was faced with some heavy hospital bills when I reached
Oklahoma. And since I've been working on this book
there hasn't been much money coming in.

I'm looking forward to seeing you with
much pleasure. Be sure to remember me to Edward.

Robert Penn Warren, Esq.,
Louisiana State University,
Baton Rouge, Louisiana

R.F. D. #2,
Pineville, Missouri,

September 26, 1935

Dear Red,

Of course I was shocked when I heard that Senator Long had been killed. Ever since we got the news I have been deeply concerned about your publication plans. I do hope that regardless of political changes THE SOUTHERN REVIEW will go on.

I meant to write long before this telling you how much we enjoyed the first issue. It was extraordinarily rich, both in content and format. My opinion is that it challenges the preëminence of THE YALE REVIEW among American quarterlies. You may have had more appreciative readers than the Milburns, but I doubt whether you had any more attentive. We have worn our copy of Vol I, No.1 almost to a frazzle, taking in everything from Agar's memorable article to the last book review. I sit around murmuring "The word is memory's gelded usufruct" when I should be getting a few on paper for sale. I thought Edward's story especially fine, and I hope its publication will give him impetus. Jesse Stuart's story impressed me, too, although I noticed in it a small mechanical error -- he has the woman narrator begin telling the story as something that had happened to her only the night before, but in the last paragraph, without indicating any break in her monologue, he has her speaking of the incident as something that had happened some days before. If he intends to reprint the story in bookform, he may want to correct this lapse. But speaking of error, it seems to me that Ford's piece gets most of its charm from the howlers it commits. What tricks the old gentleman's memory plays him! He can misquote with greater facility than any other novelist I have ever read. Tell Cleanth that I read his analysis of metaphor with great interest and that I'm looking forward to "Wit and High Seriousness"

Albert wrote soon after I heard from you that he would send me proofs of "Wish Book" within a few days. This was several weeks ago and as yet no proofs have come. Will you let me know when I can expect them? How close at hand is your publication date?

Edward drove over here for a short visit right after he got back from England and was here when your letter came. That made it all the more pleasant. I'm hoping that he'll come back by on his way South. We are fairly starved for companionship out here.

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GEORGE MILBURN.

Field House Louisiana
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Star Route,
Pineville, Mo.,

June 18, 1936

Dear Albert,

What ever came of that projected Southern Review
anthology for college use? Red wrote to me some months
ago, asking permission to include my story "Wish Book" in
it. I replied saying that it was all right, except that
"Wish Book" was part of a novel, CATALOGUE, and that in
accordance with my contract, all rights in it would pass
to Harcourt, Brace & Co. as soon as the book was accepted
for publication. He never did tell me whether he intended
to go on and use the story.

I got the novel off in a final burst of speed
May 15 and it is being published by Harcourt, Brace next
September. If you all had planned is in type or in
press, and if my story was used, that's all right, because
it was my property until it was accepted in bookform. But
if the anthology is still in manuscript form, or if it is
not to be published until after the novel comes out in
September, I have an idea that Harcourt, Brace ought to
be consulted. Let me know.

Are you using "The Road to Calamity" in your
Summer issue? I certainly hope so, because I'm hard-pressed
as usual.

I have fantastic hopes of this novel making some
money for me. I believe it's a pretty good job. Of course
it'll be several months before there is any return from it,
and I owe my publishers so much there probably won't be much
if anything coming to me when it does start earning money.
Needless to say, I'll send you a copy as soon as it is ready.

Scribner's have asked me for a story, but it has
been so hot and dry here I can't get much out of except sweat.
I sold one to Red Book, of all places, last month, but the
check from that was all spent before it got here. Damned if
I'm not getting tired of this powerty-stricken life; I'd hire
out to the movies if I had the chance.

Let me know how you are. I suppose Red & Cinina are
off to some Summer school in the North by now. How I wish I
could be sitting in the cool drinking beer with some convivial
soul like you.

Why don't you come to see us?

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March 25, 1937

Dear Red: Did you ever get the story I mailed
you about two wks ago? Had to mail it in the
rwy station at Lanagan to save a day & I've
been uneasy about its safe arrival. Harcourts
are dubious about whether it should be publish-
ed in magazine form as it is part of the book
I am working on now. They have offered to
repair the financial loss if I will withdraw
it. However, I feel that no harm would be
done and probably some advantage gained if you
were to publish it. But if you feel the least
bit doubtful about it, send it back and no one
will be the worse.

With warm regards,

George Milburn

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Robert Penn Warren,
THE SOUTHERN REVIEW
Louisiana State University,
Baton Rouge, La