TO
PUBLISHERS

214 COLUMBIA HEIGHTS, BROOKLYN, N. Y.

FRANCE: LE BEAUSSET (VAR)

Jan 24

Dear Mr. Williams:

To have the Note on Pound and the Note
on Modern Poetry included in your volume
would delay publication as the first galleys
have already been corrected. I'm anxious to
get the book out as soon as possible.

Also, as the book set up to 114 pages-
more than I had calculated it would-- there
is no need for additional material.

I am sending the MS under separate
cover.

Dear Williams:

I enjoyed the "trouble" very much, out of admiration for the book. So don't, as they say, mention it.

I was fairly pleased with the looks of the book myself, aside from one or two obviously regrettable faults (the printer regularly acts contrary to instructions at the last moment, and is careless intermittently). The price, which we were forced to raise constantly before publication, makes a difference of course. If the books were to sell for 20¢ as we'd originally planned, they would look "neat". "Lushness" was always entirely out of the question; they could, I'm afraid, be better without being de luxe nor obscuring the pressing almost to journalistic nature of the text. That is, without seeming bibliophilic items.

The round characters I thought were good with the text-- in fact, I like it better yet in typescript (which means also that the type should have been more widely spaced, which we couldn't afford). I'm enclosing the first page of the Ms. in which the thing is most marked so that you can see what I mean.

However, Pound and others seem to feel that the publications should look more professional, I think it is, so forthcoming books will be different. If we've experimented at your expense it was absolutely unforseen.

Thanks for the book, which hasn't arrived yet-- your letter arrived just now.