HENRY HOLT AND COMPANY
INCORPORATED

Publishers New York

257 FOURTH AVENUE

862 Greenwood Avenue
Glencoe, Illinois

September 15, 1941

COLLEGE DEPARTMENT

Frances Stewart, Secretary
The Southern Review
Baton Rouge, Louisiana

Dear Miss Stewart:

I return herewith the proof of my article on Mr. Afler.

I am sorry about the biographical note. I received Mr. Palmer's request, forwarded from here, when I was recently in New York and I answered at once. However, I wrote in long-hand and my writing is usually very bad and I assume that he was bewildered to get a completely illegible note.

I am with the College Department of Henry Holt and Company (where I am, I assume, the most assiduous -- if not the most successful -- talker-upper of Understanding Poetry) and from the bird's eye view of my daily work, I get a perspective on our so-called intellectual world not to be had elsewhere. I do believe.

I was born in Oak Park, Illinois, and attended Brown. During the first World War I was a Lieutenant in the American artillery (I got to France but never to the front). After the war I finished at Brown and then taught English there and at the University of Missouri, and left teaching to make a living in the college text book business.

This is the second article I have ever placed. My first article -- on *The Ethics of Prohibition* -- after going the usual rounds and getting the usual assortment of slips and notes, came out in the now defunct *Plain Talk*.

In the days when the *Chicago Evening Post* used to run a weekly literary supplement of some size, I had various reviews included there, from time to time.

What is about all there is, I think.