Hollow Hills Farm,
Monterey, California,
October 30, 1941.

Dear Carl,

You really should not tell me you are going to give
all my letters to Yale because I will now become self-
conscious and no doubt verge toward the grandiloquent.
Besides I was just about to tell you about a wonderful
fight that took place in Togo's Pool Room in Monterey
the other day in which various were cut from here to
yonder and the lady who used to be the second wife of
Noel's valet who came to New York with him that time
succeeded in slicing several herself but you know the
Race would come out here and cut me if they knew I was
relaying such news to posterity via the Yale Library.
So now how can I tell you?

Meanwhile I have come across Miss Etta Moten's home ad-
dress which is: 3548 Vernon, Chicago, Illinois. She re-
cently gave two concerts here on the coast, but did not
pass by Carmel so I didn't get a chance to ask her about
her father.

I will be delighted to have my manuscripts in a handsome
box with a leather label. But if I were to send you all
of them, you would need a trunk, so I will only send cer-
tain ones from time to time. The other day I sent another
one called PASSING about some Negroes who wanted to jive
some white folks but got doubled jived themselves.

You know, I have all your letters, too! And most of your
books---even if they are well worn from being lent out. I
have a whole series of letters from Ezra Pound, too, about
getting Probenius translated in entirety into English that
might also be good for Yale. And some from Zora that would
be excellent for some Ph.D. to get his degree on in 2042.

Sure, I would love to have a little short job at Yale. Out
of my next job I promise to pay off all the rest of my debts.

C.L.R. James I met in Paris. Also I believe again in Los An-
geles. He was the leading colored Trokyite of the English
speaking world. Said to be very brilliant. But he did not
seem to have much sense of humor. And I do not believe he
would go anear Togo's Pool Room in Monterey--which is where
Fannie cut Virgil the other day. And somebody else cut a
soldier among others. And Argyle was cut on the arm and they
put it in a sling. But when he got home he found he had also
been cut in the side! But the very thought of Yale prevents
me from going further!

Thanks so much for reading the new poems for SHAKESPEARE IN
HARLEM. I hope they go in it. And I am dying to see the
drawings. I did not think the one's in GOLDEN SLIPPERS very
good.....I haven't seen GEORGE'S JOINT nor ROYAL ROAD yet.....