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747 Piermont Avenue
Piermont, New York

January 5, 1961

Dear Jack:

I'm late in thanking you for your letter of December 27 and for all the kind things you did for me. The holidays have been busy, and I've had specific business matters to take up in Re living problems, etc., and have not yet called John Kohn. I plan to do so tomorrow. Had I heard from Bryn Mawr when I saw you last they would very much welcome the files but of course I prefer Barrett in all ways if our project works out.

The Christmas cards will not be mentioned, and I do not think I should part with any letters of Frost except those connected with the book. I am willing to part with the reference books if necessary. I thank you for the return of the Haines letters which I believe I shall have to return to the recipient. I am enclosing two letters from Roland Wood of which I have no copies, and I know you will assure their return.

Whenever you can get that car and drive out again, let me know. As ever,

Inc.

DEPARTMENT OF PATHOLOGY
THE NEW YORK HOSPITAL - CORNELL MEDICAL CENTER
1300 YORK AVENUE
NEW YORK 21. N. Y.

January 21, 1961

Dear E.S.S.:

Thank you so much for your good letter. I am sorry that
your phone calls did not find me in as I should like to
have talked to you. I've been working pretty hard and
that's the reason.

I will hope to get out to Piermont the end of the month or
the first part of next month and I will, of course, call
you before I come.

I am glad to have news of John Kohn, and more particularly,
I am glad to have the assurance that it went smoothly and
that you were pleased. I do look forward to hearing more and
hearing how it proceeds. I think that John Kohn will be
very good in the question of the O'Neill letters and things
as well. I am happy to know that he is the one with whom
you are dealing. That gives me a great deal of confidence.

I am enclosing a copy of a letter that I had from Michael
Howard, one of the directors of Jonathan Cape, Ltd.; it
is in response to my raising the question of your book over
there. As you know, Cape, publishes R.F.

What did you think of the Frost "Dedication Poem" which he
could not read.

Best regards to you.

JWCH:m

Cables CAPAJON LONDON

Telephone MUSEUM 3764

Directors G. WREN HOWARD, MICHAEL S. HOWARD

2nd January, 1961

Dear Dr. Hagstrom,

Thank you for your letter of December 28th. Up-to-date data on those books of Robert Frost's which we published here is as follows: none has been reprinted since the last information was given to you, except COMPLETE POEMS, of which we printed a 4th impression of 959 copies.

I will ask our Trade Department if there is any possibility of our being able to locate or buy in for you copies of the 1st or 2nd printings of COLLECTED POEMS. I am pretty sure we have none left in the house. Equally I know we will have no spare copies of the Winter, 1936, issue of NOW AND THEN. There will be a bound copy on file from which I could take a photo of Day Lewis's comment, but I imagine that you already have a transcription and it is the complete issue which you want for your collection.

Finally, as to Elizabeth Sergeant's biography, TRIAL BY EXISTENCE, we considered it very carefully but felt that the considerable difficulties of copyright involved by the extensive and varied quotations placed too great an obstacle in the path of a separate British edition, and we think it probable that Holt (who published it in the United States) may market it here themselves.

With all good wishes for the New Year,

J.W.C. Hagstrom, Esq., M.D.
The New York Hospital,
525, East 68th Street,
New York 21,
N.Y., U.S.A.

MSH/VK

DEPARTMENT OF PATHOLOGY
THE NEW YORK HOSPITAL—CORNELL MEDICAL CENTER

1300 YORK AVENUE
NEW YORK 21, N. Y.

29 May 1963

Dear Elizabeth,

It was such a pleasure to be able to spend some uninterrupted
time with you and Joe and Ann, and such a nice time. My the
time did fly, didn't it? Thank you very much for having us
out there.

Just to remind you, it's the last weekend in September when we
have that trip to West Cornwall tentatively scheduled with
Joe. I had to come home and mark it in my book (affectionately
called-by me-"my brain") so that I wouldn't try and do two or
more things on that weekend. That ought to be a lot of fun and
I look forward to the trip to Old Bennington.

I have been wondering what the exact title is and when and
where the book was published, the book of the Giraudoux
translation. I think that I once had a note of it but have
been able to find it. I would very much appreciate it if you
would send it to me...the title and other data, that is.

Keep me posted on how the YMHA thing works out. I was glad that
Joe agreed with me and I will be more than happy to do anything
that I am able, just tell me.

This comes with warm and affectionate regard.

Sincerely,

Jack Hagstrom

Miss Elizabeth Shepley Sergeant
747, Piermont Avenue
Piermont, N.Y.

JACK W. C. HAGSTROM

November 16, 1963

Dear Elizabeth,

This letter and a communication of any sort is way long over-
due and I apologize sincerely. I was so very sorry to not be
able to go to West Cornwall with the Blumenthals and you in
as much as we happened to have planned on it for over a year,
but it could not be avoided. What happened was that I met a
group of people at the American Heart Association meeting in
California who were here from all parts of the world and were
going to return after the meeting. We all had one common topic
of special interest and decided that it would be wise to sit
down and try to have a bit of a round table about it before
everyone dispersed to all parts of the world. So that meeting
was set for Boston on the weekend that we happened to be going
to Cornwall. I felt like I had to go to the meeting in as
much as I was interested and was one of the people who was
enthusiastic initially. So that is it. I hope that you had a
fine time. I have not talked with Joe since but will be doing
so one of these days soon. I still want to visit the Cornwall
place and to go to Bennington. Perhaps that will be possible
in the spring.

I am very pleased to hear that Dartmouth has agreed to provide
you with a chronology and that you will do the revision. The
preparation of the chronology would have been a very large task.
Actually, I had started on it and progressed quite a ways but
it was, by no means, complete. I am really quite relieved that
they will do it and can do it easily for it would be increasingly
difficult for me, especially without that kind of a library im-
mediately at hand. And I know that the same goes for you. One
just needs to have research assistance in such things as that.

I am also pleased to hear that you gave yourself a break on
the YMHA thing. I am very curious to know what the factor was
that influenced you on that. I thought that it was unwise from
the near beginning, I think, but most especially so when the
recompense was so little and the patronizing air dominated the
scene. It just did not sound like a business like arrangement,
no matter how well intentioned. Good intentions do not pay the
grocery bills; they will still come, it seems.

I, am sending you two envelopes of material which I have had for
some long time. A good bit of this is the material that Ann
Blumenthal brought out with her last year and that I took home
to obtain duplicates of for my collection. I have done so and
am finished with it. You did not even get a chance to look at
it before I took it off so I am returning it in toto. I have