Oct. 2, 1941

Dr. Oliver St. John Gogarty
Ewing Avenue
Midland Park, New Jersey

Dear Dr. Gogarty,

Thank you very much for your reply concerning a contribution to the special Yeats issue of the Southern Review. We have ritten to Mrs. Miller and have asked her for a copy of your "Elegy" so that we may consider it. However, if the poem has previously been published in American we shall not be able to use it. But we had hoped to have a prose contribution from you, and if you find time and inclination, the matter is still open.

Ewing Avenue

Midland Park

New Jersey, Oct. 4th. 1941

Dear Sir,

Here is the promised galley. I am sorry that the printer messed it up.

If you care to print the Elegy, you will see by the enclosed letter that Mrs. Miller will give you every facility.

If any business should arise from this, my agent is

Harold Matson
630 Fifth Avenue
New York City.

With much gratitude for your solicitude for me.

Oct 15

Dear Sirs,

I am sending you a little satire which I trust is not too
outré for your readers.

The everything in the story is self-explanatory, I may
point out that Eliphaz and his theories are developed at very great
length in The Grand Piano (to be pub. in December, by Colt, San Fran-
cisco), and Impetigo you may remember from On the Rocks Along the
River (to be pub. in New Dir. 1941)

The action of this little story is perhaps ludicrous, but
I do not think it is in any sense caricature, since every (almost
every) detail is importantly, and even centrally, implied in the
incident in question, so far as it is viewed sociologically.

I make this apologia because, to be frank, I am tired
of foolish critics who accuse me of playing with colored blocks when
I am copying off -- and believe me, with deep concern -- what I
see with my eyes every day.

paul goodman
26 B'way Terrace, n y c

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4701 Bay Parkway
Brooklyn, New York
Oct. 7, 1941

Dear Mr. Brooks,

Submit

Richard Blackmur wanted me to submit one of my stories, The Flowers, to you, this summer, but I sent it to DECISION instead, because I thought it would have more of a chance there...(for one thing, I knew Muriel Rukeyser)...and, happily enough, the story was accepted...but Blackmur, hearing of it, could not understand why the *Southern Review* was not going to print it. Of course, I had to explain then that I hadn't even sent it to SR. I admit chagrin, for I should be extremely pleased if I were printed in your magazine. In an attempt to expiate, I am sending a more recent story to you. I think you may like it, but I warn you, I write like no one else alive.