MAXIM LIEBER

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MURRAY HILL 2-4337

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March 10, 1933.

Dear Dr. Williams:

Pep West tells me you are completing a novel, and suggests that I write you with a view to handling its sale.

I shall of course be happy to read the script, and make every effort to arrange for its publication on a satisfactory basis.

William Carlos Williams,
9 Ridge Road,
Rutherford, N. J.

MAXIM LIEBER

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MURRAY HILL 2-4337

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March 22, 1933.

Dear Dr. Williams:

Supposing we say next Tuesday at four.
If that is inconvenient for you, will you drop me a note
so that I can set another hour?

I accept the premise that you are known
as a poet. In fact your name has been familiar to me for
much more than a decade. Some of my best friends are poets,
though that's not my forte. I'm more at home in prose. But
this does not interfere with the business of selling poetry.
In fact, I've recently disposed of a volume by Is Schneider.

There's no use denying that poetry is hell
to sell, especially these sorry days of capitalist collapse.
However, we'll discuss this and other matters when you come
in to see me. And if you can bring along the 16 chapters of
the novel and vol of poems, who knows but I may be able to perform
a miracle.

MAXIM LIEBER

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MURRAY HILL 2-4337

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June 15, 1933

Dear Bill Williams:

I am sorry I don't know a thing about Martin Jay so that I would not be able to assure you that he would abide by his commitments. He has neither written me nor phoned. Inasmuch as your primary interest lies in having your poems published I suppose there would be no harm in entrusting the script to Jay even though he might not sell a sufficient number of copies to net you any exceptional return. On second thought I will drop him a line and get him to explain his proposition to me.

Spier told me that Kenneth Burke contemplated publishing "White Mule" but their plans are not yet completed.

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