BROWN UNIVERSITY
THE LIBRARY
PROVIDENCE 12, RHODE ISLAND

22 January 1952

Dr. William Carlos Williams
9 Ridge Road
Rutherford, New Jersey

Dear Bill:

I was checking recently on your publications
in our poetry collection and we seem to have every-
thing except that confounded "Poems" of 1909.

Please, is it possible for you maybe somehow
to snitch a copy from one of your relatives so that
we can have a complete set of WCW?

It was very pleasant, indeed, to see you the
other night after all these years. You will be
interested to know that I am now making the last
arrangements (I hope) for publishing Jack Wheel-
wright's last volume of poems.

RD # 1

Chadds Ford, Pa.

September 2nd, 1958

Dear Mr. Williams:

During the coming year Brown University's class of 1960 will sponsor a program of lectures by prominent figures in the cultural life of this country and the world. In view of your own outstanding contribution to poetry, we invite you to make an address at Brown in the coming year on your poetry or on whatever phases of contemporary poetic trends you might choose.

I would appreciate it if you would write to me at the above address as soon as possible, suggesting dates convenient to you and your charges for speaking, transportation, etc. Looking forward to your visit to Providence, I am

Alexander M. Baumgartner
Secretary, Class of 1960

p.s. Please send reply instead to me at Box 246
Brown University
Providence, R. I.

RD # 1
Chadds Ford, Pa.

Aug. 4th, 1959

Dr. William C. Williams
9 Ridge Road
Rutherford, N.J.

Dear Dr. Williams:

I was very disappointed last year to have been informed
of your illness and of your being ordered to take a com-
plete rest. Having read recently of your new play on
Broadway, I go under the assumption that you are at least
partly recovered, and, I hope, in good health, when I
renew my invitation of last year for you to speak in
the coming year at Brown under the auspices of the class
of 1960--or rather, as you explained, to give a reading
from your work with occasional commentary.

I shall not prescribe any particular time between now
and next May, but shall leave it at your convenience to
suggest that time which would best fit in with your work,
your other engagements, and most particularly your physical
limitations. You suggested $300--$500 last time as your price
range. We have several contracts now and I am a little afraid
of taking on another for anything above $300, much as I think
you deserve considerably more for your stabare in the literary
world. Expenses may be added to the $300 if necessary.

Whatever the problems involved, I await your reply, and
hope sincerely that you will be able to appear at Brown
next year.