The Elizabethan Club
of Yale University.

April 15, 1939

The Editor of the Southern Review
Baton Rouge, La.

Dear Sir:

Apart from considerations of quality, I hesitated to submit the study of Kafka, which you will receive under separate cover, because I noticed that you had announced an article on Kafka in a forthcoming number. On second thought, I considered that that very circumstance might make you more receptive to another one, for there is no other group apart from the readers of your periodical that would be likely to afford an audience for an extensive consideration of this author. Among us at Yale, for instance, he is hardly known at all. So your policy of publishing work about him is a wise one. Also I felt that my study would probably complement, rather than duplicate any other material about him.

I wondered also if you would be at all interested in an essay on Kierkegaard and Toltsoi, on which I am working, and which seems a subject promising general interest. I also propose to do a study of Calvin's Geneva, as the first totalitarian state. Prof. Carlton Hayes of Columbia agrees with me that it is.

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October 5, 1939

Dear Mr. Brooks:

Should you be addressing to me any correspondence with regard to the Kafka essay, I am to be reached throughout the winter at the Yale Club, 50 Vanderbilt Avenue, New York City, or at 135 Whitney Avenue, New Haven, Connecticut. The latter is usually the better address.