Lumpkin Road
Cuthbert, Georgia
12 August, 1939

Mr. Cleanth Brooks, Jr.
The Southern Review
Baton Rouge, La.

Dear Mr. Brooks:

Please excuse me for not replying sooner to your note
of April 22, addressed to me in Brussels. I am glad you
accepted the Valéry translation, A Course in Poetics.
It is quite all right that it must be put off until the
Autumn or Winter number.

I am sending you the English version of a paper I
wrote for the Congrès de l'Association des Ecrivains de
Langue française which met in Liège and Brussels in June.
It is obviously written for a foreign audience, but if
you think it would be of interest to the Southern Review,
I could make whatever adaptive changes you suggest.

What is much more important, I am also sending you
a sketch, The Mind's Misting Place, by Miss T. Jones.
Miss Jones is from Salem, Oregon, and is spending two or
three years in England and France. She has been writing
seriously for a year or more, but has not published at all.
I believe she is a person with a great deal of talent, and
I should like ever so much to have a Southern Review opinion
on some of her writing.

I hope I have not caused you any inconvenience by waiting
so long to reply on the translation.