15 Feb. 1936

To the Editors
The Southern Review
Baton Rouge, La.

Gentlemen:

Some apologies and clumsy explanations. Sometime last December or
November one of you wrote kindly inviting me to submit for consider-
ation a group of poems. I can't locate the letter and I left the
Review North, so that this is addressed collectively and the very
address of the magazine is a memory-guess - I hope a right one.

I'd have answered much sooner but I was sure from week to week that I would get together a group, and so postponed it. Please pardon the discourtesy. Looking through the work lately, I now realize I have nothing finished that seems fit to submit : it's all either too purely experimental or rides too easy. I believe and certainly hope that within six or eight months more some things may begin to take more shape. When they do, I should like very much to submit them, if you are still agreeable to it./ Bishop's poems were very fine.