The Junto

DARTMOUTH COLLEGE
37 ROBINSON HALL
HANOVER, N. H.

Board of Governors
OWEN ARTHUR ROOT, Chairman
WALTER BERNSTEIN, Secretary
IRVING PAUL, Treasurer
CHARLES PAGE SMITH
ROBERT G. OTTMAN

December 15, 1939

Dear Dr. Williams,

It was a pleasure to read your letter as well as to hear that you accept our invitation.

May I reassure you about the effects of your last visit to Dartmouth? Not long ago a Big Green alumnus, a senior when you were here last and now a pillar of TAC, came back to visit his alma mater. We talked of the Junto, its program then and our choices this year. Well, when he heard that we were inviting you again this year, he confessed that the only lasting impression made upon him by any speaker in his four years at Dartmouth was made by one William Carlos Williams. I needn't say more, except that when he recalled that meeting of several Mays ago, his face brightened and his eyes twinkled. I'm sure he enjoyed it as much as you did. This time, moreover, we will hold the meeting in the evening and you shall have many more than six in your audience.

The date is settled, then, for May 16, at 8:30 p.m. We shall probably gather in a lecture room in the art library for your talk and then adjourn to the Junto room for informal discussion.

Incidentally, if there is anything else you would like to know about arrangements for your visit, please write hereafter to Robert O'Brien, the new chairman of the Junto. It was necessary for me to resign so that I could devote more time to a special study of international problems. I would like to help bring about conditions so that more people like you would be able to "write to write".

The Junto

Board of Governors

December 6, 1939

Dear Dr. Williams,

It is my pleasure to invite you to Dartmouth to meet with the members of the Junto and our guests. The Junto unites Dartmouth men who are actively interested in the arts and social questions of our times. In addition to meetings led by students and members of the faculty, we are able, from time to time, to invite to Hanover men and women of rich understanding, imagination and creative power to meet with us for the discussion of social problems and the sharing of art. If you are able to get away from your work for a day, we should be extremely happy to have you with us in the spring some time.

I hope one of the following dates which are open on the college calendar will be convenient for you: April 25, May 7, 14 and 16. It is unwise to hold a meeting later than the middle of May since it is so close to examination period; but if you prefer an earlier date than any I have mentioned, I will try to arrange one.

As for your fee, unfortunately, we are unable to offer you very much. We can give you $50 and take care of your traveling expenses and your meals and lodging in Hanover for one day.

We sincerely hope you will be able to visit us.

Arthur Root