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"At least two things rise up to engage my thought, from what you present in your letter, besides the question that you put to me, and I am giving them priority of attention in this my reply because, in their bearing on research in which a connection between my poetic work and the poetic work of Mr. Auden is pointed to, they have more importance than the source of my quotation in the preface of my Collected Poems. First, as to your words on 'the relation' of my poetry and W.H. Auden's."

Scope and Contents "Supposed I clear the list of the matter of Mr. K.C. Gay first? There was a german person by name Karl Goldschmidt who worked secretarially for myself and Mr. Robert Graves in the mid-thirties, and into 1937, and 38, by my memory. There was no other secretarial assistant to me in that period."...."To go next to this to-me queer matter of my reference to Mr. Auden in my preface to my Collected Poems, and your researches anent it. Why have you been on the trail of...