"I have yours of Jan. 2nd., for which many thanks. I hope the article on The White Peacock, which I sent by air-mail on Dec. 29th., has reached you, and that the Customs has by this date delivered over to you the transcript of Neutral Ground..."

"I hear from Mr. Mercer that all the business in connection with the Lawrence material is satisfactorily settled. Many thanks for your help throughout negociations[sic]. Now I am wondering whether any arrangement is being made about the poems..."

"[...] With reference to The White Peacock article; I am very pleased that it has found favour in the eyes of the Texas Quarterly's editor, and accepted his offer of $150.00 for full serial rights..."

"[...] I wish you would jog the memories of the authorities in respect of that contract, the draft of which they had from me in October. I have never heard whether it is acceptable in its present form..."

"Thank you very much for sending me the Texas University's edition of Look, We Have Come Through! Well, I suppose L. thought they had when he first conceived that title for his second book of poems..."

"[...] As three months have passed since then, I am beginning to wonder whether there is some hold-up in the arrangement for publication. In the matter of the funds for the Lawrence Fellowship..."

"[...] Where is my contract? (In case it is really lost I am enclosing another copy). Because your work on the book of poems cannot proceed until I have, and the University has, a signed copy..."

"[...] First about the photograph. I am not very enthusiastic about the use of one, believing that most readers of any imagination- and who cares for those without it- prefer their own visual image of an author..."

"[...] I have read the Texas Quarterly with great interest. My knowledge of Mexico and its people, which was lamentably small, has been much increased thereby. By all appearances (photographic) a people marked by the long tragedy of their history..."

"The prints of the two photographs are being despatched[sic] to you by the photographer today..."