Box 2

“It was most remiss of me not to acknowledge receipt of your poems--I’m behind-time on my book, schoolwork has been intense, and I’ve nearly cracked under the pressure...”

“I can’t let June go out without a letter to you. I’ve been recuperating from a grueling school year followed by the great effort of getting my son started in college...”

“This hasty and brief scribble is a poor substitute for my long overdue letter. I sent the Ms months ago--at the time I wrote you--to Gotham Book Mart...”

“I do feel guilty: it’s been so long, again! But I’ve been made head of the history and lit. dept., and have had to make myself into a professional historian very rapidly...”

“I’m very sorry to be so slow in answering your letter of May 11. I’ve had to let everything except schoolwork and my book go, until the end of the heaviest school term I have ever known: this ended two days ago, with all of us marching around in academic mummery in 90-plus weather...”

“How good of you to send the Flecker (but you didn’t have to do anything for me!): I like him, have HASSAN and most of the poems...”

“I can’t wait another day without thanking you for that fascinating Flecker book, which so far I’ve read twice. This has been a crazy time, however, with the 2 hurricanes...”

“This is by way of being an informal Christmas greeting: my wife Beatrice and I hope you will have a fine Yuletide...”

“I received from Heinemann last week the copy of Sex, Literature, and Censorship you asked the firm to send me. Thank you very much for it. I think the book is very well produced...” Incomplete letter.

“I’m in your debt for two fine letters, and can’t let Easter pass without at least sending greetings for the spring! Have been reading, with pleasure and enlightenment, your Towards Economic Freedom...”