Box 1

"May the year have gone well for you...It has been a hard one for me to manage, in my region of experience. But I have kept mainly steady in my going on."

"I am simplifying my holiday exertions to little letters this year to those of constant prescence to us in year's end thought..."

"And to tell in the latter connection that I was moved to think of Schuyler's daughter Maria who has had active interest in dancing (at a time going classes in it), and in teaching the young -"

"It's hard for me to sum this year - there has been much difficulty in it, much work-"

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"I have not yet finished my work on language. A small work of mine was published this fall in England, and will be published in this country in the spring. It has been important for both Schuyler and me, but there is other work owed from the quarter."

"Your Christmas time word brought you close: it was a visit. Yes, what to do is a question one must be asking and answering at the same time. There is a spirit in this that can bring this and that and the other doing into one sense, join the answers into one answer."

"Here, Beauty is a threatened commodity. I am fortunate in this place (of ours) set apart, though in the little town's midst - but it being local road & U.S. Highway II,..."

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"Two books that were published in England have been published here in the autumn, one a little Selected Poems (Norten), the other a new writing of mine..."

"I am rather hurrying to send this note because of your word as to your not having received an ordered book - you said 'book'; but I have wondered if you meant the issue of the magazine that was announced for fall, and is not out yet."

"I am rather tired, after a year of complicated preoccupation, and doing work, my work, has gone on, yes; and more lies ahead."

"But I have worked on, and much is outlined for my doing in the new year - especially a book to write under a N.E.H L.T. programme fellowship grant."

"The publication of mine mentioned is not a new collection of poems, but, simply, a ned edition of the collection of 1939 - the final collection: I wrote no more poems after that."