ALS, one page both sides, 5 x 8, July 3, 1930. Letter written to Stardust editor, Edith Mirick concerning the financial difficulties of William Braithwaite. In full, “The enclosed does not seem much to give toward what must be a considerable need. But you know how it goes with poets. They are often poorer than anthologists. I know I have never profited in money from Braithwaite. I have seen to it that he paid nothing for his permissions to use my verse. He touches my sympathy. I wish I were in a position to do more for him. I am not even in a position to ask the rich to help him. I live off here in the country pretty well out of things.” William Stanley Braithwaite was the literary editor of the Boston Evening Transcript between 1908 and 1929, and achieved a national reputation as the editor of the annual Anthology of Magazine Verse and Year Book of American Poetry, published from 1913 to 1939. His criticism and poetry also appeared in the Atlantic Monthly, The North American Review, and Scribner's Magazine. In fine condition, with a horizontal mailing fold through tops of several letters of signature. Auction LOA John Reznikoff/PSA/DNA and R&R COA.
