TLS, signed in pencil, one page, 8 x 8.25, Chicago Daily News letterhead, June 30, 1920. Letter to Mr. Underwood. In part: “The Dial for January and March had pieces of mine of a somewhat varied strain from my other work. And, if I recall it accurately, the February Dial had an article by James Oppenheim on Americanism and our national poetry, which registered some points worth noting on the question of what is American and in what connections we shall use ‘American’ as a designation in arts and poetry. By the way, it is interesting to note what poets there are these days—of competency—yet not yet represented in published books. We have Alice Corbin, Joseph Warren Beach, Wallace Stevens, each of them far and away superior in production to the general published output. Yet they are available only ‘fugitively.’” Intersecting mailing folds, one through single letter of signature, a few creases to corners and edges, trimmed bottom edge, and a small spot to lower left, otherwise fine condition. RRAuction COA.
