ALS, two pages, 6 x 8, October 22, 1937. Letter to Mary Hotson, wife of noted Elizabethan scholar J. Leslie Hotson, concerning a poetry reading at Haverford College. In part: "These have been hard times for us. I have been on the point of begging off. But it now seems better that I should keep my engagements. Of course the pleasure of visiting you will be lessened by my having to some alone. I shall take the train leaving Springfield at 10.15 Monday morning and come out to Haverford on the first train…I trust the subject I sent you for the talking part of my performance (so to call it) didn't sound too political. Please let me change it under fire if you see reasons. I have been having ideas about form lately that might come in well before the reading of regular verse. Mrs. Frost told you about my having to go on to Princeton the next day…One thing is important. Very likely Mrs. Frost spoke of it. I have to be by myself and sans dinner party strain beforehand. After the worst is over I don't care how many people I sit up with. In fact good company is needed to take my mind off what I may not have done any too well. Thank you for all your kindness. Mrs. Frost sends you her best." In fine condition. Accompanied by a poem booklet issued as his 1937 Christmas card, "To A Young Wretch," limited to 275, as well as three newspaper clippings about his Haverford lecture. The "hard times" facing Frost's family were his wife Elinor's battle with cancer; despite her own struggles, she insisted that her husband keep his reading engagements. Elinor Frost would pass away the next year.
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