About a visit to Connecticut and advice about what to do with an essay

Summer travels. Discusses old friends in Fresno, Gene Bluestein and Phil Levine

Writer, literary critic, and poet. Sends "As I was Saying," reprinted from the Michigan Quarterly Review; an article answering Renee Wellek's essay in The Sewanee Review on Burke's Counter-Statement and other work

Humorous note

The poet, songwriter, and author of the song "Cat's Cradle" sends a letter resulting from a meeting with her and her husband Harry Chapin on a screenplay that he was writing

The writer, producer, and director of "Thunderbolt and Lightfoot," "The Deer Hunter" (academy award), "Heaven's Gate" writes about writing, the artistic vision, the writer having to be tough, and writes a poem as well

Two newspaper clippings about the writer's films are folded in with the letter -- they are from a later date, but relevant to the writer

Writing

Writing

The beat poet sends a rejection note from City Lights Books

The author of Grass Fires and many other works writes about his work, Jim Harrison's work, and his friends' drinking

His work, Jim Harrison's work, and how they try to get away once a year to play Buzz and Todd from Rte 66

A note about publishing

Publishing

A personal note accompanying a gift book of the writer

Personal note, photocopies of the writer playing baseball, "Merry Christmas"

A thank you note for the recipient's book of poems, a note about the death of the writer's father

The poet, anthologist and longtime professor of English at Brown University writes a personal note and comments on Amiri Baraka and Ralph Ellison

Thank-you letter to Tom and Sandy Gatten for hospitality for a stay during a poetry reading at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. Comments on travel

Notes for a "blurb" for book cover