Letter. October, 8, 1915.

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Letter. October, 8, 1915.

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Holograph letter signed and dated October 8, 1915, to Harriet Monroe. After a previous rejection by Miss Monroe, Williams sent her some additional poems along with this brief letter, asking her to try them on her "rotten old piano". Williams also asks Miss Monroe what she thinks of John Rodker, author and publisher of Ezra Pound and T.S. Eliot and other writers living in London during the First World War.

[1] leaf ; 18 x 15 cm.

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