Letter, 1969 Mar. 20, New York, to Samuel S. Vaughan, New York.

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Letter, 1969 Mar. 20, New York, to Samuel S. Vaughan, New York.

Concerns his reasons for hesitating to accept an offer [from Doubleday & Co.?] to translate poems by Yevtushenko [i.e., Evgeniĭ Evtushenko]

1 p. Typescript signed.

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University of Michigan

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