I am strong with you in my admiration for Burke. I repeat for the eleventh time, I wish I could be in New York to talk to him, especially lately do I feel an intense need for contact and conversation with the right sort of people. I have rather missed Lescaze’s stimulation since he left, while Loveman, the only other person left here, becomes more incoherent every day. I am, really, suffering a great deal these days, and the worst is that I have almost no impulse toward writing. This wholesale “fertilization” of America by such half-baked people as the Algonquin gang is one of the most depressing features of all, because it is without any sense of values. Ben Hecht and Eliot get equal honors in such company. But at any rate I can rival you in some ways. Where you have Untermeyer, I can trot out Braithwaite. A letter from Braithwaite came last week inviting or rather soliciting my “Praise for an Urn” for the 1922 _Anthology_. At last I shall rub shoulders with Florence [sic] Wilkinson! Allen Tate was a week later than expected in getting to N. Y., but you have probably met him by this time. I am rather looking forward to his two days here--he has enthusiasm and brains, however, undeveloped his style may be. Matty’s trans. from Soupault in the last _Broom_ are undoubtedly clever, but I don’t see how he can rave so about this man’s conceptions. Matty mentions his recent love for Francis Jammes and Vielé-Griffin, the latter as being much abler than Laforgue. Where is he headed for, anyway? His Joyce article was amazing in its lack of recognition of the great elements in Joyce. I look forward to his final suicide with Frank. But, after all,--Matty will always keep his head up, and sniff ominously. --/--/ 117: TO GORHAM MUNSON [_Cleveland_] _Nov. 20th, ’22_ Dear Gorham: I am immersed totally in a rush job and will be for a week or so more. These campaigns are taxing affairs and very confining, so I can’t write much. But I do want to assure you of my enthusiastic desire to both write the jacket for your _Frank Study_ and also write a communication to the Double Skull[24] (delightful name) about it. As regards the latter,--it will necessarily be very short, as they once returned a reasonably-sized review I had written on Shaw’s _Back to Methuselah_ on the argument that it was too long for the comparative importance of the book! Please send me the proofs as soon as they are out and I’ll begin. I hope you enjoyed -- -- -- --. I took the liberty of writing him to look you up because you had once mentioned a certain interest in him incurred in Pollard’s _Their Day in Court_. -- -- -- -- is delightful company, whether he goes in for post-Beardsley attitudes or not. The episodes of the _Satyricon_ are mild as compared to his usual exploits in N. Y. during vacations. --/--/