--/--/ I think it is a credit to Munson’s platform and writing that so much attention has already been proffered _Secession_. I was very lukewarm in the beginning and urged him not to “waste his time” on any magazine project. But after his visit here last summer I quickly switched about, especially as _S_ has contained such new and suggestive material as the last 2 numbers included. _Secession_ gets away from the “temperamental” editorial attitude of _The Little Review_ (good in many ways as this has been) and bases its judgment on more tradition while at the same time being far more daring in its experiments than such magazines as _The Dial_. It has been discouraging to see how very “safe” _The Dial_ plays sometimes, despite its protests to the contrary. I find that I have derived considerable stimulation from _Secession_. Without it there would be only the vague hope that the steady pessimism which pervades _The Dial_ since Eliot and others have announced that happiness and beauty dwell only in memory--might sometimes lift. I cry for a positive attitude! When you see the first two parts of my “Faustus & Helen” that comes out in _Broom_ in Feb. or March, you will see better what I mean. I’ve about finished the third and last part now, and am pleased at the finale. --/--/ I’m rather worn out with the incessant activities of the last two weeks--last _month_, in fact. I can’t stand much “society” even with interesting people, and my acquaintance in Cleveland has somehow increased so extensively during the last two years that with work, reading, writing, etc., things are becoming entirely too febrile. You’ll excuse my mention of such “ailments” I hope, as part of my excuse for delay in writing. But I have already probably exhausted you beyond “resentments” of such nature by this lengthy gust. -- -- -- -- 128: TO GORHAM MUNSON [_Cleveland_] _Jan. 24, ’23_ Dear Gorham: I’ll wait for your next letter before sending any other versions of “F. & H. III” The last two days have been occupied with the enclosed strange psychoanalytic thing. I can’t quite justify the title in words, but it came to me quite freely as _the_ right thing. Let me know how you like it.[28] --/--/ 129: TO GORHAM MUNSON [_Cleveland_] _Feb. 6th, ’23_