Dear Gorham: --/--/ I do want to thank Lisa [Munson] especially--however late--for the last and very pleasant evening at your place. Allen [Tate] enjoyed it, he told me, more than any evening he had had in NY, and I admit to a gratifying sense of excitement when I left that recalled some of the earlier Munson-Burke-Toomer-etc. engagements that took place before the grand dissolution, birth control, re-swaddling and new-synthesizing, grandma-confusion movement (of which I am probably the most salient example) began. Allen has a very good mind and a kind of scepticism which I respect. I got very few chances to really talk with him, but I suspect that at least we have established an idiom or code for future understandings which may make our correspondence at once a simpler and more comprehensive pursuit. The boy left NY in a frightfully feverish state, however, and I am a little worried about what’s happening to him since. He was to have written over a week ago. I shall be pleased to know what he eventually comes to think about this bronco-busting city. I liked his sense of reserved opinion on some matters, and it may well be that a place like NY means less to him than to the usual young literary man. I have just re-read your Eliot article in _1924_, and hope I may congratulate you again on some very accurate estimates and constructive motives. The little magazine is better than I thought it might be,--really quite sensible looking, and better in its initial contents than several issues of _The Trans-Atlantic Review_ that I have seen. (Even Seaver’s poetry surprises me!) It certainly is to be hoped that the _Secession-Broom_ crowd can supply it to the point of crowding out the ever willing members of the milky way that flutter into every little magazine around the place. I envy you the long walks and cool evenings. The office and all it means gets rapidly unbearable again with this anvil weather. I feel less querulous today, however, as E. is back with me again--to stay an indefinite brevity but under much more favorable circumstances than before. -- -- -- -- 186: TO HIS MOTHER [_New York City_] _Aug. 12th ’24_