I’m glad you have taken up C[hristian] S[cience] again. You never should have dropped it. But it seems to me you will have to make a real effort this time--with no half-way measures. It isn’t anything you can play with. It’s either true--or totally false. And for heaven’s sake--don’t go to it merely as a _cure_. If it isn’t a complete philosophy of life for you it isn’t anything at all. It is sheer hypocrisy to take it up when you get scared and then forsake it as soon as you feel angry about something. Anger is a costly luxury to you--and resentment and constant self-pity. I have to fight these demons myself. I know they are demons--they never do me anything but harm. Why look at yourself as a martyr all the time! It simply drives people away from you. The only real martyrs the world ever worships are those devoted exclusively to the worship of God, poverty and suffering--you have, as yet, never been in exactly that position. Not that I want you to be a martyr. I see no reason for it--and am out of sympathy with anyone who thinks he is--for the _real_ ones don’t think about themselves that way--they are too happy in their faith to ever want to be otherwise. --/--/ 1927 269: TO ALLEN TATE _Patterson_ _Friday [ca. January 7_] Dear Allen: I’m tremendously obliged to you for all this British business.... I really hope it will go through. I’ve written Rickword today immediately on receipt of your letter. I also wrote Liveright yesterday, where to write and who; he forgets things said in conversations very quickly sometimes. Let me know the cost of the cable and I’ll send you a check at once. The company that R. is lined up with [is] called Wishart & Co., address same as _Calendar_, which is continuing, by the way, as a quarterly. A new publisher just starting business in the Spring. You ought to send them something. Garman has gone to Russia for a period, but Wishart is bringing out a book of his poems. As for the preface--your foreword is entirely good enough both here _and_ there. Besides, it would destroy all the economic advantage in buying sheets from L. if they had much extra printing to add over there. I therefore made no mention of the idea in my letter. Hope to God, though, that Schneider had sent the copy of _W[hite] B[uildings]_ to them that I put on my review list. As I understood from you all review copies were sent out some time ago. A detention of the book much longer is going to ruin all chance of sales from Waldo’s article. Lord! is there anything else that can happen to that book! How long _will_ it take them to put in those new title pages, I wonder. All of my friends have got tired of asking for the book in Cleveland and I expect there will be a record of less than the famous Stevens-35 to my credit.