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was the best as prolet. lit. ought to shake some courage into the wavering esthetes. The best thing about the book is your own fine verification of your thesis that the lives of common labourers are as authentic literary material as the vicissitudes of society women. You understate it today as your work with Cantwells, and some of Caldwells shows the workers give more authentic material. On your Guggenheim why dont you give Hemmingway a push. The fellow can write better than any of you but his material is growing awfully stale.\n\n I read in the papers you are going to travel around America. If you ever come through here stop a day or so with us. The work with the students is beginning to [written in left margin] go magnificently. We have strong undergraduate committees on peace and racial equality and by next year ought to have some [?]. [written in right margin] political attack "ours [?]""