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address stamp BENJAMIN MUSSER 107 S. Mansfield Ave. Margate, Atlantic City, N. J.

23 Feb. Dear Hugh Hanley: Thanks for your letter of recent date. But I am sorry to see you still utterly misinterpret my Dec. underlined: Poetry World article -- or am I right in thinking your attack on this fellow Rebel Poet in her December Newsletter was influenced by Ralph Cheyney? Ralph of course is enraged at me because I gave underlined: C.V. to Ernest Hartsock, and I understand he has been telling everyone that I had promised to give him underlined: Contemporary Verse if I ever disposed of it. That is not true. I promised, underlined: if I sold it, to let Ralph and Lucia have first refusal to purchase; there was certainly no agreement to underlined: present it to them after I had already given them $600 for it in 1927. But this could not interest you. What should interest you is the fact that my underlined: Poetry World article was not anti-Rebel at all; on the contrary I distinctly upheld radical poets of yesterday and regretted only that so many of today are untrustworthy, publicity-seekers chiefly, or who belabor the rich with their pens while nevertheless they pass the