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hand-written in blue in top margin of typed page Dont Return

[[letterhead: GRANVILLE HICKS 2326 SEVENTEENTH STREET TROY, NEW YORK

May 25, 1932. Dear Mr. Lewis,

    I'm sorry to have been so slow in answering your letter, but I've been pretty busy, and the truth is that, as Mencken would say your poems leave me pretty cold.  Needless to say, I like the spirit of them, and in a few of them that spirit is movingly expressed, but many of them I just can't warm up about.   That doesn't mean that I think your work is bad, but merely that any review I wrote would be full of qualifications.
   With all good wishes,

Sincerely, Granville Hicks.

handwritten note at end of letter I took it that he did not want to do a review of any sort, so did not bother him further