From Spanish surrealist poet and writer Rafael Alberti, granting permission to publish English translations and his Spanish poems

The poet and editor of Art and Literature, an international review published in Lausanne, writes about a story submitted to the review

The poet, writer, and former ambassador of Ghana to Brazil, Cuba, and the UN; author of The Breast of the Earth, a survey of the history, culture, and literature of Africa south of the Sahara; This Earth My Brother; Ride Me Memory, etc., writes to inform of book completion

Invitation to Africa

As ambassador to Brazil. Personal letter

Attending the Congress of P.E.N., thank-you letter for February 28, no problem with African character being from Ghana

Looks forward to getting the novel The Kojo Hand

Sorrow at hearing of the death of old friend Jack Thompson

Receipt of novel, wife visiting in the US

The poet writes on receiving three poems. Comments about Stony Brook

Written on Sixties Press letterhead. Notes about some poems sent by Tom Gatten

On sending some translations to Hardie St. Martin for comments or consideration in an anthology he was considering or working on

On traveling in Europe. On Gatten's Alberti translations and other translators

On translating Alberti

Receipt note

Note on Seventies Letterhead

Writer, literary critic, and poet. Sends "As I was Saying," reprinted from the Michigan Quarterly Review; an article answering Renee Wellek's essay in The Sewanee Review on Burke's Counter-Statement and other work

Humorous note

The poet, songwriter, and author of the song "Cat's Cradle" sends a letter resulting from a meeting with her and her husband Harry Chapin on a screenplay that he was writing

The writer, producer, and director of "Thunderbolt and Lightfoot," "The Deer Hunter" (academy award), "Heaven's Gate" writes about writing, the artistic vision, the writer having to be tough, and writes a poem as well