RPW to Erskine letter July 1964 searchable text

Robert Penn Warren

                                                                           Rec’d – 7/20/64

Dear Albert:

          Hasty note.  Gabriel has just gone to h[o]spital for an operation tomorrow for a nasty big infection on thigh.  Staph.  Not serious but not pleasant if it gets in blood stream.  He’s an unhappy but game little boy – with birthday day after tomorrow.

          (*1)    Yes, I should like the dedication added to the new AKM. 

          I am sending – or rather Mrs. Callahan will send you – the last part of Chapter III (Malcolm X) to insert in the MS you have.  Then, will you read that chapter.  I am well into short Chapter IV  -- relatively short.  I hope to have the first draft of whole done by mid-August.  Will come to NYC fo (for) conference when desired – or maybe we can get a visit out of you all.  The place is turning out to be delightful.

          E’s book is having a great press, isn’t it?

          Love to all E[r]skines from all.

                   Yrs

                             R (signature)

P.S.  Could Suzanne send me verbatim quotable the “Who’s Who listing for Jud[g]e Hastie?  And date of birth for James Baldwin?  And bio for Kenneth B. Clark, Psychologist?

                                                Thanks, ________!          

(handwritten in margin *1 – memo sent to Joan _______