Richard Howard - Typed Letter Signed

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RICHARD HOWARD.
Typed Letter Signed from “Richard Howard” to “Mr. Gray [
Dr. William Shelton Gray, Jr.
]”.
Howard accepts Gray’s invitation to speak to Gray’s students (“…I’d be delighted to come to Randolph-Macon on January 22, if that suits you - - the February and March dates are possible, but the earlier one is more to my schedule’s taste…”) and he mentions that he can both read his poetry and lecture (“…The fee is fine, but I am uncertain as to whether you want a lecture or a reading of poems.  If I’m there for the day (afternoon and evening) you can have both if you want them - - certainly I prefer performing the poems (yes, it has come to that: with the new dramatic monologues that Atheneum is bringing our next season, called Imminent Victorians, I have learned to perform the things), partly because they are mine, partly because it goes rather well.  But perhaps a lecture . . . There is one I have rather worked up, on the imagination of imprisonment in modern literature which ranges rather far, from Lolita to Beckett, and includes a lot of the contemporary French writers I’ve translated, as well.  It’s all a matter of how much you think the Society’s can bear…”).
The letter contains one page and one typed envelope.  The letter size is quarto and it is in fine condition.  The letter was sent from New York City on December 21, 1968.