This item is part of a collection of autograph letters and manuscripts of war poetry primarily related to World War II.
Thanking him for the check and adding that "it made a most comforting bridge"; noting that his "new address is just through the block from that landmark the Metropolitan Life Insurance Building"; reporting that he doesn't have a bathtub yet and is bathing "at neighbors -- with towel and bath brush down these crowded street"; telling Sperisen that he would like him to visit "to meet the glittering people [he] know[s] in the art and literary and other worlds"; adding that he is working on a novel; asking what Sperisen thought of his poetry.