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No doubt you have your notice of the coming dinner of the National Institute of Arts and Letters and
I hope you are coming. If you can't I wish you would feel like writing a word of
suggestion as to the value of our plans to widen the scope of the [?]Institute The whole thing is more or less
"punky" but I feel that much can be done with an organization of the
cots.har.IMG.0595.jpgliterary and artistic forces of the country provided we get hold of the
live men and show them the benefit of association. Sloane, Wister and several others of us are making a determined effort to
put in about sixty new men and so make the thing really national. I wish you'd
write a letter giving a perfectly candid statement of the way the whole
organization looks to you, and also nominating some new men from the South for
consideration as members. We can't go on in this dead and alive way and we wont.
We're going to make a new start &
By the Center for Digital Research in the Humanities at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln, in conjunction with the Center for the Humanities at Washington University in St. Louis.