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Letter to Mr. Reynolds, March 18, 1962, Accession #8336-e , Special Collections Dept., University of Virginia Library, Charlottesville, Va.
This collection was purchased by the Library from Jerry Showalter, Ivy, Virginia, on August 9, 1994.
This letter, written on March 18, 1962, from Robert Penn Warren, Fairfield, Connecticut, to a Mr. Reynolds, defines the ethics of a "writer qua writer" as writing as well as he can, and says that these ethics may "fall foul of his ethics as a man."