*Howard Moss to SP, 24 February 1961; held by Smith College. The first-reading contract was signed by vice-president R. Hawley Truax. W. S. Merwin had written to the New Yorker asking if they could do anything to help out SP and TH by offering one of them a first reading contract; see W. S. Merwin to Howard Moss, 19 February 1961; held by New York Public Library.