Typed letter signed : Leicester, to Nicholas [Moore], 1968 Dec. 12.

Praising Moore's "new batch of poems" and suggesting that he contact Edward Lucie-Smith, Jon Stallworthy, or Alan Ross about publishing the poems; mentioning that he is publishing a book of poems called Conditions; remarking that "Chatto and Faber ... don't seem ... to be doing anything very adventurous lately," but adding that he "liked Seamus Heaney's Death of a Naturalist"; suggesting periodicals that might publish individual poems; sharing his opinion of contemporary poets, including Roy Fuller, Kathleen Raine, Ted Hughes, [Robert] Lowell, and Sylvia Plath ("I think too much fuss has been made about Sylvia Plath, not because she is an exceptionally subtle or penetrating poet, but because she went mad, killed herself, and put it all down on the page"); calling the 1960s "a singularly and strikingly more vulgar world than the world we partly shared in the late 1940s and early 1950s"; asking him to read his new poems at the Leicester Poetry Society; encouraging him to visit; telling him about his family.