Typed letter signed : "Uphill Farm", to Oliver E. Allen, 1960 May 4.

Enclosing a manuscript with "alterations" he has made based on his suggestions; detailing the specific changes he has made and noting "The principal changes are those suggested by HRL's [Henry R. Luce] request that I carry the piece a step farther and your suggestion that I put back some of the considerations about the evolving nature of freedom...;" adding that he had no difficulty meeting his suggestions but "Harry's suggestion was more difficult to meet for the reason you noted. Indeed it was largely to head off such a suggestion (I know Harry's extraordinary powers of logic as an editor from long experience) that I wrote him as I did in February. However I think I have at least indicated a direction, if I have not produced a program, in the new paragraphs. And the problem is, of course, largely one of direction. What is wrong is not what we are doing but the way and the amount - the whole spirit of the thing;" concluding that he heard that "you are Freddie's [Frederick Lewis Allen] son. I don't suppose you know how very fond I was of your father. We never could agree about a poem - anyway mine - but we loved each other notwithstanding."