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THE MODERN MONTHLY INC. (formerly the Modern Quarterly) EDITOR V.F. Calverton ASSOCIATE EDITORS Ernest Sutherland Bates David P. Berenberg Jerome Davis Robert Delson Bruno Fischer Ludwig Lore Nina Melville S. L. Solon Herbert Zam ART STAFF Thomas Benton George Grosz Charles Alston CONTRIBUTORS Sherwood Anderson Robert Briffault John Chamberlain Stuart Chase Morris Cohen John Dewey Max Eastman Havelock Ellis Waldo Frank Andre Gide Maxim Gorki C. Hartley Grattan Mauritz Hallgren Charles Yale Harrison Will Herberg Henry Hazlitt Sidney Hook Langston Hughes Alfred Kreymborg Harold J. Laski Andre Malraux Lewis Mumford Scott Nearing Max Nomad John Dos Passos Romain Rolland James Rorty Bertrand Russell George Santayana Upton Sinclair Benjamin Stolberg Norman Thomas Leon Trotsky H. G. Wells Edmund Wilson Bert Wolfe Thomas Wolfe Art Young Editorial Office: 46 Morton Street New York City SUBSCRIPTION RATES Eight Months------$1.00 One Year----------$1.50 Single Copy-------$0.15 March 1, 1938 Dear Spinky: You old sun-of-a-bitch: Even though you didn't come to the Modern Monthly party, even though you are a lousy bastard, even though -- well I can't think of anything else at the moment -- despite and notwithstanding all that, I happened to give you mention in Current History magazine (March issue) in my Cultural Barometer department. I presume by now at least 25 people told you about it, and you have bought 25 copies of the magazine, but if by chance nobody has, go out now, hide your face, and ask for a copy of the March issue of Current History (25 cents), and there you'll find some nice words about your own dear self. Yours ever, [SIGNATURE] Mr. Charles Alston, 306 W. 141st st.