1938 December 26

Littlefield thanks Moore for the gift of a cigarette lighter and mentions that the season has been tarnished by the death of a young co-worker of pneumonia. "Last Tuesday I spent some time in the Gotham Bookmart...and finally came away feeling ill. Such a scourge, really, of new little magazines, so many strident ambitions, so many and diverse manifestoes, persuasions, and keys to literature. And so many writers whose only object is a literary reputation,--as though that were a final goal, and not a pleasant by-product!