Delighted you got that EARLY AUDEN, and even more delighted you find
it worth looking into.  As I suppose you've experienced yourself,Is it a universal experience among authors to
be surprised that someone actually reads one's book? I'm so familiar
with the thing by now, and so aware of its deficiencies, that I wish
I could recall the edition and rewrite the whole thing frombook from the start.
Luckily, theaching, reviewing and miscellaneous annoyances keep the
mind elsewhere.  One of those miscellaneous annoy[]ances was a move
from my odld flat to antother one on the same floor in the same building.
The new address is up above, and the only change is in the apartment
number.  Phone number still 212 222-0679.

Yes, I saw the yougng man who was doing advance work froor Robert Robinson,
but haven't heard from him since July.  I gather worthat work progresses,
though.  There was an hour on Wystan on BBC Radio the other week--a
"dramatization" with an actor reading the poems and lots of ominous
 noises off.  I'm told it was fairly dreadful, but perh[]aps the TV film
will be better.  I saw quite a good one from the BBC on Benjamin Britten.
Its only fault--and I'm not sure []this was a fault, given the usual tone
of TV journalism--was an awed tone of worship.

AEasy answers to important questions.  Those two volumes []fby and about
Auden sound very attractive.  (Which publisher is interested?)  The
place to write for permissions is to the agents, specifically, to
                        Maureen Walters
                        Curtis Brown Ltd
                        575 Madison Avenue
                        New York NY 10022
                        USA
Mention my name, and things will be easier.  But they should be easy
anyway.

Now let me beg you for an easy answer.  I've heard from att[] least two
different people that they had seen (or knew someone else who had seen)
a German text of your Wystan memoir in print.  Are they right, or are
they confusing this with an occasion when you read it aloud (and it was
reported)?  I had an Austrian student here this summer working on Wystan,
and I wanted to tell her about the piece, but didn't know where to find
it.  Please, please tell me if you printed it, and if so, where.  No need
for a long letter: just a "No, calm down, I never printed it" or a "Yes,
it appeared in such-in-such a journal" would be more than enough.  This is
the one min[]or mystery of writings-about-Wystan I haven't been able to solve,
so please do help.

Have I told you []nyany of my news?  I'm now at Columbia University permanently,
if I want to be.  I have a flat with a small guest room and bath--so please
take note if you're in theis country for any reason.  I have a lady friend,
the first whom I expect to be with for a very long time, and we are quite
happy about things in general.  Next June we'll be in Europe, certainly in
Paris, possibly father []south, talthough we may put off the southern trip
for another year or so.  I haven't been across the Atlantic this year; too