To the Editors:

I hope that I am not too late in responding to Marya Zaturenska’s wild claim in Robert Phillips’s “Visiting the Gregorys” (September 1990) that the anthology The Golden Journey: Poems for Young People, which Louise Bogan and I edited, was copied from The Crystal Cabinet, edited by the Gregorys. From the beginning of our collaboration, Louise Bogan and I decided that we would not under any circumstances follow the practice of other anthologists and use the selections in other anthologies but would go directly to the books of the poets who interested us. The Crystal Cabinet was never mentioned and I doubt that Louise Bogan had ever seen it. The two collections that we both admired, but which we did not consult at the time, were Come Hither of Walter de la Mare and The Cherry Tree of Geoffrey Grigson.

William Jay Smith
Paris, France

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