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Materials about son David Smith: scholarship - Columbia, New Paltz; hospitalization; letters from Barbara Howes and William Jay Smith; current Last Will and Testament (1960); separate file about arrest in Austria and consequences.

This folder includes telegram from Isak Dinesen to William Jay Smith, letter from Isak Dinesen to William Jay Smith, note from Clara Selborn, secretary and companion to Dinesen, copies of Howes' letters to Clara Selborn, Isak Dinesen and Birthe Arnbak (Danish poet and protege of Dinesen), notes by William Jay Smith about his introduction of Dinesen at the Poetry Center in NYC, draft of William Jay Smith's review of "Anecdotes of Destiny" with corrections, note from Robert Evitt, literary editor of the New Republic, copy of Barbara Howes poem about visiting Dinesen, letter from Parmenia Migel Ekstrom (Dinesen biographer), Clippings, reviews of Isak Dinesen (including William Jay Smith), article by Barbara Howes, Letter (carbon) to Miss Svendsen (Clara Selborn) about her appearance at the Poetry Center, Four letters from Birthe Arnbak, including a statement by Dinesen about Howes' poems and a copy of Dinesen's letter (in Swedish), Letter from Clara Selborn, correspondence from Clara Selborn, correspondence from bookseller Robert Wilson about Dinesen bibliography.