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Series I, Correspondence (Boxes 1-2), consists of letters received by Ford as editor of Blues (1929-30) and later as editor of View (1940-47), as well as both sides of his correspondence with George Reavey. Reavey published The Garden of Disorder in 1938, and their letters concern the technical production of the book of poems, including the cover drawing by Pavel Tchelitchew. William Carlos Williams contributed an introduction. In his twenty-five letters he often gave Ford technical advice. In one March 25, 1937 letter Williams says, "my old obsessions coming up again: compression, tautology, omission of the unnecessary word--cut, cut, cut--explain nothing."