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Series III, Journal Editing, is housed in Boxes 4-5 and contains material about the little magazines Blues and View. The Blues pieces include typescripts of advertisements composed by Parker Tyler and manuscripts submitted for publication, including a poem by Forrest Anderson. According to the New York Herald Tribune on December 23, 1928, Blues planned to publish poetry and short stories of an experimental nature in an attempt to stage a "more complete revolt against the cliche, the banal, the commonplace." Many of the reviews of Blues, which Ford saved in an oversize scrapbook housed in Box 6, folder 327, are favorable. Gremin Zorn of the Long Island Press, for example, wrote in February 1929 that "the first issue blossoms defiantly in the wasteland of our magazines; the contents are robust, contemporary."