H. G. Merriam letter to H. L. Davis (Pulitzer Prize Winner)
H. G. Merriam Letter to Pulitzer Prize Winner H. L. Davis.
It has been suggested that in The Frontier we publish more experimental work of a sophisticated nature. In my judgment that cannot be an important function of The Frontier. I don’t believe that our country has reached that stage, and personally I hope that the crazy sophistication that is running through the East will get drowned in the Mississippi. I want The Frontier to remain definitely, as you once vigorously advised me it should be and remain, provincial.
H. G. Merriam to H. L. Davis, June 11, 1930. H. G. Merriam papers, University of Montana, Missoula, Montana.
Discovered in Karen Stoner Reyes’ – M. A. Thesis
“Finding a new voice : the Oregon writing community between the world wars” – 1986
https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=4611&context=open_access_etds