Paris, July 12, 1937

18 Villa Seurat
Paris (xiv)
July 12,1937

Mr. James P. Cooney,
Maverick Road,
Woodstock, N. Y.

Dear Mr. Cooney,

A friend of mine sent me a clipping
recently from a N.Y. paper announcing the
birth of a new magazine to be called The
Phoenix. No doubt the first number is al-
ready set up. But if not, and if in this first
number you would care to have something
from me about Lawrence, I should be glad
to contribute. I intend to finish next year
a very long book on Lawrence. I have now
some 300 or more pages finished, and, if
you are interested, would send you a frag-
ment or two...
As you have probably never heard of
me - I have been living in and publishing
from Paris the last seven years - I enclose a
few announcements gotten out by my fool
publisher. All three of my books are banned
in American and England - but one of them,
Black Spring, is now about to be published
in French, by Stock.

Sincerely yours,
Henry Miller
And luck to you! with your venture!