THE BRIGHT DOOM A BOOK OF POEMS

New York: Scribner's, 1927. Gilt cloth. A very good, bright copy. First edition. Laid in is a fine, two page, closely written a.l.s., New York, October 8, 1927, from Wheelock to Henry S. Coffin about this book, a gracious response to Coffin's praise of it, and discussing at length "your feeling about the nature of the faith implicit in these poems. I am, I suppose, intellectually an agnostic - albeit a very humble and unboastful one....My blind and, I fear rather inarticulate instincts however, give me a very real and deep faith in the ultimate meaningfulness of the whole gigantic, magnificent tragedy, though I cannot in the least understand it, nor even feel it particularly important that I should, so long as I try to play my tiny part in it to the best of my ability...." Circa 400 words. A fine and gracious letter. (Inventory #: WRCLIT19344)