A.M. Klein died quietly in his sleep on 20 August 1972, having lived in self-imposed exile for almost two decades in his home at 236 Querbes Avenue in Montreal. He had gradually stopped writing in the 1950s: there was no new poetry after his trip to Israel in 1948, and his attempt to write a second novel floundered; he resigned the editorship of theCanadian Jewish Chroniclein 1954, and no longer responded to letters by 1960. However, until the mid-1950s, silence and isolation were the least characteristic features of Klein’s life as a poet, novelist, journalist, and scholar who...

4267 Clarke St.

Montreal, Que.

May 13, 1928

My dear Miss Monroe

In answer to your inquiry whether I would be willing to have you accept my ‘Sequence of Songs’ with the corrections and omissions you suggest, I may say that, like Barkis, I am willing. I have re-read my copy of the Sequence and have seen that it contains a good number of bad lines ... which you have not overlooked. It is because I am heartily in accord with all the suggestions that you have made that I do not enclose a re-typed copy but do rather rely...