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Letter to the editor. The Harvard Advocate 103, nos. 1 and 2, November. Robert Lowell commemorative issue. Mailer’s letter, which precedes his portrait of Lowell from The Armies of the Night (68.8), notes that he wrote about him in that book “out of a superficial knowledge and from a tangent, and so was seeing facets of him they [close friends] had long forgotten about.”