Letter to the Editor (Harvard Advocate, Lowell issue)
Mailer's letter for the Harvard Advocate's Robert Lowell commemorative issue, preceding his portrait of Lowell from The Armies of the Night.
A letter to the editor of The Harvard Advocate (vol. 103, nos. 1–2, November 1979), the Robert Lowell commemorative issue. Mailer’s letter precedes his portrait of Lowell from The Armies of the Night (68.8), noting that he had written about Lowell “out of a superficial knowledge and from a tangent, and so was seeing facets of him they [close friends] had long forgotten about.”