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To the Editors:
Stephen Schwartz notes in his justifiable attack on H. P. Lovecraft and his conservative admirers ("Infinitely abysmal," May 2005) that "no work of [Edmund] Wilson ... is to be found on the Library of America's roster."
Incredibly, the idea for the Library of America originated with Edmund Wilson, as Lewis Dabney, the editor of Wilson's diaries, notes in Wilson's Sixties. He writes that Wilson
had developed a plan for reprinting the American classics in an elegant, efficient form like The Pleiade. ... In 1965, the funds ...
Source: HighBeam Research, A curious omission.(Letters)(Letter to the Editor)