1968-1970. El Corno Emplumado was a bilingual quarterly founded in 1962 and devoted to publishing the best new work of Latin and North America, as well as worthy new work from elsewhere in the world, and including authors such as Ginsberg, Hesse, Patchen, Paz, Creeley, Rulfo, Kelly, etc. This correspondence is between Randall, co-founder of El Corno Emplumado, and the British dramatist Arnold Wesker. The correspondence begins in May, 1968, with Wesker's retained copy of a letter to Randall stating his intent to send her $45: "consider it payment for all those magazines you've been sending me." Randall responds with a one-paragraph typed letter signed expressing gratitude and love in response to Wesker's unsolicited offer of help. This letter is typed on the verso of the double-page color illustration by Felipe Ehrenberg from Water I Slip into at Night. A second one-paragraph typed letter signed by Randall, dated May 27, 1968, thanks Wesker for his check and inquires how his extra eight weeks in Cuba went, along with the play's production. In October of the same year, Randall and co-editor Robert Cohen sent out a two-page solicitation of support for El Corno Emplumado, which had had its government subsidy withdrawn after they had printed an editorial supporting Mexico's 1968 Student Movement. That solicitation ["The growing repression in the United States, Latin America and throughout the world must be confronted by independents who are willing and able to publish the truth..."] is included here, in what looks to be carbon typescript, signed by both Randall and Cohen. With an autograph note signed by Randall on the second page: "Things pretty desperate here -- please help us if you can. Love, Margaret." This has been stapled to a retained reply from Wesker in which he informs Randall he is sending 25 British Pounds, with the request that five of that be spent on Mexican stamps for his son. A three-paragraph typed letter signed by Randall, dated October 29, 1968, thanks Wesker again for his generosity and speaks of her ongoing pregnancy, and the "wait for the inevitable strengthening of repression now the tourists have all gone home [from the 1968 Summer Olympics]," and the ongoing debt, "roughly $500," on "corno #28." Lastly, there is a 3-page photocopied piece entitled "Concerning the Suppression of El Corno Emplumado," in which Randall and Cohen recount the circumstances of the withdrawal of the magazine's subsidy, the surreptitious seizing by the government of Randall's Mexican passport, and the possible involvement of the CIA, with the motive of preventing Randall's and Cohen's planned move to Cuba. "The magazine has been suspended...LONG LIVE THE WORLD REVOLUTION!" Some edge-staining to the correspondence and much acidifying; overall in very good condition. A first-hand look at the demise of one of the groundbreaking, innovative literary journals of the 1960s, which published a virtual Who's Who of young, upcoming, sometimes radical poets and writers. [#032315] SOLD