ALLEN DELIVERS FIRST MORRIS GRAY LECTURE

In delivering the first Morris Gray talk of the year, Hervey Allen, widely known poet and novelist, will speak tonight on one of his intimate acquaintances. Amy Lowell. The lecture will be held in the new Poetry Room on the third floor of Widener Library, dedicated to Morris Gray '77, Amy Lowell, and George Woodberry '77, and filled with their priceless collections of rare and first-edition poetical works. The room is small and attendance at this lecture is limited of necessity. The talk will be held at 7.30 o'clock.

To illustrate this talk Mr. Allen will make use of the exhibition of personal relies of Amy Lowell which was put on view yesterday. Among these are notebooks written in her scrawl at nine years of age, while in Berlin. In these can be found her first efforts at verse. There are also manuscripts of later poems showing how well she chose her words and constructed and fitted her lines. Letters, notes for her lectures in Boston on Keats and Matthew Arnold, and many photographs complete the collection.

Besides being a gifted poet and biographer, Mr. Allen has done much teaching and research work in English. He spent two years in study at Harvard following the war. He was educated at Annapolis and served in the navy until he entered the army in 1917. Following his work at Harvard ten years ago he produced his first group of poems called "Wampum and Gold."

Tonight's talk will be the second in connection with the room and the first to be actually held there, as the room was finished only recently. It has been carefully decorated and is adjoined by stacks. Among the recent exhibitions was a display of Amy Lowell's presentation copies of the works of the late Vachel Lindsay.