Gregory, Osbert Sitwell and Eric Walter White. White's essay was probably the first substantial critique of Bertolt Brecht published in English. It continued to publish major figures, including Henry Miller and Dylan Thomas and was the first British magazine to publish emerging young American poets such as Elizabeth Bishop and Muriel Rukeyser. Life and Letters To-day was not a typical modernist "little magazine". The initial circulation as a quarterly was nearly 3000 per issue, and the magazine was stocked by major retailers such as W.H. Smith and Menzies. When the title switched to monthly publication in autumn 1938, Smith's alone increased their order by 1000 copies an issue. In March 1939 Brendin purchased the failing London Mercury and Bookman titles and incorporated them to the journal. The magazine reverted to its pre-Bryher title, Life and Letters later in World War II. Herring became close friends of the Pool Group (H.D., Bryher and Kenneth Macpherson), having associated with them since their interest in experimental film in the late 1920s. Bryher paid for Herring's psychoanalysis in London with the Freudian analyst Walter Schmideberg between 1935 and 1939. Herring played the pianist in Macpherson's avant-garde production, Borderline (1930). Herring died in a fire at his home in Cambridge in 1975, which destroyed his personal archive. Works The President's Hat (1926) Films Of The Year (1927) Films of the Year, 1927 – 1928 (1929) Adam and Evelyn at Kew, or Revolt in the Gardens (Elkin Mathews & Marrot, 1930) (Colour illustrations by Edward Bawden) Cactus Coast (1934) novel Cinema Survey (with Dallas Bower and Bryher). Harlequin Mercutio, Or, A Plague on Both Your Houses (A Ride Through Raids to Resurrection)(1943) The Impecunious Captain or Love as Liv'd (1944) Westward Look.Poems 1922-45 (1945) References Further reading Meic Stephens, 'The Third Man: Robert Herring and Life and Letters To-day', Welsh Writing in English: A Yearbook of Critical Essays, 1997, pp. 157–69 Scottish poets 1903 births Place of birth missing 1975 deaths Place of death missing 20th-century Welsh poets