SOURCE: Buckley, William F., Jr. “The Poetry of Friendship.” National Review 49, no. 22 (24 November 1997): 57-8.
In the following laudatory review of Notes from the Underground, Buckley describes the friendship between Chambers and journalist Ralph de Toledano, asserting that the letters “beckon to sensitive readers who care about great feats of literary expression.”
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