But although Miller's reputation as a literary artist grew with the publication in America of less controversial works such as The Colossus of Maroussi and The Air-Conditioned Nightmare, Cairns never became confident that Miller could pass the smell test of literary respectability in American courts, and so he placed all of Miller's major autobiographical novels ⎯ Black Spring, Tropic of Capricorn, Sexus, Plexus, and Nexus ⎯ on the list of banned books. Cairns offered to help Miller establish that reputation, and set about enlisting respected American critics like Edmund Wilson (who had written a favorable review of Cancer) in Miller's cause.
Ulysses had been admitted, and Lady Chatterley's Lover would follow. Cairns advised Miller that in order to overcome the ban, he must build a reputation in America as an author of recognized literary merit, such as James Joyce and D.H. Miller then wrote to Cairns expressing his understanding of the predicament that Cairns faced.
Cairns discussed the Miller dilemma with Mencken, who wrote to Miller about Cairns' admiration for the book and the legal reasoning behind its censorship.
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