Watson also continued correspondence with many of the figures whom he met during his days at "The Dial" and during his film career, including Cummings, Kenneth Burke and Alec Wilder. In 1978, he donated "The Hildegarde Lasell Watson Collection of Artworks by E.E. Cummings" to the College at Brockport, State University College of New York. In the 1980s, Watson founded a private press, the Sigma Foundation, with Dale Davis to publish several authors who had appeared in "The Dial". The press published works of Mina Loy, Djuna Barnes, and Margaret Anderson.