Cave, Roderick, 1935-2019

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"You --mened there, with what seemed to me a --ree of friendship, the need of public commentary by myself on the Seizin Press story, to counterbalance the Robert Graves' story of this."

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"I assume from what you have written that you would have written, in a while, facing the difficulty of writing against the background of the incomprehension you experienced in reading my preface to the poems-selection."

"You speak of my way of writing, as you encounter it in that preface, as if it were the result of immurement with my husband in esoteric preoccupation, far from the literary world."

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"...I retreat in these circumstances from future assumption of a state of grace as existing between you and myself."

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"...copy of the chapter of his book on the S.P. that you could ...with all due acknowledgement to him in your article."

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"...to the Hugh Ford matter: I have his chapter have read it for his book, submitted for my approval."

Scope and Contents "I should be very much against any action by you towards procuring an advance copy of the Cave book in connection with anything to do with me. I have explained to you that Mr. Cavehas hurt me by a behavior incomprehensible to me..."...."...when the article in The Private Library is on its way, with the shape and temper of it having an actual feel for both, and a common sense of fact fouding, with this, some sure development, I should not hesitate to commucate the...

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"Among the papers (photographic-style reproductions) were pages of your authorship, concerning THe Seizin Press. There has been some delay in this person's continuing with the bibliographical work - for one reason, because of my having been hard-pressed with work in hand..."

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"But I will send you immediate word to say it is a joy to me to meet...with the new so much cleaner atmosphere, and work."

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"My book is to be a general history of private presses, covering the whole field from the 15th century onwards, and so my account of Seizin will necessarily be brief. I have typed out the passages which relate to the Press, and these are on the attached sheets."

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"...I shall still be very grateful for the help you have given me in putting my brief account of the Seizin Press into better shape. You are quite right in suggesting that I should have contacted you initially, instead of relying on the Moran-Graves version."

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"I am surprised to find that you have not received my letter of 22 December in which I discussed some of the points which you had raised on the revised draft which I had sent you before."

"But in case you have not had it, and it has gone astray--as an increasing number of letters to and from American private press owners with whome i correspond seem to do--perhaps I should repeat in brief form the comments I made there."