Graves, Robert, 1895-1985

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"I have thought that I need not indicate to you that libraries that have mss. material of nine acquired through Graves marketings or manipulations of material by personal or comercial agents of Graves, I would not wish to be offered anything of what you take into your care, for me. But the history of those operations is intricate, and the operations do go on, so I am noting what I know of the places..."

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"In weighing all that is involved in this matter and the persons privy to it, yourself, Mrs. Chivler, myself, it has seemed to me that there may be no need for the suppression of my name, and I am therefore presenting to you a suggestion for an account of the matter for your description of it to Mr. Wallrych of the nature of the following."

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"As to what corrections are in my own hand: in the main, in my copy here of the first-sheets of everything, sent to me by my bibliographer friend who had all the material in keeping for me in London, after it was yielded up, corrections are mine."

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"I am writing to you out of thought of a possibility that suddenly came to me, the thought that the Lockwood Library of the University of Buffalo might be a place that you have approached as to the manuscripts or might consider approaching."

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"It interests me, of course, your having acquired copies of those 'leaves'. I shall tell you about them. They were printed for presentation. privately. As with all stock-on-hand of Seizin Press printings left in the Majorcan establishment, my property legally..."

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"It is good to have your point of view, as to how the neglect of cross-reference between two entries may have come about. There has been so much suppression and disregard of myself and my work, and distortion of literary and bibliographical actualities in connection, that mere inadvertence is not the first cause that springs to mind, with me, when I come upon such a thing as that on which I wrote in my letter to Professor Misenheimer."

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"What you have written as to the two crticial collaborations is of course satisfactory. I am sure you will, in all cataloguing of these two, observe the order of authorship - which has been blatantly misrepresented in many quarters critical and biliographical."

Scope and Contents "...I am moved to present again the principle of my rejection of the planned Seminar on Robert Graves at year's end under auspices of the Modern Library Association as having anything to do with me of an order I can respect, and as itself deeply committed to disrespect of me in its appointing for its subject of discussion 'The Influence of Laura Riding on RObert Graves.' After my explanation, which covers my feeling that participation in this meeting by persons having some work-oriented...

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"...I am attributing this to a common effect where the shadow of Mr. Graves' work falls over writers' pages. So much perversion of actualities relating to myself, and suppression of fact concerning Mr. Graves' work in relation to mine, and to myself, have been achieved that it is indeed remarkable that any instinct of truth survives, in my regard."

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"I come somewhat late to the task of making my report to you on your paragraphs on The Seizin Press."

The letter clarifies the history of the Seizin press and Jackson's association with the press.