Graves, Robert, 1895-1985

Scope and Contents Typewritten letter:"In current Mass. Review is an article by M.L. Rosenthal is a mistaken interpretation of my renouncing of poetry, a mistaken representation of my attitude to my own poems, and a citing of the wretched Spender's view of me expressed in the Concise Enc. entry..."...."...and acount of pirateish behavior of R.G. with the book, without my permission-which he claims he had.-and such manipulation as to get the book characterized in authorship...

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"I know that Graves line about there One Story Only is a steal from me. It was just brought to my attention by someone who wrote his doctoral thesis on subjects involving reference to my work & Graves:"

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"Your comments about EPilogue are of great value to bibliographers. I am puzzled, however, about No Decency Left."

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"Dear Friend: Here are the papers duplicated so far for the MLA seminar on Laura Riding and Robert Graves. As you can see, only the papers on Riding are in this packet."

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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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"Lift Boy." Winthrop Rogers Edition, Festival Series of Choral Music. Song for mixed voices with piano accompaniment.

Scope and Contents Contains office copies of books published by Secker into which a variety of materials were laid in, tipped in, or pasted in to many of them. These materials include handwritten and typed cards, letters and royalty receipts; Richards Press and Martin Secker publication announcements; press cuttings of book reviews and articles; photographs and clipped photographic illustrations; handwritten poems and essays; and fragments of dust jackets and dust jacket blurbs.Items which could...

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Masopust refers to the Graves and Riding project he discussed with Ellmann; queries Ellmann about the whereabouts of a series of letters between Yeats and Riding concerning the possiblity of including [Graves's] poems in Yeats's Oxford Book of Modern Poetry.

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Correspondence and manuscripts of the American poet. Handwritten and carbon copy typescripts.