Graves, Robert, 1895-1985

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"We are happy to cooperative with you and to assist you in any way possible. The two collections were purchased from Ellsworth Mason; possibly you are familiar with the collections."

"...The Laura Riding Jackson material is as follows:"

Scope and Contents "I'll go to the matter of the Survey of Modernist Poetry, on which you touched, of which you asked, in your letter. This book, the fact of this book, has been much in my consciousness in recent time. From 1939-1940 forward I was occupied with taking my thought further (and by then I had taken it much further than where it was at the time-of the writing of that book); and I had no practical attention to past work."...."The origin of the book is as follows. In 1925, I...

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"It is, that you have collected the works of Mr. Robert Graves, besides having done some collecting of works of mine. This suggests difficulty because it brings into consideration the possibility, even the probability, of your having had, and continuing to have, correspondence association, some degree of personal association, that is, with Mr. Graves."

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"You asked, Has anyone done a bibliography - or a list. A few years ago I consented, reluctantly because I feared the work involved for myself, to help someone who sought my help (and approval) with a bibliography..."

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"I have this matter of bibliography to speak of to you."

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"I send you a copy of the letter I wrote to the Minnesota Review:"

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"I can't recall whether or not I have commented, to you, on the course of Seizin Press commentary - of which I have known little till very recently, having, as I think I have explained, lived apart from the traffic of literary doings-"

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Typewritten letter:

"I don't understand 'The Enemy No. 3'. What is that? Perhaps Wyndham Lewis' magazine?"

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"The Len Lye etc. pamphlet: I have only a copy at Cornell - I mean, they have, it is now theirs but restricted from access except by my consent."

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"I'll just say here that I shall plan for your taking on The Private Library article."

Scope and Contents "I had only understood that you, as a person of bibliographical interests, with literary interests attendant on these, and a love of collecting, had made yourself into a collector of Robert Graves' writings. Further, where someone comes into friendly relations with me who has some background of professional connection with the Graves-work subject, I am no censor of the person's past, or unarrestable or irremovable continuance of the past into the present.".......

Scope and Contents "I don't recall any puzzlement of mine about James Reeves' The Natural Need. I worked wit him on this book, over a preparatory period, and gave it its title.""I comprehend your surprise that I should be distressed to the degree manifested at finding you, as prospective writer of something in which I should be intimately involved as an active consultant, to be engaged in this public activity centered in interest in the writings of Robert Graves.""As to Empson and...

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"The book could not have been claimed by Mr. Graves before 1929 as from 1929 to 1939, because from December 1925 to 1939 - well into 1939 - I was in immediate controlling presence to all effects, literary and of other sort, of mine, in the association existing between Mr. Graves and myself."

Scope and Contents "I have done some consulting as to the 'asking-price' for the marked copy of the page-proofs of The Telling, and I was given a range though just to the buyer and myself..."...."...I am addressing to you, before any other, a question as to some biliographical matters information on which I need in preparation for an article by myself treating of certain things bibliographical. I have been left vague in recollection as to whether you possess copies of the privately...