Cotton, John

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"...I thank you for accepting the suggestion by Mrs. Jackson that I write an article on the Seizin Press."

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"I have not been able to think through a plan for proceeding on the Seizin article, but let us not get caught in a definite deadline, while still pressing ahead with good earnest."

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"Have I mentioned that I am writing something on my relations with The Fugitives..."

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"My poems writing begin to have some continuity when I was a student at Cornell - which I left at the end of my sophmore year..."

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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"It has saddened me, Mr. Mason, to find, by your copy of your letter sent to Mr. Cotton, that you should have been so insensitive to my immediatelyely-reported-to-you consternation at finding you were actively and extensively involved in the public prosecution of Robert Graves interests, as to hear that as, simply, something I must automatically disregard as what is."

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"It puzzles me that your Private Library issue continues to fail to come to you. Have you written directly the editor, John Cotton?"

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"I must report, however, that I have to give up as to our arriving at a point of common view as to 'loving--kind'. You do not comprehend the sense that I set forth. My sense is exactly in my words."

Scope and Contents "Certain developments in Mr. Mason's field of bibliographical interests and activities were only very recently made known to me by him, and these profoundly affect my feelings. This has nothing to do with the personal relations between Mr. Mason and myself. I had informed him that the new knowledge of these involvements raised for me very serious questions as to my feelings about his and my co-operating on an article for you..." "I am opposed to any going thhus to my former...

Scope and Contents "Mr. Virgil Thomson, in his review of Published in Pairs by Hugh Ford, in your issue of February 19th, improves, in his patronizing reference to me in it as among those who took on 'siz'-'not only as warriprs but artists', from their Paris associations on the wilful perversion of literary, historical, and personal actualities that Mr. Ford commits in my regard in his book."....."...he wanted this projected book to include an authoratative account of The Seizin Press....