Ford, Hugh D. , 1925-

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"Mr. Hugh Ford, who is on the staff of the English Department of Trenton State College, Trenton, New Jersey 08625, wrote to me a while ago of being engaged in writing a book on private presses (!), and of wishing information from me as to The Seizin Press (!!)."

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"You are kind, in the matter of Mr Hugh Ford. I shall communicate to him your suggestion and the fact of your good will."

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"Has Faber published your book yet?-if it has been published, I would like to see the Seizin Press treatment."

"I have wondered: did Mr. Ford enter into correspondence with you..."

Scope and Contents "Since we have come this far in speaking of Mr. Ford, I find it not out of order to speak more on my and your encounter with him." "Since you are going to have the little book of poems, I take special pains to tell you that the case is not of Faber's 'brinng back' some of my poetic work into print again but of my allowing these poems to be reproduced." "He has plundered my thought, my very writings, pillaged in my poems, all this to an extent not comprehended (a...

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....

Scope and Contents "I have seen a review in your issue of November 19th of Published In Paris by Hugh Ford, of the sub-title 'American and Britain Writers, Printers, and Publishers in Paris, 1920-1939'. Reviews of this book in its American edition did not fail to note the prescence in the book of a long article on the Seizin Press of Laura Riding and Robert Graves - an odd feature in a book of this title, and an odd use of an article with which I helped Mr. Ford extensively, on the understanding that it was to...

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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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"I should be glad to help Mr Ford in any way that I can with his work; quite apart from feeling it necessary as a small token of my gratitude to you, I would be very happy to assist. My own work has been delayed..."

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"My book on private presses is not yet out, I'm sorry to say. There have been numerous delays, partly due to the fact that David Bland, the editor at Fabers in charge of it died suddenly earlier this year, and I'm told that it will not now be published until after Christmas."

"Mr Ford and I exchanged a few letters - he wrote to me as you had suggested, and told me the type of work he was engaged on;"