Jackson, Laura (Riding), 1901-1991

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"I was overwhelmed to learn in your telephone conversation that you had offered me your list of modifications as a gift, since I had presumed that you were offering me the "presentation" to buy for my collection."

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"They repose in the vault of our Rare Book Room, and you ay direct any scholar who inquires about them that they are already available for scholarly use."

Scope and Contents "Whatever the past history, Michael did send you a copy of his article, he did follow up by asking me to send you a copy when the original went astray, and he knows, from my writing him, that I have sent the text. He knows you have it in hand, and it is quite common with critics writing about living authors to alter text in deference to personal feelings of the author in cases where there author is gracious enough to review the text in advance, so long as the integrity of the critic's view...

Scope and Contents "I was pleased to get your letter of 4 September and know that you have emerged from the distress that this MV matter has inflicted on you, and have given up your determination to inflict penalties for Michael Kirkham for his transgressions.".... "...Mrs. Jackson has had considerable correspondence with me relating centrally to your public identification of Madeline Vera as a pseudonym for Laura Riding a subject, as you must know, about which she has had pronounced...

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"I have searched for a reference to the "one story only" phrase in The Close Chaplet, Poet: A Lying Word, Twenty Poems Less, Love as Love; Death as Death, and, because of a thing in my own mind (which proved to be wrong) Four Unposted Letters to Catherine, without finding anything like it."

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"In the same mail was your gift copy of Selected Poems, and I am deeply moved by your inscriptions. All the quotation marks are in, by the way."

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"My son recieved for his 6th birthday last Wednesday a model kit for a Wankel engine. It was highly intricate, not only in the number of parts, but in its complex and ingenious electrical properties."

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"I will send copies of the publication that contains Michael Kirkham's article to Prof. Fraser and Dr. Harrer of the University of Florida as soon as it is published."

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"Your letter to my home dated October 11th is so terribly, terribly wrong."

Scope and Contents "On a far less persoal and important level I am having irritations with publishers. The Critical Writings of James Joyce, which I edited with Richard Ellmann 15 years ago went into French translation in 1966. Although this book contains an important introduction by Ellmann, headnotes and footnotes to each piece that extend considerably our understanding of Joyce's biography, influences, and values, and my translations into English of a dozen articles and unpublished lectures in Joyce's...

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"Prof. Feladman called me a couple of times last wekk, and I returned his call, but we missed each other. I wrote him to say that Kirkham's article is in producation and will be out about December 15th."

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"I am delighted that you have a continuing series of writings and reprintings in progress. I am sure that it is gratifying to you to find so many publications eager for your work, and I am happy to see such a warm response to what now seems to be pretty much your entire endeavor."

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"I received the transcript back of "Triviality", and thank you very much for your corrections and editions. It is a graceful and sensitive and perceptive piece, and its forward-look is one that I find most pleasing."