Jackson, Laura (Riding), 1901-1991

Scope and Contents "Of course, yes I am disappointed. But pleased about your handling this matter to your best care and experienced understanding. I could have supplied more - but reserved some material as being of uncompleted writing-." "A query- is the 1910 edition of Ezra Pound's Provenca - Poems selected from Personae, Exultations, and Canzoniere - Boston, Small, Maynard & Co. of a distinct value." "I have been looking over the xeroxcopy of The Word Woman one of the pieces of the ms. material you sold...

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"I forget to tell you that my last letter to The Denver Quarterly in an article (mailed there subsequent) to Mr. Ford's, of my contributions in The Seizin Press, as to the Autumn 1973 issue-"

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

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"I am sorry to have been slow in following up Mrs. Jackson's exchange of communications with you last month, about the bibliography of her work. The prospect of your co-operating with me in that project, if we can establish a mutually satisfactory way of doing so, is a cheering one for me."

Scope and Contents "Your news about having found difficulty in obtaining even quite recent information from publishers is interesting. I guess the more takeovers, mergers, bankruptcies there are, the more records will get destroyed or made inaccesible;..." "Since I last wrote, I have been very lucky in securing three important L.R. titles that I didn't have: Voltaire, The Close Chaplet, and 14A. You will be doubly interested in the first two, as Hogarth Press books. I'm enclosing xeroxes of the...

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"As promised in my last letter, here is a copy of my 'wants' list covering Laura (Riding) Jackson books. If a book, listed in my check-list, does not appear in this wants-list, you may take it that I already possess a copy, in the dust-wrapper where called for."

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"Many thanks for your letter of 27th July, and for the sheets of information on reviews of Mrs. Jackson's books. It will be a while before I can check these sheets in detail, but I can see at a glance that you have uncovered much trove new to us."

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"The copy of A Trojan Ending arrived last week, in perfect condition; thank you again. I have today made my reservations for my flights next month, so can at last be more definite about dates. I'll be flying London-Miami on 11 October, and flying north from Miami not earlier than 19 October;..."

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"I expect you'll have received my letter of the 13th, giving some details of my travel dates (leaving N.Y. on the evening of Friday 27 Oct.; could be in N.Y. by as early as the evening of Thursday 19 Oct.; should be there at latest by evening of Sunday 22). Since I shall be a fairly free agent for those few days, while you will have an existing pattern of commitments..."

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"Here (enclosed) is a copy of my listing of the twenty-seven Riding poems of the 1920's, discovered during my trip. It is designed as a supplement to the check-list. // At the New York P.L., I obtained xerox of the casing of their copy of A Trojan Ending -- examination of which confirmed that there are at least two states."