Jackson, Laura (Riding), 1901-1991
Dates
- Existence: 1901-01-16 - 1991-09-02
biographical statement
Laura Jackson was an American poet, critic, novelist, essayist and short story writer.
Found in 910 Collections and/or Records:
Letter from Burton Feldman to Laura Riding Jackson, 1973-09-10
"Thanks very much indeed for your letter offering us your essay "What, If not a Poem, Poems?""
Letter from David Farmer to Laura Jackson, 1979-01-10
"Thank you for your kind note and the fair copy of your reflection at the close of the year."
Letter from Ellsworth Mason to Laura Jackson, 1971-02-02
"It was my Graves collection, however, which is my personal collection and quite good, that led me to a particular interest in the Seizin Press. Until this time, I had known of you only superficially."
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"I am most anxious to have established, and in full form, so complete as humans can make it in retrospect, the complete list of your writings, if you can find it in your time to help me."
Letter from [Ellsworth Mason] to Laura Jackson , 1971-04-01
"I will therefore write you when I have had time to do some preliminary work gathering together what I know about your publications, and will write you what I will than have in mind."
Letter from [Ellsworth Mason] to Laura Jackson, 1971-04-09
Letter from [Ellsworth Mason] to Laura Jackson, 1971-04-15
"If you have alarms, they should be felt against the background of what you surely must know--that I am very much on your side, and sympathetically concerned with your reactions. That I continualy and impatiently reach out for facts and impressions is certainly true, and probably congenital..."
Letter from Ellsworth Mason to Laura Jackson, 1971-05-09
"There are three unexpected facts that have emerged in your recent letters that unsettle my view of this whole project. Most important is the fact that you are still working on the language book, which I had thought had stopped with your husband's death. You should do nothing whatsoever that interferes with your progress on this work."
Letter from [Ellsworth Mason] to Laura Jackson, 1971-05-10
"At this time, I am still concerned about the importance of working on your language book, and on what becomes more apparent with time as the unceasing effort under which you constantly live."
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"I find in my copy of Focus IV, 1935, pages 39 following, these matters:"
Letter from [Ellsworth Mason] to Laura Jackson, 1971-05-17
"You cast me out discourteously. Your letter of 14 May has very much distressed me. It is impossible that you could have read my letter so insensitively without willing to do so. What you take as adamantine acts are clearly attitudes, proposals and suggestions elaborately presented for your consideration, and specifically requesting your review."
Letter from [Ellsworth Mason] to Laura Jackson, 1971-06-30
"Can we exchange agreements that I will stop making unilateral statements about things in which you have legitimate concern if you will stop assuring me what my mind has decided."
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- Authors, American -- Correspondence -- 20th century 1
- Authors, American -- France -- Paris -- 20th century 1
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- Classicists -- Great Britain. 1
- Novelists, American -- 20th century. 1
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- Poets, American -- 20th century. 1
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- Spain -- History -- Civil War, 1936-1939. 1
- Special Collections -- Manuscripts -- Ford, Hugh. 1
- Special Collections -- Manuscripts -- Graves, Robert. 1
- Special Collections -- Manuscripts -- Jackson, Laura R. 1
- Times Literary Supplement (London, England) 1 + ∧ less