Jackson, Laura (Riding), 1901-1991

"I understand your point of view about the indexing. I feel much easier about the problem in question, because of it. I have not yet communicated your response to my presentation of my uneasiness about a blanketing, all-mixing indexing of poems to A.C."

"Your counsel as to the Nashville 'Friends of the Library' matter seems right to me. And your offer to sending a copy of Chelsea #35 as by my request appeals to me. - The annoyance left with me by the receding wave of Mrs. Heard's enthusiasm has a center in the fact that I took pains in writing to her to be specific as to my disposition and capabilities as to the proposed enlargement of the Fugitives collection material -."

"You will understand from what I have written, I hope, that I did not offer to Cornell the originals and carbons in a 'lump'; I regard the carbons as a distinct quantity; and for reasons of my own textual interest in the state of the material as a whole..."

"I note that your estimate includes the carbons. As I have written to you, at some point before the material leaves your hand, it having found, you finding, a purchaser approved by me, and with conditions of handling the material by the purchaser approved by me, I should want the carbons sent to me for examination, in comparison with my xeroxes of the originals."

"...to get a special account of the material in your posession written for your specific understanding of its make-up and history, and for the interest of others whom you might judge to be likely and proper acquirers of it."

"As to what corrections are in my own hand: in the main, in my copy here of the first-sheets of everything, sent to me by my bibliographer friend who had all the material in keeping for me in London, after it was yielded up, corrections are mine."

"I thought not to trouble you with mere thanks for your letter of June 13th. But after the passing of a month I think I should say thank you for the work..."

"I am writing to you out of thought of a possibility that suddenly came to me, the thought that the Lockwood Library of the University of Buffalo might be a place that you have approached as to the manuscripts or might consider approaching."

"I have just, as it happens, remembered that I once asked you - a while back - whether you were one to suggest to a person who is collectiong my work..."

"This is just to say thank-you for your considerate word of July 30th."