Jackson, Laura (Riding), 1901-1991

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"...I thank you for your letter, an rested in my ease concerning you, and this matter..."

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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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"Apart from this judgement of your system, I strongly hold that you are taking liberties with the typographical customs of your authors, and I dislike the taking of them with mine, for I have always kept strictly away from decapitalization such as that practised..."

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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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"1) Thank you for your kind response to Mr. Ford's approach."

"2) Do you know the book marked on this page from a catalogue that I send?"

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"Thank you for the well rounded account of the Franklin book. He becomes in your description as much of that about which he writes that I was rather surprised..."

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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...

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"You --mened there, with what seemed to me a --ree of friendship, the need of public commentary by myself on the Seizin Press story, to counterbalance the Robert Graves' story of this."

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"I assume from what you have written that you would have written, in a while, facing the difficulty of writing against the background of the incomprehension you experienced in reading my preface to the poems-selection."

"You speak of my way of writing, as you encounter it in that preface, as if it were the result of immurement with my husband in esoteric preoccupation, far from the literary world."