Jackson, Laura (Riding), 1901-1991

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"...I retreat in these circumstances from future assumption of a state of grace as existing between you and myself."

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"I write so from a sense of duty...; and duty to all others--no one ought to let another who has behaved with the sly arrogance with which you have behaved to me go forth again to other human encounters without attempting to impress upon him that the inner springs of his behavior are not totally invisible..."

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"And so you make an ignorant mess of my preface. I'll tip you off as to just how badly you can mess it up."

Scope and Contents "Mr. Virgil Thomson, in his review of Published in Pairs by Hugh Ford, in your issue of February 19th, improves, in his patronizing reference to me in it as among those who took on 'siz'-'not only as warriprs but artists', from their Paris associations on the wilful perversion of literary, historical, and personal actualities that Mr. Ford commits in my regard in his book."....."...he wanted this projected book to include an authoratative account of The Seizin Press....

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"I write to express disagreement with the denunciation of Peter Levi's use of 'of' in a poem of a book of poems of Fr Levi's reviewed in your issue of July 23 by Mr. D. M. Thomas."

Scope and Contents "I write to you regarding references to myself made in Professor Daniel Hoffman's article 'The Early Poetry of Robert Graves' presented in your spring 1966 issue - this being an excerpt from a book not yet, then, published."...."Nor did Professor Hoffman consult me. And there have been others who felt themselves well enough provided with authority for what they said of me to have no need of mine. But Professor Hoffman's manner of treating me, partaking of the...

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"I am sending you a letter for publication (it being judged suitable for publication by you) on a certain condition, which I hope you will respect. The letter, here attached, was prompted by Mr. Melvin Maddocks' article on language, which is a subject of serious concern for myself."

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"Mr. Melvin Maddocks, deploring, in your issue of March 8th, under the title of The Limitations of Language, what people do to language, and do to one another with it, himself supplies illustration of that which he deplores. The title is the major example of this. His complaint is not that people are suffering from limitations inherent in language, but that they inflict abuses of it on one another."

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"I am pleased with my check, indeed, and I am at the same time pleased with your being satisfied with it all."

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"May the year have gone well for you...It has been a hard one for me to manage, in my region of experience. But I have kept mainly steady in my going on."

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"I am simplifying my holiday exertions to little letters this year to those of constant prescence to us in year's end thought..."