Jackson, Laura (Riding), 1901-1991

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"I have quite near, within my work-table reach, the packet of xeroxed material generously presented to me - for my studying and making note on, with a reserved intention of considering then what else of your collection I might need to study."

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"It has been a startling experience for me to be presented with a fact of all this material's being elsewhere than at Cornell Library, where I had it sent at request under most careful circumstances of security-control..."

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"I should much like to have word from you as to the early mss. of mine, indicating that we are in a good relation as to them of good understanding."

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"As I have written to you preliminarily, there is question with me (first) as to what I might usefully say about Wyndham Lewis in my recounting of my literary-world experiences (in a book for which I have a good deal in preparation.)"

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"I am grateful to you for sending me the issue of your gazette with the article on the Fugitives contained in it." "You may be aware that I have endeavored to put on record a report of my experience as a Fugitive and of my relation with the Fugitives."

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"I thank you much, and Mr. Farmer equally, for the kind response to my request for certain xeroxes of ms. material, and the complimentary presentation of these."

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"I shall, indeed, in revising my article with the help of new data and new thought of a general order arising from this, have it in mind as something that you may wish to publish. I had almost decided to convert the article in revising it to the uses of a book treating of my experience in the behavior of others towards my work and myself..."

Scope and Contents "A friend who knows something of my language-studies but is only slightly acquainted with my other work, early and later, has sent me a copy of Mr. Paul Auster's review of my books Selected Poems: In Five Sets and The Telling published in your issue of August 7th, commenting on it as "a rather nice review". It is not a nice review, as my friend would know if he had better acquaintance with my work in the whole, and experienced sense of the procedures followed by poets, poet-critics,...

Scope and Contents "Mr. William Meredith, in his review of The Blue Estuaries by Louise Bogan in your issue of October 13th, posits "an ambivalent prejudice that a woman artist must face", and then describes Miss Bogan as having got along very well by, simply, disdaining the challenge of the prejudice and declaring herself to be a human being, of good endowments. The posited prejudice is, according to Mr. Meredith, a 'culture' that limits the woman artist to being either "a poetess or a goddess, a little lady...

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"Be not dismayed by the accompaniment of six pages of comment: they merely check on, and explain, my changes - so that all can be clear between the Editor and myself."