Jackson, Laura (Riding), 1901-1991

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"I write in correction of some mistaken features of the review published in your February 9th issue of two publications of mine of recent time. The review ('An Ambition Beyond Poetry') shows a tempering of private annoyance to a public-minded desire to be just. There is an edginess suggestive of one himself a poet, and an ambitious one. But the general trend is towards conciliatoriness."

Scope and Contents "I have seen a review in your issue of November 19th of Published In Paris by Hugh Ford, of the sub-title 'American and Britain Writers, Printers, and Publishers in Paris, 1920-1939'. Reviews of this book in its American edition did not fail to note the prescence in the book of a long article on the Seizin Press of Laura Riding and Robert Graves - an odd feature in a book of this title, and an odd use of an article with which I helped Mr. Ford extensively, on the understanding that it was to...

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"Some time ago I prepared an article on my relations with The Fugitives, about which, under the name of impersonal scholarship, some outrageously false accounts have gained the status of literary history."

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This item contains an explanatory note card by E.M [Ellsworth Mason] describing how the letter was acquired.

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"Thank you for your offer of The First Leaf and The Second Leaf. I wonder if you could hold these titles for this library until May."

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"Please forgive me for my silence. I was hoping to have money in May but I now see that it will be July before I can buy Two Leaves."

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"I add a thought came, suddenly, since I wrote my end of yesterday on the matter of The Telling."

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"I send, now, the list for presentation copies (11) referenced to in my last letter."

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"Mr Ruzicka I came to know through a Cornell Library recommendation. A lovely binding work of a book of husband's Thousand needed repair."

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"I had and have no uneasiness as to your general disposition towards me. The particular procedure, habit of procedure, of a person can absorb in, they the fact of a certain kind of disposition. A person can proceed by rules of his that take the lead over everything else embraced in the matter in question."