Jackson, Laura (Riding), 1901-1991

"I come somewhat late to the task of making my report to you on your paragraphs on The Seizin Press."

The letter clarifies the history of the Seizin press and Jackson's association with the press.

"I broke association with Mr. Graves because of certain dissatisfactions. My breaking the association was not of one piece with an act of repudiating '22 books'."

"However, you followed, in how you wrote, lines of treatment of your subject-matter set by drifts of literary publicity, and by conventional attitudes to women (as writers, or anything else outside certain fields of activity)--attitudes far more persistent than they are believed to be in this supposedly fast-moving age."

"And so you are a librarian. A rather young librarian (at a university library) is visiting me with his wife in the Christmas week. He has been quite long working on a bibliography of my writings, but held back from consulting me until about a year ago."

"...some further data in relation to a few places in your revised text calling for reconsideration by you; receiving no acknowledgement of this final contribution of information and comment to your task, I find myself..."

"I have communicated (to-day) my perplexity about your behavior to your publishers, explaining the course of our correspondence, and my having in faith, according to our understanding as to my acceptance of your text..."

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

"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 (!!)."

"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..."

"You are kind, in the matter of Mr Hugh Ford. I shall communicate to him your suggestion and the fact of your good will."