Jackson, Laura (Riding), 1901-1991

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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."

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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."