Jackson, Laura (Riding), 1901-1991

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"I am rather hurrying to send this note because of your word as to your not having received an ordered book - you said 'book'; but I have wondered if you meant the issue of the magazine that was announced for fall, and is not out yet."

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"I am rather tired, after a year of complicated preoccupation, and doing work, my work, has gone on, yes; and more lies ahead."

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"The publication of mine mentioned is not a new collection of poems, but, simply, a ned edition of the collection of 1939 - the final collection: I wrote no more poems after that."

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"As to poetry, I concern myself a good deal with the historical place of poetry in the concerns of human being of their human identity - and in the present-time crisis in the sense of human beings as to what they are."

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"For my own general knowledge, and unto bibliographical needs, and also for assistance to the person I have authorized to make a bibliography of my writings, I request of you information as to what you have of manuscript material of mine, and some account of the proce[d]ure I should have to folow for the procuring of copies that I might feel I ought to see."

Scope and Contents "I have now decided on what, of your collection of ms. material originating with me, it may be useful for me to see, in copy. The first three items on the list you sent to me I need not call for..."...."I hope you will excuse my requesting word as to the charges for copies of the letter to H. Wolfe, and the 8 letters to Mr. Cohen and Mr. Burnshaw, and the 8 to Mr. Mendelson, and the single letter to Mr. Woolmer, before asking you to have these made, and sent to...

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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.)"