Jackson, Laura (Riding), 1901-1991

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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."

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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.