Jackson, Laura (Riding), 1901-1991

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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."

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"I am ready to come into an agreement with you that we try to see what can be done together - without exhaustive predefinition, either as to extent or limit of content, or time-fixings."

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"Just a word as to Of Others. There came a dawning idea that this, which I began to remember as a vision of mine of a worthwhile possibility, a book listing people other than those involved in the work I was endeavoring to make a real new life of mine & my associates"

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"I felt your pleasure in having the books, and I wanted, feeling it, to thank you for telling me about it - and speaking of the acquisitions themselves."

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"I think the idea of things in which I have a 'legitimate concern' is inappropriate. We have not from my point of view been in difficulty over things of yours in which I have a legitimate concern."

Scope and Contents "As to Walter Thigpen: You had said that you were 'thrown' by the fact that 'he would want to to continue as an active, intertwining collaborator in a bibliography. rather than turning over the information he accumulated.' If you will re-examine my letters on this subject you will find that no such 'fact' or data for a deduction of such fact was presented to you:"...."As to your list of what you have of mine. I have already commented on 'Barbra Rich, etc. I'd like to...