Jackson, Laura (Riding), 1901-1991

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"I have thought, recently, that it might interest you to have from me a something other than the article con cerning myself as a Fugitive (member of the group The Fugitives), and my relation with the Fugitives generally, as an interim piece until I could work the existing article into one covering the subject with more firmness..."

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"I, as you see, am still in New Mexico (I told of planning to go there for a month or so in the letter I sent to Mallorca)."

"I have not yet gone to work on the drafting of new prefatory material for a republishing of my Poems, but I have all the necessary material with me--and have been doing some new writing on the matter of poetry, which makes more to draw from."

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"...to provide you with information about the possibilities of new unpublished work of mine, that might be of interest to you and your editorial associates, and to give you my views on the matter of the republication of earlier work of mine."

Scope and Contents "I owe it to Mr. Burnshaw, I feel, in the circumstances of my having had to speak with severe openness to him, that he should know whatever I might have further to say on his part in the dealings with me to you.""It may be helpful to mutual understanding for me to tell you that I have no personally adverse feeling towards you or Mr. Burnshaw on yours or his viewing my presented preface for a possible reissue of my Poems with disfavor in that connection.""I have...

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"Your letter to which I am here replying occasions for me but two references to matter contained in my letter of yesterday. 1) You make no mention of the typescript-text of the preface I submitted."

"2) Perhaps what I wrote yesterday on the matter of a preface by myself as distnguished from a prefatory note will clarify my attitude to an introduction by some person (other than myself) better than anything previously written by me:..."

Scope and Contents "I owe it to you, because of how I have felt about you, to tell you that you have hurt me by how you have treated me. (Not angered me, as Mr. Burnshaw has angered me.)"...."I think you owe me, at the least, some apologies. First ought to come one for making no response to my two requests of my letter of February 14th, and obliging me to write to you in reiteration of them. Second, for making no response to the second of my reiterated requests.".......

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"I regard Mr. Burnshaw's sending the letter to you to return to me as identical in quality with other pettily devious behavior-manifestations of his I have had to witness, having an edge that he mistakenly thinks to be ironical."

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"I take it that you are aware of my having renounced poetry - many years ago. My latest published statement on this is, my preface to Selected Poems: In Five Sets..."

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"The few who have read the essay, which is some years old, have liked it - with an exception that may interest you."

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"I thought to offer you the article to replace the one you plan to use for your February issue: there is a certain importance for me in its appearing at the earliest possible journalistic occasion - one reason being (this not the only reason) that what it sets forth is overdue clarification."

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"As to interest in my poems: I know of no concentrated labor of preoccupation with them - with them exclusively."