Jackson, Laura (Riding), 1901-1991

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"I am pleased about your explicitness as to the proof: I am sending you the carbon typescript with my work connections embraced in it. This is the basis of the passage at the close of the Extracts from later portion of the book."

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Typewritten letter:

"I am interested in knowing what kind of bibliographical principle it is that lists an article concerning Laura Riding and Robert Graves under Robert Graves."

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"I need to tell you, in this connection, that Michael Kirkham has astonished me by his announcing that Madelaine Vera was a pseudonym of mine. He has had no authority for making such a statement."

Scope and Contents "The Madeline Vera matter is not for me on the plane of agitation of mine, and its entitlement to respect. We have here a liberty taken by Mr. Kirkham for which he has had no authority from me. I have never made public identification of myself as M.V. Mr. Kirkham has had sufficient acquaintance with me, by correspondence and by personal visit, for awareness of of my my view of the outrage committed by Messrs, Higginson and Graves in their making themselves authorities as to the...

Scope and Contents "I must try to impose upon you that we have a case of bibliographic fraud: that is authority. Robert Graves is no authority for ... of authority to me or anything via Mr. Higginson. The strength of my feelings is not the issue."...."I cannot be with you at all in your solicited in M. K's authorial perogatives - as with your lack of conscience, amidst so much editorial circumstances as to what you are here with respect to a bibliographical desecration by Higginson and...

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"I am moved to put on record, as to your appeal for corrections, that some wrong things involve offences that make their repair by those responsible for them morally impossible; penance, however, is always a moral possibility."

Scope and Contents "I have been wanting to write to you on the Madeline Vera matte again...I have had what I think may be a better solution, all-round. You may communicate to Mr. Kirkham that my final view of the matter is that, although he has not had from me any authority for this attrbution, and I regard as regrettable, unfortunate, his proceeding to make attribution on what is first a Higginson-Graves attribution...suggest that he use the M.V reference with this accompanying data in the mention of M.V.:...

Scope and Contents "...as to The Survey copyright: I believe that English law established authorial copyright to the book and I have had the confirmation of this I believe that the English publishers in the late forties returned the copyright to t[h]e authors by way of A.P. Watt."...."You do what many do in elevating normal objection to morally, plaiun morally, wrong doing to a Super-sensitivity...What is there super-sensitive about objecting to the insult Graves' and Hiiginson's and...

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"I am sending you a little present, a little thank-you for much kindness. - The paperback version of the American edition of my Selected Poems."

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"And I wish to ask you whether someone I care to have read the article for its critical usefulness to him may have it to read before publication."

Scope and Contents "There is time, and time for further explaining. It is a strange story! The story of this 'one story only' matter. The person who spotted what he was sure was an appropriation gave me my first knowledge, of R.G.'s taking such a line in a poem of his - & there had been no communication with me before he wrote on this; and other findings of like sort."...."The texts of the Am. & Eng. editions of The Telling are identical. The AM. has the misprint on p. 125...

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"--To note a few things that I have had in mind, pointing in your direction -- I have had a letter from Michael Kirkham as to a number of things of immediate interest between us. He made no reference in his letter to the Madeline Vara matter."