Jackson, Laura (Riding), 1901-1991

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"It puzzles me that your Private Library issue continues to fail to come to you. Have you written directly the editor, John Cotton?"

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"I must report, however, that I have to give up as to our arriving at a point of common view as to 'loving--kind'. You do not comprehend the sense that I set forth. My sense is exactly in my words."

Scope and Contents "I cannot go any further in what I thought was a practicality of friendship, developing. You have added to your dismissal of my tenderly offered motto for you and your son, as related to formal scales of values and not penetrating to the true nature of loving-kindness, as you know it by special experience, an extreme condemnation of me. You did, indeed, refer to my definition, allowing it some relevance to loving-kindness, but lecturing me on the main substance, as something I had omitted -...

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"I send you (not to be returned) a copy of a letter I have written to the present editor of Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature..."

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"...I had had no acknowledgement of receipt by you of the copy of The Private Library, containing writing on The Seizin press - which I sent to you for loan on learning of long delay in your receiving your own copy."

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"Then, to speak of the Madelaine Vara, etc., matter I thank you for your report on that. How Mr. Kirkham came to recording this attribution without checking with me, remains near-incomprehensible to me, he having been apprised of my feelings on Mr. Higginson's presumptuous assumption of authority to spread such attribution, in the course of the rather long correspondence maintained between us not very many years ago on a wide number of things pertaining to my work."

Scope and Contents "I thank you, first of all, for telling me about Professor Feldman's calls to you, and your kind efforts in his regard, and your promise to supply him with a copy of the issue. I am just now in the midst of final work on some little matters in the text of my article, aiming at dispatching this tomorrow."...."I have agreed to let the little magazine Antaeus have some writing of mine of now on Story-writing, and something from Progress to go with it, for its next...

Scope and Contents "'Admiration', I have almost always found, as a term falling between identification and characterization, an embarassment to myself when I use it, or think of using it, of or to another - for there has got to be full-moon feeling, or the term is a misnomer, I have almost never encountered it in use except as carrying implicitly reservations, emotional usage."...."As to public interest in my thought, my writings, earlier and later; there is a general literary despite -...

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"-as to what M.K. has done in the article, he has pressed doggedly forward along particular lines in a right direction."

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"As to the Triviality piece, the concluding implication: I am a good deal misunderstood, in my use of the word 'human', being taken for a 'humanist'..."

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"I am writing centrally to inquire whether your intimateness with things bibliographical includes some intimate knowledge of presses that might be interested in publishing some earlier work of mine - presses of some weight of subject-interest, not the kind specializing, for instance, in the overflow from books-of-poems publications of the regular publishers."

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"I come to tax your kindness with a request for another sending by you of the issue containing M.K.'s article to someone."

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"I am content with Professor Feldman's--that is, with a plan for such action--handing over to you such portions of my correspondence about this contribution as he wishes (or all of it, if he wishes), I understanding that by his desire he wishes no payment for the material but is willing, I take it will pleased to, accept from you a donation to the magazine--"