Jackson, Laura (Riding), 1901-1991

"Thank you very much for your letter of October 13, with its good news of the likelihood of the Berg Collections purchasing the manuscript. How you proceed in these matters is of sure comfort to me." "I am grateful for what you wrote on the development at Tulsa. I could have no quarrel with the decision, the circumstances, that lay behind it, the problems of financial funding with which librarians have to deal."

"I very nearly followed my telephone call of yesterday evening with an immediate second one, for immediately after it it came to me that I had not spoken of Mrs. Webster (Mrs. Janet Webster of the Department of Rare Books). Surely you know her quite well?" "Alan Clark has for what has become quite a long time been stopped in work on the bibliography."

"This is indeed a painful occurrence. I feel keenly for you; I am stunned by the blow, but try of course to mix it in with the entirety of what happens - and proceed."

"It is nearly a month, now, since you wrote to me on the grim development of the dissapearance of my manuscripts in their movement from yourself to the Berg Collection. As I wrote to you, on receiving word of the fact, the news quite stunned me. It boded serious disruption of my expectatons and plans - uncertainty in matters of serious need;..."

"Of course, the good news you had for me makes a big difference in my feelings, and in my monetary circumstances. I had already broken into certificae savings to cover the special obligations incurred during the past year."

"I reflected, during the time when it seemed we might be faced with absolute loss of the manuscripts, on the general question of security of coverage of such losses. I deduced from what you wrote on the tracing, etc.. problems that the coverage you had was limited to postal insurance - that you had no liability insurance."

"I have been thinking on the arrangement made between Mrs. Szladits and yourself for the purchase of those manuscripts. As you have understood, the monies I had been, and still am, counting on, from the payment for these, have been, and are, assigned for my dealing with accumulated financial requirements, only part of which I have been able to meet during the time of delayed expectation of returns from the manuscripts."

"I thank you for your letter of early March. I of course understand and respect the point of experience in your reply to my raising question[n] as to a possible inquiring as to when payment might be expected. I still wonder if a general understanding as to this 'when' would be not out of order at initial arrangements..."

"Your letter with check has come to me: I thank you - and, besides thanking you for it, I thank you for your labors of placing it so - (Incidental comment: I had thought that the addition of the ms. of Literary News on Literary History...might add a something to your value put upon the quantity offered to Tulsa..."

"I have been thinking somewhat towards a possibility of Dr. Monti's finding that she has funds in which to draw, for purchase as of material of mine, in June. I could assemble for her, for the Boston Public Library, some manuscript material, in June, or at any time, indeed.--- I am in comfort as to the New York Public Library's hospitality towards manuscript material of mine."