Jackson, Laura (Riding), 1901-1991

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"The surprise presentation of the Hogarth Press Check-list came yesterday. I thank you: this is a kind, and generous, gift, indeed. I find the make-up and production of a very high order of care, management, and result."

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"I have not studied the list exhaustively; but I have assumed from a general glancing through it that there are four American citings."

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"Your word as to rights in the proposed limited edition is a considerate, and generous, one indeed. You will tell me, some time, what your thinking is as to length, in relation to my sense of need of later-time commentary?"

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"I shall indeed be writing to Guy Logsdon: the information as to what is there will interest me, and be useful to bibliographer Alan Clark (hard at work here, just now- he goes to Cornell next week for study of the collection there)."

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"I think I did not refer to the matter of manuscripts in my last letter to you. I have had to interrupt sorting of paper for a selection of material for sending to you..."

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This item was part of a later acquisition from J. Howard Woolmer.

This letter is unsigned, but presumed to be written by Laura Jackson based on the content of the letter.

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"I have opened the envelope to tell you that I put together ... a .... of ms. for your selling for me as you may find feasible."

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"As I wrote to you, I am, litt[l]e by little, sorting work-papers and xxx.ms. accumulations - I could fill out what I sent to you (my portion of it, as distinct from that of Susan Morris), with somewhat more just now, if you like. Anyhow, after a further exploring in these things, of immediate days, I set aside for sending you the manuscript of a long piece of writing of the title 'Twentieth Century Literary Individualism'."

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"To touch first on the matter of manuscript material: I am well-satisfied with your appraisals. I approve of the choice of Tulsa--..."

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"As to the extra material I sent to you without waiting for your reply word to my query: I was moved to add the copy of The Denver Quarterly containing my autobiographical commentary as something that you could read..."

Scope and Contents "It has been of comfort to me, your kindness of exerting yourself as you have done, over the little textual matter. Sometimes there are typist slips that one misses. But I could not trust any guess of mine as to 'preservers' being possibly such a slip. It rang as very likely what I had written."..."Now, to touch on the matter of manuscripts distribution, which I raised also in a telephone talk with you. Until recent times I have done little of this, except for the...

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"It is a finger that troubles most. After an infection and a lancing, it has been healing, but the nail looked queer. Now, I think..."

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"The word about Tulsa ... I understand that is just a step; - As to that letter: I have no uneasiness about it in your regard - or any other - by which I mean generally that the passing of such things into public state I have become harded to as what happens."