Mason, Ellsworth, 1917-2013
Biography
Author and editor.
Found in 200 Collections and/or Records:
Letter from Laura Jackson to Ellsworth Mason, 1971-03-26
Letter from Laura Jackson to Ellsworth Mason, 1971-04-05
Letter from Laura Jackson to Ellsworth Mason, 1971-04-13
"I am at this writing concerning myself a good deal with one feature of your reply-work. This is your introduction of the name of Mr. Kirkham into your reconstruction of the bibliographical background of which I gave you what seemed to me an adequate account. It firghtens me that you should press upon my account for filling it in for yourself with an attempt at factual specificness, which in respect to the matter at leat of who it was who had agreed to do the annotations part..."
Letter from Laura Jackson to Ellsworth Mason, 1971-04-21
Letter from Laura Jackson to Ellsworth Mason, 1971-04-25
"As to what I contributed, what help I gave Walter Thigpen:he came here 3 times."
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"[I note you are doing a paper related to your work on Joyce. I remember: you have collaborated with Richard Elman. For a time last year I was in correspondence with a colleague of his at Yale..."
Letter from Laura Jackson to Ellsworth Mason , 1971-05-14
Letter from Laura Jackson to Ellsworth Mason, 1971-05-21
Letter from Laura Jackson to Ellsworth Mason, 1971-07-08
"My idea is, that we go on, in a relation with each other, allowing for its being at present attended by some difficulty, inhering in disparities in viewpoint, in certain areas of thought and sensibility."
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"I want to tell you about Focus. I think I have, actually, told you my all about 'Of Others': that I incline very strongly at present to the view that there never was such a book published by the Seizin Press or begun by my organizing labors-"
Letter from Laura Jackson to Ellsworth Mason, 1971-07-28
Typewritten letter:
"I don't understand 'The Enemy No. 3'. What is that? Perhaps Wyndham Lewis' magazine?"
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"The Len Lye etc. pamphlet: I have only a copy at Cornell - I mean, they have, it is now theirs but restricted from access except by my consent."
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"I'll just say here that I shall plan for your taking on The Private Library article."