Mason, Ellsworth, 1917-2013
Biography
Author and editor.
Found in 200 Collections and/or Records:
Letter from Laura Jackson to Ellsworth Mason, 1973-08-29
"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."
Letter from Laura Jackson to Ellsworth Mason, 1973-09-04
Letter from Laura Jackson to Ellsworth Mason, 1973-09-19
Letter from Laura Jackson to Ellsworth Mason, 1973-09-20
"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."
Letter from Laura Jackson to Ellsworth Mason, 1973-10-02
Letter from Laura Jackson to Ellsworth Mason, 1973-10-11
"--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."
Letter from Laura Jackson to Ellsworth Mason, 1973-10-11
"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."
Letter from Laura Jackson to Ellsworth Mason, 1973-10-23
Letter from Laura Jackson to Ellsworth Mason, 1973-11-03
"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."
Letter from Laura Jackson to Ellsworth Mason, [1973]
"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."