Mason, Ellsworth, 1917-2013

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--"

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"...it seems important to me to register with y[o]u at my earliest my feelings about and my position on the fact of which I learned from Michael Kirkham a few days ago that there is being planned for the Christmas meeting a seminar on Robert Graves, to treat of the subject 'The influence of Laura Riding on Robert Graves'."

Scope and Contents "I thank you for sending the article to Professor Oshima, at my request. The information as to his connections with Yeats, appearing on the jacket of his poems, sent to me (Poems by Shotaro Oshima The Hokuseido Press 312 Kanda-Nichikocho Chiyoda-ku Tokyo) is as follows:..."...."...to record that this further development brings into very clear view to me a difference so strong in our values of judgement, critical and human respects, that I see no possibility of...

Scope and Contents "While you have, as you say, and I do not doubt you, no responsibility for the idea of inviting me to speak at a conclave devoted to the (to me) rum subject of Robert Graves, you have large responsibility for the promotion of this organized concentration on that subject. Not only are you a focal point in this (to me) unhealthy project by your Focus enterprise: you are in particular an active mover in the Seminar-one Graves institution, and its maintenance."...."I am...

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"I thank you for your account of the presentation to you by Mr. Feldman of the manuscript material about which a three-way agreement had been arrived at. The description of your handling of the material corresponds with your previous assurances to me as to this matter:..."