Mason, Ellsworth, 1917-2013
Biography
Author and editor.
Found in 200 Collections and/or Records:
Joyce's Padua essays
Includes "The Universal Literary Influence of the Renaissance"; "Daniel Defoe"; "Realism and Idealism in English Literature: Daniel Defoe and William Blake"; "The Centenary of Charles Dickens"; "From the Memoirs of My Life: Peter Colletta has a persuasive way"; "The Last Days of Pompeii".
Letter and Postcard from L.J. [Laura Jackson] to Ellsworth Mason, 1974-02-27
"I forget to tell you that my last letter to The Denver Quarterly in an article (mailed there subsequent) to Mr. Ford's, of my contributions in The Seizin Press, as to the Autumn 1973 issue-"
Letter from Ellsworth Mason to Laura Jackson, 1971-02-02
"It was my Graves collection, however, which is my personal collection and quite good, that led me to a particular interest in the Seizin Press. Until this time, I had known of you only superficially."
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"I am most anxious to have established, and in full form, so complete as humans can make it in retrospect, the complete list of your writings, if you can find it in your time to help me."
Letter from [Ellsworth Mason] to Laura Jackson , 1971-04-01
"I will therefore write you when I have had time to do some preliminary work gathering together what I know about your publications, and will write you what I will than have in mind."
Letter from [Ellsworth Mason] to Laura Jackson, 1971-04-09
Letter from [Ellsworth Mason] to Laura Jackson, 1971-04-15
"If you have alarms, they should be felt against the background of what you surely must know--that I am very much on your side, and sympathetically concerned with your reactions. That I continualy and impatiently reach out for facts and impressions is certainly true, and probably congenital..."
Letter from Ellsworth Mason to Laura Jackson, 1971-05-09
"There are three unexpected facts that have emerged in your recent letters that unsettle my view of this whole project. Most important is the fact that you are still working on the language book, which I had thought had stopped with your husband's death. You should do nothing whatsoever that interferes with your progress on this work."
Letter from [Ellsworth Mason] to Laura Jackson, 1971-05-10
"At this time, I am still concerned about the importance of working on your language book, and on what becomes more apparent with time as the unceasing effort under which you constantly live."
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"I find in my copy of Focus IV, 1935, pages 39 following, these matters:"
Letter from [Ellsworth Mason] to Laura Jackson, 1971-05-17
"You cast me out discourteously. Your letter of 14 May has very much distressed me. It is impossible that you could have read my letter so insensitively without willing to do so. What you take as adamantine acts are clearly attitudes, proposals and suggestions elaborately presented for your consideration, and specifically requesting your review."
Letter from [Ellsworth Mason] to Laura Jackson, 1971-06-30
"Can we exchange agreements that I will stop making unilateral statements about things in which you have legitimate concern if you will stop assuring me what my mind has decided."