Mason, Ellsworth, 1917-2013

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"Regarding one point in your letter of 29 February, our Library would be eager to be informed of potential acquisition of your materials, if you will write about them when available."

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"Focus on Robert Graves, which I had conceived, named, and had the title printed for our covers of a multilithed periodical before I ever wrote to you, goes to over 250 addresses, of which about a hundred and fifty are major research libraries, mostly in this country, but also in England, Poland, Canada, and New Zealand..."

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"I thank you for your letter of May 18th asking whether the University of Colorado Library would be interested in acquiring the marked page proofs of The Telling. Indeed, we would;..."

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"...not to hold you up, I answer your questions about FOCUS. There is no Seizin press imprint on the numbers..."

"There is no information justifying Higginson's calling Graves' contributions to numbers I, II, III, and IV "Letters" or "Letters from Deya"."

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"In attempting to place an order for the page proofs of The Telling...you should should address the package directly to me."

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"With regard to the page proofs, I really had intended to accept your offer to send six pages of corrected carbons of the manuscript to consider with the proofs. I think that alone they are probably not worth $90. The proofs themselves would be worth about $20 uncorrected..."

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"I was overwhelmed to learn in your telephone conversation that you had offered me your list of modifications as a gift, since I had presumed that you were offering me the "presentation" to buy for my collection."

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"They repose in the vault of our Rare Book Room, and you ay direct any scholar who inquires about them that they are already available for scholarly use."

Scope and Contents "Whatever the past history, Michael did send you a copy of his article, he did follow up by asking me to send you a copy when the original went astray, and he knows, from my writing him, that I have sent the text. He knows you have it in hand, and it is quite common with critics writing about living authors to alter text in deference to personal feelings of the author in cases where there author is gracious enough to review the text in advance, so long as the integrity of the critic's view...

Scope and Contents "I was pleased to get your letter of 4 September and know that you have emerged from the distress that this MV matter has inflicted on you, and have given up your determination to inflict penalties for Michael Kirkham for his transgressions.".... "...Mrs. Jackson has had considerable correspondence with me relating centrally to your public identification of Madeline Vera as a pseudonym for Laura Riding a subject, as you must know, about which she has had pronounced...

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"I have searched for a reference to the "one story only" phrase in The Close Chaplet, Poet: A Lying Word, Twenty Poems Less, Love as Love; Death as Death, and, because of a thing in my own mind (which proved to be wrong) Four Unposted Letters to Catherine, without finding anything like it."