Mason, Ellsworth, 1917-2013

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"I have formed friend's feeling toward Prof. Joseph Katz, editor of Proof, and am much pleased by evidence of his having formed such towards me/ I said to him in a very recent letter that I should like if I could to dedicate the article (which you are publishing), which was written originally for him, then withdrawn by me, to him."

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"...the time until your issue will be ready for distribution will not be very long, and that you might be ble to have early copies sent out on my behalf, I shall prepare a list of persons who for one reason or another ought to be presented with copies of the issue..."

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"Hence to the little Selected Poems volume. As I read your name, I thought I had perhaps seen it in a literary connection."

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"It is, that you have collected the works of Mr. Robert Graves, besides having done some collecting of works of mine. This suggests difficulty because it brings into consideration the possibility, even the probability, of your having had, and continuing to have, correspondence association, some degree of personal association, that is, with Mr. Graves."

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"In your second letter to me you endeavor to put me at my ease as to your comment about my remaining a remarkable woman by returning to me my own terms as coverable in meaning by your characterization."

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"In your first letter tld of having published an edition of the critical writings of James Joyce (I misremembered that, coming away from your letter with the idea of a bibliography of his critical writings) with Richard Ellman."

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"You asked, Has anyone done a bibliography - or a list. A few years ago I consented, reluctantly because I feared the work involved for myself, to help someone who sought my help (and approval) with a bibliography..."

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"I have this matter of bibliography to speak of to you."

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"I send you a copy of the letter I wrote to the Minnesota Review:"

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"I can't recall whether or not I have commented, to you, on the course of Seizin Press commentary - of which I have known little till very recently, having, as I think I have explained, lived apart from the traffic of literary doings-"

Scope and Contents "I am going to assume, I am as from now assuming, that the person who over three years ago was headed for being 'my' bibliographer, and gradually fell into a state of paralysis as such, is not going to reply to my letter of recent days indicating that I held the relationship to have come to its term, and putting to him two questions."....."You said, either a check-list or a bibliography. I don't know what is done with check0lists, if anything, besides the publication...

Scope and Contents "He who had been as 'my' bibliographer, and gone out of reach, has spoken to me by telephone. He replied thus to my query as to his material. He is ready to hand over his material to another approved by me, he to receive, according to my suggestion, credit on the basis of this as a collaborator."...."I shall tell you something of his story, for your use in forming a view of the possibility I have envisaged as to his material."...."If you wan...

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"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..."