Mason, Ellsworth, 1917-2013

Scope and Contents "I shall speak first of the appraisal matter: Complications for attention arose for me from the C.P.A.'s procedures towards procuring for me a self-employment status that could yield me some income..."..."My thought as to t[h]e Leaves was, just, what I said - I had in mind only a fact of your investing in them, and this wondering whether you had had satisfactory business results from the investment."..."As to your word about Ellsworth Mason's...

Scope and Contents "Certain developments in Mr. Mason's field of bibliographical interests and activities were only very recently made known to me by him, and these profoundly affect my feelings. This has nothing to do with the personal relations between Mr. Mason and myself. I had informed him that the new knowledge of these involvements raised for me very serious questions as to my feelings about his and my co-operating on an article for you..." "I am opposed to any going thhus to my former...

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"I have thought, coming upon this listing made by Mr. Mason, and sent to me about a year ago, that it would interest you to have it. I have written a little on it..."

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This item contains an explanatory note card by E.M [Ellsworth Mason] describing how the letter was acquired.

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"Mr Ruzicka I came to know through a Cornell Library recommendation. A lovely binding work of a book of husband's Thousand needed repair."

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"I had and have no uneasiness as to your general disposition towards me. The particular procedure, habit of procedure, of a person can absorb in, they the fact of a certain kind of disposition. A person can proceed by rules of his that take the lead over everything else embraced in the matter in question."

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"I am ready to come into an agreement with you that we try to see what can be done together - without exhaustive predefinition, either as to extent or limit of content, or time-fixings."

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"Just a word as to Of Others. There came a dawning idea that this, which I began to remember as a vision of mine of a worthwhile possibility, a book listing people other than those involved in the work I was endeavoring to make a real new life of mine & my associates"

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"I felt your pleasure in having the books, and I wanted, feeling it, to thank you for telling me about it - and speaking of the acquisitions themselves."

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"I think the idea of things in which I have a 'legitimate concern' is inappropriate. We have not from my point of view been in difficulty over things of yours in which I have a legitimate concern."

Scope and Contents "As to Walter Thigpen: You had said that you were 'thrown' by the fact that 'he would want to to continue as an active, intertwining collaborator in a bibliography. rather than turning over the information he accumulated.' If you will re-examine my letters on this subject you will find that no such 'fact' or data for a deduction of such fact was presented to you:"...."As to your list of what you have of mine. I have already commented on 'Barbra Rich, etc. I'd like to...