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Correspondence and manuscripts of the American poet. Handwritten and carbon copy typescripts.

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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-"

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"...I am attributing this to a common effect where the shadow of Mr. Graves' work falls over writers' pages. So much perversion of actualities relating to myself, and suppression of fact concerning Mr. Graves' work in relation to mine, and to myself, have been achieved that it is indeed remarkable that any instinct of truth survives, in my regard."

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"I come somewhat late to the task of making my report to you on your paragraphs on The Seizin Press."

The letter clarifies the history of the Seizin press and Jackson's association with the press.

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"I broke association with Mr. Graves because of certain dissatisfactions. My breaking the association was not of one piece with an act of repudiating '22 books'."

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"And so you are a librarian. A rather young librarian (at a university library) is visiting me with his wife in the Christmas week. He has been quite long working on a bibliography of my writings, but held back from consulting me until about a year ago."

Scope and Contents "Since we have come this far in speaking of Mr. Ford, I find it not out of order to speak more on my and your encounter with him." "Since you are going to have the little book of poems, I take special pains to tell you that the case is not of Faber's 'brinng back' some of my poetic work into print again but of my allowing these poems to be reproduced." "He has plundered my thought, my very writings, pillaged in my poems, all this to an extent not comprehended (a...

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"You --mened there, with what seemed to me a --ree of friendship, the need of public commentary by myself on the Seizin Press story, to counterbalance the Robert Graves' story of this."

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"I assume from what you have written that you would have written, in a while, facing the difficulty of writing against the background of the incomprehension you experienced in reading my preface to the poems-selection."

"You speak of my way of writing, as you encounter it in that preface, as if it were the result of immurement with my husband in esoteric preoccupation, far from the literary world."

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"My book is to be a general history of private presses, covering the whole field from the 15th century onwards, and so my account of Seizin will necessarily be brief. I have typed out the passages which relate to the Press, and these are on the attached sheets."