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

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"The purpose of this letter is to set forth as fully as I can my proposal for the article on the Seizin Press, with a suggestion as to how you would contribute to the article, with some estimate of time scheme. Secondly, I want to clear my files of notes to you I have piled up during your last three letters."

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"Now, for the Cave and Ford material, can we proceed along these lines. Since Cave's book is due so soon from Fabers, they are the publisher's of Ellmann's and my Critical Writings of James Joyce. We both were together with Peter du Sautoy, the partner we deal with, at the 3rd International Joane Joyce Symposium in Trieste in June..."

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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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"Mr. Hugh Ford, who is on the staff of the English Department of Trenton State College, Trenton, New Jersey 08625, wrote to me a while ago of being engaged in writing a book on private presses (!), and of wishing information from me as to The Seizin Press (!!)."

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"You are kind, in the matter of Mr Hugh Ford. I shall communicate to him your suggestion and the fact of your good will."

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"Has Faber published your book yet?-if it has been published, I would like to see the Seizin Press treatment."

"I have wondered: did Mr. Ford enter into correspondence with you..."

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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"...copy of the chapter of his book on the S.P. that you could ...with all due acknowledgement to him in your article."

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"...to the Hugh Ford matter: I have his chapter have read it for his book, submitted for my approval."

Scope and Contents "I should be very much against any action by you towards procuring an advance copy of the Cave book in connection with anything to do with me. I have explained to you that Mr. Cavehas hurt me by a behavior incomprehensible to me..."...."...when the article in The Private Library is on its way, with the shape and temper of it having an actual feel for both, and a common sense of fact fouding, with this, some sure development, I should not hesitate to commucate the...