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Item — Box 1, Folder: 6
Identifier: 1976.004.1.6.002
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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."
Dates:
1971-01-18
Item — Box 1, Folder: 6
Identifier: 1976.004.1.6.005
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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..."
Dates:
1971-02-26
Item — Box 1, Folder: 6
Identifier: 1976.004.1.6.006
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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-"
Dates:
1971-03-12
Item — Box 1, Folder: 7
Identifier: 1976.004.1.7.007
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Typewritten letter:
"I don't understand 'The Enemy No. 3'. What is that? Perhaps Wyndham Lewis' magazine?"
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"The Len Lye etc. pamphlet: I have only a copy at Cornell - I mean, they have, it is now theirs but restricted from access except by my consent."
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"I'll just say here that I shall plan for your taking on The Private Library article."
Dates:
1971-07-28
Item — Box 1, Folder: 7
Identifier: 1976.004.1.7.019
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"I had only understood that you, as a person of bibliographical interests, with literary interests attendant on these, and a love of collecting, had made yourself into a collector of Robert Graves' writings. Further, where someone comes into friendly relations with me who has some background of professional connection with the Graves-work subject, I am no censor of the person's past, or unarrestable or irremovable continuance of the past into the present.".......
Dates:
1971-09-11; 1969-06-23
Item — Box 1, Folder: 7
Identifier: 1976.004.1.7.023
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"I don't recall any puzzlement of mine about James Reeves' The Natural Need. I worked wit him on this book, over a preparatory period, and gave it its title.""I comprehend your surprise that I should be distressed to the degree manifested at finding you, as prospective writer of something in which I should be intimately involved as an active consultant, to be engaged in this public activity centered in interest in the writings of Robert Graves.""As to Empson and...
Dates:
1971-09-18
Item — Box 1, Folder: 8
Identifier: 1976.004.1.8.004
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"The book could not have been claimed by Mr. Graves before 1929 as from 1929 to 1939, because from December 1925 to 1939 - well into 1939 - I was in immediate controlling presence to all effects, literary and of other sort, of mine, in the association existing between Mr. Graves and myself."
Dates:
1973-02-29
Item — Box 1, Folder: 8
Identifier: 1976.004.1.8.012
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"I have done some consulting as to the 'asking-price' for the marked copy of the page-proofs of The Telling, and I was given a range though just to the buyer and myself..."...."...I am addressing to you, before any other, a question as to some biliographical matters information on which I need in preparation for an article by myself treating of certain things bibliographical. I have been left vague in recollection as to whether you possess copies of the privately...
Dates:
1973-06-13
Item — Box 1, Folder: 8
Identifier: 1976.004.1.8.024
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"The Madeline Vera matter is not for me on the plane of agitation of mine, and its entitlement to respect. We have here a liberty taken by Mr. Kirkham for which he has had no authority from me. I have never made public identification of myself as M.V. Mr. Kirkham has had sufficient acquaintance with me, by correspondence and by personal visit, for awareness of of my my view of the outrage committed by Messrs, Higginson and Graves in their making themselves authorities as to the...
Dates:
1973-08-26
Item — Box 1, Folder: 8
Identifier: 1976.004.1.8.025
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"I must try to impose upon you that we have a case of bibliographic fraud: that is authority. Robert Graves is no authority for ... of authority to me or anything via Mr. Higginson. The strength of my feelings is not the issue."...."I cannot be with you at all in your solicited in M. K's authorial perogatives - as with your lack of conscience, amidst so much editorial circumstances as to what you are here with respect to a bibliographical desecration by Higginson and...
Dates:
1973-08-27
