"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."

"...I shall still be very grateful for the help you have given me in putting my brief account of the Seizin Press into better shape. You are quite right in suggesting that I should have contacted you initially, instead of relying on the Moran-Graves version."

Masopust refers to the Graves and Riding project he discussed with Ellmann; queries Ellmann about the whereabouts of a series of letters between Yeats and Riding concerning the possiblity of including [Graves's] poems in Yeats's Oxford Book of Modern Poetry.

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

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

"I have been moved by Miss Ruth Padel's review, in your issue of December 26, 1975, of Robert Graves' Collected Poems 1975, to offer as ballast for the balloon-like still-higher lift that Miss Padel endeavors to give what is called 'Graves criticism' with her particular formula of super-heated veneration, two related articles of principle."

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

"Though so little came directly from Lawrence and Richards, their influence was by no means absent from one of the most interesting and important of the literary presses: The Seizin Press which was started by the poets Laura Riding and Robert Graves in 1927."

"As time went on, Laura's Riding's part in the production of the hand-printed volumes grow smaller, as the concentrated move on the editorial side of the Press's work."

"Seven years later when Richards had printed his first and only book, Graves founded the Seizin Press with Laura Riding. Neither of them knew anything about printing so they sought the help and information from Richards, whome they had met through their friendship with Lawrence."

"Checklist of Seizin Press Publications."

"Sir,--A reviewer's opinions are her own, but her facts should be recognizably accurate: many of Ruth Padel's, in her review of Robert Graves's Collected Poems 1975 (December 26, 1975), are not."