Scope and Contents "I was pleased to get your letter of 4 September and know that you have emerged from the distress that this MV matter has inflicted on you, and have given up your determination to inflict penalties for Michael Kirkham for his transgressions.".... "...Mrs. Jackson has had considerable correspondence with me relating centrally to your public identification of Madeline Vera as a pseudonym for Laura Riding a subject, as you must know, about which she has had pronounced...

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"I have searched for a reference to the "one story only" phrase in The Close Chaplet, Poet: A Lying Word, Twenty Poems Less, Love as Love; Death as Death, and, because of a thing in my own mind (which proved to be wrong) Four Unposted Letters to Catherine, without finding anything like it."

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"Prof. Feladman called me a couple of times last wekk, and I returned his call, but we missed each other. I wrote him to say that Kirkham's article is in producation and will be out about December 15th."

Scope and Contents "I have at hand your two letters dated January 27th and one dated February 4th, and will reply in order. First, a copy of MKs article has gone off to Prof. Oshima in Japan, with a note that it was sent at your request."...."I am not surprised at your reaction to the MLA seminar, and described to the group that proposed it rather accurately what your reaction would probably be. Their grand idea was to invite you to speak at the seminar!!!".......

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"--To note a few things that I have had in mind, pointing in your direction -- I have had a letter from Michael Kirkham as to a number of things of immediate interest between us. He made no reference in his letter to the Madeline Vara matter."

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"Then, to speak of the Madelaine Vara, etc., matter I thank you for your report on that. How Mr. Kirkham came to recording this attribution without checking with me, remains near-incomprehensible to me, he having been apprised of my feelings on Mr. Higginson's presumptuous assumption of authority to spread such attribution, in the course of the rather long correspondence maintained between us not very many years ago on a wide number of things pertaining to my work."

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"...it seems important to me to register with y[o]u at my earliest my feelings about and my position on the fact of which I learned from Michael Kirkham a few days ago that there is being planned for the Christmas meeting a seminar on Robert Graves, to treat of the subject 'The influence of Laura Riding on Robert Graves'."

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"I thank you very much for giving me the opportunity of seeing the draft before your sending an actual letter on the matter to Mr. Kirkham...I suggest that you modify the text in this way:..."

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"It is quite false that I had a 'determination to inflict penalties on M.K. for his transgressions'. You alter actualities to fit a drama which is your drama, not mine."