Letter from Laura Jackson to Ellsworth Mason , 1971-05-14

"I have perceived in you an intolerance towards the pari passu mode of relations: the drive to go steps ahead, and not treat the relation with another as belonging to a common course. But I was not prepared for anything as extreme as this letter of yours in which you present me, after coming to me about doing bibliographical work in my connection, and with myself, in a fashion, at reasonable hand, with a decision you are making for my good, in my interest - quite dismissing myself as a party..."