Letter from Laura Jackson to Ellsworth Mason, 1973-10-23

"I cannot go any further in what I thought was a practicality of friendship, developing. You have added to your dismissal of my tenderly offered motto for you and your son, as related to formal scales of values and not penetrating to the true nature of loving-kindness, as you know it by special experience, an extreme condemnation of me. You did, indeed, refer to my definition, allowing it some relevance to loving-kindness, but lecturing me on the main substance, as something I had omitted - and bringing forward also lingustic illumination..."

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"I am very tired of ill-treatment, of which an enormous amount of deliberate order has fallen upon my work and myself personally, not all of it from the quarter of Graves-ian sponsoring..."