Letter from Laura Jackson to Ellsworth Mason, 1974-02-19

"While you have, as you say, and I do not doubt you, no responsibility for the idea of inviting me to speak at a conclave devoted to the (to me) rum subject of Robert Graves, you have large responsibility for the promotion of this organized concentration on that subject. Not only are you a focal point in this (to me) unhealthy project by your Focus enterprise: you are in particular an active mover in the Seminar-one Graves institution, and its maintenance."

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"I am not tickled or otherwise moved by your representations as to the ferment of interest in me, or the possibility of my being invited to teach somewhere. The case is not what is or is not good for a living writer or a dead one, but what the actualities are. I know the academic field pretty well, in this country, and others: no one is going to invite me to teach. No one is even buying my books."