Box 2

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

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"My thanks! for the kindness of that presentation. I am sorry about the further setback. But you are hopeful - and I back you up in this with serious wishing for the right thing soon."

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"I received this today. Have you access, possibly, to a copy of this? It would interest me much if a xerox copy of what is in this volume of bibliopgraphical report on poetic writings of mine could be obtained in that outing..."

Contains a subscription envelope advertising the sale of "Poetry by American Women 1900-1975: A Bibliography" by Joan Reardon and Kristine Thorsen.

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"I've ordered a copy of the bibliography you mentioned and will send you a xerox of the part on your works as soon as it arrives." "Would you send me the name of the editor and the address of Carcanet New Press?"

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"I am grateful for your acting as to that bibliography - planning to act - and glad that the knowledge of it was useful to you. -- And I thank you for the note about the poem in 'Motion Picture Classic! How that magazine and I got together I cannot figure out!--" "--I meant to write more as to the new edition of Collected Poems! -- I kept my pledge - though with very tight punctuality - to get off the material for the new edition about mid-march -..."

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"I am grateful to you for sending me the issue of your gazette with the article on the Fugitives contained in it." "You may be aware that I have endeavored to put on record a report of my experience as a Fugitive and of my relation with the Fugitives."

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"I'm enclosing an article that mentions you in case you haven't seen it. It was in the New York Times Magazine for 1st April." "Thanks for the information on Carcanet. I'll write to get further information on your new Collected Poems."

Scope and Contents "I looked for omissions in the check-list of that entry in the Poetry By American Women of which you sent me a copy. -- A first inspection has revealed none to me." "Thanks for the N.Y.T Magazine cutting. There have been three items of interest there, for me. The Eain article on Graves; the Tate interview; and a letter in the Apr. 29 issue of the magazine by a woman attacking Graves for his White Goddess representations of the nature of women, and as a poet all liberated women should abhor,...

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"Collected Poems: Mochael Schmidt, the Press Director will likely do the typesetting himself, instead of using offset procedure, in order to avoid spoiling one of the first edition copies. --He is pleased with my new preface provision, and appendix provisions."

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"I have now sent off to you 4 packets of ms. material. There are some additions I did not get included in the packages (very rough script- but of some interest?)."