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"I am grateful for your responsiveness to my telephone inquiry, and for the word as to the Stein letters already on the way to me. The C.P.A whom I am consulting found that I had no need of claiming credit for the gift of the letters, but judged that if the fact and value of the gift were put on record it would have future use in income tax return assessings."

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"This is something along the way to tell you that I have been looking into the long incomplete piece of writing The Word 'Woman' of the recovered manuscripts, and decided that I could find justification for presenting it as a stage of importance in the development of my though concerning 'woman', and Divinity, ideas of Divinity."

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

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"I am expecting to be called on by Mr. Moran next week, he having received the appraisal communication from you, and done his work of translating my records left with him into the best possible return-report from the point of view of my interest."

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"For the moment, in immediate mark of my feeling, I am sending you a rough script copy that I made for my records (I now have the text in typed form) of a little message I wrote to someone."

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"In regard to the book that we proposed I must make clear that there is no hurry involved." ...

"You asked about the Leaves. I should have told you this long ago but sometimes I feel a bit secretive about my projects. I recently compiled a Checklist of the Hogarth Press..." ...

"In regard to the University of Tulsa. They have specialized in buying author collections in the field of twentieth century literature..."

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"Sir,--A reviewer's opinions are her own, but her facts should be recognizably accurate: many of Ruth Padel's, in her review of Robert Graves's Collected Poems 1975 (December 26, 1975), are not."

Scope and Contents "I shall speak first of the appraisal matter: Complications for attention arose for me from the C.P.A.'s procedures towards procuring for me a self-employment status that could yield me some income..."..."My thought as to t[h]e Leaves was, just, what I said - I had in mind only a fact of your investing in them, and this wondering whether you had had satisfactory business results from the investment."..."As to your word about Ellsworth Mason's...

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"The surprise presentation of the Hogarth Press Check-list came yesterday. I thank you: this is a kind, and generous, gift, indeed. I find the make-up and production of a very high order of care, management, and result."

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"I have not studied the list exhaustively; but I have assumed from a general glancing through it that there are four American citings."

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"I received the second 25 copies of The Telling on Saturday. The edition has now been over-subscribed and I need the remaining 50 in order to fill waiting orders."

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"I was able to start late, yesterday, on the inscribing of the remaining copies; but I had to accomplish the most of this this morning..."

"As to the likelihood of your having difficulty with The Telling: you may indeed find it very difficult reading."