Box 2

"Many thanks for the package of material on the Chelsea bibliography. It is going to prove most interesting and your kindness is very much appreciated."

"I was hoping for a sign of that material's having come through to you this time, and in intact state. Will you, please, allow yourself to think of that bibliographical material thus - as I shall suggest?"

"In regard to the bibliographic material that you sent to me, this will go into my own collection. I would much rather have it here where it will remind me of you rather than sell it."

"I am putting on a list of friends and of persons of responsible interest in matters of literary, intellectual and, generally, human principle for receiving an announcement of mine for the day of the publication of T.S. Matthews' book Jacks Or Better..."

"I don't know if my name will be of much value to you but you are most welcome to use it. I'm not sure how you plan on using the list but would think that it should go to the major reviewers:"

"Thank you for the prompt reply word. We have been forced to shorten the planned announcement, on legal advice. But we are at present uncertainty as to legal matters..."

"Upon the publication of T.S. Matthews' Jacks or Better, I wish to comment briefly as follows: According to the Brief Description on the dust jacket, 'Jacks is the narrative of a half-dozen people', two dead, (my husband and Matthews' first wife), one world-famous (Robert Graves), 'one who inhabits an arcane isolation' (I hardly recognize myself)..."

From an excerpt clipping of a letter taped to the page: "Speaking of acquiring a collection relating to your achievements, we certainly look forward to hearing from Mr. J Howard Woolman of Andes, New York."