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"I am sorry to have been slow in following up Mrs. Jackson's exchange of communications with you last month, about the bibliography of her work. The prospect of your co-operating with me in that project, if we can establish a mutually satisfactory way of doing so, is a cheering one for me."

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"I'll be delighted to help you in any way that I can with this project. The big problem, of course, is time. A University Library has recently involved me in a new project that has caused a great deal of disruption in my schedule, a project I fear, with long-term implications. I'm presently working on two bibliographies, Malcolm Lowry and the publications of Harold Monro's Poetry Bookshop."

Scope and Contents "Your news about having found difficulty in obtaining even quite recent information from publishers is interesting. I guess the more takeovers, mergers, bankruptcies there are, the more records will get destroyed or made inaccesible;..." "Since I last wrote, I have been very lucky in securing three important L.R. titles that I didn't have: Voltaire, The Close Chaplet, and 14A. You will be doubly interested in the first two, as Hogarth Press books. I'm enclosing xeroxes of the...

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Draft bibliography listing books, anthologies, periodicals, and poems written or contributed by Laura (Riding) Jackson.

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"As promised in my last letter, here is a copy of my 'wants' list covering Laura (Riding) Jackson books. If a book, listed in my check-list, does not appear in this wants-list, you may take it that I already possess a copy, in the dust-wrapper where called for."

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"In regard to the want-list I must ask whether you want a copy of each item for your own collection or if you are more interested in examining a copy for the proposed bibliography. I've had many of the items on the want-list in the past and they tend to be quite expensive."

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Draft bibliography indexing the poetry of Laura (Riding) Jackson.

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"The want-list as you have it is, yes, essentially of items required (though not necessarily affordable!) to complete my collection. Which leaves its bibliographical relevance unclear, as a comment from Mrs. Jackson has already made me see. So far as compilation of the bibliography is concerned, no item on the wants-list need hold us up, so long as we can locate an examinable copy of it somewhere, in dust-wrapper if called for."

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Index of the first-line of poems by Laura (Riding) Jackson. The descriptive note reads: "Lines are here given in the punctuation of the latest volume, up to 1938, in which they occur. Reprintings after 1938, with the exception of those in SP70, are not listed -- but are noted in the card-index from which this list is formed."

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"I'm enclosing information culled from Marion Sader's Comprehensive Index to English-Language Little Magazines 1890-1970; The Book Review Index (this was only started in 1965); and the Book Review Digest, 1905 to June 1978 (note that the volume for March 1936 to February 1937 is missing at the NYPL)."