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"Just a note to let you know that I've now received the four packages of manuscripts plus the additional one."

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"It contented me to know that the bundles of manuscript has come to you. I have been slow in sending thanks, from finding it difficult to keep to all my tasks in such days as we have been having here (abnormally hot for Florida);..."

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"In any case, I have priced the manuscripts that you sent to me at $3,800. Tulsa is involved in a very large purchase at the moment and I feel that it would be to our advantage to wait until late August or early September before offering this mater to them."

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"After writing to you yesterday I received your letter this morning and hasten to answer. I had a call from my attorney this morning advising that the closing on my house will be this Friday afternoon."

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"Of course, I shall expect delay in your communications with me: and wait upon a sign from you before I write again.- I thank you for this report of your appraisal of the mss material." "Do you know the Oregon bookseller Charles Seluzicki...? He has written to me indicating interest in first editions..."

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"I hate to write to you with bad news, but I've had to reduce the price for the manuscript material that you sent to me. When I first gave you a price of $3,800 I had only made an estimate of the number of pages involved..."

Scope and Contents "Of course, yes I am disappointed. But pleased about your handling this matter to your best care and experienced understanding. I could have supplied more - but reserved some material as being of uncompleted writing-." "A query- is the 1910 edition of Ezra Pound's Provenca - Poems selected from Personae, Exultations, and Canzoniere - Boston, Small, Maynard & Co. of a distinct value." "I have been looking over the xeroxcopy of The Word Woman one of the pieces of the ms. material you sold...

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"The Word Woman manuscript material sold to the Berg Collection consisted of the original typscript, 116 pages, with corrections in your hand. Pages 88 and 89 plus one third of page 87 were missing."

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"I am sending you the Leaves & the Civilita delle machine issue today.-- I am still in post-hurricane state. It was a bad one, the worst I have experienced in 36 yrs. here."

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"This is just a note to acknowledge the receipt of the Leaves and the Civilita delle machine."