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"Thank you for your word as to the ms. material; and as to the Pound Provenca. Of course, I'll go by your judgement as to the latter. I am very grateful in your writing on the Word Woman matter. And for your offer of checking what is in the Berg Collection to examine the typescript."

"I have thought that I need not indicate to you that libraries that have mss. material of nine acquired through Graves marketings or manipulations of material by personal or comercial agents of Graves, I would not wish to be offered anything of what you take into your care, for me. But the history of those operations is intricate, and the operations do go on, so I am noting what I know of the places..."

"I am moved to confide to you my feelings on receipt of an invitation from McFarlin Library to attend its rededication."

"I had a telephone call this morning from Dr. Lola Szladits at the Berg Collection. She said that she had recommended purchase of the manuscript material that I had offered to her."

"This is just a note to let you know that I had confirmation from the Berg Collection this afternoon that they will purchase the collection of manuscript material."

List of "Libraries that Laura Riding is angry with". Appraisal notes for "Under the Mind's Watch". List of "Laura Riding Jackson Manuscripts".

"Thank you very much for your letter of October 13, with its good news of the likelihood of the Berg Collections purchasing the manuscript. How you proceed in these matters is of sure comfort to me." "I am grateful for what you wrote on the development at Tulsa. I could have no quarrel with the decision, the circumstances, that lay behind it, the problems of financial funding with which librarians have to deal."

"I very nearly followed my telephone call of yesterday evening with an immediate second one, for immediately after it it came to me that I had not spoken of Mrs. Webster (Mrs. Janet Webster of the Department of Rare Books). Surely you know her quite well?" "Alan Clark has for what has become quite a long time been stopped in work on the bibliography."

"I am in such anguish over this that it is hard for me to report it to you, but it seems that the post office has lost the carton of manuscripts that we sold to the Berg Collection. It was sent to Dr. Szladits on October 17."

"This is indeed a painful occurrence. I feel keenly for you; I am stunned by the blow, but try of course to mix it in with the entirety of what happens - and proceed."