Box 1

"It has been a startling experience for me to be presented with a fact of all this material's being elsewhere than at Cornell Library, where I had it sent at request under most careful circumstances of security-control..."

"You will understand from what I have written, I hope, that I did not offer to Cornell the originals and carbons in a 'lump'; I regard the carbons as a distinct quantity; and for reasons of my own textual interest in the state of the material as a whole..."

"Dr. Eddy did send me your typescripts and I have them here in safe keeping. He did not, however, send me the comments that you made on the material."

"I should much like to have word from you as to the early mss. of mine, indicating that we are in a good relation as to them of good understanding."

"I note that your estimate includes the carbons. As I have written to you, at some point before the material leaves your hand, it having found, you finding, a purchaser approved by me, and with conditions of handling the material by the purchaser approved by me, I should want the carbons sent to me for examination, in comparison with my xeroxes of the originals."

"Upon checking my records, I find that I have 239 pages of original typescript and 130 pages of carbon. I would like to send the carbons to you by registered mail for your comments..."

"...to get a special account of the material in your posession written for your specific understanding of its make-up and history, and for the interest of others whom you might judge to be likely and proper acquirers of it."

"As to what corrections are in my own hand: in the main, in my copy here of the first-sheets of everything, sent to me by my bibliographer friend who had all the material in keeping for me in London, after it was yielded up, corrections are mine."

"My Fugitive Catalogue was based on my own collection; I'm sure you realize how difficult it is to find copies of your early books."

"I'm presently in touch with a University Library about your typescripts, but they haven't yet made a decision;..."