Box 1

"...but suddenly felt that there was need of my refering to something as to your disposition of the book which I had failed to think. If you list them in a catalogue, please, bear it in mind that I am sensitive to possibilities of literary and personal identification that may not accord with my ideas of the correct or appropriate in my regard."

"Thank you for your letter. We appreciate you offering the Laura Riding typescripts to us."

"I've decided not to list The Telling in my catalogue of lady writers of the 20th century. The reason is that if we are succesful in selling the signed editions..."

"I understand, and approve, the scruple that has altered your plan as to the handling of The Telling copies. I should indeed like to see a copy of your script for the flyer-"

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"I am sorry our Mr. Gallup idea had no future. I dislike that talk of 'major' acquisitions."

"I delayed answering because I had already made arrangements to see Lola Szladits on another matter and had planned to bring the typescripts to her attention then. We had our meeting yesterday and Dr. Szladits has expressed interest in purchasing them for the Berg Collection."

"I'm enclosing copy for the flyer for the signed edition of The Telling. I've kept this as simple as possible as this flyer is meant for dealers primarily."

"It pleased me that our thought as to the Berg Collection met, as it did- and that the response there was hospitable.. As I related in our talking yesterday, the bibliographer person is seasoned in such matters, besides being a very upright person."

"How could there be any criticism of the flyer, which is all practical essentiality! ---As to a paragraph in the Publisher's Weekly, that might well from their point of view be something of some descriptive body."

"On the copyright page you also changed essay to portion. I think that you had better send me a further 25 copies as the flyer will go out next week..."

"This is just a short note to let you know that the Berg Collection has approved the purchase of the typescripts."