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Scope and Contents "I have perceived in you an intolerance towards the pari passu mode of relations: the drive to go steps ahead, and not treat the relation with another as belonging to a common course. But I was not prepared for anything as extreme as this letter of yours in which you present me, after coming to me about doing bibliographical work in my connection, and with myself, in a fashion, at reasonable hand, with a decision you are making for my good, in my interest - quite dismissing myself as a...

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"You cast me out discourteously. Your letter of 14 May has very much distressed me. It is impossible that you could have read my letter so insensitively without willing to do so. What you take as adamantine acts are clearly attitudes, proposals and suggestions elaborately presented for your consideration, and specifically requesting your review."

Scope and Contents "I do not respond in kind by accusing you of baseness in what you did to me in that letter, or in in what you do to me in this present one, with charges of disdaining you while trying to cnceal my disdain but doing so 'poorly', and with acting towards you on the spur of dislike oof having impressed on me the importance of my concentrating on my husband's and my work on language-"...."As I have indicated, I was affected by what you did in that letter and closing out...