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"Can we exchange agreements that I will stop making unilateral statements about things in which you have legitimate concern if you will stop assuring me what my mind has decided."

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"My idea is, that we go on, in a relation with each other, allowing for its being at present attended by some difficulty, inhering in disparities in viewpoint, in certain areas of thought and sensibility."

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"I want to tell you about Focus. I think I have, actually, told you my all about 'Of Others': that I incline very strongly at present to the view that there never was such a book published by the Seizin Press or begun by my organizing labors-"

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"I felt your pleasure in having the books, and I wanted, feeling it, to thank you for telling me about it - and speaking of the acquisitions themselves."

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"I think the idea of things in which I have a 'legitimate concern' is inappropriate. We have not from my point of view been in difficulty over things of yours in which I have a legitimate concern."

Scope and Contents "As to Walter Thigpen: You had said that you were 'thrown' by the fact that 'he would want to to continue as an active, intertwining collaborator in a bibliography. rather than turning over the information he accumulated.' If you will re-examine my letters on this subject you will find that no such 'fact' or data for a deduction of such fact was presented to you:"...."As to your list of what you have of mine. I have already commented on 'Barbra Rich, etc. I'd like to...

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"In addition to the titles of your works that you list in your letter, my notes say that I am missing the following:"

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"While on these themes, here is a list of the reprints of your works offered in Books In Print this year:"

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"The Shout is available in 4 books:" "Until they are collated, one cannot say whether this strange and not entirely successful story has been altered in successive versions.

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Typewritten letter:

"I don't understand 'The Enemy No. 3'. What is that? Perhaps Wyndham Lewis' magazine?"

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"The Len Lye etc. pamphlet: I have only a copy at Cornell - I mean, they have, it is now theirs but restricted from access except by my consent."

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"I'll just say here that I shall plan for your taking on The Private Library article."

Scope and Contents "1. Please, return to me what is enclosed-Mr. Cotton's list of titles, and the last letters between us." "2. I am assuming you will agree to checking what you write (in the way of an article) with me first, before sending it to Mr. Cotton." "3. I send you a copy of my latest letter to Mr. Cotton." "4. ...have I sent you a note as to a misprint in the Faber 1970 Selected Poems?" "5. Four Unpoasted Letters to Catherine, Hour Press 1930..." "6. Reprint people - they are black guards whether or...

Scope and Contents Typewritten letter:"In current Mass. Review is an article by M.L. Rosenthal is a mistaken interpretation of my renouncing of poetry, a mistaken representation of my attitude to my own poems, and a citing of the wretched Spender's view of me expressed in the Concise Enc. entry..."...."...and acount of pirateish behavior of R.G. with the book, without my permission-which he claims he had.-and such manipulation as to get the book characterized in authorship...

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"...but I have only to relate my receipt yesterday of four issues of the Fugitive, including the first of 1924 which contains your first contributions to that magazine, which surely must be among your first published poems, and the first of 1925 that lists you among The Fugitives."