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Scope and Contents "I am very grateful to you for the xeroxed pages of The Shout; and for the 'meticulous' definition. The American Heritage dictionary is the one I had in mind, but I can make do with what you sent, and well: it provides adequate substantiation of what I suspected: that within a short time, lexicographically speaking, the degenerative process in word-treatment has here got itselg, conveniently for the abuse, officialized."....."I am going to ask you - here, now - to try...

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"...I thank you for accepting the suggestion by Mrs. Jackson that I write an article on the Seizin Press."

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"I have not been able to think through a plan for proceeding on the Seizin article, but let us not get caught in a definite deadline, while still pressing ahead with good earnest."

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"Have I mentioned that I am writing something on my relations with The Fugitives..."

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"My poems writing begin to have some continuity when I was a student at Cornell - which I left at the end of my sophmore year..."

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"...copy of the chapter of his book on the S.P. that you could ...with all due acknowledgement to him in your article."

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"...to the Hugh Ford matter: I have his chapter have read it for his book, submitted for my approval."

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"I have been left conscious of failur eof reference to your generous feeling expressed as to one special aim you have in addressing yourself to the article..."

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"The purpose of this letter is to set forth as fully as I can my proposal for the article on the Seizin Press, with a suggestion as to how you would contribute to the article, with some estimate of time scheme. Secondly, I want to clear my files of notes to you I have piled up during your last three letters."

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"Now, for the Cave and Ford material, can we proceed along these lines. Since Cave's book is due so soon from Fabers, they are the publisher's of Ellmann's and my Critical Writings of James Joyce. We both were together with Peter du Sautoy, the partner we deal with, at the 3rd International Joane Joyce Symposium in Trieste in June..."

Scope and Contents "I had only understood that you, as a person of bibliographical interests, with literary interests attendant on these, and a love of collecting, had made yourself into a collector of Robert Graves' writings. Further, where someone comes into friendly relations with me who has some background of professional connection with the Graves-work subject, I am no censor of the person's past, or unarrestable or irremovable continuance of the past into the present.".......

Scope and Contents "I should be very much against any action by you towards procuring an advance copy of the Cave book in connection with anything to do with me. I have explained to you that Mr. Cavehas hurt me by a behavior incomprehensible to me..."...."...when the article in The Private Library is on its way, with the shape and temper of it having an actual feel for both, and a common sense of fact fouding, with this, some sure development, I should not hesitate to commucate the...