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"You will find an article by on Robert Graves in the first number of the Long Island Book Collectors Journal, published in 1969, a trivial one and my only such effort to date. The idea for the newsletter began in July 1969, when I requested authorization from our President to issue one."

Scope and Contents "You err, much, in your presentation to me of the explanation of Of Others. I have already told you that Of Others was a planned publication, and that it was abandoned - was never published."... "...let me say something about the Reeves correspondence. I have placed at Cornell a commentary on this correspondence, and on its being marketed, besides, The Curator and I decided to keep this private for an indeterminate present except in special cases."......

Scope and Contents "I don't recall any puzzlement of mine about James Reeves' The Natural Need. I worked wit him on this book, over a preparatory period, and gave it its title.""I comprehend your surprise that I should be distressed to the degree manifested at finding you, as prospective writer of something in which I should be intimately involved as an active consultant, to be engaged in this public activity centered in interest in the writings of Robert Graves.""As to Empson and...

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"It has saddened me, Mr. Mason, to find, by your copy of your letter sent to Mr. Cotton, that you should have been so insensitive to my immediatelyely-reported-to-you consternation at finding you were actively and extensively involved in the public prosecution of Robert Graves interests, as to hear that as, simply, something I must automatically disregard as what is."

Scope and Contents "Certain developments in Mr. Mason's field of bibliographical interests and activities were only very recently made known to me by him, and these profoundly affect my feelings. This has nothing to do with the personal relations between Mr. Mason and myself. I had informed him that the new knowledge of these involvements raised for me very serious questions as to my feelings about his and my co-operating on an article for you..." "I am opposed to any going thhus to my former...

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Correspondence and manuscripts of the American poet. Handwritten and carbon copy typescripts.

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"I feel with you, in this time of change. I am grateful to you for taking me into the circle of your experience. It is a good story, what you tell; and I am glad for you that you have the happiness of its being, much your own story as well as your father's."