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Contains 27 Results:

Letter from [Ellsworth Mason] to Laura Jackson, 1972-02-22

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 8
Identifier: 1976.004.1.8.001
Scope and Contents

"I have just bought a volume of Pindar that seems to have belonged to you. I enclose Xerox copies of some parts of the book."

Dates: 1972-02-22

Letter from Laura Jackson to Ellsworth Mason, 1972-02-27

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 8
Identifier: 1976.004.1.8.002
Scope and Contents

"The A.L.S. RIding seems genuine, unquestionably so. The bookplate may be a spoof, someone's inot benevolent idea of a joke, or it may be the token of someone of the 'Riding' family to which A.L.S. belonged."

Dates: 1972-02-27

Letter from [Ellsworth Mason] to Laura Jackson, 1973-02-23

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 8
Identifier: 1976.004.1.8.003
Scope and Contents

"You may be interested to know that the remarkable copy of Chills and Fever, whose inscription is enclosed, scraped, and banged on all four corners, has finally come to rest and loving care in my collection. It must have been claimed by Graves before late 1929..."

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"Michael Kirkham gave a fine, pioneering paper on Graves' use of your writings in a seminar at the annual meeting of the Modern Library Association..."

Dates: 1973-02-23

Letter from Laura Jackson to Ellsworth Mason, 1973-02-29

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 8
Identifier: 1976.004.1.8.004
Scope and Contents

"The book could not have been claimed by Mr. Graves before 1929 as from 1929 to 1939, because from December 1925 to 1939 - well into 1939 - I was in immediate controlling presence to all effects, literary and of other sort, of mine, in the association existing between Mr. Graves and myself."

Dates: 1973-02-29

Letter from [Ellsworth Mason] to Laura Jackson, 1973-03-11

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 8
Identifier: 1976.004.1.8.005
Scope and Contents

"Regarding one point in your letter of 29 February, our Library would be eager to be informed of potential acquisition of your materials, if you will write about them when available."

Dates: 1973-03-11

Letter from Laura Jackson to Ellsworth Mason, 1973-03-23

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 8
Identifier: 1976.004.1.8.006
Scope and Contents

"Mr. Kirkham...informed me that a revised form of his paper might be published in your 'Focus.' I had forgotten that this Gravesian 'newsletter' had this name, and more distinctly than at my first learning of the name (from yourself) I was repelled by the identicality of it with my name for the little private magazine of my editing of long ago."

Dates: 1973-03-23

Letter from [Ellsworth Mason] to Laura Jackson, 1973-03-26

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 8
Identifier: 1976.004.1.8.007
Scope and Contents

"Focus on Robert Graves, which I had conceived, named, and had the title printed for our covers of a multilithed periodical before I ever wrote to you, goes to over 250 addresses, of which about a hundred and fifty are major research libraries, mostly in this country, but also in England, Poland, Canada, and New Zealand..."

Dates: 1973-03-26

Letter from Laura Jackson to Ellsworth Mason, 1973-03-30

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 8
Identifier: 1976.004.1.8.008
Scope and Contents "...it seemed to me quite possible that you were acquainted with the past existence of a prive periodical called 'Focus' of my editorship, that your use of 'Focus' for your Gravesian periodical issue might have originated in the coming to your attention of that title, in that setting."..."You address someone, in your account of the importance of your periodical in what you call 'the scholarly community', who regards in a state of literary stupefaction all who treat...
Dates: 1973-03-30

Letter from Laura Jackson to Ellsworth Mason, 1973-05-18

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 8
Identifier: 1976.004.1.8.009
Scope and Contents

"I have a marked set of page proofs of The Telling not committed; I have decided to offer it for acquisition."

Dates: 1973-05-18

Letter from [Ellsworth Mason] to Laura Jackson, 1973-05-23

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 8
Identifier: 1976.004.1.8.010
Scope and Contents

"I thank you for your letter of May 18th asking whether the University of Colorado Library would be interested in acquiring the marked page proofs of The Telling. Indeed, we would;..."

Dates: 1973-05-23