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"...I report that I was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship for the forwarding of the note-yet completed work on language...and my long-planned book on the 'Failure' of Poetry..."

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"The procedure you outlined in your letter, of my sending you the item in question on approval, after your being informed of the asking price, and, then, calling for sight of it, is one of which I have never before had experience."

Scope and Contents "I have done some consulting as to the 'asking-price' for the marked copy of the page-proofs of The Telling, and I was given a range though just to the buyer and myself..."...."...I am addressing to you, before any other, a question as to some biliographical matters information on which I need in preparation for an article by myself treating of certain things bibliographical. I have been left vague in recollection as to whether you possess copies of the privately...

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"...not to hold you up, I answer your questions about FOCUS. There is no Seizin press imprint on the numbers..."

"There is no information justifying Higginson's calling Graves' contributions to numbers I, II, III, and IV "Letters" or "Letters from Deya"."

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"I am writing as to the first set of page-proofs of The Telling. This is red-ink marked by the editorial supervisor of production, with whom I worked closely, and by myself. But we had worked so much with the galleys that there are only minor corrections registered in the page-proofs. Also, the core-piece of The Telling became unalterably final for me in its magazine-published form--I could not, would not, touch anything - except in correction of a printer's mistake."

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"In attempting to place an order for the page proofs of The Telling...you should should address the package directly to me."

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"I have a young friend, a lovely girl, ten years old, who has had open-heart surgery at a special establishment for children at the University of Florida in Gainesville..."

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"I thank you for the instructions as to the page proofs of The Telling. I shall probably get these into the mails to-morrow."

Scope and Contents "I have a note in my bibliographical material as to a listing of James Moran's "The Seizin press of Laura Riding and Robert Graves", supplied me by someone:"...."'Modernist Poetry & The Plain Reader's Rights'...I thought you might recognize an item-identity, here, and be able also to advise as to what, and where, at this university, to inquire."...."Mr Kirkham...has written an article on me, my work for Chelsea, a portion of which draws...

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"With regard to the page proofs, I really had intended to accept your offer to send six pages of corrected carbons of the manuscript to consider with the proofs. I think that alone they are probably not worth $90. The proofs themselves would be worth about $20 uncorrected..."

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"I feel concern over the lack of word from you. I sent the page-proofs item to you, per our understanding, on July 20th. (It was insured). By August 2nd no word of acknowledgement had come from you."

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"I am pleased about your explicitness as to the proof: I am sending you the carbon typescript with my work connections embraced in it. This is the basis of the passage at the close of the Extracts from later portion of the book."