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Scope and Contents "I was pleased to get your letter of 4 September and know that you have emerged from the distress that this MV matter has inflicted on you, and have given up your determination to inflict penalties for Michael Kirkham for his transgressions.".... "...Mrs. Jackson has had considerable correspondence with me relating centrally to your public identification of Madeline Vera as a pseudonym for Laura Riding a subject, as you must know, about which she has had pronounced...

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"I thank you very much for giving me the opportunity of seeing the draft before your sending an actual letter on the matter to Mr. Kirkham...I suggest that you modify the text in this way:..."

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"It is quite false that I had a 'determination to inflict penalties on M.K. for his transgressions'. You alter actualities to fit a drama which is your drama, not mine."

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"I know that Graves line about there One Story Only is a steal from me. It was just brought to my attention by someone who wrote his doctoral thesis on subjects involving reference to my work & Graves:"

Scope and Contents "...as to The Survey copyright: I believe that English law established authorial copyright to the book and I have had the confirmation of this I believe that the English publishers in the late forties returned the copyright to t[h]e authors by way of A.P. Watt."...."You do what many do in elevating normal objection to morally, plaiun morally, wrong doing to a Super-sensitivity...What is there super-sensitive about objecting to the insult Graves' and Hiiginson's and...

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"I am sending you a little present, a little thank-you for much kindness. - The paperback version of the American edition of my Selected Poems."

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"And I wish to ask you whether someone I care to have read the article for its critical usefulness to him may have it to read before publication."

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"I have searched for a reference to the "one story only" phrase in The Close Chaplet, Poet: A Lying Word, Twenty Poems Less, Love as Love; Death as Death, and, because of a thing in my own mind (which proved to be wrong) Four Unposted Letters to Catherine, without finding anything like it."

Scope and Contents "There is time, and time for further explaining. It is a strange story! The story of this 'one story only' matter. The person who spotted what he was sure was an appropriation gave me my first knowledge, of R.G.'s taking such a line in a poem of his - & there had been no communication with me before he wrote on this; and other findings of like sort."...."The texts of the Am. & Eng. editions of The Telling are identical. The AM. has the misprint on p. 125...

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"In the same mail was your gift copy of Selected Poems, and I am deeply moved by your inscriptions. All the quotation marks are in, by the way."

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"My son recieved for his 6th birthday last Wednesday a model kit for a Wankel engine. It was highly intricate, not only in the number of parts, but in its complex and ingenious electrical properties."

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"--To note a few things that I have had in mind, pointing in your direction -- I have had a letter from Michael Kirkham as to a number of things of immediate interest between us. He made no reference in his letter to the Madeline Vara matter."

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"It puzzles me that your Private Library issue continues to fail to come to you. Have you written directly the editor, John Cotton?"

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"I must report, however, that I have to give up as to our arriving at a point of common view as to 'loving--kind'. You do not comprehend the sense that I set forth. My sense is exactly in my words."