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"At this time, I am still concerned about the importance of working on your language book, and on what becomes more apparent with time as the unceasing effort under which you constantly live."

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"I find in my copy of Focus IV, 1935, pages 39 following, these matters:"

Scope and Contents "I have perceived in you an intolerance towards the pari passu mode of relations: the drive to go steps ahead, and not treat the relation with another as belonging to a common course. But I was not prepared for anything as extreme as this letter of yours in which you present me, after coming to me about doing bibliographical work in my connection, and with myself, in a fashion, at reasonable hand, with a decision you are making for my good, in my interest - quite dismissing myself as a...

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"You cast me out discourteously. Your letter of 14 May has very much distressed me. It is impossible that you could have read my letter so insensitively without willing to do so. What you take as adamantine acts are clearly attitudes, proposals and suggestions elaborately presented for your consideration, and specifically requesting your review."

Scope and Contents "I do not respond in kind by accusing you of baseness in what you did to me in that letter, or in in what you do to me in this present one, with charges of disdaining you while trying to cnceal my disdain but doing so 'poorly', and with acting towards you on the spur of dislike oof having impressed on me the importance of my concentrating on my husband's and my work on language-"...."As I have indicated, I was affected by what you did in that letter and closing out...

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"Can we exchange agreements that I will stop making unilateral statements about things in which you have legitimate concern if you will stop assuring me what my mind has decided."

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"My idea is, that we go on, in a relation with each other, allowing for its being at present attended by some difficulty, inhering in disparities in viewpoint, in certain areas of thought and sensibility."

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"I want to tell you about Focus. I think I have, actually, told you my all about 'Of Others': that I incline very strongly at present to the view that there never was such a book published by the Seizin Press or begun by my organizing labors-"

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"I felt your pleasure in having the books, and I wanted, feeling it, to thank you for telling me about it - and speaking of the acquisitions themselves."

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"I think the idea of things in which I have a 'legitimate concern' is inappropriate. We have not from my point of view been in difficulty over things of yours in which I have a legitimate concern."

Scope and Contents "As to Walter Thigpen: You had said that you were 'thrown' by the fact that 'he would want to to continue as an active, intertwining collaborator in a bibliography. rather than turning over the information he accumulated.' If you will re-examine my letters on this subject you will find that no such 'fact' or data for a deduction of such fact was presented to you:"...."As to your list of what you have of mine. I have already commented on 'Barbra Rich, etc. I'd like to...

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"In addition to the titles of your works that you list in your letter, my notes say that I am missing the following:"

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"While on these themes, here is a list of the reprints of your works offered in Books In Print this year:"

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"The Shout is available in 4 books:" "Until they are collated, one cannot say whether this strange and not entirely successful story has been altered in successive versions.