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Typewritten letter:

"I don't understand 'The Enemy No. 3'. What is that? Perhaps Wyndham Lewis' magazine?"

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"The Len Lye etc. pamphlet: I have only a copy at Cornell - I mean, they have, it is now theirs but restricted from access except by my consent."

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"I'll just say here that I shall plan for your taking on The Private Library article."

Scope and Contents "1. Please, return to me what is enclosed-Mr. Cotton's list of titles, and the last letters between us." "2. I am assuming you will agree to checking what you write (in the way of an article) with me first, before sending it to Mr. Cotton." "3. I send you a copy of my latest letter to Mr. Cotton." "4. ...have I sent you a note as to a misprint in the Faber 1970 Selected Poems?" "5. Four Unpoasted Letters to Catherine, Hour Press 1930..." "6. Reprint people - they are black guards whether or...

Scope and Contents Typewritten letter:"In current Mass. Review is an article by M.L. Rosenthal is a mistaken interpretation of my renouncing of poetry, a mistaken representation of my attitude to my own poems, and a citing of the wretched Spender's view of me expressed in the Concise Enc. entry..."...."...and acount of pirateish behavior of R.G. with the book, without my permission-which he claims he had.-and such manipulation as to get the book characterized in authorship...

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"...but I have only to relate my receipt yesterday of four issues of the Fugitive, including the first of 1924 which contains your first contributions to that magazine, which surely must be among your first published poems, and the first of 1925 that lists you among The Fugitives."

Scope and Contents "I am very grateful to you for the xeroxed pages of The Shout; and for the 'meticulous' definition. The American Heritage dictionary is the one I had in mind, but I can make do with what you sent, and well: it provides adequate substantiation of what I suspected: that within a short time, lexicographically speaking, the degenerative process in word-treatment has here got itselg, conveniently for the abuse, officialized."....."I am going to ask you - here, now - to try...

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"...I thank you for accepting the suggestion by Mrs. Jackson that I write an article on the Seizin Press."

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"I have not been able to think through a plan for proceeding on the Seizin article, but let us not get caught in a definite deadline, while still pressing ahead with good earnest."

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"Have I mentioned that I am writing something on my relations with The Fugitives..."

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"My poems writing begin to have some continuity when I was a student at Cornell - which I left at the end of my sophmore year..."

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"...copy of the chapter of his book on the S.P. that you could ...with all due acknowledgement to him in your article."

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"...to the Hugh Ford matter: I have his chapter have read it for his book, submitted for my approval."

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"I have been left conscious of failur eof reference to your generous feeling expressed as to one special aim you have in addressing yourself to the article..."