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"The purpose of this letter is to set forth as fully as I can my proposal for the article on the Seizin Press, with a suggestion as to how you would contribute to the article, with some estimate of time scheme. Secondly, I want to clear my files of notes to you I have piled up during your last three letters."

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"Now, for the Cave and Ford material, can we proceed along these lines. Since Cave's book is due so soon from Fabers, they are the publisher's of Ellmann's and my Critical Writings of James Joyce. We both were together with Peter du Sautoy, the partner we deal with, at the 3rd International Joane Joyce Symposium in Trieste in June..."

Scope and Contents "I had only understood that you, as a person of bibliographical interests, with literary interests attendant on these, and a love of collecting, had made yourself into a collector of Robert Graves' writings. Further, where someone comes into friendly relations with me who has some background of professional connection with the Graves-work subject, I am no censor of the person's past, or unarrestable or irremovable continuance of the past into the present.".......

Scope and Contents "I should be very much against any action by you towards procuring an advance copy of the Cave book in connection with anything to do with me. I have explained to you that Mr. Cavehas hurt me by a behavior incomprehensible to me..."...."...when the article in The Private Library is on its way, with the shape and temper of it having an actual feel for both, and a common sense of fact fouding, with this, some sure development, I should not hesitate to commucate the...

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"You will find an article by on Robert Graves in the first number of the Long Island Book Collectors Journal, published in 1969, a trivial one and my only such effort to date. The idea for the newsletter began in July 1969, when I requested authorization from our President to issue one."

Scope and Contents "You err, much, in your presentation to me of the explanation of Of Others. I have already told you that Of Others was a planned publication, and that it was abandoned - was never published."... "...let me say something about the Reeves correspondence. I have placed at Cornell a commentary on this correspondence, and on its being marketed, besides, The Curator and I decided to keep this private for an indeterminate present except in special cases."......

Scope and Contents "I don't recall any puzzlement of mine about James Reeves' The Natural Need. I worked wit him on this book, over a preparatory period, and gave it its title.""I comprehend your surprise that I should be distressed to the degree manifested at finding you, as prospective writer of something in which I should be intimately involved as an active consultant, to be engaged in this public activity centered in interest in the writings of Robert Graves.""As to Empson and...

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"It has saddened me, Mr. Mason, to find, by your copy of your letter sent to Mr. Cotton, that you should have been so insensitive to my immediatelyely-reported-to-you consternation at finding you were actively and extensively involved in the public prosecution of Robert Graves interests, as to hear that as, simply, something I must automatically disregard as what is."

Scope and Contents "Certain developments in Mr. Mason's field of bibliographical interests and activities were only very recently made known to me by him, and these profoundly affect my feelings. This has nothing to do with the personal relations between Mr. Mason and myself. I had informed him that the new knowledge of these involvements raised for me very serious questions as to my feelings about his and my co-operating on an article for you..." "I am opposed to any going thhus to my former...

Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Correspondence and manuscripts of the American poet. Handwritten and carbon copy typescripts.