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"Thank you for your kind note and the fair copy of your reflection at the close of the year."

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This item contains an explanatory note card by E.M [Ellsworth Mason] describing how the letter was acquired.

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"I have just been rereading some cuttings -, your review of my poems in the Observer among them. If you will get hold of a copy, here are some comments that I think you should see."

Scope and Contents "I do have some comments to make on the Catalogue, which, with its essay, reduplicates the atrocious treatment there has been of me, originating in that off a few of the Fugitives themselves, perpetuated and elaborated in pseduo-scholarship in the books of Cowan, Bradbury, Stewart, and adopted as an academic norm at the centers of modern academic culture where it is sacred literary and critical fashion to keep candles alight at the Fugitive altar."..."I am scheduled...

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"I am sending you to-morrow a boxful of ms. material, the last of the material I have set aside for putting into your hands at this time. I list below what the box contains."

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"It has been a startling experience for me to be presented with a fact of all this material's being elsewhere than at Cornell Library, where I had it sent at request under most careful circumstances of security-control..."

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"You will understand from what I have written, I hope, that I did not offer to Cornell the originals and carbons in a 'lump'; I regard the carbons as a distinct quantity; and for reasons of my own textual interest in the state of the material as a whole..."

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"Dr. Eddy did send me your typescripts and I have them here in safe keeping. He did not, however, send me the comments that you made on the material."

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"I should much like to have word from you as to the early mss. of mine, indicating that we are in a good relation as to them of good understanding."

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"I note that your estimate includes the carbons. As I have written to you, at some point before the material leaves your hand, it having found, you finding, a purchaser approved by me, and with conditions of handling the material by the purchaser approved by me, I should want the carbons sent to me for examination, in comparison with my xeroxes of the originals."