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"Thank you for the well rounded account of the Franklin book. He becomes in your description as much of that about which he writes that I was rather surprised..."

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"Has Faber published your book yet?-if it has been published, I would like to see the Seizin Press treatment."

"I have wondered: did Mr. Ford enter into correspondence with you..."

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"My book on private presses is not yet out, I'm sorry to say. There have been numerous delays, partly due to the fact that David Bland, the editor at Fabers in charge of it died suddenly earlier this year, and I'm told that it will not now be published until after Christmas."

"Mr Ford and I exchanged a few letters - he wrote to me as you had suggested, and told me the type of work he was engaged on;"

Scope and Contents "Since we have come this far in speaking of Mr. Ford, I find it not out of order to speak more on my and your encounter with him." "Since you are going to have the little book of poems, I take special pains to tell you that the case is not of Faber's 'brinng back' some of my poetic work into print again but of my allowing these poems to be reproduced." "He has plundered my thought, my very writings, pillaged in my poems, all this to an extent not comprehended (a...

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"You --mened there, with what seemed to me a --ree of friendship, the need of public commentary by myself on the Seizin Press story, to counterbalance the Robert Graves' story of this."

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"I assume from what you have written that you would have written, in a while, facing the difficulty of writing against the background of the incomprehension you experienced in reading my preface to the poems-selection."

"You speak of my way of writing, as you encounter it in that preface, as if it were the result of immurement with my husband in esoteric preoccupation, far from the literary world."

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"...I retreat in these circumstances from future assumption of a state of grace as existing between you and myself."

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"Seven years later when Richards had printed his first and only book, Graves founded the Seizin Press with Laura Riding. Neither of them knew anything about printing so they sought the help and information from Richards, whome they had met through their friendship with Lawrence."

"Checklist of Seizin Press Publications."

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"Though so little came directly from Lawrence and Richards, their influence was by no means absent from one of the most interesting and important of the literary presses: The Seizin Press which was started by the poets Laura Riding and Robert Graves in 1927."

"As time went on, Laura's Riding's part in the production of the hand-printed volumes grow smaller, as the concentrated move on the editorial side of the Press's work."

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