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"Personal: Born June 20, 1906, in New York, NY."

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"Career: Blaw-Knox Steel Corp., Blawnox, Pa., advertising, 1925-27."

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"Writings: The Wheel Age, privately printed, 1928;"

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"Hence to the little Selected Poems volume. As I read your name, I thought I had perhaps seen it in a literary connection."

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"It is, that you have collected the works of Mr. Robert Graves, besides having done some collecting of works of mine. This suggests difficulty because it brings into consideration the possibility, even the probability, of your having had, and continuing to have, correspondence association, some degree of personal association, that is, with Mr. Graves."

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"It was my Graves collection, however, which is my personal collection and quite good, that led me to a particular interest in the Seizin Press. Until this time, I had known of you only superficially."

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"I am most anxious to have established, and in full form, so complete as humans can make it in retrospect, the complete list of your writings, if you can find it in your time to help me."

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"In your second letter to me you endeavor to put me at my ease as to your comment about my remaining a remarkable woman by returning to me my own terms as coverable in meaning by your characterization."

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"In your first letter tld of having published an edition of the critical writings of James Joyce (I misremembered that, coming away from your letter with the idea of a bibliography of his critical writings) with Richard Ellman."

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"You asked, Has anyone done a bibliography - or a list. A few years ago I consented, reluctantly because I feared the work involved for myself, to help someone who sought my help (and approval) with a bibliography..."

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"I have this matter of bibliography to speak of to you."

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"I send you a copy of the letter I wrote to the Minnesota Review:"

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"I can't recall whether or not I have commented, to you, on the course of Seizin Press commentary - of which I have known little till very recently, having, as I think I have explained, lived apart from the traffic of literary doings-"

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"Mr Ruzicka I came to know through a Cornell Library recommendation. A lovely binding work of a book of husband's Thousand needed repair."

Scope and Contents "I am going to assume, I am as from now assuming, that the person who over three years ago was headed for being 'my' bibliographer, and gradually fell into a state of paralysis as such, is not going to reply to my letter of recent days indicating that I held the relationship to have come to its term, and putting to him two questions."....."You said, either a check-list or a bibliography. I don't know what is done with check0lists, if anything, besides the publication...

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"I will therefore write you when I have had time to do some preliminary work gathering together what I know about your publications, and will write you what I will than have in mind."