Box 1

Scope and Contents "He who had been as 'my' bibliographer, and gone out of reach, has spoken to me by telephone. He replied thus to my query as to his material. He is ready to hand over his material to another approved by me, he to receive, according to my suggestion, credit on the basis of this as a collaborator."...."I shall tell you something of his story, for your use in forming a view of the possibility I have envisaged as to his material."...."If you wan...

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"Did you not ask me about Of Others?"

Scope and Contents "You are asking, I believe, whether I would find this a congenial and acceptable task, and if I would agree to your terms you originally stated tot he bibliographer. I would, if this collaboration is acceptable to everyone concerned." .... "A few items float to the top of my memory from your letters...""If you ever do any writings about the Seizin Press..." "I return you one of the Ruzicka letters..." "I mentioned Harold Edwards..." "Today, I ordered a...

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"I am at this writing concerning myself a good deal with one feature of your reply-work. This is your introduction of the name of Mr. Kirkham into your reconstruction of the bibliographical background of which I gave you what seemed to me an adequate account. It firghtens me that you should press upon my account for filling it in for yourself with an attempt at factual specificness, which in respect to the matter at leat of who it was who had agreed to do the annotations part..."

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"If you have alarms, they should be felt against the background of what you surely must know--that I am very much on your side, and sympathetically concerned with your reactions. That I continualy and impatiently reach out for facts and impressions is certainly true, and probably congenital..."

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"I had and have no uneasiness as to your general disposition towards me. The particular procedure, habit of procedure, of a person can absorb in, they the fact of a certain kind of disposition. A person can proceed by rules of his that take the lead over everything else embraced in the matter in question."

Scope and Contents "For your orientation, for what correspondence there might be between yourself and the was-to-be bibliographer, I want to put it on record with you that the circumstances immediately behind his expressed readiness to act according to what I proposed are these."...."It has not been my thought that you should necessarily supply short descriptive comments on my writings. It was my thought in the case of the former person-his name is Walter K. Thigpen-though I perceived...

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"As to what I contributed, what help I gave Walter Thigpen:he came here 3 times."

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"[I note you are doing a paper related to your work on Joyce. I remember: you have collaborated with Richard Elman. For a time last year I was in correspondence with a colleague of his at Yale..."

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"I am ready to come into an agreement with you that we try to see what can be done together - without exhaustive predefinition, either as to extent or limit of content, or time-fixings."

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"Just a word as to Of Others. There came a dawning idea that this, which I began to remember as a vision of mine of a worthwhile possibility, a book listing people other than those involved in the work I was endeavoring to make a real new life of mine & my associates"

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"There are three unexpected facts that have emerged in your recent letters that unsettle my view of this whole project. Most important is the fact that you are still working on the language book, which I had thought had stopped with your husband's death. You should do nothing whatsoever that interferes with your progress on this work."