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Series IV. Literary Manuscripts

Published Works
a. Books
b. Poems
c. Articles and critical essays
d. Letters to editors
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Books

Box F. Title Dates
76 1 Anarchism is Not Enough (1928)
[excerpt from Anarchism Is Not Enough] pp. 54-57, photocopy 1928
2 Experts Are Puzzled (1930)
"An Address to America" ts. 2pp. photocopy pp. 135-152;

note ms. 1p.

1930
3 Pictures (1933)
"Pictures" 8pp. n.d. photocopy 1933
4 The Covenant of Literal Morality (1938)
"The Covenant of Literal Morality. Protocol I Preliminary Questions" ts. 1p.; note ms. 1p. 1938
5 Len Lye and the Problem of Popular Film (1938) 1938
"Len Lye and the Problem of Popular Film" [Literal solutions]

pp. 1-46 photocopy

6 The World and Ourselves (1938)
"A Personal Letter with a request for a reply" 2 ts. 4pp. gestetner Jan. 1937
7 [Introduction to University Microfilm reprint of The World and Ourselves] ms. 38pp. Aug. 1969 1969
8 The Telling (1972)
"The Telling: The Original" ts. 33pp.; ms. 17pp.
ca.1967
9 "Final plans except for dedication revised as per the second one here given" ts. 19pp. photocopy of ts. of "Preface for a Second Reading" and preliminary pages Oct. 2, 1968
10 "Original of my Preface for a Second Reading, in the book The Telling, written to be a preface (coming at the beginning of book, then rewritten, joined with "Preface for a Second Reading" and to Follow the main Telling text in the book)" n.d.
11 "Mainly typescript of supplementary portion of The Telling, from which printing was done (back-printing) with a little correspondence on the text, mainly the supplementary section, with Mr. A.G. Dewey of the Athlone Press" pp. 131-188, corrected in pencil; pp.103-162
 ca. 1971
12 "Preface for a second reading" ts. pp. 50-67 Oct. 2, 1968

"Some After-Speaking: Private Words" ts. pp. 10-102

Letter to Athlone Press ts. 8pp. Sept. 25, 1971 [concerns The Telling]

 1968-1971
13 "Part III. Private Words" ms. 100pp. 1971
14 ["Part III. Private Words"] "very untidy basic script" ms. pp. 101-133, 2 ms. index cards

"Some Notes" ms. 75pp. "Notes" ts.1p.

"No copy of these ms. pages" ms. 1p.

Aug. 24, 1972
15 "Papers relevant to The Telling"  [original table of contents of folder] ms. 1p.

"Preface for Chelsea [20/21]," ts. 1p. carbon

[note] ms. 1p.

[corrections sent to the editors of Chelsea] ts. 7pp. carbon

"Preface to This Printing" ts. 3pp. carbon; [dedication] ts. 1p.

"Preface" ts. pp. i-xiv carbon

"The Telling" ts. pp. 13-33; introductory material ts. 3pp.; ms. 1p.

16 [Clippings saved by L(R)J pertaining to The Telling]
77 1 Four Unposted Letters to Catherine (1993) 1993
[Uncorrected galley proof (1993) pp.1-78; master set second pass, pp.1-80; photocopy of dedication, ts. 1p.]
2 The Word Woman and Other Related Writings (1993)
[Letter from Persea Books to Elizabeth Friedmann, n.d.; book jacket, photograph; "The Word Woman and Other Related Writings" ts. i-vii, pp.1-151] n.d.
3 "The Word Woman" [cont.] ts. pp. 152-216
4 The Word Woman [cont.] ts. 116pp. photocopy
78 1 Rational Meaning: A New Foundation for the Definition of Words

ms. material [paged draft interspersed with lengthy notes and comments] explanatory note by L(R)J ts. 1p; dedication, ts. 1p.; Ch. I ms. pp.1-25; Ch. II, ms. pp. 1-27

1997
2 Ch. III ms. pp.1-21; Part Two introductory matter ms. 3pp. "Foreword" ms. 6pp.; Ch. IV ms. 34pp.
3 Ch. V ms. pp. 1-23 and (2) 1-24; Ch. VI ms. pp. 1-13 (2) pp. 1-23
4 Part Three, Ch. VII ms. pp. 1-13; (2) pp. 1-21; (2) pp. 1-8
5 "Foreword to Part Three" ms. pp.1-4; Ch. VIII ms. pp.1-40
79 1 Ch. VIII (cont.) additional notes ms. pp. 1-9; revisions ts. 5pp.; ms. pp. 1-19; additional notes ms. and ts. 39pp.; Ch. IX ms. pp. 1-22
2 Ch. IX (cont.) (3) ms. pp. 1-22; (4) ms. pp. 1-18; (5) ms. pp.1-8; appendix ms. pp. 1-5
3 Explanatory note ms. 1p.; "Introduction" ["Rough draft of Introduction to Rational Meaning by L. J., 1972"] ms. pp. 1-34 "Foreword" ms. pp. 1-5; Ch. X ms. pp. 1-82
1972
4 Ch. XI ms. pp. 1-58
5 Ch. XII ms. pp. 1-76
80 1 Ch. XIII ms. pp. 1-77
2 Ch. XIV ms. pp. 1-60
3 Ch. XV ms. pp. 1-90
4 Part VI, Ch. XVI ms. pp. 1-24; (4) ms. pp.1-9; Ch. XVII ms. pp. 1-16; (4) ms. pp. 1-28; (4) ms. pp. 1-11; ms. pp. 1-6; (5) ms. pp. 1-6
5 Part VI, Ch. XVIII ms. pp. 1-21; ms. pp.1-25; ms. pp. 1-41;

ms. pp. 1-43
6 Ch. XX (?) ms. pp. 20-39; (5) ms. pp. 1-25; (6) ms. pp. 1-22;

Ch. XXI ms. pp. 1-18; (3) ms. pp. 1-27; (4) ms. pp. 1-13; (5) ms. pp. 1-23; additional notes ms. 8pp.
81 1 "The New Grammar" [essay for Rational Meaning] ms. 137pp.
2 [Supplementary materials for Rational Meaning] ms. ca. 200pp.
3 Drafts of various parts, including portions of Ch. XIX, various paginations ms. ca. 200pp.
4 Various drafts of prefatory materials and "concluding speculations" ms. ca. 100pp.
82 1 Notes for Rational Meaning, ms. ca. 100pp.
2 Typescript material from Rational Meaning:

"Foreword" ts. 9pp. carbon; "Epigraph" ts. 1p. carbon 1967

"First Preface" ts. xxi pp. carbon 1973

"Second Preface" ts. pp. xxii-xxx carbon 1976

"Third Preface" ts. pp. xxxi-xxxiv 1985; ts. xxxi-xxxiv carbon

Ch. II ts. pp. 11-24; Ch. III ts. pp. 25-42 carbon

 1967-1985
3 "R [ational] M[eaning]-Notes of Comment" Ch. III p. 26 ts. 1p.
n.d.
4 "Part II: The Use of Words: The Apparatus of Guidance" (Chapters IV-VI) ts. pp. 44-104 carbon
5 "Part III: Language and Rationality" (Chapters VII-IX) ts.

pp. 105-183 carbon
6 "Part IV: The Principle of Definition" (Chapters X-XII) ts.

pp. 184-281 carbon
7 "Part V: The Make-up of Language" (Chapters XIII-XV) ts.

pp. 282-383a carbon
8 "Part VI: Studies in Meaning-Relation and Meaning-Distinction" (Chapters XVI-XVIII) ts. pp. 384-488 carbon (some pages original)
83 1 "Part VII: The Future Tasks" (Ch. XIX) ts. pp. 487-563 carbon
2 [notes for correction of ts.] ms. 15pp.

Poems

Box F. Title Dates
83 3 "A bundle of poems in typescript-originals, most later printed with revisions" [note on envelope in L(R)J's hand]

"Dear Growth," "Fine Fellow Son of a Poor Fellow," "Love at a Sickbed," "I Know a Self-Love," "Untaken Image," "Sea, False Philosophy," "And Nature Has a Crop," "Happy Possessor and Industrious Spirit," "Carnival of Numbers," "By Crude Rotation," "Ode to the Triumph of Bodily Intelligence," "Then Wherefore," "Apology for Time, Self, Love, Earnestness and Disaffection," "Midsummer Duet 1934" [by Laura Riding and Robert Graves], "Doom in Bloom," "Seizure of the World" ts. 32pp.

n.d.
4 "For One Who Will Believe" & "For All Our Sakes" clipping [from The Nation, 123, August 11, 1926] 1926
5 "How I Called the Ant Darling" Two Worlds. II (December 6, 1926) p. 114 photocopy 1926
6 "The Second Leaf" 2pp. [privately printed]; ts. 6pp. ca. 1934
7 "The Judgement" Poetry Pilot (September 1970) p. 5 [original issue]; commentary ts. 3pp. 1970
8 "In Gratuitous Witness" London Review of Books , Vol. 17 (Sept. 7, 1975) ts. 2pp. carbon
1975
9 "Lamenting the Terms of Modern Praise" Chelsea , 46 (1988) ts. 1p. and 2 ts. 3pp. carbon
 1988
10 [Early poems included in PN Review, 78 Special Supplement (March 1991)]

"The Spider" ts. 2pp.; "To this Death" ts. 1p.; "The Twins" ts. 1p.; "Against Adventure" ts. 2pp.; "An Ancient Revisits" ts. 1p.; "Brothers" ts. 1p.; "But Lies" ts. 1p.; "The Fourth Estate" ts. 1p.; "Grieve, Women" ts. 1p.; "The Haunt" ts. 1p.; "Joravaly" ts. 1p.; "Song of the Lyre" ts. 1p.; "The Subterfuge" ts. 4pp.; "Invocation for Birds" ts. 3pp.; "A City Seems" ts. 1p.; "Doomed" ts. 1p.; "A Preface" ts. 1p.; "Trifle" ts. 1p.; "Truth" ts. 2 pp.; "If a Woman Should Be Messiah" ts. 2pp.; "Harlequinade on a Curbstone" ts. 7pp.

1991

Essays and Articles

Box F. Title Dates
83 11 "Laura Riding" New Verse. Answers to an Enquiry, no. 11 (October 1934) pp. 3-5. Also includes responses by Robert Graves, Louis MacNeice, Wyndham Lewis, Roy Campbell, Norman Cameron, and Wallace Stevens
 1934
12 ["The following paragraphs are from the authors' review of Webster's Dictionary of Synonyms published in Library Bulletin , November 1942"] pp. 345, 225, cuttings
 1942
13 "The following is a sequel of 1964 to my story A First Lesson in Geography..." Antaeus (1965), photocopy
 1965
14 "Comments on The Fable of the Dice and on my work since 1938..." ts. 1p. Dec. 14, 1971

"On The Fable of the Dice" Goldsmith, Maurice, ed. The Predicament of Man: An Examination Of Policies For The Future (Frimley: Inforlink Ltd. [for] Science Policy Foundation, 1972) ts. 3pp. Dec. 16, 1971

 Dec. 14, 1971

Dec. 16, 1971
15 "Postscript to attached article" The Private Library, no. 5 (Autumn, 1972) pp. 139-146; ts. 7pp.
 1972
16 "Letter at Year's End, Year's Beginning, 1974-1975 For My Friends" Some Communications of Broad Reference (Northridge, Ca.: Lord John Press, 1983) ts. 6pp.
1974/1975
17 "A Letter For Everyone. End of the Year, 1975" Chelsea 35 (1976) and Some Communications of Broad Reference (Northridge, Ca.: Lord John Press, 1983) ts. 2pp.
 1975
18 "An assumption that is ... " [published as: "Twentieth-Century Literary Individualism"], Chelsea 35 (1976) ts. 4pp; ts. 4pp. carbon
 1976
19 "Neglected books" Antaeus, 20 (Winter 1976) ts. 3pp. photocopy; postscript ts. 1p.; ts. 3pp. photocopy 1976
20 "For a Birthday" Some Communications of Broad Reference (Northridge, Ca.: Lord John Press, 1983)
 1983
21 [Corrections for the Sulfur 10 printing of "Engaging in the Impossible" Sulfur 10 (1984)] ts. 3pp.
 1984
22 "...concerned with a 'good' of its peculiar own" ts. pp. 4-17 [fragment from "Is There a World for Literature, Is There Literature for a World" Chelsea, 44 (1985)]
 1985
23 "Twentieth Century Change in the Idea of Poetry, and of the Poet, and of the Human Being" PN Review 57 (Spring 1986) ts. 71pp.; ts. 70pp. carbon; notes for revision
 1986
24 "Response to Mr. Norris" Language and Style 19 (Spring 1986)

ts. pp. 1-6

 1986
25 "Introduction to a Book of Later-Life Commentaries" Sulfur, 20 (Fall 1987) ts. 23pp.
 1987
26 "Judgement of One Another" Chelsea, 52 (1991) ts. 1p.; ts. 1p.;

ts. 1p. carbon

 1991
27 "The Only Possible Ending" PN Review 78 (March/April 1991)

ts. pp.1-4

 1991
28 "On C. M. Doughty" PN Review, no. 25 ts. 21pp. carbon
29 "The Human and the Universal" in Laura (Riding) Jackson and the Promise of Language by Margaret Nichols (Cornell University Library. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections: 1998) [early draft] ts. 7pp. [first draft] ms./ts. 8pp. [2nd draft] ts. 6pp. ts. 5pp. ts. 6pp. [Sept. 1989] assorted additions/fragments ms. 4pp.; ms. 2pp.; ms. 2pp.; ts. 2pp. 1989-1998

Letters to Editors

Box F. Title Dates
84 1 Americans Abroad: An Anthology ed. by Peter Neagoe (The Hague: Servire Press, 1932) pp. ?-327, cutting

Minnesota Review, Vol. XII, No. 1, 1967, pp. 77-79, clipping

The New York times Book Review, November 24, 1968, n.p., clipping

The Observer, October 3, 1970, n.p., clipping

The Observer, October 1970 [published October 18, 1970] ts. 2pp.; ts. 2pp. photocopy; ts. 3pp; clipping

The Times Literary Supplement, Nov. 3, 1972, 2ts. 1p. photocopy

1932-1985
The Private Library, Autumn 1973, ts. pp. 1-12; + note ms. 1p.

The Nation, December 30, 1974, ts. 3pp.; ts. 3pp. carbon; March 22, 1975, p. 322, clipping; photocopy of clipping; includes photocopy of review to which she responded

The New York Review of Books, Aug. 4, 1975, ts. 4pp. carbon;

ts. 4pp. photocopy

The New York Review of Books, Aug. 27, 1975, ts. 3pp. carbon [published October 7, 1975]

The New York Review of Books, October 2, 1975, n.p., clipping

The New York Review of Books, April 19, 1976, ts. 2pp.

The New York Review of Books, April 29, 1976, n.p., clipping and two photocopies

The National Review, June 10, 1976, ts. 1p. [incomplete]; clipping; note ms. 1p.

Cite AB, December 1, 1980, p. 364, clipping

The Times Literary Supplement, July 16, 1982, n.p., photocopy

The New York Review of Books, Aug. 12, 1982, n.p., clipping

Sulfur, July 1983, ts. 3pp.; note ms. 1p.

The Cornell Alumni News, October 1983, pp. 10-16 [entire issue]

ts. 4pp.; ts. letter to Editor, July 23, 1983

2 Cornell Alumni News, October 17, 1983, ts. 1p; clipping, pp. 15-16; includes letter ms. 1p. March 6, 1984

The New York Review of Books, Dec. 22, 1983, n.p., clipping; photocopy

The New York Review of Books, January 31, 1985, p. 41, clipping

Editorial Activities

Box F. Title Dates
84 3 Focus [1935]:
Issues I-IV; Jan.-Dec. 1935
"Notes to accompany the four issues of Focus held by the Department of Rare Books, Cornell University Library" ts. 1p. carbon; "Focus" ts. 1p. June 10, 1976
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