#4608 - Laura (Riding) Jackson Papers Overview
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Book-Length Projects
| Box | F. | Title | Dates |
| 84 | 4 | Dictionary of Related Meaning "Old Dictionary Labors...My Formal Statements on the 'Dictionary' on which the coming of agreement between Dent & Co. and Little, Brown, & Co. was based" [front and back cover of the original folder ms. 2pp.] "Appendix matter" ms. 1p. July 1964 "Dictionary of Exact Meanings: Explanation" ts. 16pp. [For the publisher] "Americanisms" ts. 10pp. [untitled] ts. 5pp. "The Index" ts. 3pp. "The Latest in Synonymy" by Schuyler and Laura Jackson Wilson Library Bulletin, 17 (November, 1942), pp. 219-225, clipping "Plans for Work" by Schuyler and Laura Jackson, October 12, 1941, ts. 7pp.; insert ms. 1p. "A Sample Set of Definitions and Word-groups from A Working English Dictionary and Thesaurus" ts. 1p. "Dictionary" ts. 28pp.; title page "Thesaurus" ts. pp. 1-12; title page "Index" ts. 18pp. "Some groups" ts. 1p.; ts. 1p. photocopy; pp. 14-5 carbon; ts. p. 15 photocopy "Index" ts. 5pp. "Meanings" ts. pp. 5-17, carbon |
1941-1964 |
| 5 | ["Doughty books" ] [Background material on Doughty] Passage from Arabia Deserta? ts. 1p.; "Transcription of notes by John Freeman (1880-1929), ca. 1920" ts. 1p.; letter from Charles M. Doughty to John Freeman?, Jan. 28, [19??] ts./ms. 2pp. photocopy; "On the Josteldal-brae [diacritics omitted] in Norway, With Some General Remarks and a Plate by C. M. Doughty" London, 1866, pp. 2-14, photocopy; clipping from TLS, August 21, 1981 |
1866, 1920, 1981 | |
| 6 | "Barker Fairly on Doughty" ts. 26pp.; ms. 4pp. | ||
| 7 | Herbert Davis, "Charles Doughty, 1843-1926" [Bergen lecture, Yale University, Nov. 23, 1943] photocopy | 1943 | |
| 8 | "John Holloway on Charles M. Doughty" ts. 25pp. | ||
| 9 | L(R)J to ? ts. 3pp. n.d. | ||
| 10 | map for Dawn in Britain ms. 1p.; ms. 1p. carbon; ms. 1p. magic marker |
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| 85 | 1 | "The Dawn in Britain: [The Outermost Isle] Reproduced
(line-by-line--but without metre) in the English of our time" Part I ms. 150 pp. |
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| 2 | "The Dawn in Britain" Part II ms. pp. 151-236 | ||
| 3 | "The Dawn in Britain" 3ts. pp. 20-69 | ||
| 4 | "The Dawn in Britain" 3ts. pp. 70-107 | ||
| 86 | 1 | "A Lexicographical Complement to The Dawn in Britain by
Charles M. Doughty, Compiled by Schuyler [B.] Jackson" Explanatory note "The Glossary for the Dawn in Britain" [originally compiled for the Department of Rare Books, Cornell University] by L(R)J, June 18, 1970, Wabasso, Florida] ms. 1p. [Title page] (photocopy of badly damaged page) "Additions, revisions [by S.B.J] to accompany manuscript" ms. 8pp [glossary] ms. pp.1-196 |
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| 2 | "A Lexicographical Complement to The Dawn in Britain by
Charles M. Doughty, Compiled by Schuyler [B.] Jackson Wabasso, FLA" A-Kn ts. pp. 1-95 |
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| 3 | Kn-Tr ts. pp. 95-184 | ||
| 4 | Tr-End ts. pp. 185-208 | ||
| 5 | [corrections for "Doughty book" addressed to Michael
Kirkham] ms. 25pp. [notes, title sheet, dedication, table of contents, foreword] ms. 12pp. "Foreword" ts. 3pp.; ms. 1p. "From old draft of Introduction" ms. pp. 28-35 "From an early draft of Introduction" ms. pp. 11-15 "Explanatory Essay" ms. 25pp. Ch. 2 ms. 25pp. Ch. 3 ms. 39pp. |
Feb. 10-15, 1971 | |
| 6 | ["Doughty book"] Ch. 4 ms. 52pp.; Appendix ms. 36pp. ["Notes on Doughty books" Jan. 1969] ms. 18 3x5 cards (1969) |
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| 87 | "Original Doughty File" [concordance file] ca. 300 3x5 cards |
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| 88 | "Concordance of Names used in The Dawn in Britain of Charles
M. Doughty" [various cards and notes] ca. 300 3x5 cards |
n.d. | |
| 89 | "Names not yet entered in DIB concordance" and additional cards ca. 300 3x5 cards | n.d. | |
| 90 | "Original Doughty File," cont. [Concordance file] ca. 300 3x5 cards |
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| 91 | 1-6 | [Concordance file] ca. 150 3x5 cards |
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| 7 | Clippings and miscellaneous notes on language and includes "... a rebellion against modes of thinking..." ms. pp. 6-24 | n.d. | |
| 92 | 1 | "The Right English of Charles M. Doughty by Laura (Riding)
Jackson for Schuyler B. Jackson" [introductory matter] ts. vii+ pp. ; [foreword] ts. vii + pp. [revisions] ts. pp. iv-vii Part I, The Story of a Devotion (1) ts. pp. 5-12 (2) Thoughts on Doughty by Schuyler B. Jackson ts. pp. 13-24 [additional copies of Parts I, II and carbon copies of Parts, I, II] Part II: Textual Illustration Introductory Comments ts. pp. 25-30; ts. pp. 25-30 carbon; revisions to p. 30 and other revisions for Part II |
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| 2 | "The Right English of Charles M. Doughty..." Part III "The Whole Doughty" ts. 16pp.; ts. 16pp. carbon Part IV "A Path of Hope" ts. 40pp. with additional copies "As to Glossary for the Dawn of Britain" ts. pp. 3-7; ts. pp. 11-14; ts. pp. 1-4; revisions ts. n.p. "The Role of Truth in Doughty's Cosmos" ts. pp. 14-15; assorted ts. pp. |
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| 3 | Under the Mind's Watch "Under the Mind's Watch: Concerning Issues of Language, Literature, and Life of Contemporary Bearing" by Laura (Riding) Jackson "Dedication," "Explanation," Preface," "Language," ms. 1p., ts. 199pp. (photocopy except pp. 183a-183n carbon) |
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| 4 | "Literature" ts. pp. 200-324 photocopy | n.d. | |
| 93 | 1 | "The New Immorality" ts. pp. 325-461 photocopy | n.d. |
| 2 | "Life" ts. pp. 462-596 photocopy | n.d. | |
| 3 | ["...from early writings..."] ts. pp. 597-715 photocopy | n.d. | |
| 4 | "Under the Mind's Watch," by Laura (Riding) Jackson.
Prospectus" ts. 11pp. photocopy "Homosexuality" ts. 21 pp. "Anti-Language sentiment in contemporary Literature Attitudes" ts. 2pp. carbon "For Finis" ts. 2pp.; 3 ts. 2pp.; 1 carbon copy [Interview cited by L(R)J in "Under the Mind's Watch" "Poet James Dickey on Carter"] clipping, 1977 |
n.d., 1977 |
Poems
| Box | F. | Title | Dates |
| 93 | 5 | "In Gratuitous Witness" ts. 2pp. carbon |
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| 6 | "On Exactitude" ts. 1p.; note 2ts. 1p. carbon | n.d. |
Short Essays and Notes
| Box | F. | Title | Dates |
| 93 | 7 | "The authors are at pains to try to shield Horace from suspicion..." ts. pp. 6-13; notes ms. 2pp. | n.d. |
| 8 | "As to myself and my work in connection with Robert Graves according to the Martin Seymour-Smith essay on Robert Graves in Contemporary Poets of the English Language" ts. pp. 1-14 | n.d. | |
| 9 | "As to 'What Next?'" ts. 1p. | n.d. | |
| 94 | 1 | "Body and Mind and the Linguistic Ultimate" ts. 53pp; ts. 53 pp. carbon; assorted ts. pp. | n.d. |
| 2 | "The Case Against and For My Thinking-Speaking Ways" | n.d. | |
| 3 | "Corrections for the essay 'Interest' (The Massachusetts Review Vol XXIII, No. 3)" ts. 1p. | n.d. | |
| 4 | "Corrections Needed in 'Backgrounds'" (Glasgow Review) ts. 1p. | n.d. | |
| 5 | "How It All Goes" ts. 1p. | n.d. | |
| 6 | "Inquiry Addressed To Whoever May Be Moved To Reply Be It Myself
Alone" ts. 1p. |
n.d. | |
| 7 | "I wrote this poem in private reflection..." [commentary on Sonia Raiziss' introduction to the Chelsea Retrospective, 1984] "Written as a private presentation to her" | n.d. | |
| 8 | "A Letter on Martin Seymour Smith's Public Treatment of the Subject
of Myself" ts. 2pp.; ts. 2pp. carbon "[Further] to Someone on Martin Seymour-Smith" ts. 2pp., ts. 2pp. carbon |
n.d. | |
| 9 | "Language Attacked, Language Championed" ts. 4pp. (with additional pp. 3-4); ms. 1p. | n.d. | |
| 10 | [Language notes] ms. 1p.; ms. 2pp. | n.d. |
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| 11 | "Mathematics" [for Schuyler] ts. 3pp. | n.d. | |
| 12 | "My disposition To Others" ts. 5pp. | n.d. | |
| 13 | "My feelings about America in 1932..." ms. 1p. carbon; note ms. 1p. | n.d. | |
| 14 | "My interest in writing on my views of an earlier time..." ts. 1p.; 2ts. 1p. carbon | n.d. | |
| 15 | "Notes for the Time of Ultimate Candor" ts. 2pp. | n.d. | |
| 16 | "Nothing Left But Everything" ts. 1p. | n.d. | |
| 17 | "Omens of the Scene" ms. 1p. | n.d. | |
| 18 | "On the Continuing of the Continuing" ts. 13pp. | n.d. | |
| 19 | "Other Creatures Besides Ourselves Form Unions of Life-Activity..." ts. 5pp. | n.d. | |
| 20 | [Note concerning] "A Pamphlet Against Anthologies" ts. 1p. | n.d. | |
| 21 | "A Picture of Truth in Our Time (The Century's Last Quarter)" ts. 1p. |
n.d. | |
| 22 | "Poetry As Image of Poetry" ts. 1p. | n.d. | |
| 23 | "The Principle of the Thing" ts. 30pp. | n.d. | |
| 24 | "Sins in the Name of Literary Scholarship" ts. 21pp. | n.d. | |
| 25 | "Some Notes on My Poems For a Student of My Work..." ts. 3pp. | n.d. | |
| 26 | "Sorry: to have put in so much of my writing..." [photocopy of
ms. comments written by Laura Riding on the back of one of the pages in the typescript of Snakes
and Ladders, which Katharine Burdekin submitted to the Seizin Press and attached to
letter from Daphne Patai to Laura (Riding) Jackson, August 1, 1987] See: Series
III. Correspondence. Laura (Riding) Jackson, Incoming |
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| 27 | "Speaking from Principle" ts. 1p. | n.d. | |
| 28 | "Statement by Laura (Riding) Jackson upon the publication of T. S. Matthews' Jacks or Better..." 3ts. 4pp. | n.d. | |
| 29 | "The Story Itself is Alive" ts. 1p.; 2ts. 1p. carbon | n.d. | |
| 30 | [Terence Diggory material] Commentary ts. 1p. "Chapter One: Introduction " ts. 4 pp. [untitled] ts. pp. 218-231 "Notes" ts. pp. 289-290, 348-352 |
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| 31 | "To a friend - comment on poets of the 'twenties and
thirties..." ts. 1p.; ts. 1p. carbon |
n.d. | |
| 32 | "To Someone as to a Certain Library Collection, to which he has a responsible relation" ts. 1p.; ts. 1p. carbon | n.d. | |
| 33 | "Trials in the Definition of Singular Words" ts. 1p. | n.d. | |
| 95 | 1 | "Wexler's 'Pursuit' of Laura (Riding) Jackson" [by James F.
Mathias] note by L(R)J ms. 1p.; ts. 13pp.; ts. 13 pp. photocopy |
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| 2 | "What I thought I had done..." [by L(R)J?] ts. 1p. | n.d. | |
| 3 | "Written After Reading a University President's Reflections on Educational Ideals" ts. 1p. | n.d. | |
| 4 | "A View of Robert Graves" ts. 8pp. carbon; ts. 8 pp. photocopy | n.d. | |
| 5 | "Words spoken by the telephone to Joyce Wexler..." ts. 1p.; ts. 1p.; note ms. 1p. | n.d. | |
| "14A. Communications. Supplementary questions..." enclosed with
letter to Arthur Barker, Nov. 19, 1933 ms. 2pp. See: Series III. Correspondence.
Outgoing |
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| 6 | [Galley proof of "New Year Notes" by James Reeves bearing notes by L(R)J] ms. 1p. | ca. 1934 | |
| 7 | [Galley proof of "Sirventes" by James Reeves (1930) and L(R)J's notes] ts. 1p.; ms. 2pp. | ca. 1934 | |
| 8 | "Saw Any Man Dead Sea--Paraphrase" ms. 1p. |
ca. 1934 | |
| "I was born in New York City..." enclosed with letter to Living Authors, Jul. 4, 1933 See: Series III. Correspondence. Outgoing | |||
| 9 | "C'an Torrent" ts. 2pp. "To the Endorsers of the Covenant of Literal Mortlity" ts. 4pp. |
1935? Feb. 1939 |
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| 10 | "Early Note on Poetry Re-Evaluated" ms. 2pp. | 1950s or 1960s | |
| 11 | "1964 commentary on Lives of Wives by author..." ms. 3x5 card; ms. 1p. | 1964 | |
| 12 | [note concerning...] "Almost Forgotten Germany" [work by
Georg Schwarz, translated by Laura Riding and Robert Graves (Deyá, Majorca: Seizin Press
; London : Constable & Co., 1936] ms. 3x5 card |
1964 | |
| 13 | "Retrospective note on The World and Ourselves by the author, July 1964" ts. 1p. | July 1964 | |
| 14 | [Note concerning] "No Trouble" by Len Lye (Deyá, Majorca: Seizin Press, 1930) ms. 3x5 card | Nov. 16, 1964 | |
| 15 | "Proof copy of A Mistake Somewhere" ms. 3x5 card | Nov. 16, 1964 | |
| 16 | "Proof copy of The Moon's No Fool " ms. 3x5 card | Nov. 16, 1964 | |
| 17 | [Note concerning] "In a Cafe" ms. 3x5 card | Dec. 1964 | |
| 18 | "A commentary of 1967 in Introduction of Epilogue, volume I,
II and III (1935, 1936, 1937) by the editor (Laura Riding)" ts. 8pp. photocopy; ts. 1p. carbon; ts. 1p. carbon [1975] |
1967 | |
| 19 | "Schuyler Brinkerhoof [sic] Jackson: August 18, 1900-July 4, 1968" [background material written for a memorial piece in the Princeton Alumni Weekly, Sept. 7, 1968] ts. 8pp. | 1968 | |
| 20 | [Note concerning] "The Art of the Moving Picture by Vachel Lindsay" ms. 3x5 card | May 1969 | |
| 21 | "Instructions for Faber & Faber, 1970-- Selected Poems in Five Sets by Laura Riding" title note, ms. 1p.; ts. 8pp. | 1970 | |
| 22 | [Note concerning] "The Left Heresy" ms. 4pp. | January 1970 | |
| 23 | "Commentary by Laura Riding on A Survey of Modernist Poetry
to accompany the copy of the book in the Laura (Riding) Jackson and Schuyler B. Jackson
Collection in the Department of Rare Books, Cornell University Library" ts. 4pp.; ts.
4pp. carbon ["This is a revision of December 1971 from an initial commentary of
December 1964..."] "A Survey of Modernist Poetry" ts. 1p. Dec. 4, 1964 |
1964, 1971 | |
| 24 | [Scripts of L(R)J's corrections of Hugh Ford's successive drafts for
chapter in his book on private presses, X, Y, Z, October 3, 1971] ms. 145 pp.; note ms.
1p. |
1971, 1972 | |
| 25 | ["I did not write again to Mr. Hamburger..."] See also:
Hamburger, Michael in Series III. Correspondence Laura (Riding) Jackson. Incoming |
Jan. 1971? | |
| 26 | "Description of The Telling in Harper & Row catalogue, (Spring) February-July 1973" ms. 4pp. | 1973 | |
| 27 | "Of the difficulty to which Wyndham Lewis refers..." ms. 1p.; ts. 1p.; 2ts. 1p. carbon |
October 19, 1973 | |
| 28 | "[A little essay on] Anarchism Is Not Enough, 1928" 2ms. 4pp.; ms. 3pp. ["written for incorporation in a book in progress (The Failure of Poetry)] |
1974 | |
| 29 | "To the Chairman of the Seminar on 'Laura Riding and Robert
Graves'--Modern Language Association, December 19[74]. A Letter of Varied Commentary from
Laura (Riding) Jackson" 2ts. 4pp. photocopy "To the Chairman of the Seminar... Postscript to A Letter of Varied Commentary--written December 17, 1974" ts. 4pp. photocopy; ts. 4pp. carbon "Addenda (from postcript to A Letter to the Chairman...)" 2ts. pp. 22-23 carbon |
1974 | |
| 30 | "To a Friendly Correspondent of the Publishing World..." ts. 2pp. See also: Application for a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship and report, June 24, 1974 in Series III. Correspondence. Outgoing | 1974 | |
| 31 | "Further Comments on contents of Antaeus # 13/14
1974..." ts. 1p.; note ms. 1p. |
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| 32 | "The treatment shows up in unexpected forms..." ts. 4pp.
["Having knowledge of the life and work..." sent to Ivan Ruzicka by Laura
(Riding) Jackson ca. August 1975 4pp. See: Series III. Correspondence. Laura
(Riding) Jackson, Incoming |
ca. 1975 | |
| 33 | "As to Published in Paris, a book by Hugh Ford (Macmillan, NY, 1975)" ts. n.p. | 1975 | |
| 34 | "Comments for Dr. Donald D. Eddy's consultation..." [commentary on unpublished prose material deposited at Cornell University] (1975) ts. 5pp. carbon with corrections; ts. 5pp. | 1975 | |
| 35 | "To a Friend, As To America, 1975" ts. 1p.; 2ts. 1p. carbon; note ms. 1p. |
1975 | |
| 36 | "To a Rather New Friend" ts. 1p.; ts. 1p. carbon | Feb. 1975 | |
| 37 | "As to the Early Essay A Prophecy On" ts. 1p. | July 1976 | |
| 38 | "To Someone, As To My Work" | Sept. 1976 | |
| 39 | "Some writing on A.T. Tolley's book..." (November 17, 1976) 2ts. 2pp. "Further as to the Tolley book" (November 19, 1976) ts. 2pp. |
Nov. 17, 1976 Nov. 19, 1976 |
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| 40 | [On William H. Pritchard, Seeing Through Everything] ms./ts. 6pp; ms. 4pp. William H. Pritchard, Seeing Through Everything pp. 114-137, photocopy |
1977? | |
| 41 | "The Woolfs, Etc." ts. 2pp. | ca. 1977 | |
| 42 | "To Someone on Critical Avoidance of My Poetic Work" ts. 1p.; ts. 1p. carbon |
1977 | |
| 43 | "The Worst Wizardry" ts. 21pp.; ms. notes for revision | 1978? | |
| 44 | [L(R)J's comments on the autobiographies by Thomas S. Matthews] ts. 9pp.;
note ms. 1p. "...our letting anyone have a glimpse of the course of our work..." ts. pp. 148-154 |
late 1970s | |
| 96 | 1 | "On several references to myself appearing in the third volume of Letters
of Virginia Woolf" ts. pp. 1-6, 6a, 7-23 carbon; ts. p. 8, 22, 23 carbon |
1978 |
| 2 | "Language Under Attack, Language Under Defence" ts. 10pp. | 1980? | |
| 3 | "Afterword" [for A Trojan Ending] ts. 8pp. | 1984 | |
| 4 | "Free vilification corner--Laura (Riding) Jackson" ts. 68pp. | 1984 or 1985 | |
| 5 | "A Design" ts. 1p. | November 1985 | |
| 6 | "I provide this note on this copy of Ezra Pound's Provenca..." ts. 1p. | December 31, 1985 | |
| 7 | "The Experience of Literature" ms. pp. 51-123 | 1987? | |
| 8 | "The Ends of Literature: A Collection of Miscellaneous Writings by Laura (Riding) Jackson: Introduction" ts. 14pp. | mid-1980s? | |
| 9 | "A Reduction" [Review of From Moon to Moon: Selected Letters
of Robert Graves, edited by Paul O'Prey (Hutchinson, 1984)] ts. 5pp. |
mid-1980s? | |
| 10 | "Passages from a portion of my memoirs treating of my membership in the group 'The Fugitives' and my relationship with it, and individual members" ts. 3pp. | late 1980s |
Letters to Editors
| Box | F. | Title | Dates |
| 96 | 11 | The Saturday Review, May 28, 1966 ts. 3pp. carbon L'Ephémère, 1969? ts. 3pp. The Review, November 18, 1970 ts. 2pp. carbon The Massachusetts Review, October 1970 ms. 11pp. The New York Review [of Books], July 22, 1972 ts. 2pp. The Times Literary Supplement, October 2, 1972 ts. 2pp. |
May 28, 1966- June 29, 1987 |
| The New York Review of Books, Summer 1973 ts. 3pp. The Times Literary Supplement, November 11, 1973 ts. 3pp. + 3a; ts. 3pp.; 3a carbon; note ms. 1p.; draft letter ms. 1p. ; two clippings Library Journal, November 27, 1973 ts. 2pp.; ts. 22pp. carbon; clipping Library Journal, July 5, 1975 ts. 2pp. carbon |
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| 11 | The New Statesman, August 6, 1975 ts. 2pp. carbon; includes letter
from Mark Jacobs to The New Statesman, August 6, 1975 ts. 1p. The New York Times Book Review, September 20, 1975 ts. 3pp. photocopy London Magazine, April 12, 1976 ts. 3pp. accompanying letter ts. 1p. Apr. 16, 1976 revised letter ts. 1p. Apr. 25, 1976 letter to Alan Ross ts. 1p. Apr. 25, 1976 letter Ross to L(R)J ts. 1p. Apr. 15, 1976 letter to Ross ts. 1p. May 26, 1976 letter to Ross ts. 3pp. carbon Aug. 22, 1976 London Magazine, August/September 1976, pp. 90-92, photocopy; three copies of the revisions ts. 3pp.; letter from James Atlas to London Magazine, 2 photocopy, pp. 96-97, photocopy London Magazine, April 1977 ts. 2pp. 2ts. 2pp. photocopy The Times Literary Supplement, November 11, 1976, ts. 2pp. carbon The Times Literary Supplement, December 17, 1976, ts. 1p. carbon; clipping of J.S. Atherton's review of Published in Paris, by Hugh Ford The Scotsman, September 28, 1980, ts. 2pp. ; ts. 2pp.; clipping about Laura Riding's literary partnership with Robert Graves in The Statesman [September 6, 1980], pp. 357-8, photocopy English, June 10, 1981 ts. 7pp. carbon The New York Review of Books, June 29, 1987 ts. 2pp.; 2ts. 1p. carbon |
Editorial Activities
| Box | F. | Title | Dates |
| 96 | 12 | "Comments on a study of my work--a draft, unpublished" n.d., ts. 109pp. ; "Commentary by Laura (Riding) Jackson" ms. 1p. [commentary on the draft of a dissertation by Joyce Wexler, yet to be submitted at the time] | n.d. |
| 13 | "Drafts of the review of the English edition of Selected Poems:
In Five Sets that eventually appeared in the English magazine The Cambridge
Quarterly, by Michael Kirkham" ts. 6pp.; ts. 7pp.; note 2ms. 1p. |
n.d. |