Laura (Riding) Jackson
Letters 1979
Provenance: to Mark Jacobs
Referenced: 0330-0411
[Note: letters of more than two pages are indicated, eg., ‘12pp’]
5 January Reference to George and Paddy Fraser, Edwin Morgan, Jim Mathias, Sally Chilvers; the Roses (M. Kirkham’s sister and brother-in-law), Michael Schmidt, Collected Poems, National Endowment for the Arts, Leverhulme.
18 January Reference to Dr. Todd, ‘A Question of Bias’, Japan, Martin Seymour-Smith; P.N. Review; George and Paddy Fraser; Michael Schmidt, Sally Chilvers, the BBC, Rational Meaning, Alan Clark, Barbara Adams; T.S. Matthews, Leverhulme.
18 January (Continued from previous letter). Reference to Leverhulme Foundation, Jim Mathias, Putnam’s Publishers, Collected Poems, PN Review, Arts Council of Great Britain; Alan Clark, Leonard Woolmer, Mary Christian McKewan, Michael Kirkham.
13 February Reference to Toward a New Psychology of Women by Jean Baker Miller, Leverhulme; Epilogue, Chelsea, the Telling.
15 February. 5pp.
27 February. 10pp. Reference to Alan Clark, Michael Kirkham, Jim Mathias, Sally Chilvers; Knopf’s publishers, Curtis Brown.
28 February Reference to the Wexler dissertation, Alan Clark; Collected Poems, Michael Schmidt, ‘A Question of Bias’, George Fraser; Barbara Adams, Jim Mathias.
6 March Reference to New Psychology For Women; L(R)J’s concern for MJ; Rational Meaning.
8 March Reference to Jim Mathias, Four Unposted Letters to Catherine; termination of relations between L(R)J and Michael Kirkham; Alan Clark.
15 March Reference to , George Fraser; 'Miss Banquett' story; Leverhulme application; Jim Mathias.
27 March Reference to Jim Mathias, MJ receiving funding from Leverhulme; Bettie Owle, Darleena, Shaler.
28 March Reference to Alan Clark, Wexler dissertation, Rational Meaning; ‘A Question of Bias’.
3 April. 4pp. Reference to Jim Mathias, Sally Chilvers, Selected Poems, The Telling, George Fraser; Under The Mind’s Watch, ‘Punctuation, Rhythm, Word-Delivery, in Poetry’; Jack Lindsay and F.W. Bateson, ‘tone’; Charles M. Doughty; Emily Dickinson, Edwin Arlington Robinson.
9 April. 4pp. Reference to the Leverhulme Foundation and MJ’s proposal of a biography of L(R)J, Jim Mathias, Guggenheim Foundation; Cornell; Alan Clark, T.S. Matthews, Leonard Woolmer.
9 April Telegram to MJ from L(R)J
10 April Reference to Jim Mathias, MJ’s proposal of a biography, Leverhulme Foundation.
11 April Reference to George Fraser, Prof. (J.S.) Sandy Cunningham; Leverhulme Foundation; , Jim Mathias; Four Unposted Letters to Catherine.
20 April. Reference to Jim Mathias, MJ’s review, Michael Schmidt, Donald Davie, Alan Clark, TLS, PN Review, ‘A Question of Bias’, M. Schmidt.
21 April Comments on MJ’s review, 'Miss Banquett' story; ‘A Question of Bias’.
1 May Letter to L(R)J from MJ
4 May Letter to L(R)J from MJ
9 May Reference to Leverhulme Foundation, Jim Mathias; comments on MJ’s review, Donald Davie review, TLS, PN Review.
11 May Reference to MJ’s review, Michael Schmidt, ‘A Question of Bias’; Leverhulme Foundation, Jim Mathias.
11 May Copy of a passage in a letter of L(R)J’s to Jim Mathias.
12 May Copy of L(R)J’s letter to Jim Mathias with reference to her relations with MJ.
21 May Letter to MJ containing copies of L(R)J’s May 11 and May 12 letters to Jim Mathias.
22 May Reference to Jim Mathias, T.S. Matthews, Alan Clark, Sunday Telegraph review of T.S. Matthews’ book; Michael Schmidt.
24 May Letter to L(R)J from MJ.
14 June Reference to Jim Mathias, Leverhulme Foundation; Psychology for Woman
19 June Reference to Alan Clark, ‘A Question of Bias’, Martin Seymour-Smith, Wexler dissertation, Rational Meaning, Joan Winterkorn.
(Incomplete copy)
20 June Reference to Jim Mathias, Sally Chilvers, Robert Graves, Canellun, Deya; Leonard Woolmer; Leverhulme Foundation, Alan Clark, ‘A Question of Bias’, Rational Meaning.
22 June Reference to Jim Mathias, Leverhulme Foundation; Thwaite, Selected Poemsof Robert Graves, Collected Poems.
2 July Reference to Jim Mathias, Leverhulme Foundation, ‘A Question of Bias’, Michael Schmidt.
2 July Telegram to MJ from L(R)J requesting MJ omit reference to Jim Mathias in his statement to Leverhulme.
2 July Following on from 2 July telegram.
Reference to Jim Mathias, Leverhulme Foundation, Miss Bennett.
3 July Telegram to Alan Clark from L(R)J.
5 July Reference to Miss Bennett, Jim Mathias, Leverhulme Foundation; Rational Meaning, Alan Clark.
27 July Reference to MJ’s plans to go to Wabasso, Leverhulme Foundation, Jim Mathias; Michael Schmidt, Collected Poems, George Fraser; Rational Meaning, Contemporaries and Snobs, The World and Ourselves; Alan Clark; The New Statesman, ‘A Question of Bias’; Selected Poems, M. Schmidt.
1 August Reference to Leverhulme Foundation, Jim Mathias, MJ’s proposal to visit L(R)J in Wabasso.
3 August Letter to L(R)J from MJ.
6 August Reference to MJ’s letter to Jim Mathias on Plato.
7 August Reference to MJ’s letter to Miss Bennett, Jim Mathias, Leverhulme Foundation; the ‘Fugitives’, Alan Clark; Rational Meaning.
10 August Reference to Thames Polytechnic; Sally Chilvers; Contemporaries and Snobs, A Close Chaplet, the Survey; Michael Schmidt, Collected Poems, George Fraser, PN Review; Harry Kemp, Martin Seymour-Smith.
14 August Reference to Dr. Widdowson, Thames Polytechnic, Sally Chilvers, Robert Graves; M.Schmidt.
14 August Reference to Bromwich, Michael Kirkham; T.S. Matthews; George Watson, TLS.
15 August Reference to MJ’s plans to visit L(R)J, Jim Mathias, Miss Bennett, Michael Schmidt, ‘Earth’; Leverhulme Foundation; M.Schmidt., Rational Meaning, Alan Clark.
18 August Letter to L(R)J from MJ
29 August. 8pp. Reference to Dr. Widdowson, Sally Chilvers; Michael Schmidt, Collected Poems, George Fraser, M.S.; Rational Meaning, Alan Clark; Contemporaries and Snobs, the Survey.
22 August Reference to Rational Meaning, Alan Clark, Jim Mathias. 'The New Grammar' essay; 'The Redemption of Language', 'The Matter of Metaphor'; Covenant of Literal Morality; Harvard recording, Selected Poems; Stand; Hart Crane, Chelsea issue 35; Robert Graves’ The White Goddess; ‘The Fugitives and Myself’; The Seizin Press by Hugh Ford; Joyce Wexler, I, Claudius; letter on Auster review of Selected Poems, the Telling; L(R)J’s letter to Editor of London Magazine on the Atlas letter; Roy Fuller, Professor Samuel Hynes; Burns correspondence, Lives of Wives, Progress of Stories; Guggenheim Fellowship; the Survey, Epilogue; Dr. Widdowson.
29 August Letter to L(R)J from MJ.
30 August Letter to L(R)J from MJ.
30 August Reference to ‘The Fugitives'; Alan Clark, ‘A Question of Bias’.
2 September ‘On Kierkegaard’.
2 September Reference to L(R)J’s ill health; ‘A Question of Bias’, Alan Clark; Jim Mathias, Miss Bennett.
10 September Reference to ‘A Question of Bias’, Alan Clark, Literary, RG.
10 September. 3pp. Reference to MJ’s letter of 29 August, Jim Mathias, Leverhulme Foundation, Michael Schmidt, Rational Meaning, Alan Clark; Dr. Widdowson; ‘A Question of Bias’.
11 September Letter to L(R)J from MJ.
12 September Letter to L(R)J from MJ.
13 September Telegram to MJ from L(R)J.
21 September Reference to Leverhulme Foundation, , 'Miss Banquett' story, the Telling, Chelsea issue 35, Alan Clark, The Fugitive, The Close Chaplet, Contemporaries and Snobs, the Survey; Jim Mathias; the Sitwells, RG, Shenandoah.
22 September Comments on the MJ’s dissertation, the Survey.
21 September Letter to L(R)J and Jim Mathias from MJ.
25 September Reference to George Fraser, Mr. Pearson, Shenandoah, Facades matter; Covenant material, Miss. Bennett.
27 September Reference to Covenant project.
7 October Reference to Burns-Sproat correspondence; comments on MJ’s letter of 11 September.
9 October Continued from letter of 7 October; further comments on MJ’s 11 September letter with references to the Survey, Contemporaries and Snobs, Collected Poems, 'Miss Banquett' stories, Progress of Stories, Epilogue, The Telling, the ‘Intelligence of Ladies and Gentlemen’; Jim Mathias, Leverhulme Foundation.
20 November Letter to L(R)J from MJ.
28 November Reference to Jim Mathias; Miss Bennett, Leverhulme Foundation; The Close Chaplet.
3 December Letter from L(R)J to Alan Clark marked ‘copy for Mark’.
Reference to Faber anthology, Heath-Stubbs anthology, Peter Porter, Nicole Foster; Convalescent Conversations; ‘A Question of Bias’; Jim Mathias; Peter Jones, Michael Schmidt, Fifty British Poets, Carcanet Press, Donald Davie, PN Review.
18 December Letter to L(R)J from MJ.
27 December Telegram to MJ from L(R)J.
29 December Reference to Michael Schmidt, T.S. Matthews book; Jim Mathias, Collected Poems, Selected Poems, Alan Clark, The Close Chaplet.