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    <unittitle>Laura Riding letters</unittitle>
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      <persname authfilenumber="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n89614679" source="naf">Riding, Laura, 1901-1991</persname>
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      <extent altrender="materialtype spaceoccupied">1 box</extent>
      <extent altrender="carrier">1 box (27 items)</extent>
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    <unitdate datechar="creation" normal="1931/1977" type="inclusive">1931-1977</unitdate>
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<p>Cataloged and arranged.</p>  </arrangement>
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<p>This collection is located on-site.</p>  </accessrestrict>
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<p>This collection has no restrictions.</p>  </accessrestrict>
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<p>Autographed and typed letters from Riding to newspaper and magazine editors, primarily concerning published material by and about her. Throughout the collection there are references to Robert Graves. There is also a group of letters to Anthony Dickins, English poet and editor of the LONDON MAGAZINE.</p>  </scopecontent>
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<p>Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Laura Riding letters; Box and Folder; Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University Library.</p>  </prefercite>
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    <head>Terms Governing Use and Reproduction</head>
<p>Reproductions may be made for research purposes. The RBML maintains ownership of the physical material only. Copyright remains with the creator and his/her heirs. The responsibility to secure copyright permission rests with the patron.</p>  </userestrict>
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    <head>Immediate Source of Acquisition</head>
<p>Date of acquisition--06/16/82. Accession number--M-82-06-16.</p>  </acqinfo>
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    <head>Biographical / Historical</head>
<p>American author. She was married to Schuyler G. Jackson and sometimes published as Laura (Riding) Jackson. She worked with Robert Graves as a partner on the Seizin Press, London.</p>  </bioghist>
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<p>Cataloged Christina Hilton Fenn 08/--/89.</p>  </processinfo>
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    <head>Accruals</head>
<p>Materials may have been added to the collection since this finding aid was prepared. Contact rbml@columbia.edu for more information.</p>  </accruals>
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    <subject authfilenumber="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85103785" source="lcsh">Poets, English</subject>
    <subject source="lcsh">Editors -- England</subject>
    <subject authfilenumber="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85070788" source="lcsh">Journalists</subject>
    <subject authfilenumber="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85147459" source="lcsh">Women authors, American</subject>
    <persname authfilenumber="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79004208" source="naf">Jackson, Laura (Riding), 1901-1991</persname>
    <persname authfilenumber="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n50028797" source="naf">Dickins, Anthony Stewart Mackay, 1914-</persname>
    <persname authfilenumber="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79018421" source="naf">Graves, Robert, 1895-1985</persname>
    <corpname authfilenumber="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n93121874" source="naf">Seizin Press (London, England)</corpname>
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