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• Letter from Beverly Jarett to Louise Kertesz
  Dated May 22nd, 1978. A typewritten letter of two pages, from Ms. Beverly Jarett, executive editor of Louisiana State University Press, to Louise Kertesz. Jarett states that it was a pleasure “...to receive a letter from an author who has clearly read and carefully considered the instructions on all the style sheets.”
• Letter from Beverly Jarett to Louise Kertesz
  Dated May 11th, 1978, a typewritten letter is from Ms. Beverly Jarrett to Louise Kertesz. Jarett informs Louise that the Press Committee has met and a publishing offer has been secured.
• Letter from Beverly Jarett to Louise Kertesz
  Dated March 12th, 1979, a typewritten letter is from Beverly Jarett of Louisiana State University Press to Louise Kertesz. The letter thanks Louise for the letter she sent on March 7th and says that the press would take Louise’s manuscript under review.
• Letter from Beverly Jarett to Louise Kertesz
  Dated May 21st, 1979. Beverly Jarett to Louise Kertesz. A series of typewritten letters between Beverly Jarret of LSU Press and Louise Kertesz, concerning Louise’s book manuscript.
• Letter from Beverly Jarett to Louise Kertesz
  Dated May 4th, 1979. Beverly Jarrett of LSU Press to Louise Kertesz. A series of typewritten letters between Beverly Jarret of LSU Press and Louise Kertesz, concerning Louise’s book manuscript.
• Letter from Carolyn Stroebe to Louise Kertesz
  An original, typewritten letter from the University of California in Santa Cruz, dated January 9th, 1980. The letter is from Carolyn Stroebe to Louise Kertesz. Stroebe introduces herself by saying that she is a graduate student working on her doctoral dissertation, an extension of her Master’s Thesis, titled “The Giving and Taking of a Poem: A Psychological Impression of the Life and Work of Muriel Rukeyser”. The dissertation will be based on psychological data provided by Muriel during a University of California studies of creative individuals in 1958, on an interview that Rukeyser gave Stoebe in 1979, and on impressions from people who knew her. Stoebe had just finished reading Louise’s book on the life and work of Muriel Rukeyser for the first time, and the book had proven to be one of her most important resources. Stroebe would love to talk with the author. She will be interviewing people in New York in May, but she doesn't think she can afford to travel to Michigan this year. If Louise decides to grant Stroebe an interview, they could perhaps meet at a later date. Stroebe wonders if Louise can help her by filling out a few psychological measures which call for Louise’s perceptions of Muriel. The forms will be brief and would not take a great deal of her time, Stroebe would be grateful. In closing, Stroebe says she is looking forward to hearing from Kertesz.
• Letter from Catherine Silvia to Louise Kertesz
  The second typewritten letter is dated March 12th, 1980, from Catherine Silvia to Louise Kertesz. The letter states that review copies will be sent to Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Henrietta Epstein, and that she is enclosing the review list for the book. Louise will receive ten complimentary copies of her book. The print-run of the book is 1,500 copies and the books are expected in the warehouse on February 28th; the publication date will be March 28.
• Letter from Catherine Silvia to Louise Kertesz
  The eighth typewritten letter, dated October 9th, 1975, is from Catherine Silvia to Louise Kertesz. It notifies Kertesz that Silvia has been named promotion manager for the LSU Press to replace Ms. Highleyman. Ms. Silvia is sending galleys of Louise’s book to Mr. True and to Hayden Carruth of Harpers.
• Letter from Chris Kertesz to Barbara Holliday
  The fourth typewritten letter, undated, is from Louise’s husband, Chris Kertesz, to Barbara Holliday, asking if she was interested in having the book for review purposes. There are several handwritten notes on the letter.
• Letter from Clive Bush to Louise KErtesz
  Original, typewritten letter, dated March 10th 1981, from Clive Bush to Louise Kertesz. Bush thanks Louise for her letter, and for agreeing to help Sarah (no last name). Bush states that everything that he has read about Detroit is worrisome, but he understands that Louise wants to get out of the suburbs, which he states that Muriel stated that nothing ever happens in the suburbs. Bush wonders when Americans will realize that “...you can’t for ever “move out” from your crimes and mistakes”. Bush states that he visited Wayne State University in 1988, and that he started with someone who had visited his University, Warwick, in England, the year before. His name was John Reed, and Bush wonders if he was still there. Bush has written to Modern Literature Review to see if they would be interested in a review of Louise’s book. Bush will let Louise know what happened. He says that basically academic publishers and few others give a damn about pushing books, and soon there will be no academic books of merit at all. Bush states that his book,which was extensively reviewed, didn't sell. He will write one more book,and then spend the rest of his energy on lithographs and poetry. Bush ends the letter by saying that he will be visiting his brother in Chicago some time in early July, and that Detroit is five hours from the bus in Chicago. He wonders if Louise will be in Detroit at that time.
• Letter from Clive Bush to Louise Kertesz
  An original, typewritten letter, dated March 2nd, 1981. The letter is from Clive Bush to Louise Kertesz. Clive begins the letter by saying that he has meant to write to Louise after reading her book on Rukeyser, but that time and various other pressures have interfered. Bush enjoyed the book, and he was interested in the reception of Rukeyser;s work and was relieved that Louise had not gone overboard with abstractions in her commentary. Bush thinks that it is a good book and that would open up further interest in Rukeyser’s work, but that it won't “fit” with the various obsessions of the Academy. He does hope that the book succeeds in spite of that. Clive also requests that Louise helps one of his students form Warwick University who has decided to travel the United States this summer in the hopes of meeting women writers and interviewing them Since Muriel had died, he had no one to turn to for advice about her, and he asks if the student can write to her for information about Rukeyser. The student’s name is Sarah Barclay. Bush is currently a visiting fellow at Yale for the year, and he is trying to finish a book on Henry Adams, William James. And Gertrude Stein. He was also planning on traveling this summer and he hopes to spend some time meeting and interviewing some poets himself in July and August. He also may spend a month teaching at Naropa. He has no idea where Farmington Hill is but it seems on the way to Colorado. He wanted to meet Louise and talk about Muriel and other poets if a time and place could be arranged during this summer.
• Letter from Curtis Harnack to Louise Kertesz
  Dated December 27th, 1978. A letter from Curtis Harnack, Executive Director of Yaddo, to Louise Kertesz in regard to duplicating the two group photos of Rukeyser at Yaddo.