Laura(Riding) Jackson

T. S. Matthews

Provenance: Mark Jacobs

Referenced 0628 - 0654

No date: 1977-78/0628           Statement by Laura (Riding) Jackson ‘Upon the publication of T. S. Matthews’ Jacks Or Better (“I wish to comment briefly as follows…”

No date: 1977-78/0629           Photocopy of  pages from Jacks Or Better with some references and marginalia by James F. Mathias

14 September 1977/0630         Letter to MJ on Jacks Or Better and sense of crisis

23 October 1977/0631            Photocopy of review of Jacks Or Better in The New York Times Book Review, ‘With Malice Toward Some’ by Martin Green

22 October 1977/0632                        Photocopy of Kirkus Service Review of book with a note from AC

25 October 1977/0633            Photocopy of published letter from James F. Mathias to Washington Star with marginal comment

2 November 1977/0634           Letter from James F. Mathias to friends on Jacks Or Better

17 November 1977/0635         Letter to Alan Clark and Copy to MJ on Jacks Or Better and sense of crisis

21 November 1977/0636         Letter from James F. Mathias to friends on accompany photocopy of  Sunday Times Book Review of Jacks Or Better ‘The Matthews Version’ by Richar R. Lingman

May 1978/0637           Carbon copy: ‘The Case Against A Careless Cardsharp’ by James F. Mathias

10 May 1979/0638      Photocopy of review from Sheffield Morning Telegraph

3 May 1979/0639        Photocopy of review of Jacks Or Better from Birmingham Post

31 May 1979/0640      Photocopy of review of Jacks Or Better in  Oxford Mail by Wilfred De’Ath

2 June 1979/0641        Letter by L(R)J to New Statesman on review of  Jacks Or Better by Jonathan Raban

5 June 1982/0642        Photocopy of review of Jacks Or Better in Spectator

25 June 1979/0643      Letter by MJ to New Statesman on review of  Jacks Or Better by Jonathan Raban

7 October 1977/0644  Letter to Nigel Nicholson  by Alan Clark on A Change of Perspective: the Letters of Virginia Woolf plus photocopy

No date:/0645              Photocopy of Chapter 1 of Name And Address by T. S. Matthews

16 January 1978/0646              Letter by L(R)J to The New York Times ‘Sunday Book Review’ on Jacks Or Better (sent ‘as from Wabasso’)

26 November 1977/0647         ‘A Personal Letter’ from L(R)J to The New York Times Book Review to Mr. Richard R. Lingeman (Columnist: Book Ends)

13 January 1978/0648              Letter not for publication to The Miami Herald to Mr. Alfred Boss

2 January 1978/0649                Letter from L(R)J to Miss Jessamyn West

6 November 1977/0650           Photocopy of review of Jacks Or Better in The Washington Star, ‘An Eccentric Hero Across Time’ by Judy Flander

13 March 1978/0651               Letter from Sally Chilvers to MJ on the theft of books from RG in Deya, especially T. E. Lawrence letters; plus photocopy of Jacks oR Better, ‘With Malice Toward Some’, by Martin Green in New York Times

23 January 1978/0652              Letter by L(R)J to the President of the University of Rochester, including margin-writing by L(R)J, on a review of Jacks Or Better in the Rochester Democrat-Chronicle by Mrs. Ellen Ruppell Shell ‘Bitter-Sweet Memoir’, plus photocopy

27 January 1978/0653              Letters from L(R)J, Michael Kirkham and James F. Mathias on review in Chicago Tribune of Jacks Or Better: ‘Enduring friendship wasn’t on the cards’ by Alden Whitman

4 January 1978/0654                Letter-report from James. F. Mathias to Sally Chilver, Alan Clark, Mark Jacobs, Michael Kirkham