[Discusses a vitriolic letter from Riding to Kemp, September 15, 1970, and explains his relationship to Riding, "My poems came under her scrutiny when James Reeves sent a batch to her in Deya. I gratefully accepted most of her many detailed suggestions for improvement; upon which they were considered good enough for Epilogue -a Critical Summary edited and largely written by herself, with Graves as associate editor, sole financial backer and, among others, contributor by invitation." Kemp concluded that Riding must have assumed that he had sided with Robert Graves in their dispute and "felt justified in treating me as an enemy." He goes on to mention the quarrels Riding had with many of the writers she was associated with and was persuaded that "the vision of her as a `sick' woman was perhaps too charitable a view." He summarizes his opinion of Riding, "Riding's trouble has always been her inability to see herself as a poet among poets. She has also had difficulty in recognizing that the young men and women she `lessoned' in the late thirties have long since grown up. I regard her now less as a once helpful parent-figure than as an inveterate trouble-maker."

[ Laura Riding writes a strongly worded letter to Kemp in the third person upon the receipt his book of poetry [ Poems As Of Now ] and a letter from him requesting "information as to the availability of something of her writing, post-poetic, to which allusion is made in that preface [to a selection of her poems published recently]"; Riding writes to correct ideas and statements made by Kemp that she believes to be in error, especially an acknowledgment mentioning Robert Graves , and insists that this be their final communication]