“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

(Don Wollheim and his wife and daughter visited us Friday evening, September 2. This session was held on Wednesday, August 31, but was not typed up by Friday. We meant to check it with Don Wollheim, but in the course of a busy evening did not do so. We plan to send copies now to both Don Wollheim and F. Fell.)

The year 1906. (Long pause.) These apply to Wollheim or Fell. Presently Ruburt has the two so closely in mind that I am not sure. (Pause.)

(End at 10:28. Jane was again far-out. Her eyes remained closed. She was aware of the first long pause, lasting at least two minutes. She knew something was coming, but not what, and afterward didn’t know whether it applied to Don Wollheim or to Frederick Fell, editor and publisher respectively.

[...] He did feel that Wollheim did, and had no resentment toward Wollheim, though he did not publish the book. He felt Wollheim’s enthusiasm.

[...] Exactly a week and a half later, on Wednesday, August 17, Jane received a letter from Don Wollheim, of Ace Books. [...] The Wollheim letter was entirely unexpected, no correspondence having passed between Jane and Mr. Wollheim, or business, for a long time.

If the Wollheim meeting takes place, it will prove highly beneficial to all parties concerned, but at a later date and at a time when it will be highly needed. [...]

She projected this feeling to Ruburt also, particularly because Ruburt knew Don Wollheim. Fell was asking an exorbitant rate, she thought, for the first book; and Ruburt, she reasoned, would expect special privileges because of her contact with Wollheim, and so she got her back up and made sure no special privileges were given. [...]

[...] Wollheim did not overstate what she told him. [...]

[...] Wollheim is rather afraid of Grippo.

[...] (Pause.) Wollheim will be involved in it. [...]

[...] She knew what she had said about the book, under consideration at Ace Books, where Don Wollheim is editor-in-chief, and was at once concerned about distorting material, etc. [...]

[...] Don Wollheim hadn’t seen it yet. [...]

[...] These contacts will grow out of our seeing the following people: Don Wollheim, an editor Jane has previously published with; her present publisher, Frederick Fell; Eileen Garrett; and Dick Roberts, a senior editor at Dell Books with whom Jane has published. [...]

[...] She came to the studio to tell me this, and that she also received the thought, evidently from Seth, that Donald Wollheim, her editor at Ace Books, could or would write the introduction for Book One.

[...] It is, indeed, time that such a book be compiled, and I do suggest that when it is compiled you ask Mr. Wollheim to write an introduction. [...]

(Jane talked to Don Wollheim of Ace Publications on the phone today, and he requested that she send him her book on dreams. [...]

(At break I asked that Seth say what he think of our recent idea that Jane show some book ideas to Don Wollheim, at Ace, as a means of mobility in her writing.)

[...] The next day Jane put in a call to an editor at Ace Books, after receiving an encouraging letter from Don Wollheim of Ace, concerning her dream book. [...]

(“Did that material in the last session apply to Wollheim or Fell? [...]