In a pile of scraps part of a copy of a letter I wrote Hayford late in 1962 about my misgivings about Fredson Bowers

 Later, when I realized how astonishingly sloppy his textual work was and asked the Center for Editions of American Authors to rescind the seal awarded to MAGGIE, Fredson blackballed me from the Center for Scholarly Editions (he lied about this) and prevented by article on MAGGIE from being published for more than 20 years. I was very wary of his from our first meeting, in 1962, as I wrote Hayford, who was in Italy.  Here is the snippet: