Letter from Ezra Pound, Rapallo, Italy, to Francesco Monotti?, 1939? April 12 : typescript signed.

Responding to Monotti's previous remarks that they could make a fortune if they give Pound a million for his enclosed idea and Monotti could have the agent's commission; saying that he reviewed the "stuff" Pound wrote in "British Italian Bulletin" during the Abyssian war and liked it; adding that he thinks the Bulletin essay would make one volume and the Jefferson another with prefaces; adding that Expositions "do not as a rule get their adv/copy from such exalted founts" and that if if they are sold cheaply then it will not be printed in England for some time, even though it's been done since 1935/1936, along with the Jefferson/Mussolini volume; expressing that six daily papers in Italy are now saying the things he said in British Italian Bulletin 4 years ago "by 1942 the general reader may accept 'em"; describing how he is now a regular correspondent for the daily paper, Japan Times, and that he can do a little write up of the Exposition; discussing his hopes that his editor will publish the article; writing about a letter he just received from Sir Josiah Wedgewood which calls him a Nazi and Fascist and "just the type that needs to be purged off the earth. and that he hopes I will be. (a few blots showing his haste to hope I suppose) How like Mike Gold in the old days."