BIB_ID
432706
Accession number
MA 4582
Creator
Pound, Ezra, 1885-1972.
Display Date
Rome, Italy, 1960? February.
Credit line
Gift of Mrs. Roland L. Redmond, 1989.
Description
1 item (4 pages) ; various sizes
Notes
Signed with initials.
Written from the apartment of Ugo Dadone, at Via Angelo Poliziano.
Pound dates the second half of the letter "5 Feb" but does not give a year of writing. However, the place of writing suggests that this was written during Pound's 1960 stay in Rome.
Acquired with PML 79853, Pound's desk copy of Cantos: LII-LXXI.
Written from the apartment of Ugo Dadone, at Via Angelo Poliziano.
Pound dates the second half of the letter "5 Feb" but does not give a year of writing. However, the place of writing suggests that this was written during Pound's 1960 stay in Rome.
Acquired with PML 79853, Pound's desk copy of Cantos: LII-LXXI.
Summary
Responding to her letter and saying how sorry he was to have missed her; writing "yes of course you can give the Confucius to the Morgan. don't they ever [keep up with?] surviving authors"; mentioning how much Montino has grown and the weather in San Francisco; adding "Am speechless without a typewriter. Hope [...] that there will be some Europe left for you to return to"; continuing several days later and asking "wd. the imperial nephew be interested in my set [...] of Divus Justinopolis & Salmasius. not sure they shd be as inaccessible as the morgan -- possibly shd. be in Yale or Harvard. but you never can tell."
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