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EZRA POUND

RAPALLO

VIA MARSALA, 12 INT. 5

10 Jan.

Dear Z.

I. You hv; prob. seen announcement of yr. Hen Adams in Hound and Horn.

2. Hours Press starting again. says it will print a pocket edtn. of my 30 Cantos sometime within the year at reasonable price.

3. also makes what I think is clear statement, i;e; wants to print your "The" and wants ms. at once. Which same I am sending them by this post. the terms will be decent. I don't know details.

As they are ready to do THE by itself that settles question of yr. volume. I have wasted years by printing miscellanies. Eliot better stage-managed starting six years later has gone further with the public. You will get just as much position with "the" alone as you wd. from "The and other pomes Z" HUUEWHHHetc.

just as many reviews etc.

viva mil neuf cent trent

4. Hours also ready to print a book by Bill. I suggest that you make it poems and that you consult with Bill and get if poss 16 or 20 pages of poems or other unpublished and unprinted matter.

Hours has the Three Mts. type etc. and can work best on short vols. printed large.

RAPALLO

EZRA POUND

VIA MARSALA, 12 INT. 5

also for profits etc.

Of course if there is a reason for longer vol. it can be
excogitated, but knowing the firm I think best results
can be got from short wads. 16 to 32 pages.

My Cantos are an exception, but they have a
reason for being done in one wad rather than in 2.

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Have read Reznikof's verse. Good; but he shd. have got into
the gang; i;e; sent it to me in 1918 instead of now.

perhaps it was printed in Poetry or somewhere at the time
he wrote it ???? and only needed his own printing for
the book. ?? very difficult to do anything about it so late in the history of the world

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Re Bill, it wd. be better to use something not available
in one wad; also as Hours is using THE as reprint
from Xile; better not at once reprint Bill's stuff from Xile
4. ///

All of which lets me out of discussing the make up of a
possible longer book by you. In another 6 months the
? may rise again.

yrs

E.

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RAPALLO

VIA MARSALA, 12 INT. 5

14 April.

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Paris Ire.

France

Dear Z

There is certainly place for a book on Jefferson.
It wd. be useful both to murka and the author to have
a POPULAR book on Jefferson's fight for freedom of the
press.

I mean timely, nooz val. etc.

Jeff. is interestin. His collected woiks is printed by the
Jeff. memorial assn. or something of that sort.
Possibly the first American stylist.

It wd. be a good way to follow up yr. Adams. I dont
know whether you can manage to see Louis Untermeyer ; or
get at Harcourt Brace. I think they wd. or cd. use the
right kind of book on subject.

Also a preface by Sen. Cutting. wd. be apposite, and
flatten the Guggs.

If you do as good a job on it as on the Hen Adams
I will willingly ask Cutting for a preface.

I dont the least KNOW that I can get him. If he wont I
cd. try young Lafolette.

res publica, the public convenience

RAPALLO

EZRA POUND

VIA MARSALA, 12 INT. 5

In any case AS you read ; you have to read something
and you may as well read Th. Jeff.

It will solidify yr. great vol. on american licherchoor
now composed of me and Hen adams with bref etc. on
Bill and Mr Cummins.

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For senatorial preface. the study shd. be of Jeffs fight for
the free press. with asides on his lit. vol.

Starting with Jeff's correspondence ; and verifying from
collateral history. debates in senate and house etc.

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Hours Press recd. your pome and Bills. I dunno why hthey
aint on 1st. announcement list. But will find out next week
in Paris. I think I acknowledged the photos etc; for
Varietes.

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I think L Indice the new eyetalyan paper cd. use but NOT
PAY for a brief summary on the state of licherchoor in
America. I dunno ef you have seen Taupin yet; or see n
his book. L Indice is reviewing it. Bunting has done them
a summary of relation of England and America with names of
noo English ( not new england } potes.

What I think the Indice cd. use to spread your glory wd.
be a brief INFORMATIVE artice. on America since Taupin left
off.