EZRA POUND

RAPALLO

VIA MARSALA, 12 INT. 5

28 Jan

Dearest Gladys :

I am glad you liked the Villon. That makes six or seven people.

I am writing another one, which I hope will be a bit more musical. Not necessarily better.

Mr Bard PROMISES to reform his damn magazine, and has begun by sending me a chq/ in the hopes of getting a narticle.

The virtuous young friend, thereby be comforted for as nearly as I can recollect I have BLASTED their oppressors and misleaders from starn to mizzen and from mixxzedn to bowsprit.

It is high time the Britons turned from their sin.

I am at canto 36/ at least 36 is in typescript/ 31 to 33 in Bagany/

XXX cantos in a bk/ that costs 2 guineas, But other arrangements are pending, so I dont advise th hawrtistic classes to but it.

Yes I know Jack, he wuz a waitin fer that there rev/tn to bust out in Japan 14 years ago and sweep westward. I takes my bolchevism from Moscow and my Fascism from RRRoma. Had a lot of fun talking fascism to one of the Bolch/ embassy staff in Paris last spring. He persisted in thinking that Muss. wasn't on quite the right track.

I keep on tellin the folks how well Russia is running. Interspersed with reflections on how well Muss. knows his job. I shd/ of course tell Jack about

ANNO XIII¹
1935

E. POUND
RAPALLO
VIA MARSALA 12 - 5

Dearest Gladys

Love and a merry Xmas.

I suppose alas, you are swamped in a milieu that believes all the lousiest lice like Angell and the other pimps of the banks, who wont read McNair Wilson, who WONT look into the real cause of war and make a dirty living out of howling for peace, lets kill Italians.

waaal, Cant help it. You ought to know different
but people will read noozwypers run by Birmingham Small
Arms, Whitworth Chemicals and General Dawney/ and thaaas thaaat.

do write when you can bust out in postage.