BOSTON,
FEB 11
11-PM
1956
ACC

THIS SIDE OF CARD IS FOR ADDRESS

Brew Ponder Greene, Esq.
39 Chestnut St.
Boston
Mass.

ALBERGO GRANDE ITALIA & LIDO

7 June 59

TEL. CENTR. 54.92 - 50.30 - 50.14

DIRETTAMENTE AL MARE
RISTORANTE ALL'APERTO TUTTO L'ANNO
SPIAGGIA PROPRIA - GARAGE

Dear Cairnie .

I dont know whether

RAPALLO

yr/ business is an affair of LUVV, and quiet

browsing or whether you go into the high power merchandizing of rarities a la that **** Olski. etc. I noticed one british bookseller offering an E,P, Item for $28 , in contrast to 1000 lire asked for copy of same in Milan. In short geographic component in price.

Attitude of the gros legumes, Ford, Rockerfeller to E.P. and that of Moscow to Pasternak so similar that one almost suspects teleologic identity. Also the large fees offered TSE and Ken Clark to say nothing. ( Lady C. cheerfully and wid oirish frankness, accepting the term " bribe". AHH As for the Harvard U. press in relation to Confucian anthology, that again opens perspectives. With Oxford ousting greek and latin, and subsidizing in cahoots with Calif/ the subsidy to an ape named Edwards, which, naturally refusing to provHide even a week's board to the subject of Mr Edward's profanations,

in short being without a market in the U.S. for original w
writing, let alone a forum to continue what the Little Review had
with distinction begun. ( The sobriety of the Lit. RHHMH Rev. borne
in on me when I got back to my archives and look at the Vol 1918( May)
to 1919. I am thinking of vending a few items so as to eat before
further calcificazation of cervical vertebrae slows down my output
still further. Items offered: galley proofs of W.C.Williams' Voyage
to Pagany. And Guzzo's " Dialoghi di ( Giordano) Bruno" with
some very lively pencil notes ( sample if required) by one of the
last men who attempted to bring life of the mind into Cambridge( Mass).
i.e. ole Jarge Santayana. Notsnue the KOlektors are keeping him up
as they should. Offer of a note on some of his letters didn't
instantly enkindle such magazine editors as my correspondents seem able
to mobilize. I wonder what "scholars" if any, in yr/ neck of the
woodz think an academy shd/ DO. or let us say what an aggregate
which the late H.James referred to as " aBODy" shd/ do to merit the
title " ACademy". a BoDDy

confidingly yrs.

E.Pound

Apparently Mr Frankfurter's harvardian influence on the Supreme
travesty of a court, now classed authors' royalties as UNEARNED
income. You are perhaps old enough to recall a cleaner state of
the union. What periodicals do you glance at, or
recommend that I shd/ look at to get some idea of cimmerian darkness ?

Report that Usura Canto is circulating unpublished in Warsaw, and
that was fist fight in edt. office of their leading lit/ sheet, between
anti-fascist and pro-kulch commie, re/ to print or not to.

3000 copies select poems in polluk, been in cellarage their
for some time, waiting permit.

the First Spanish Battalion, and the First Battalion of Joseph Napoleon (later Napoleon II). Napoleon has signed this document "Np" in the lower right corner, the "p" part of the signature entering into the manuscript report concerning Joseph's battalion. Document watermarked with Napoleon's seal. A fine example handsomely presented and perfect for display.

222. NIXON, RICHARD M. (1913-, 37th President of the U.S.). *Large Poster for the Nixon/Agnew Campaign of 1972 signed by Nixon*. Elephant folio. 1972.

$215.00

Poster is folded. When extended to its full size, there is a central picture of Nixon talking to a child and he has signed his name in ink immediately below the picture. This picture is surrounded by 8 smaller scenes. When poster is folded in half there are 7 more pictures and text being the verso, and when in quarters it is reduced to a blue and white mailing piece with a drawing of Nixon on the front encaptioned: "Young Voters for the President." One small tear in margin neatly repaired; all else very fine.

223. PICKERING, TIMOTHY. (1745-1829, American statesman; Sect'y. of State under Washington & Adams; Postmaster-General under Washington) 2p. A.L.s. to John Carter, Jr. of Providence (1745-1814, Rhode Island printer and editor, chiefly of the Providence Gazette). 4to.; 45 lines; approx. 315 words. Philadelphia: Dept.

of State, April 2, 1799.

$650.00

An important letter from Pickering while Sect'y. of State concerning the publishing of the laws of the United States in the *Providence Gazette*. Citing an "act passed in the last session of Congress" whereby "the laws of that session" be published "in at least one newspaper in each state," Pickering here chooses Carter's publication "for their promulgation in the State of Rhode Island." Pickering encloses a Trenton newspaper to Carter as an example (not included), then goes on to say: "By devoting one half sheet weekly to the publication of the laws, disposed in octavo pages, each of your subscribers will, with the current news, receive a complete copy of the laws of the Untied States, in a form to be folded in a pamphlet unmixed with any other matter..." Pickering then instructs Carter on the method of showing the authority to print the laws, informs him on the methods of payment, and asks that copies of the paper containing the laws be sent to him "under a coarse but closed cover." Letter shows some brown smears of the ink at central fold, but is otherwise in very good to fine condition throughout, and accomplished in a strong, neat hand.

224. POUND, EZRA. (1885-1972, American expatriot poet, critic, and editor).

1p. T.L.s. with *Manuscript Corrections and Salutation*. Quarto. Approx. 45 lines;

approx. 450 words. Rapallo: June 7, 1959.

$685.00

An interesting Pound letter written to Gordon Cairnie in which he mentions many literary giants of the day including Pasternak, T. S. Eliot, W. C. Williams, Santayana, H. James, and others as well as other important personagles like Ford, Rockerfeller (sic), Frankfurter, and others. Letter begins with the usual Pound paranoia: "I dont know whether your business is an affair of LUVV, and quiet browsing or whether you go into the high power merchandizing of rarities a la that **** Olski. (sic) etc. I noticed one british bookseller offering an E. P. item for $28, in contrast to 1000 lire asked for copy of same in Milan." Pound goes on to add that the "attitude of the gros legumes, Ford, Rockerfeller (sic) to E. P. and that of Moscow to Pasternak (is) so similar that one almost suspects technologic identity..." He laments "being without a market in the U.S." and proposes "vending a few items so as to eat before further calcificazation of cervical vertebrae slows down (his) output still further." Pound further laments in a long postscript: "Apparently Mr. Frankfurter's harvardian influence on the Supreme travesty of a court, now classes authors' royalties as UNEARNED income..." Letter is quite creased with a few minor nicks and tears around the margins. Several manuscript corrections in red ink in Pound's hand throughout as well as a five word salutation, also in red. Despite the somewhat average condition of the letter itself, a really fascinating one for content alone.

WITH A TALLMADGE A.L.S. REQUESTING SUPPLIES

225. TALLMADGE, COL. BENJAMIN. *Memoir of Col. Benjamin Tallmadge prepared by Himself at the Request of His Children*. First ed.; 8vo.; 70pp.; Howes T-17.

New York: Thomas Holman, 1858.

$315.00