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CALDWELL, IDAHO

December 30, 1930

Ezra Pound,
Rapallo, Italy.

Dear Reader:

NORTHWEST VERSE (see announcement attached) can be purchased in connection with a
subscription to THE FRONTIER MAGAZINE at a reduced price. The book is listed at
$3.00. A year's subscription to the magazine (four issues - in November, January,
March and May) is $1.50. The two together can be purchased for $4.00.

THE FRONTIER is a regional magazine portraying Northwest life. It is intended for national reading. Its success has been attested by many favorable reviews in National newspapers such as The N. Y. Evening Post, and weeklies like The N. Y. Nation and The Saturday Review of Literature in this country, and The London Times and The London Mercury, abroad. Mr. E. J. O'Brien, in his "Best Short Stories" for 1929, ranked its fiction seventh among magazines in the United States for excellence, and in his volume for 1930, fifth - above such magazines as Harpers and Scribners. It prints verse, stories and articles, and each issue carries about twenty pages of historical material - diaries, journals and early-day accounts that hitherto have not been printed.

You will like this magazine. Both it and the collection of verse will soon
become indispensable to your reading.

JHG/MD

ORDER FORM

Please enter my order for a years subscription to THE FRONTIER MAGAZINE and a
copy of NORTHWEST VERSE, Popular' Edition. I enclose check for $4.00.

Enter my order for ____ copies DeLuxe Edition of NORTHWEST VERSE at $8.00.

Enter my order for ____ copies Popular Edition of Northwest Verse at $3.00.

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THE CAXTON PRINTERS, LTD.

CALDWELL, IDAHO

OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT

August 14, 1953

Dorothy Pound
3514 Brothers Place
Washington, S.E., D.C.

Dear Mrs. Pound:

First may I say, Mrs. Pound, that the idea we had when we started our little publishing venture was to help authors in every way that we can, and much as I would like to have an item by the greatest of living poets on the Caxton list, I think it only fair to tell you that if Harvard University is willing to bring out the translation that they could probably do better in the matter of sales than The CAXTON PRINTERS could, and the reward of the author depends upon the *amount* of copies sold, as they undoubtedly pay on a royalty basis, as do we.<sup>number</sup>

I have looked over the material which accompanied your letter, and am returning it to you.

I think we can solve the problem all right, and would of course be delighted to work with Mr. Fang, but we could hardly afford to bring him to Caldwell and, of course, he can work on the premises with the Harvard University Press printers, and undoubtedly that would be very, very advantageous.

With the situation as it is, therefore, our advise would be that E.P. go ahead with Harvard University Press on this particular proposition, but we would like to be remembered in connection with some of his future work.

You both may be interested in the campaign we are now carrying on to inform the American people about the facts of national and international life.

The two-page circular letter enclosed is being mailed first-class, addresses filled in to match, with the Libertarian catalog No. 72 and order blank, which are also sent you.

We have to revise all for another mailing, and if either of you have any suggestions as to how we can strengthen the letter and improve the catalog and order blank, we would be happy to hear from you.

With every good wish, I remain

Yours truly,

The CAXTON PRINTERS, Ltd.

J. H. Gipson, President

JHG:1jw

THE CAXTON PRINTERS, LTD.

CALDWELL, IDAHO

OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT

February 9, 1956

Ezra Pound
St. Elizabeths Hospital
Washington, D. C.

Dear E. P.:

It is always a pleasure to meet you, although I would have been happier
had the meeting taken place in other surroundings.

As you will see by acknowledgment #K78467 I haven't forgotten my promise
to send you the three Libertarian items that interested you.

The acknowledgment is sent so that the shipment can be traced if it
shouldn't come promptly to hand.

I discussed your case with some very important people. Whether or not
they will take any interest in it future developments will show.

At any rate, you are not forgotten by me and you won't be. It is an
incredible outrage that one of the greatest of living poets should be
incarcerated in such an institution and kept there for 10 years.

My best regards to Dorothy when you see her, and tell Dave Horton to write
me his suggestions regarding future proceedings as he promised to do.

JHGsr:imr