continuation of letter from FABER & FABER 30th June 1937.

-2-

Ezra Pound, Esq.

It is damn good book full of plums. Which they aint so
many as can tell a plum as there never is. But yr. duff goes
merry to Whales gizzard and he thenks you.

Copy IN PARENTHESIS coming separate fer yore spare time when
you has it.

Dear Whale

Nott's liquidator has had an offer for Fenollosa Ch/ Fr/
Character.

I am delving acceptances 24 hours, to give you last chance
to get that AND the 10 (two numbers of idiosyncratic series)

It is all nuts you telling me! you want all my cultural stuff

IF you omit the Ta Hio which is the very core and centre of it.

Better worth work than Catay, and a note on Kanto XIII.

And shd/ LIKE the Fenollosa to stay with it. But naturally I can't
delay Nott's liquidating

You can Obviously get the stuff at a bargain/ and pay me royalty
as it-sells.

Of course Rossun is a dirty Xtia holding up Kung
because he thinks him a heathen, that is THAT.

Ecclasiastical blind spot ??

PRESERVATION PHOTOCOPY: ORIGINAL MATERIAL RESTRICTED

MUSEUM 9543 (4lines)
FABBAF. WESTCENT. LONDON

G.C. Faber. chairman

C.W. Stewart

R.H.I. de la Mare

F.V. Morley (U.S.A.)

T.S. Eliot

FABER

& FABER LTD PUBLISHERS

24 RUSSELL SQUARE LONDON W.C.1

Ezra Pound, Esq.,
via Marsala 12-5,
Rapallo,
Italy.

16th July 1937.

Dear Ezro:

On or about Tuesday next Gene (Kewpie) Reynal is to descend
on Rapallo. That's to say, he is to be staying with Charles

Marshall at Portofino, and he is burning with a great desire to
rush over to Rapallo to see you if that is possible, and to
describe a peropsition which Lallypo may have adumbrated in
a previous letter. I am myself not whole-heartedly clear as

to whether Gene's suggestion is something you would really want
to do, or something you really wouldn't. Lallypo tried to tell

me that your answer to his letter meant that you were interested;
privately I read it t'other way. If it's what you yourself

abidingly wants, Whale will blow hot; if it's not your notion,
Whale will blow arctic. I thought, though, that on everything

general perhaps you ought to meet Gene K, for he's a lively boy
and probably a better man than either you or me on the tennis courts;

continuation of letter from FABER & FABER 31st August 1937.

-2-

Ezra Pound, Esq.

out for your information as it might crop up on other occasions
when conversing with savants.

Eccentricities we is all for applauding always, but
ignorance is ignorance especially. What I am really writing
about is the second point which I think does need your consult.
Most of the time you forgiveably talk of King Kung, but on
page 237 you have a kind of lapse towards Confucius. Neither
Elephant nor I, through six months' brooding, have been able to
decide whether this lapse is a lapse or an intention. Have it
your own way, is Elephant's view, but don't have it both ways
unless you want to. Give me the imperial preference and I'll
change the typescript according.

The text remains to his honourable proboscis as to me,
a very considerable and provokative pleasure. So soon now as the
thing can be printed I will send proofs to the gentle Genie with
flowers.

And as to ifs and ands, I has noted your words of wit,
yet was acting on them before you mentioned; e.g. warning Larrypo
not to fret himself in this stage.

Am myself reserving advice till the sweet strains between
Panther and June-bug resolve themselves to an intelligible chord.
Which chord if you can hit it on both hands, is Whale's favourite
music. But of course till I has evidence, I suspect the two

II "ec. 37

Authors take Side Lines.

Upon reading Mr Eliot's remarks in the Left Review pamphlet

The thoughtful lady commented :

I know now why you call him the Possum.

/ Wall Protopirius/ Mr "eid yr/ swan's egg arruv. and he
seems a thoughtful bloke, not so depressin' not NEAR so depressin
as you made out.

Now as to th' fambly drug store/ WOULD it
enlighten his parents IF you wd. to do a official note to
Butch/ or the G.Wright Inc.
tellin 'em a NUVVLE takes long
to write, if we have here the new 'apa Gustav en herbe/

BUT tat the heads of the profession look
calmly on the tadpole; and that ole EZ

is a post grad university

INCARNATE, and that they shdn't deprive the lad of such as chanct.

FINK wot if a electrician had been eved by Edison or Marconi.

Ap'arently the Reids had a GREAT physician on the distaff side
in I780 and want another.... whether they cd. see licherach...r as

I mean you dit wot I mean/ IF his fambly can afford

IO bucks a week, shdn't he have two years to turn round in.

bein' so young an attentive. ??

OTHER matters/

I.

Gheez that pimplet does show up the Boomed Youth/
why dont Faber ask Wyndham for a Dore illustrated edtn. of 'antos.

yrz 'eter? and so forf.

7 Dec 37

Esteemed and estimable Mr. Hale

I can SEE you blowin' and kussin
and wantin' we to SHUT UP till after "atale or XXXmas/

BUT the arts cant bleed to death just because some kike once
said commerce wuz their bloody old MA.

Also fer the good of the FIRM ! these here microfoto and
photostat processes ARE before forever and hell's day GOING to
work.

esp/ in MUZIK and chinkese studies.

I don't know when they will pay base commercial enterprise/
but someone haz gotter look forward.

Vide some note Dutch is suppose to print in his hypothetica
and/or/iF magazine.

Now the question IS If a interestin brochure
were provided, what sort of allowance wd. you blokes make
for proper illustrations/ where wd. you think them sound bizniz ??

and in general wotter HELL abaht it.

Of course the Possum will LOATHE the idea of exotics/ and change/

and research into anything save the cut of bishops'
aprons/ BUT we can't stop fer no Sycamore trees when there is
a ROAD to be putt up the maounting.

Suppose I offer you 64 pages of pretty reprints/ for 605
Reichmarks/ 500 copies/ or fer a bit more 1000

copies, WHAT will YOU pay for 'em. or WHEN wd. you pay for
'em. AND wd. you be interested in 'em AT ALL if they were
aimed at reading machines only, and not at the nude and

MUSEUM 9543 (4lines)

FABBAF. WESTCENT. LONDON

G.C. Faber. chairman

C.W. Stewart

R.H.I. de la Mare

F.V. Morley (U.S.A.)

T.S. Eliot

FABER

& FABER LTD PUBLISHERS

24 RUSSELL SQUARE LONDON W.C.I

Ezra Pound, Esq.,
Via Marsala 12-5,
Rapallo,
Italy.

17th December 1937.

Dear Ezro:

Your letter of the 7th stirred receptive responses all
the way down Whale's backbone, for he has for years past been
 cogitating about photography and the musical score.

Though as the music field is at present a closed racket
and impermeable jungle, Whale has never got very far with his
machete.

But what I mean to say is that if you will tell me what
you are talking about in your letter of the 7th, we may be
able to get forrader. The curiosity is titivated; what are
the facts? What is the stuff you intend to put 1, 2, 3 on the
page? After all, the contents is a matter of interest so well
as the mechanics, and your alleged letter is so far exclusively
mechanic.

As you justly remark, I would sooner sleep till after Christmas,
but you see I'm not sleeping but spending wakeful nights thinking

continuation of letter from FABER & FABER 17th December 1937.

-2-

Ezra Pound, Esq.

about your future. As well as about yours of the 7th, I admit
I am still brooding on Less Polite Essays, but they are rivals
for immediate attention, I want more information to give fair
play.

Yours ever,

F.V. Morley.

19 Dec 37

Waal naow yew old an nohnorabl son ov the NAHRWALL.

Wot I purposes to PUTT in them holes wuz
fotografts of Mr Vivaldi's mannershrups/ Leica and then THlarged/
and wet I suggest az text is by autheress known in XX the
Eliot correspondence ( from HIM, allus speaks of her wiff respekk )
as Riggles of hed Gap. Yr/ steamed colleague will prob/ recollect
her in connection wiff the Fenchurch St beer case.

Waal naow when she pubd/ a few Vivaldi letters
in LISTENER,
ole "awrunce Gilman lifted the LOT in the Noo Jork
herald H N.Y. edtn. on a sunday the 3 of 'an/ last
so I spose there wuz a pupular appeal in 'em/ and several
other muugyZeens has asked and printed bits/

Broletto edtr/ here last evening hoping to print a
concerto in fac simile/ in the Jan issue ( wich like continental
mags/ prob/ comes out in Feb/ as he had the Dec proofs ON
him a week ago.

Waal; anyhow, I think a " Vivaldi, " preliminary
survey " wd/ have about all some KUGG wd. put in a 600 page
bulography/ say 32 pages of printed matter, and then a
lot of them there mss/ showing the boots how to do it, plus
a thematic catalog of the 309 concerts in Turin, mostly unpubd/

I mean that wd. give the blocked a nidear WHAT
Johnny Bach had to look up to and why he fitted out some
cancs/ of ole Ab/ Vv. ( not wuz for the chester ) fer his ergum.

8 by 12 cm/ reprints are clear to the nude eye/ WANT a sample print ?

There are two new punches/ one th hareesh about the PROCESS ( vide brief note by th lady in Townsman ) the other the enormous unexplored thm stretch of Vivaldi/

A couple of articles HM Apparèd ten years ago in wop/ but in such obsolescent perryudicles that it is harder to find 'em than to go to original sources.

The mic/ process IS a new day both in usicology and in oriental studies//

WHEN Faber is ready for the Fer the EZ library of Chinese Classics/ to run the LIMED LowEBB gk/lat classics off its feet, leme know/ but the present concerns the art of musica/

and what ought to be did/

I mean there IS a FIRST book( or bk/let) to be done on the subject,

and may as well kill two birds/ better sales/

Doc Sayce system is for projection only/ butttt marrvelous.

reckon yew hadn't seen THAT.

Yr/ letter iz hid itzelf under the debris/ so I dunno if this iz a Wot else saveerry XXmas to yew and the childern and th missus and to the ole somnolent animal/

an" Kulch fer the gnu year

yrz in person

MUSEUM 9543 (4 lines)
FABBAF, WESTCENT, LONDON
G.C. Faber, chairman
C.W. Stewart
R.H.I. de la Mare
F.V. Morley (U.S.A.)
T. S. Eliot

FABER
& FABER LTD PUBLISHERS

28th January 1938

Dear Sir,

The Post Department here send you their most grovelling apologies. I do not know what came over them, as the package was marked "Proofs - registered" and it was quite clear it was to be sent book and not parcel post. I am extremely sorry and upset you should have been put to such inconvenience by the carelessness of our department.

FABER & FABER LTD.

Please let us know how much we owe you for this mistake.

MUSEUM 9543 (4lines)

FABBAF, WESTCENT, LONDON

G.C. Faber, chairman

C.W. Stewart

R.H.I. de la Mare

F.V. Morley (U.S.A.)

T.S. Eliot

FABER

& FABER LTD PUBLISHERS

3rd February 1938.

Dear Mr Pound,

It would be very helpful to me if you could give
me some idea of when you will be returning me your
galley proofs for revising in page form, as we should
like to fix a provisional publication date before very
long. If you could let me know at the same time of any
additional matter that has to go among the preliminary
pages, I should be very grateful.

I wonder if you consider an Index necessary? And
if you do want to have one, is it your intention to compile
it yourself when you get the page proofs? It would
certainly be very much more satisfactory, if you could do
that, as you must know best exactly what you would like
to be included in the index; but I could make other
arrangements if you would prefer to leave the indexing to
another person.

But please don't let me persuade you to have an
index if you think one unnecessary.

Ezra Pound Esq.

MUSEUM 9543 (4lines)

FABBAF, WESTCENT, LONDON

G.C. Faber, chairman

C.W.Stewart

R.H.I. de la Mare

F.V.Morley (U.S.A.)

T.S.Eliot

FABER

& FABER LTD PUBLISHERS

6th May 1938.

Dear old Ezro:

I sat at home on last rainy Sunday engaged in the pleasure
of reading proofs (so far as p.112 -- the rest on their way to
me) of Kulchur; which am still perusing even though you talk of
Less Polite; you the bee as William Gibcat used to say, and I the
flowr: you flitting onward through the night: ile come to the
forrad notion in a minute. Three months in the USury A hasn't
made Kulchur less good reading on return. You can guess why the
bhoys made me read it again: same way Mr. Murray's bhoys ast Mr.
Murray please to reread Mr. Byrom's voices (Don J)-- fer libel!!
The which I have your letter and the Polecat's letter encouraging
me to wrastle with so well as I can; which I shall expand into
authority to alter anything in the tucks which strikes me fancy.
Hurrah. Maybe me and my blue pencil won't have some fun, and
you may recognise your child when next you see him. In seyrusness

continuation of letter from FABER & FABER 6th May 1938.

-2-

Ezra Pound, Esq.

though I will do an absolute minimum. There are, I think, four
places in this batch which I shall have to touch according to your
perscription. The laws of libel have altered for the worse since
Byrom's day: we is ground down to be litler in our lil ways when
we see snakes than Mr. Murray was when he struggled with his dragon.
Which reminds me that in Namurka I saw, in the President's public
office at Haverford College, a new sizable portrait of Shelley:
which was to laff, remembering how they fired Zeke Dunn in my
freshman time (1916) and Zeke, bless his memory, was no Shelley.

Well, how I do ramble. As to libel in England, and occasionally
as to references of the English scene, remember that once in awhile
you are a little out of date: the *Mail*, fer instance, is scarcely
the major banner of our tribulation; *Express* has ousted it somewhat;
there's always that much point in denominising your references.

Now as to Less Perlite. Elephant having gorn to Portugal to
receive (I expec) ye order of the Holy Ghost Class IV our impact
(which derives from it being a syzygy) is divided till he gets back.
D'you imagine he left his affairs in order for me, notes as to how
to wage the campaigns, indexes as to what he was adoing of all his
long sleeping time, etc? Nary a thing but a empty orfice has he
left with so much bumph about as to indicate his Turds (ef he needs
so much bumph as all that in his orfice) must be tremenjus. Yet

-3-

Ezra Pound, Esq.

patience, brother, there will be action soon: and soon's as I
gets these proofs through Ile be in good persition, and Mistah
Elyut shd return (ef the Holy Ghost descends on um) like a Lion
for activism.

Reading the K proofs I am enormously pleased with its rightness
and its readability. Few of the Dod-rotted drug bessotted will
have sense enough to see -- takes some years in the vale of tehars
to see and know, as I ain't telling you: but I'd have been grateful
at aetat 19 or so to have such a compass to worry and disturb me
(as it wd have done). I found the beaneries (I saw a number of
them) as fatuous and smug and hopeless as ever.

K was a good idear, I think. Am pleased with it. I saw
lil Kewpie in N.Y. -- no sense in that quarter, as I never thought
there was.

Reperusin yr letter -- ef yeon has <u>Less Perlite</u> in any
intelligible shape already, better send me at least a list of the
essays as they now stands -- or has Elerphunt got that??

Your versicule in the letter is as ever apt and unnerstandable.

Huzza,

P.S. Further batch of Kulchur to p.256 has come for me to continue
peewoosing.

P.P.S. Lachlan's sheet question just come. Will quote with pleasure;
but oughtn't I to mention it also to Pollinger?

FABER
& FABER LTD PUBLISHERS

21st January 1938.

Dear old Ezro:

Hurrah for everything; but the Whale is puzzled. I
thought I was writing to you for information about reproductions
of objects of literary amusement, but from what I can make out
your reply is about cheeyildish things. Now I'm not saying
that I'm not less interested in cheeyildish things than in
microphotography. perhaps moar. Is it that you have sent
the cheeyild herself to Lallipo? If so, I will gird the good
Pol into handing it over. Which ever of the two bats it is
which clings feet uppermost in the belfry, let uncle see their
hair and hide.

As a matter of fact uncle won't see their hair and hide for
some days, as he's streamlining himself to use his flukes in the
Atlantic. The next you will hear from him is from Nyork, or
maybe points south and west. The Elephant has promised to come

continuation of letter from FABER & FABER 21st January 1938.

-2-

Ezra Pound, Esq.

out of his long lethargy during Whale's long absence. He,
Elephant, has just ejected his next play, except that there is,
I suppose, a few dribbles yet to come down the proboscis. But
he certainly looks thinner and feels lighter, and has no excuse
for pity for the next few months.

Not that I have any hopes of Elephant ever doing anything
unaided. I expect things will be just as they are when Whale
streams back; except that maybe you may have sent exemplars of
what it is you are a-mooting of; and that the printing of the
Guide should be completed; and that I shall have found out how
the gyascutus, his symptoms, sagashuate.

If you can bear to write me in the natal land, do so. It
doesn't much matter where you address me, because Whale is going
to be well known. C/o gyascutus would probly be as quick as any.

Yours ever,

Here is what I had put!

I. D Artagnan/ 20 years after ( Criterion; recent)

2. Gaudier / chapter of personal impressions from my Gaudier Br interlope/ the suggested

Eliot

Joyde

Lewis/ from Instigations.

4. Immediate need of confucius ( from Aryan Path; recent.

5. Jefferson and/or Mussolini.

this balances the H.James/ Gourmont : Perlite.

6. The Ethics of Mencius.

7. René Crevel

8/ Pavannes. 45 pages of light licherchoor/ from Pavannes and Divisions.

9/ recent essay on Reorganize your dead universities/

current issue of Delphian Quarterly.

10/ any other brief jobs/ say a bit of this MUSIC and words : puppygarder from Townsman orx whatever Bro/ WHILE felt was necessary to pep up or placate the basted puplick.

Anyhow there is allyou can pee/rint for 7/6

KULCH having led my breeders to general and flylosophical district.

and the book being efficiently mixed quickles to get round among the Perlite breeders.

wanna see any ovit you aint yet saw ???

21 May

Reveerd an Honouriferous WH/hale

Young Laughlin is a driftin'
thitherward/ and is sound on buying some KULCH/

but he is also a VENDOR and while Psm/ is
debauchin that Portagoose/ there is NO USE in conealin the fact
thatDoc Williams" Life on the Passaic River" is the best buk
writ in America since Thorau and Whitman.

also it is being traduced i
four furrin langwides/ even if they do include Norweg/ and
others where infantilism is chronic.

Now you might buy a bit/ and more over
you might pay fer part of it in sheets of ABC econ and
Activ. Anthology/ which have gone static//

I dare say in direct barter the invoice price can be low/
fer obvious but not illegal reasons.

ANYHO W/ Williams ought to
drug into England. Nearly all that buk is as good as M.H.
HUDSON at his best.

As fer Mle/ that might later be bought with unmoved Perlite Says
if any remain. Thus enrichin yr/ list. But the Passaic River is m
bet fer an nintroducer.

Of course I have to EAT//

Hope "encius" ideograms has got straight. etc///

Got any other buks we cd/ revoo in Broletto ??

I noticed the Fox in essay on 'robenius in that wigmwaum.

6 June

Dear WhHale/

I spose you are doin all th woik/ and speakin of
thet li'l portagoose wot looks to me more like a QUAIL
O saw ye bonnie Possum, as he ga'ed o'er the border
He's gone like Alexander
To be a Portugander.

Well; hell; as you sent me ONE proof with Malatesta head LEVE
who the WHY printed it cockeyed. The LETTERS on the seal
show the plimsol.

Also please let me know the name of jacket designer.

// Wasel now it is them LESS PERLITE that is on the Tape/is
and ole E2/ coHegitatin. Can you incubate a bit bit on
thet prubblumb ? "reen gerw the rushes O'.

Please let me know whether a copy has been sent to J.Drummond; Al
"rapalle, Rapalle"

for his work on index ?

also on my account please send copy to
Werhart Munch, Seestrasse 3 E.

Gartenhaus, MUNCHEN, Germany.

yrz EZ

MUSEUM 9543 (4lines)

FABBAF, WESTCENT, LONDON

G.C. Faber, chairman

C.W. Stewart

R.H.I. de la Mare

F.V. Morley (U.S.A.)

T.S. Eliot

FABER

& FABER LTD PUBLISHERS

8th June 1938.

Dear Ezro:

Just when I thought everything was perfect we got a hell of a kick back over the epithet 'stinking' as applied to Hardy's sisters. This had escaped me eagle eye, and nobody but me seemed to take it in a hortative rather than in a pro-positional sense. After lots of commotion, seemed best to hold up publication for a couple weeks or so and change or delete the epithet. Am making the Portuguese do this so if he don't catch your idiom it may be another idiom of more or less similar emminence. It's a nuisance, of course, to hold up the publication; but there it is; and I am now trying to make what curiosity value I can out of holding it up but saying nowt as to the reason why. We may get more attention that way, the way the world is. Daily Mail was first one on the phone to me last night to inquire as to the reason of the hold up. I expect they is laying fer you, and

continuation of letter from FABER & FABER 8th June 1938.

-2-

Ezra Pound, Esq.

all I want them to have to catch on to is the blade, and no loose threads around the pommel.

I will report further, and tell you the release date as soon as I know it. In the meantime don't you let any of those six copies of yours get back to England, particularly Dorset.

Happy days.

F.V. Morley.

When did you get the Hardy story? My reports are
There was (maybe still is) my one sister.

G.C.Faber chairman
C.W.Stewart
R.H.I.de la Mare
F.V.Morley (U.S.A.)
T.S.Eliot

FABER
& FABER LTD PUBLISHERS

15 June 1938

Ezra Pound Esq.
Via Marsala 12/5
Rapallo
ITALY

Dear Mr Pound,

In your last letter to Mr Morley you asked if we had
sent a copy of GUIDE TO KULCHUR to J. Drummond Esq. Albergo
Rapallo, Rapallo, Italy. I do not think we have ever sent
him copies of your books before but a copy of the corrected
edition of GUIDE TO KULCHUR will go to him as soon as avail-
able. Would you please let me know whether you wish him to
be put down on your review list for all of your future public-
ations?

As requested we shall send a copy, charged to your
account, to the Hon. G. Holden Tinkham, M.C.

We already have D. C. Fox down on the review list.
Is this copy to be charged to you?

Others you wrote us about who are being sent copies
are the following:

Kitasono Katue (Edtp. You), Japan
Abundance, U.S.A.
Proletto, nome.
British Union Quarterly.

Morley Kennerley

MUSEUM 9543 (4lines)

FABBAF, WESTCENT, LONDON

G.C. Faber, chairman

C.W.Stewart

R.H.I. de la Mare

F.V.Morley (U.S.A.)

T.S. Eliot

FABER

& FABER LTD PUBLISHERS

20th June, 1938.

Dear Ezra,

You will have been wondering exactly what last minute
changes, and exactly how long they are going to hold up KULCHUR.
I told you that I had passed the proofs as O.K., but I have appar-
ently a blind eye for some things, or else perhaps don't see some
things as the world sees. Meaning, that in considerable sympathy
with you, so far as placid whales can be with restless forest
animals, I tend to accept what is hortatory, though in the propo-
sitional form, as hortatory, rather than propositions. The reverend
elephant has apparently this same cast in his eye and when one of his
friends like Stanley B, whose hand he held for a good five minutes
by the Senate clock in Cambridge - this to my optical knowledge - is
called a so and so, the reverend, I repeat, just takes such things
along of me as chirpy expressions of comprehensible feeling. There
were 10 or 11 places where we ought to have put different glasses on
which I was to tell you how not to do what you want to do without

To Ezra Pound, Esq.

having us at the Old Bailey when we would sooner be at Wimbledon;
or at Broadmoor when we would sooner be at Lords. The long tenticles
of the what-not would scarcely reach so far as to hoist you for the
breach, but you wouldn't want all your friends with sympathetic
eyesight, such little of them as there is, under the geranium plants
in Kensington Garden. The thing was held back, therefore, and
you will find slight changes in about ten spots. The only one
of which I am proud is one change made for honour, where, no doubt
comes of copying a corrupt text, you slipped into a more than usual
aberration from Greek as known to the Greeks.

I also had a notion to correct one of your idiograms but
at that point I was lazy.

Well now, Brer Bar, the one thing I can't yet say is how
long these troubles is going to take; but I'll let you know when
I know. In the meantime do your best to bear up with the lapse
of my eyesight; which I shall probably continue to cultivate.

I am sending a copy of this to Larry Po for his information.

Hurrah,

Dear Whale

I suspect that *Larry* is on vacation and has left
his office to one of those Englishmen who give the race
permanet reputation for imbecility. But - want to get to bottom
of facts/

Via Larry I recd/ threat of deductions for printers
corrections. On account recd/ from Larry's locum ( or
loco-weed tenens ) you appear to have PAID the advace
as agreed / so that the deductions are ?? to be charged
against the account.

The loco/weed has however deducted the 5 quid/
and PAID or means to pay income tax on it.

Now no fur filth can describe the brit/ tax system.
But bigger me aunt if I pay tax on what I don't get.
Even to the worse than opium ring/ and worse trade which
is England's exchequer.

//If that ape deducts two quid for the bloody swine
and then restores you the five quid/ he ought to be shot.
This note is to enquire from you WHAT was paid to Pol/

Is his office boy holding v back part of it ?

with that simple island faith and idiocy so typical of
so and so//

At any rate one point to estab/ is what you pay up paid
Pol //

IF it was 33 quid/ he can damn well send it to me ; less
his commission and the tax lices 27 1/2 percent

which is more than an wd/ pay to their gov't.

30 Sept

Waal WHHale

What about puttin my Jeff Mussolini into the Faber
an Dafer LIBERRY ; now while th goin' iz good ?

yrz/ EZ

Then nulle idea wuz fer Gnu Yek/ of course ef you are staying
in Lunnen you can look ferrard to publishink ventures .

MUSEUM 9543 (4lines)

FABBAF. WESTCENT. LONDON

G.C. Faber. chairman

C.W. Stewart

R.H.I. de la Mare

F.V. Morley (U.S.A.)

T.S. Eliot

FABER

& FABER LTD PUBLISHERS

FVM/EB

30th January, 1939.

Dear Ezro,

I got your pomes on the moratorium, and Possum
likewise showed me the pomes and vigorous letters which you
writ him. They was all, if I may say so, proper expressions
of right feeling: as expected ever. If the Possum's last
words as published were somewhat on the side of decorum, the
representation was nevertheless pretty well accurate. It has
been of the last few years not quite so much a cheerful eyrie
within which eagle might lay his eggs, as an incumbrance to
that conscience for which the man has always been observable.
Round about 1927 and 1928, when the Lady Rothermere did a
Dymchurch flit it was my pussonl (though by no means unique)
great concern to keep the stone coffin sloating on the top of
the sea for the sake of its occupant. I had no connection
with the F and G business as it then was; and it still amuses
me to remember how I butted in. This citation was quite
different; and the eagle bears hisself a more dapper wing, I

- 2 -

To Ezra Pound, Esq.

think, without the dust of his nest. Of course, there is more
danger to him in the dazzle of footlights, than might be if
kept in a cage; but you can't altogether legislate, nor perhaps
is it wise to try.

If there are any boys of thirty, with cartilages in
their knees who want to make nests and lay and look after aigs,
if they would like the looks of me, I would like the looks of
them.

MUSEUM 9543 (4lines)

FABBAF, WESTCENT, LONDON

G.C. Faber, chairman

C.W. Stewart

R.H.I. de la Mare

F.V. Morley (U.S.A.)

T.S. Eliot

FABER

& FABER LTD PUBLISHERS

FVM/EB

23rd February, 1939.

Dear Ezro,

I have written to Pollinger to-day according to the enclosed copy. I was only able to read the Canto you sent hurriedly and under interruption of telephones and whatnot, for as I said to Lallypo, the Reverend kidnapped the correspondence before I could have a second look. Don't be alarmed by the Reverend's alleged cold; for on my ringing up he confessed that he hadn't had one, but was taking a few days off under excuse in order to polish the lectures which he begins to give to-day at Cambridge.

Also the beginning of Lent may have suggested to the Reverend (as it suggested to me) that one might give up office work for that period.

On that condition, I should be all for Lent.

On that condition, Whale might almost become the Bride of Christ.

Hurrah to you.

Yours,

Copy

23rd February, 1939.

Lawrence Pollinger, Esq.,
Messrs Pearn, Pollinger & Higham, Ltd.,
39-40, Bedford Street,
London, W. C. 2.

Dear Larry,

I am just a little uncertain about the details of
the next volume of Cantos by Ezra Pound, for Ezra's last letter
to me, containing a very good specimen Canto, was seized by
Eliot before I had time to master its details, and Eliot since
then has been keeping it at home with him, with a cold. But
I assume there are going to be twenty Cantos in the next volume;
I should hope to have the complete corrected copy by the end
of May in order to publish in September. If we have twenty in
a volume I think we shall be able to charge 7s.6d., and as
before we can offer an accrued advance against 10% royalty.
If we charge 7s.6d., I think it would be fair enough to pay 15%
after 1500 copies. 'If you and Ezra approve will you draw a
contract?

Yours ever,

F. V. Morley.

20 Marzo

Rev WHHale

Larry seems to have Mis( as sometimes) UUnderstood me.
I am not trying to gouge MORE money out of you, but to
get it in some way that the bleeders and muggers CANT steal.

Save fer the honour of the cavalry I dont care whether
it is pd/ on or 3 months post pubctn/

I object to 90% of 27 1/2% going to stinking Rothschilds
and Sasoons for bleeding us/ not even sure that 10% of the
govt. swag will be p spent for clean use/ probably for
Kikesteins inefficient masks against nonextant gasses.

//

Royalties can BEGON ata certain point/ I wasnt offering to sell
the RIGHTS outright/ but the collectors item/ the ms/ itself.

ALLosing MWore and Simon to steal part of мИИЕУИИИИИИ
pay wont help Faber any. at least I dont see how.

//

Waal I have about bust a gut correcting and verifying 200
or 2000 ( two thousand it seems, proba 360 + chinese names and date
dates/ wot nobody will for a long time thank me for.

and you are gittin something NEW in the Cantos ; not merely
more of the same.

Trust at least TWO advances in mode
will be preceptible by you and the PSM/
also as am sending ANOTHER copy of vanto 52/
it wd/ save time EF the Possim od/ be purr suaded to

Waaaal naow WWHHHHale

If you cayn't stand deh first TWO pages
of the henclosed wiffaht a crepitatious fementation
you just go on ovah to deh THIRD page

and den you tell "arse BZZ

whaaar and when you
be ready to shoot.

Cause deh is TWENTY canters lying right
hyeah on dis desk and in vicinage

some of 'em needs a bit yet c
of shink shinin and polishin' but deh is on deh WAY
and dat way is SOME process.

yrs. still in AKSHUN

via Marsala 12/5 Repallo . 18 Nov. 1940

F. Voger Morley, Esq
Herdourt, Brace and Co. N.Y.

Dear WHHale

Bruvver Possum ? whaaar he done got ?
I shd/ appreciate news.

Secundum: That 'ar state of mind wet you
offered me in 1938 ? now I ask you ? "Jitters", sez you
, waaal now whatever I wuz wrong in, will you admit that
semfink was to be said, possibly you said it later, again my
acceptin all that as the rock of ages ?

Ef you don't believe me, look at what just turned up in my
cell器age/ the Nation, of Noo Yok, for Dec. 7 th. 1932.. opening
blurb.

at any rate; THE Possum ? whaaar he ? Las' I heard it
was about to be distributin Celtic twilight.

yrs for the sunrise

Ez P.

Dear Frankie

Possum Possum reported yu wuz soured. that wuz
long ago , an me be yu wuz only sour'd on our eminent
confrere ,

Bunting usually gloomy re/ the marsupial.

Now you are out from under , me be yu are ready for new heave.

Late replies from All Souls . Ox. Dondo and Mrs Theis heard from
all in the sptua/

The efficiency of MANIFESTOS shd/ be known to

you /

not only stir re/ three sentences in 1912 , but even the
annual grant to LieBury of Cong/ in jeopard from the Bubblegum
award .

I mean the sons of hell groan whenever three clean
men agree on ANYthing.

Are you game to keep in touch with three or four decent bloke ?
such as Moelwyn Mechant , Maverick , whomI have scared
after six letters re Kuan Tzu , the stalward Swabey .

There is now a rift in the sponge curtain

What vere beome of y/r orfspring , now cert/ of age , and possibly
breeding nipots ?

Richard also groans along not completely submerged. H.D.
with bust hip in svissz horsptal.

I dint spose yu know any egyptologists. Bk/ of Head , NOT the
one Budge translated , more guts.

I shd/ think Vanni might use some of yr/ stuff. W.C.W. been
lucky in translator.

Why not communicate with M.Oberti , via Monteallegro 32
apt 43,
GENOVA, italy

send on yr/ old magazines.

yrz F.P

ALBERGO GRANDE ITALIA & LIDO

DIRETTAMENTE AL MAR
RISTORANTE ALL'APERTO TUTTO L'ANNO
SPIAGGIA PROPRIA . GARAGE

RAPALLO

TEL. CENTR. 54.92 - 50.30 - 50.14

Dear Frankie

Doing a note on the by the late Tanched of the
jheerusalem and Sicily Tancreds adored HERRICK. Wonder if you have
any ideaH where one cd/ get copies of some of Tancreds poems.

poet's club anthols, I spose. Dont know that
you ever took note of him. Yu used to try to sell me Storer, the
miable " Custard ", pleasant to meet in Rome in the 30s, then
a Dily Mile Choinulist. BUT ... as with Fitzgerald, one of the
only heros from personal choice I have known. plenty of heros
who getting dumped into where they cdn't help it.

BUT can't recall any Fitz
verse, for if one was doing an anthol.

Any wiiiH idea what bacame of him ( Custard ) ? The Tom Storer in
Pesaro , good painter, and v,g, occasional verse , no relation.

enjoying your first

Nother question, if illustrating different decades, 90s. ours etc.
do yu recall any particular poems by unknowns.

I spose 90s/ Plarr, D'owson, Symons( Hymn to Mod.Beaut)
wd/ place it, and nowt by other rhymers break thru the usual

I can remember one E.Rhys, one M.Sackwille, a "ewlett, and
Sutton Pickhart, but dunno if they wd/ hold up on rereading.

Upward the only bloke NOT yet subject PhD research in U.S.

Yr disillusion when Chenvierre just swiped a Flnit . etc.

Some nut cnamed Civis, writes as if ole Vanderpyl were still alive.
"ast search didn't find himat Gay Lussac. Civis wantin futurism to
be mother of all. which I have NOT assented to.

Found a good poEm of Richard's in Lit. "ev, tother day . back in
Jan, a few unpubd/ lines of T.E.H. ( yr. OPpressor)
not right, but unmistakably his ( even if nhhh hadn't been signed.
sumfink to have estabd a personal style , in such sm-"