Oct.15

Dear Ezra -

Your old concierge showed up at seven oclock
Sunday morning with the news that Dunning was back since the
night before. He had climbed up on the roof and insisted on
sleeping there but the husband of the concierge pursued
him it was a little late to stay on the roof so he came
down.

He declared you had stolen all his money and had
pretended to gain his friendship in order to do this.

The concierge wanted me to come and see if I could
quiet him.

I arrived with the little jar you left thinking
that was what he needed. Dunning shouted at me from the
stairs -" So your in on this business too" and threatened
me with a broom handle.

I said, "Here's something I found left for
you Dunning."

Dunning took the jar and said, "Oh yes. . . Something
Pound left for me."

He looked at the jar and then threw it
at my head saying, "You son of a bitch I'll kill you"

I picked up the jar thinking of its thousand franc value and
Dunning threw a milk bottle.

retreated

I went down the stairs and have not seen
Dunning since. He threw the broom after me.

Gave the stuff to McAlmon who has again
inserted Dunning in a Maison de Sante and rallied a
collection of his friends, recently returned to town,
around him. He has arranged for some banker to look
after his money. I am not up on the details as I instructed
the concierge not to give Dunning my name or address and
on no account to communicate with me no matter what
Dunning did. I have to keep on living in this town.

November 8, (Rent Day) 1925

Dear Duce -

Sorry about the book. Would you like for me to send you another Vol. Feel that once in the hands of the post or any other Eytalian official manifestation you got small chance. Especially if you resort to telegrams.

George was in Hungary all the time after a little
while at Tunis. I applaud his choice of locale and admire his
publicity. I wrote a recommendation of George to that Gugg'heim
foundation that was a wonder. I certainly did perjure the
shit out of myself in KNY every known way and now I hope to hell
he get's the dough.

I don't know Jos.Shipley but may have met him.
Think of Holey Year terminating like that and me not having
visited his Holyness. Well we pay for all these things later on
I hear.

They did have some toreros. Old Luis Freg so fat and
heavy he can't move around and Saleri who was quite a boy in
1914 1915 but they exhibited with a lot of veau with horns
no larger than the average Montparnasse cuckold's. The Toreros
would have been in much greater danger if they would have thrown some
really horned animals like Herr Lanux or how do you spell it ---
your old next door neighbor. Or the Rev. McAlmon.

Have just finished a damned good story. Am working well.
Feel healthy as hell. Box a lot. There is a new free gym on the
Boul. Raspail now finally installed with a good place to box and
nice good sized gloves and a hot shower. All that leads to
cleanliness.

Had a letter fromXAM Massa Henry Strater who said
you had told him or hinted to him that I was starting a new Magazine.
Christ I hope not. Of course as a good XAM Fuurocisto, paid up
and in good standing I am bound to go through with anything XAM,
but please Mister don't have me start a new magazine.

La Fanny, I believe, is still going strong. They have
all came under the influence of the rev. James Joyce.

nice
Have been getting some pretty good reviews. Some damn
game ones and a lot of guys who say the stories are not stories at
all but psychological sketches or formless babs etc. etc. Don't
know whether you would feel like doing a review or anything. Would
be refreshing to me at any rate. Le Grand Gertrude Stein warned
me when I presented her with a copy not to expect a review as she
thought it would be wiser to wait for my novel. What a lot of
safe playing kikes. Why not write a review of one book at a time.?
She is afraid that I might fall on my nose in a novel and if so
how terrible it would have been to have said anything about this
book no matter how good it may be. These things help one very much.
It is like the litmus paper test for acid mouth.

You might, if you liked the goddam book, and I
think you will because it is pretty good and hard and solid and they
are all damning it for being hard boiled and cold and lacking in verbal

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beauty and felicity whatever the hell that is , do something for
Elliot's thing. Eliot doesn't know whether I am any good or not.
He came over and asked Gertrude if I were serious and worth
publishing and Gertrude said it were best to wait and see -- that I
was just starting and there wasn't any way of knowing yet.

Oh well what the hell. I'm not asking you to review it
and I won't be sore if you don't. But the way it works out is that
the whole thing of the damned opposition is done on this goddam
personal basis and why in hell shouldn't we from time to time
stab them with their own knives . :-

Maybe it's better not of course. What the hell anyway.

We go to Schruns the 15th of December. Will be in
Italy probably some time in Jan, Feb, or March.

Discount Haiti story.

My distinguished Salutations to Mme Shakespeare. Eliot
has become a British Cit. Still the O.M. is somehow off.

yrs. always.

Hem.

Dear Eszra -

Haven't written on acct. Hadley been sick in bed with
Grippe and fever for ten days . Same reason aint asked Mrs. whazzern-
ame to tea. Yr. last very sound. You're such a goddamned good
guy I don't like to even argue with you .

Iaint got any I.O.T. s to send to Lane and when
I went down to La Beach's to get one found she had sold ultimate
copy of third shipment of 12. So there aren't any more on tap
and at least 3 6 wolumnes have been sold. I-have sent for more
and directly they arrive will fire one to you and esteemed Willett.
right

Think where you are most *use* is in def.
One wants lang that will stay intelligible for longest possible
period.

As for luggage vs. baggage . Just a question of ear and
when to use either one . Obviously ancients had baggage trains .
Baggage of an army etc. Obviously ENGLISHMAN carry luggage .
Never heard of even an English AHMY though with luggage ?

Think most other americo angliico words pufickly easy
to use and distinguish between .

Ferinstance Americans are sick when Eng
are unwell . Americans vomit when Eng are sick. But Eng also
vomit . Dogs also reputed to return to their vomit. etc.

Those sort of differentations in the langwiges
are invented by morons like Menken to prove a point .

AS ALWAYS IT IS THE EGGZACT POINT THAT NEEDS THINKING
ABOUT. as you remarked . SAME EGGZACT POINT being practically
all there is to ART as some call it .

Esteemed Walsh send me proof of bull story , which
on re-reading I find to be very 3rd rate stuff indeed ended, but
don't tell esteemed Walsh or anybody else. Has some good stuff
and whymtwrite a bad story . Road to good stories certainly
lies through bad stories. It was considered unnecessary to send
me a proof on ecct. of such a splendid printer and I only found
61 typographical errors that changed the sense or renerered sense-
less . Many such as no u in you , no h in much , no d in
good , no b in bad etc. Something beautiful and naif in
asking me to have confidence in ITALIAN printer Mx. Sort of like
asking you to accept on faith the fact that all the Italian whores
really are Contessas.

Yr. APPETITE is all right and I DON'T say balls .
As I may have hinted at some time or other I regard you as good guy
in world in which same are often encountered but seldom
be turn out to be . You see the difficulty is for anybody to have
intelligence and remain the kind of guy you would be willing to
drink with. World full of pleasant sympatico morons . Only about
four intelligent good guys in world. If THAT .

Have written funny book . Not the novel I referred
to Wrote this in last ten days , 28,000 words in ten days.
Satire on AMERICA . Probably unprintable but funny as hell .
called THE TORRENTS OF SPRING A ROMANTIC NOVEL IN HONOR OF THE
PASSING OF A GREAT RACE . Will send you a carbon when it comes
back from the typist . Wrote it to destroy Sherwood and various
others . It does all right. It's first really adult thing have ever

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particular satisfaction that it is from America that the in-
centive has come, and that we look for hearty support from our
American friends. To the deliberations of that Committee I
look forward with hope. The nations of the world cannot afford
to neglect the considered opinions of business men in such a
matter. And it is in our power to take the first steps towards
such a change of public sentiment as shall render hopeful the
work of that larger Conference which the League of Nations
propose to call.

done. Jesus Christ it is funny.

It is divided into four parts. The First part is called RED AND BLACK LAUGHTER, the second THE STRUGGLE FOR LIFE, The third THE MEN IN WAR and/DEATH OF SOCIETY, and the fourth THE PASSING OF A GREAT RACE and THE MAKING AND MARRING OF AMERICANS.

It is a regular novel only it shows up all the fakes of Anderson, Gertrude, Lewis, Cather, Hergo and all the rest of the pretentious faking bastards. It's the funniest book I've read since Joseph Andrews. No reason why you should believe that until you see it but all the pretentiousness are in the titles and sub-titles and all the rest is straight narrative but Jesus it's funny.

And perhaps there is one reason why a comic writer should of all others be the least excused for deviating from nature, since it may not be always so easy for a serious poet to meet with the great and the admirable; but life everywhere furnishes an accurate observer with the ridiculous.

That's what Fielding said about it. And my present appetite is to be an Am. Fielding and whenever one of the bastards publishes a book that they all agree is a masterpiece, if the book is worth it, that is if it simply isn't silly like Hergenheim etc. but has something, only all wrong, I'm going to write a Joseph Andrews for it. One every ten years maybe. Well this is the first one. I don't see how Sherwood will ever be able to write again. Stuff like Gertrude isn't worth the bother to show up. It's easier simply to quote from it.

Well so long. We go to Austria the
15th of December.

Yrs. Mem

Dear Uzra -

Not much news except the return of
Muck Almun from England ..... THIS MILL STICKS
IN THE LOWER REGISTER ..... AND THE CONTINUED
ACTIVITY OF MYSELF WORKING LIKE A SON OF A
BITCH TO GET WALSHS MAGAZINE MEXICAN ONTO THE
AND OFF THE PRESS . WALSH PUT IT MY HANDS AS
A FRIEND TO HELP HIM OUTA HIS MECHANICAL DIFFICULTIES.
TWO HUNDRED AND SIXTY FOUR PAGES AND FIFTY REPRODUCTION
CAN PRESENT CONSIDERABLE DIFFICULTS WHEN BEING
PRINTED BY PRINTER HITHerto ONLY DONE JOB
PRINTING . WELL THEY ARE RUNNING THEM OFF NOW .
I AS A FRIEND & UNSALARIED SEEING TO IT ALL .
HEAR THERE IS TO BE A TWO THOUSAND DOLLAR
REWARD FOR THE LEADING CONTRIBUTOR . AM HOPING
TO BE IT .

LETTER TO LUCY HOLT LESON RECEIVED AND
FORWARDED TO PRESENT ADDRESS HOTEL QUAI
VOLTAIRE .

JESUS I WAS DRUNK LAST NIGHT AND MY
GOT IS FLUTTERING .

PARIS IS HAVING THE TWO WEEKS OF
SUMMER THAT COMES IN APRIL AND REAPPEAR SIN
OCT. WE ARE ENJOYING IT . A LETTER FROM
STRATER SAYING GOD WAS SENDING HIM ANOTHER
BABY .

I SEE QUITE A LOT OF MIRO AND HE SENDS
SALUTATIONS TRES HUMIDE TO YOU . HES A GOOD LITTLE
GUY AND HAS BEEN AND MAY BE AGAIN A GOOD PAINTER .
HIS PICTURE OF GONOCCA RISING FROM THE SEA IS
VERY NICE IN COLOR .

NO WORD FROM BILL SINCE HE SHOVED OFF .

THE GOVT HAS FALLEN ON ITS ASS . NOBODY WANTS TO
MAKE A NEW ONE BECAUSE IT WILL FALL THE SAME WAY .
WE ARE GOING TO BRING UP BUMBY TO BE A BIG BANKER
SO THAT WHEN EVER HE HAS NOTHING TO DO HE CAN RUN
EUROPE . HOWS YOUR TENNIS ?

ONCT THIS WALSH BUSINESS IS CONCLUDED
ILL BE ABLE TO BE A DECENT CORRESPONDENT AGAIN .
WRITE ANYWAY .

PITY YOU WERENT AT TAORMINA
TO VEND A FEW POEMS TO HIS MAJESTY . UNDERSTAND HE
BOUGHT UP ALL THE LOCAL OUTPUT .

DUNNING IS ABOUT LOOKING VERY BAD AGAIN .
THE CONCIERGE SAYS IF HE WILL KEEP ON DRINKING MILK
IN SUCH QUANTITIES ..... SHE IS A NICE WOMAN .

WE ARE SAVING OR TRYING TO SAV DOUGH
to go to spain . Kremburg has written a book with

you in it. Stella Ford has had her hair cut but
looks just the same. Ford is on the third vol. and
Teajeans and the wench have not screwed yet.
Readers will be demanding their money back.
The poor bloody heroine is the one that
ought to have her money back I think.

Understand Nathan is going to quit the Mercury
and Menken go it alone. That's only rumor.

Jolas has apparently been given the tinware.
I don't know any place where it would jangle more
appropriately.

Glenway Weskit the author of the
pineapple of the eye and the fairies best
bet in literature is on tap. He and Dudly
Murphy are two that ought to have been lost
on the titanic.

Well I must stop. Got to get
to work. Shoot me the dope.

yrs.

Dear Cosmo -

I shd think a major pote who refused to follow Amy into the
drear wastes wd have ,at least, the pooblic on his side - even tho it were
all a mistake.

Personally have not seen the Times N.Y. or Lunnon .

Have sent again for Suns but believe the messers Scribners prefer to
they don't want to send them to me nor to my friends .
sell them than to give them away . /They have sent me a wrapper .

conceived - beautifully executed ( fuck this typewriter )
for the 5th printing - lacking a copy of the noble work I have placed
the wrapper around your own vol. It doesn't fit but looks lovely .
Don't believe anything you hear abt. the Sun . 't is a rather
interesting book with some pretty good conversation and the
startling innovation that all the fucking takes place off the stage as in
Shakespeare .

You may twit Horace . He said , you know , he wanted only ××××××
classics or best sellers . I didn't look like either to him.

Head has gotten going well again lately . Written two
good stories . Will write some more . gord willing . Anyway will
send you best I can do . One of these I sent to Barseiano - an act of
charity to accept only 200 smackers from La Barse but a promise a promise.
Noblesse oblige . Princesse oblige .

McFadden a shit himself . One of the biggest .
Covici is publisher of Dorhty Butler's Memoirs of her MOTHER . Called
A Life In Armour - not Armours . Your a hopeful bastard . "emember
words of Goya I no hay remedio . pr obly misspelled .

Hickock and I are demarring in H's motor propelled
veehicle for Rimini and San Marino on or abt. March 20. Should
encounter enroute or at Milan on way or way back or at Rapallo.
I gotta be back in Paris Ap ril 4 ×× . Have for long time cherished idea of
becoming good author before great author - have quite a way to go

to become first. Never favoured springing full panoplied from
womb of Jove ala F.M.F. Get's to be too great a strain maintaining
Perfection shit.
initial perfection. -Wrote Toorents of Springs to avoid necessity of
looking in mirror to observe whether halo on straight. thus disappointing
many.

Mr. Walsh died of it.

Daresay remark about hem another gt. am. writer came from McAlpin.
MacAlpin you know started originally to write to make the Satire Post.
Disgusted with their lack of appreciation of good literature he went in
for Art. Ah had art only gone in for McAl - One can become
interested in a brick maker who makes bricks without straw if the guy
lives next door or is in the famly - but xxx. May have been Williams.
Williams a form of McAlpin - a higher form.

Send on all the dirt. Hotel Rossli until the end
of the month.

Love to Dorothy

Dear Ezra -

our quite right. The bloody story wasn't good enough.
Let not a bad story.' Kreyembourg and co. have been cabling me for something
for their American Caravan which is not only a book of pieces by gents but
in addition a worthy American venture. I figured this was just about
the class to be included in a worthy american cause venture etc. and have
cabled Scribner's to turn it over to your old pal Kremmy at his Caravan
address.

My head, sic, is commencing to function again and I ought to
have something for you pronto. Have also promised something for Princes
Backhouseiano by the First of Feb. But there won't be anything.

Mr. Paul and Mr. Jolas aint going to get anything. Naturally
I told them I'd give them something. Learned that in pain. Always accept
invitations. Never come unless you feel like it. Knocks hell out of
splendid frankness as a policy.

No matter who or whom, for all I know of grammar whom is
the feminine of who, the literary journalists "essers Paul and
Peter Jolas get for their first number a review can't be run without
intelligence. Mr. Jolas is a moron. Mr. Paul is better but administration
has no taste. Let them blow up hoisted by their own peeturds.

Ford was not intelligent but highly receptive and
a great knack for editing. These gents sont pas serieuse.

If you wanto do something for me give me a title for a
book of stories - not out till next fall - have the stories but they have
to have a name to make up a dummy and start selling them this spring.

Sun Also rises now in fifth large printing. First printing 5,000
others 2,500 apiece. I suppose if it sells a couple of hundred thousand
the stories ought to sell a couple of thousand even if they won't read them.

Don't think anything any good except a couple but am writing a little better. Lanterncorpse story not a good sample. It's better now. Scribners don't know it but am going to make them publish old Up In Michigan story with the fucking in it. If they won't I won't publish book at all. Aint going to be great best selling litrary figure for nothing. So long as I don't get the money might as well get the fun. What do you think?

Have been laid up with my throat again. Any spirit messages from brother Walsh? Understand various ladies on pilgrimages to America to raise money for Monument to great dead poet of Machine Age. Didn't anybody ever die before? Christ I've known so much better guys than that that we didn't even have time to bury. Stunk too. Had to bury 'em finally.

My love to Dorothy.

yrs. HEM.

Dear Ezsra -

Naturally I regretted saying anything about reviewing as soon as I had mailed same. I get your point perfectly. The only reason I wanted a review was because you are the only guy who ever told me anything sensible and practical about prose and now that I aint seen you for some time I felt a yen for correction, and approval if any due.

Because no matter how lousy I may think some of your larger ideas, not passports, I know damn well you are the only guy who can say, as a technician, this is wrong and this is the way to make it right.

Ferinstance it does me no good to have you say in a large offhand fashion that everything I'm writing was written much earlier and better buy Charles Louis Phillippe who was no good either: because a statement like that being so large has automatically a too great specific gravity of horseshit.

On the other hand when I show you something that I know has something wrong with it and that I'm not a good enough technician or too close to it to see what is wrong; then you tell me what is wrong and how it can be fixed. That is worth a hell of a lot. Naturally the place for it aint reviews as you have so ably pointed outwards.

Ferinstance I think and feel and would put my last nickel on the fact that Dunning, Cheever, is shit. He may have written eight lines that somebody confused with you or Keats but on the whole Dunning is really puke producingly bad. Whether the factsenters into our respective attitudes toward Dunning that you saved Dunning's life (sic) and that I had bottles thrown at me by Dunning I can't state. I did think Dunning was faecal though before he launched the milk bottles.

Anyway I stand back of you in every conceivable position on your resolve not to write any more prose of any sort. And for Christ sake do it.

What I was sore at when I wrote you had nothing to do with you but was simply the way my so called friends have taken to regarding me as something fairly scabrous through the accident of having a book published by a so called regular publisher. It seems to have been the very worst way I could have betrayed them all. Referring to G.Stein, McAlmon et al.

I don't know where Liv. got you in the list of backers and have never seen same or any later alterations of it. I suppose he remembered you showing him the stuff and him pooping on it.

Elliott, now a British Cit by the way, Eliot, why not spell him write, is going to oracle through the NEW CRITERION. That's all I know about it.

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Anyhow what the hell difference do reviews make anyway ?
Certainly none to me. It is just more interesting to read
intelligent than non-intelligent horse-shit.

Delete the 1st sentence of the second line of the
above paragraph. It sounds like that master of Eng. Prose
Robert McAlmon I aint so oppressed, unhappy and jumped on that
I have to get defiant.

In La Fanny I was referring to Fanny Hurst whom you'd
mentioned. Or maybe it was Edna Ferber. At any rate the
term Fanny is Burlesque show slang in U.S. for the ass or
bottom. Kicked out on her Fanny etc. Don't know the origin.
Sure, however, it has nothing to do with Fanny Ward whose ass
would certainly not be worth preserving for
posterity; even in alcohol.

See quite a lot of Miro. He always sends you
extremely respectful messages.

Sherwood Anderson has written about 350 pages of
perfect diahorreah or however it is spelled and become a
best seller. Critics unite in saying nothing finer has
been written since the Treaty of Versailles.

Ford is on the third vol of his collossal trilogy
of The Soldier (British) as represented by the Master
himself. This refers to Ford not to Christ. Readers
confidently expect that in this last Vol The Soldier will
actually reach the FRONT. Personally I don't think the Master
will dare risk it. Christ what an orgy of stlyistic faking it
will be if he does. Critics will unite to say.

Ford Has Wrought A Masterpiece. At last the
great war has found a worthy chronicler. N.Y. Times.

Well, So Long, Cld up here. Snowed. Suppose you
get Tribune too. I didn't see it snow either. Read it in the
Tribune. Woman also frozen to death. In the Tribune.

yrs. HEM

Dear Mr. Pound,

The enclosed cutting from the Paris Times
will be, I hope, introduction enough. May I congratulate
you - or aint it true. Jesus and a relative of Longfellow too.
Why have you held that out on your old friend he m all these years?
Well this is very good news. Hope you can plug up the old
fistula now and enjoy the 2000 bucks.

I had not written before because I was under the
impression that you had lied to me. You told me that you were
a friend of Wyndham Lewis (the critic and philologist).

Lewis, as you know, has always been one of my idols
and when I read in his magazine *The Enema* what he had to say about
you I felt that you must have lied. That you could be no friend of
Lewis. That all the time that I had thought you were helping
Lewis and going to bat for him that you were probably knifing him.

Needless to say I await with eager anticipation
an attack on you by Mr. Eliot - surely any bastard that you have
helped as much as you have Major Eliot must be able to produce
something that would rank with the better gladiatorial
shows when he starts to knife you.

I certainly am happy as a bastard that you got the
prize. Even if it is delayed. May Thayer have nothing but
tender arseholes for a year. And to think of the prize being
given to a man with such a perfect alibi as Fistula. You won't mind
my cabling a story to the effect that you had suffered from this
complaint for some time (with the dates and certificates medicale)
and consequently could never have been buggared by Herr Thayer nor
any of his friends and hence are in reality the First Genuine
receiptant of the Dial Prize on a basis of Merito Litterario et
Non Fallatio ni Anseholio ni Kissassio.

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As for that rival of the Satevepost the Exile I can't
write about the President Candidots for it as yet in any
manner it or they being a subjeck on which I know nothing and hence
hope to follow my unique au monde programme of not writing about
it ( i.e. subjecks on which I know nothing )

I am however going to our native country in March - entering by
way of easy stages, Havana , Keye West etc. and working north to attend
the Republican National convention at Kansas City in July. I would
be very happy and proud to attend this convention as the Special Correspondent
of The Exile if you would furnish me with credentials and will report
it extensively to any extent you wish. I will be glad to report
it in any way you wish and writing in any manner that does not
involve work ( i.e. the manner of Gertrude or any other of our
great writers ) Would this offer of one of the Great Pens of our Age
( see the clippings ) placed at your disposal and at that of your
publication be at all interesting ?

Have turned down contract of 1,800 bucks a story
15,000 for serialization of novel etc. etc. in order to be
entirely free to write for your publication. I should expect the
remuneration I have been accustomed to receive from you - e.g.
the carefully unexpressed opinion that most of what I write is shit.
I have found this to be of great value to me.

When will you be coming out after July ? Should I
take the Timely or the Imperishable note ?

Let me know. Best to Dorothy - where is Omar? Watch
out when you pick him up because Bumby poked his finger in my eye
and the nail cut the pupil and in consequence I am now nearly
as blind as Harry Greb having poked his thumb in the other eye at an

Waal, me deah Henbo/

// Glad to see you doin man's work and
spillin the dirt on "georges, etc/

wich dont lower me respeld for "enito
but raises wot I have fer E.W.H.

now why dont you use yr/ celebrated
BEAN another 24 minutes and go to it that ALL them buggarin
massacres are CAUSED by money what is money HOW does it get
that WAY.

Banks make 90% of all buggarin money/ of all
expoloding gun running gunselling, jaw breaking and eviscerating
and cock amputating money that goes into buggarin shells for
the bloody was it a WAR.

and if the shits didn't want it, and if
if murder by the million and no fun and no fukin chance to
kill the sonvabitch that profits by hiring some poor simp to
lick you first IS ALL godshittering ECONOMICS and to the bottom
of that to bitch the bastids IS THE JOB

"Old Lady Unveiled" for a list of the chief cesspools/

And a few good slugs / right in bro/
Ging's home paper, WILL tell a lot of poor kids WHO
got the profits, for 500000000 corpses, at so much per
kadaver. IT is ECONOMIC, bilkrist.

and the buggars back of the Bank of Paris

are more worth killin that pussy cats, however
titanic, that aint got guns to shoot back with/
you god damn lionhunter/

What wuz the pore brute doin' to
you ?

But Mr DeWendel, Deterding etc/ that did NOT even
make peace...

WHY not take a crack at 'em in the only god
damn part of the world where they FELL, god rot their
testacles, in their WALLET, in the buggarin buck account.

You seen a lot, and unpleasant but X WHY WAS IT/
because some sodomitical usurur wanted to FELL he godman
blankets, and airplanes.

as I am trying to indicate in my
poem.

What about gettin bro/ NYE to buggar Butler, and the Carnegie piss
fund, and show bak of Du Punk, the FINANCIAL ell/ement

yrs/ fer smaller financiers.
Also make Farrar send you the cantos/ he's has charged me
for alterations, I mean he has charged the account all corrections
as alterations, unless something iz very peculiar/ so KID
the buzzard that you are going to review it/ or anyhow dont
pay him.

yrz LZ

Dear Hem/bo

Prepare to be bored or ter laffsss. But ez
yew how admitted that I helped you over the initial stages
of ritin/

purrhappz you ed/ riss to the idea that after 15
years lookin at ECONonomks, I might be able to idem for
blokes tryin to find their way about it.

Frankie Rooze' has said he has got the best brains
in the cunt/ry ( which of course, I aint IN, but I ed. be )
and half of his jerk water profs/ aint the best / and
I do get direct nooz from Washington/
and I know what some
of the blokes on the board do NOT.

///
Time and Tide has just asked me in to criticize economic
publius/ ( London, preceding the EU/EA, an unhol )

Might be as easy for you to push me over on
Washington, as to push me into front page of Esa/

At any rate LOGK at the bloke they have GOT / I have
just reviewed Warburg , butterfingered use of his terms/
dealing himself two cards for one, and picking hup
whichever he wants for a partic/ part of his argument.

Econ' is NOT so very damn interesting, BUT the capacity
to think outright WORL'S there as elsewhere

which is in the long run a problem of thinking
consult ME, or Mr Tugwell, or Fisher, or Warren, or
who teh hell ????

I aint askin you to read my ABC of Econ/ ( the ABC of Reading is coming out with Yale Press, and they want my LITERARY matter )

Bill B/ and Guy Hickok DIX read it, so did DeRuif and he izza spreadin the word.

bizniz
Woodward on the advisory board and on
Employment
Insurance / does git a point now again, etc.

But you might git a lil' fun out of callin Frankie's four card flush about the "best brains".. and ask why he don't call 'em home.

Inf. CX. or wotwell ??? Hull, Holey ... etc...

No need of YOUR readin it./ but wot I have been a saying!
ha z come, as far as anyone's saying has, and what the heel is
the use fozzlin fer another ten years/ when the job od/ be fixed
an we od/ then turn our minds to something more interestin.

yrz

Política

Año CXXIV

En Cuatro Líneas

Se ahonda la impresión de que habrá elecciones no presidenciales antes del 58. Gana terreno la te- sis entre gobiernistas.

Hay indicios de que interpretan el pensamiento del jefe de la Coa- lición, los que las propugnan. El pensamiento, no sus palabras.

Se está produciendo un cambio interesante: muchos que rechaza- ban tales elecciones, ya muestran inclinación a aprobarlas.

En la comisión plenaria que ha de levar al Consejo al Ministro:

FINCA VIGIA, SAN FRANCISCO DE PAULA, CUBA

II/6/54

Highly Esteemed Detained. Thanks for letter with unmerited O.M.s Was always the posthumous VC type rather than the deathbed O.M. type I hope but you never know. Receiving Swedish prize was a shock but since they give it to characters I could write the ass off of before I was 30 and have been learning hard since it seemed *xx* alright to take it. The hot poop as I have it from a Frenchman in Stockholm is that the fix is in for *M*alraux ( Camarade Malheureux ) as a Russki Gen. long dead used to call him.

Sorry to hear your old pupil M major Eliot was carried off some British liner presumably to meet his maker. M ust always be a blow for a religious professing character to have to die. In '940 -45 I always thought of it at best as getting a little sleep and at worst as having to go for a shit with bad piles. When attached to the RAF we always referred to it as going for a shit.

That plumping girl Pivano that you met is not Ligurian but from Torino. She has a nice husband Ettore Sotsass who, as you would suppose, comes from the same place as the Brigatta Sassari only born somewhere else. He is a nice Alpini boy and very talented architect. Nanda did some good translations of me and is very conscientious in that treacherous metier. Conscientious is about the best you can get.

It is pleasant to be finished with motion pictures and back to the old sawmill again. The sawdust has a nice smell and I am sharpening the saw good. There is plenty of timber some of it very well seasoned.

About Hailey: I got to know it quite well as we always had to drive through it going from Ketchum down to Picabo and to the lower country towards Shoshone and Dietrich on the left *xx* and Gooding on the right where we used to have good pheasant shooting. H ailey had a pretty good whorehouse too and some good saloons. At that time your birthplace was not marked with a plaque of any sort.

***** These are not symbols. They represent the passing of time. The film is about re<sup>dy</sup> to *h*<sup>x</sup>*m* finally go to pot I think. Had planned to get away this week to miss the last blowup. But now it seems impossible as my best sister is due here in July having been operated for Cancer last *x*<sup>3</sup>*x*<sup>2</sup> winter. We were the best friends in the family and I should and must see her. So must stay.

*<sup>h</sup>*avenin't heard of any demiseing by M aj Eliot so take it he recovered. *<sup>h</sup>*ay have missed it though although as a churchman and moral force he is highly regarded by the local morning paper whose motto is enclosed.

This place has finally had some rain. Two cows have calved and the fruit trees are saved from the drought. On this Virgillian news will end. Good luck, pal.

Reading an interesting book.

On Salvatore Giuliano by a character who was in Special Services during
during the late war named Maxwell. Gavin Maxwell, a grandson of old
Maxwell the naturalist. It reminded me of a letter I received
from Montelepre while we were living outside of Cortina D'Ampezzo
which started out Sir; We are a group of Sicilian Youngs ( letter in
English ) who spend our days reading your books and our nights comitting
illegal acts. Must......

KEMM show you the letter some time. Think the M axwell
book might amuse you. Nothing very new but as an old omerta
my attention. e tu en tu puta manicomio

Un abrazo . E.H.