NORMAN
HOLMES
PEARSON
233 HGS
YALE UNIVERSITY
NEW HAVEN · CONN

21 January 1957

Dear EP

Did not get Conn charters off to you yesterday, but they are
being mailed at noon. 25. Let me know when you want any of the rest.
Hardly so elegant as Merchant's work, but at least you have it.

Local spot is not Freudian, and is part of the Yale-Grace-
New Haven Hospital, that is: connected and a part of Yale Medical
School. Nobody starts in on anything without general overall consulta-
tion and follow-ups on medical grounds which continue dominant.

"Ought to be trying" etc. He is, she is, it is, we are, etc.
But there are various ways of trying, not all guaranteed to succeed.

Honestest or Honestest not suitable to sophomores, --(tell Marcella)-- who in addition to usage ought to be taught that one is honest or one is not honest, and this aint the proper spot to award degrees.

NORMAN
HOLMES
PEARSON
233 HGS
YALE UNIVERSITY
NEW HAVEN • CONN

24 February 1957

Dear Ez:

Gawd damn it, I seem to be a slave even on my leave of absence. Have been spending what moments I could snatch from baking footnotes for the edition of Hawthorne's letters (think of me as Fanny Farmer's little boy working with the wrong kind of dough) in trying to put the final touches on galleys, page proof etc of Hilda's Selected Poems, and writing innumerable letters of rec ommendation about people whom I've forgotten or would like to forget. Also some Japs who want to come to the States next year, but need jobs. And jobs don't seem likely to be found. But I can't let them down without my trying, for they look at me as on a Lotus flower blossoming in the sand of New Haven.

Only pleasant ray was the arrival of Eva Hesse's translations of the Pisaner, although another effort from Wopland looks all right too-- translations of Emily Dickinson into Poesie. Otherwise silence from intelligent circles. But not silence altogether. Last Sunday I wrote 46 letters; today it looks like fully as many. All crap. Maybe I should be like Eden and get the hell out to New Zeeland.

Robert Graves in last week. An amusing guy though we hardly see eye to eye on critical matters. But he has a vast store of conglomerate information from antiquity, and it was okay so long as we stuck on that.

Ain't heard a good word spokunt for Bliss Carman in years, until your notation. Would have to look at him again. Never thought him my cup of tea. However sure to be better than news in daily journals.

What's up?

NORMAN
HOLMES
PEARSON

10 March 1957

Dear Ez:

Silence on my part due to one helluva cold, which has
caused me to drag my soul as well as my feet. Don't usually
give up, but this time I did and spent some time on the couch
(not psychoanalytic neither!).

Meanjin goes back to you by tomorrow's mail. Had photo-
stat taken of Stock's pages, and have sent copy to a friend at
Harvard Press-ure and asked how-come. Might as well git drewl
direct from horse's mouth. Have just been reading submitted
typescript for them of edition of Emily Dick-in-son's betters.
So moment appropriate. Will communicate results with you forth-
with.

Bad luck in Windy Lewis's death. Had not lost spunk,
which is something.

Understand Bill Wms and Floss following NHP's example and
going down Mississippi in paddle-wheeler in May. Splurging a
little of prize money. Hope river is high.

After too long an interval for me to remember details,
Hilda says, re my probable relaying that neither she nor Richard
had thanked for Sophocles, that he had never received from you,
and that my copy to her was all she had. But she sends him copy
of English edition, also ordered by me but not yet arrived.

Had letter from some gal in New York saying they hoped
to put it on off Broadway. Needed $7,500 to mount. Had to give
them absentee blessing.

Still can raise no enthusiasm for Kasper's rant. Can
only see harm in what he tries to do. Definitely not Confucian
nor Mencian, and runs EP into mud, where all reflection is lost.
Wish I could sense what you feel good in his rabbling.

17 March 1957

Dear Ez:

Spring is sprung! I begin to feel better. Actually managed to get a few footnuts to edishun of Hawthorne planted.

Glad to know there wuz a second Benton award. No, u didn't send. Please do.

Also, if you have extra copy—or one to spare for the nonce — send along the Yoshikawa pubeslickashone, and will see if I can get relevant passages translated for you. Have a Nip prof here working under me (despite my leave of absence), and daresay he will oblige. Martinelli very good, of course.

Both New York and London Editions of Trax now here, and being relished. Goddamnfine jacket to nude erections, for which Incongratulated Bob MacGregor on Tuesday at the National Boob Award in New York. Have agreed, as blurb for Trax, to join in a 20 minute discussion on"influences of Greek literature on literature in general and modern translations thereof" to be recorded and played at the Book Festival (whatever that is, and whatever the quoted direction means."Sounds like a lot for 20x 60 seconds. With somebody named Ann Freemantle, Andre Micholoupolos ( consul of the Greek Embassy) and a Prof. Lionel Cassin of NYU Greek Department. Any extended hints as to how to proceed and emphasize? NHP putting himself out of a limb.

Hilda now left the clinic and back at Kusnacht, walking a little more each day, and spirits much better.

NORMAN
HOLMES
PEARSON

233 H G S
YALE UNIVERSITY
NEW HAVEN · CONN

[1957]

7 Aprille when the shoures definitely ain't been sote

i sez
to ez

but otherwise I struggle and kick against the pricks.

send along Watson's translation of Yoskikawa's chapter
on S. Liz; would be glad to get a backward glance on history,
and will return pronto to E.P.

at least some beaneries should be open to skwarebucks
after exposure (not indecent) to them at nudes haven. But
wish some excerpts at least from Frobenius could be got out.
Grab promised to look around Germoney, even so far as Stuttgart
for a set, but ain't heard a blinkin word as to his success.

letter from a former student now at McGill says that he
has met O.P. and likes (student was well brought up here on the
cantos), and that O.P. planning to go into secondary school
teaching. Tell him if I can help to let me know. Can't say I
can, but no harm my trying.

rotten luck out of Zurich, where Hilda is back in bed for
a month or so. The pin put in her hip has slipped, and cracks
have shown in her bone from necrosis. She ain't supposed to know
the latter. But letter from the old master would no doubt be
gratefully received.

no. 3 Edge. Are the two E.P.'s new or quotes (good ones)
from earlier printeds. Important I should know for sake of the
boobliography which progresses. Don't crap; even the earlier
one has done some good in getting people to read what exists.
As Aggasiz says: the early things are stones, so are the new ones,
and they are things to be examined. By the way, I liked the
title Stock gave his reprint of the review.

NORMAN
HOLMES
PEARSON

27 April 1957

Dear E.P.

Have joined Kaspar in the headlines, but of a different
nature.

PEARSON HOME ROBBED OF GEMS

Across the whole damned top of the front page, on television,
radio, etc. And in one paper an old photograph of mine (they
had) grinning like a damned idiot, and underneath the line:
Robbery Victim, as though I thought this was the cutest thing
that ever happened.

Now, as the other day when my wife was weeding in the
garden she heard two urchins playing in the opposite gutter suddenly
jump to their feet: ""Hey, we'd better get out of here quick: that's
the house that was robbed.""

The Thursday before Easter. "We had gone to Massachusetts
for the day for my mother's 84th birthday, and didn't get back until
a few minutes after 8. It was time enough between then and 7.
Drawers opened and overturned, the place a mess, and the rather
substantial amount of jewelry inherited by my wife from a maiden
aunt, a grandmother etc, now colling off in the some fence's hand in
New York. Some insurance, but you can be damned sure no usurious
profits on our side.

Which is only to explain why no letter, what with police
etc., and painfully explaining it all over again and again.

Saw Hugh Kenner for a minute last night. Is apparently
now chairman of his department in Caulifowernia, and had flown on
to Harvard and Yale to pick up yearlings for his faculty stable.
"Seemed to be in good spirits, and looking forward to next year when
he will be on leave.

Glad you passed on Whoreford letter to old Mat; at least
he kin no we think of him. Much solid good that will do!

Much intrigued by Jo Bard intro. Got his address so I
can see original eenglish. "We should get it in print (Me, I should,
I mean!) Edhe at least, but better here also. Will order Verona
Prop/Meubb from Drummond. Put where does one get facsim epistolae
Ezraticae. ????

NORMAN
HOLMES
PEARSON

233 HGS
YALE UNIVERSITY
NEW HAVEN • CONN.

13 June 1957

Dear EP,

Up I come, though not much to show for it! Yale now in midst
of graduations ( from lower depths to view from cellar windows ) and
about to plunge into class reunions (a phase of experience which I
hope you ain't never had to suffocate under). But I presume some odd-
ments of inter-rust will emerge. Have just looked at liebury exhibishun
of writing of class of '07. Pretty dreery show. Sinclair (Red) Lewis
the only writer except someone samed Updegraaf; the rest (including
Irving Olds) confine their rhetoric to bankbooks.

Have been meantime okupie-eyed by having to take over chairman-
ship of the Amurrican Studies Program for next year et seq, and having to
rush into arrangements for this and that at the same time that I work on
Hawthorne footnotes in the sands of time. Ergo, the trips to Portland
and Craigie House (Cambridge) for links with cousin Henry.

Correspondence confined to people who want to come to do graduate
work but who should dig irrigation ditches as more useful in bringing
sources (quellen) to some fruit or fruits.

Give me lowdown on AGORA. What is voltage of Watt? At any rate
glad to see he is not Watts.

Niebuhr (Das Reinhold) not eggchewly head of Union theologrollers
but perfessor of something on the faculty there. Not a bad sort, though I
know his brother Richard better. Latter on Yale faculty, both were products
of Yale cemetery. Don't quite see what led him to write the kind of review
he did of THE DAY THAT X DYED, unless he had the author's cousin in one of
his classes. Somehow he must have been embarrassed into it, for in fact he
is a reasonably subtle theologian himself, and "unsophisticated believers"
(who he says will like the book) sounds like squaring himself secretly with
his conscience. That pasticular category not being his cup of tea.

Curious to receive your note re Grab from whom I ain't heard a
word. Vurry in-erestin role of moosick in contemporary world of the
sensitive. Presume it must be the abstraction of the emotions to them,
since they have become frightened of words. Difficulty is that not enuff
training lies behind them. e.g. they are really audience, not creator. But
agree that it is better to back Each than press Presley's.

H.D.'s selected pomes ready in bound version in a few days. Wd you
like a private look? No comments required.

Having sent Bill Willyums the same Russell quotation on the Gt Am
Navel at 25 quid, he replied by enclosing your card written with an eye to
the same.

NORMAN
HOLMES
PEARSON

3 July (just before Bang--not whimper--Holiday)

Dear EP

Much too long a silence. But you will forgive. Would have
written over weekend, but spent it at office writing biographical-
descriptive sketch of EP for Encyclopædia Americana. At least got
them to double the previous allotment of space. Reason for such on
my part? Admiration, of course. also pleasant however from extra
5¢ a word. Justifiable usury.

But am particularly sorry about delay re Chung Kuan. Yale
fails, though thanks to EP will repair lacuna. But this takes time
and will not help. Enclose a photograph of the L.C. card. Does EP
have a way of getting book out of them? Thought the card might help
to locate it precisely. Could borrow it on interlibrary loan here, but
then could not send it on. But (n.b.) if you can wait will order one
directly for you, and when you are through you can return and I will
put in liebury. Sorry not to have thought of this before.

Also note, blushingly, that I did not return Kenner's letter
which I do herewith. And mooch obleeged for line on Windy's review
and its precision. Am having a photostat made of review. Would EP
like a copy?

Hate to trouble you, and forget if not convenient for Mrs P,
but Kojiro Yoshikawa, of Kyoto, has sent me his account on travel in
the U.S. (not personally readable in jap), saying that he had sent
you translation of portion about EP which you (he says "of course")
had probably sent on to me to see. Must acknowledge, and if EP's copy
of translation is still available, could you send and I will return.
If not, can get local Japs to translate, but they are always so faithful
they will sweat over it as though submitting to Vatican.

Sent you yesterday a copy of Hilda's SELECTED POEMS which appears
in September. Figerred as how you should at least know of its existence,
but no reason why you should write Hilda about it. After the fusion of
her broken hip began to melt away, she is still in bed. But spirits
seem good. Necessity for exercising will power has given her a new
calmness. She has always been a gal to raise hell over little things.
Thought I might send her copy of new edition of Richard of Saint Victor,
which Harper's has put out. Intro and notes by one Clara Kirchberger.
Any low-down on it?

You ask about Upanishads. If EP don't know 'em, suspect they play
a role in general scheme.

Niebuhr's corresponDUNCE not impressive. Truble with theology is
you get too damn cocksure and no room left for anything else. Sensibility

not generally a characteristic of strict theology. The Day that X (Christ) Died was book reviewed by N which you sent me as his identification. Horrible book, though no doubt the author hoped people would think X a general in U.S. Civil War, the pattern being The Day that Lincoln Died. Keeeryste!

Andrew D. White's autobiography read by all serious students in American Studies program, along with Adamses and Agassiz. Hope to expose the doughheads to at least a few rocks. Good sense generally to EP's observations re program. Will see what can be done. Keep firing!

Slatin's dissertation on EP and Browning finished, accepted, and he was given his degree. Did a pretty good job of it. Doubt that EP wants to bother to read, however, since EP knows a helluva lot more about it than Slatin or Pearson.

Also dissertation completed on Enollosa. Guy what done it was sick toward end of year, and although job was better than acceptable it needs rewriting before publication. But guy has ability and it will be okay eventually. Did EP know that F left a 250pp outline history of Chinese history. Am trying to get for Yale library so that it at least won't be burned up. F's step-son has it. Lives in Virginia as semi-recluse mystic with hound dogs.

NORMAN
HOLMES
PEARSON

19 Septembre

Dear EP

Thank you for your addresses, but I don't know what made me confuse Gordon (excellent guy) with Horton (excellent guy). Pressure of opening academic year no doubt made me operate off top of my mind (which is furry and shy at moment).

Gallup, of liebury, back from summer abroad, and having spent pleasant visit chez Mary R and with O (so many people), and brought me back a copy of Pensieri sull'Amore which we had both somehow missed when it came out. Apparently hard to find, but with Drummond's help, Gallup located a few in Milano bookshop. The Vanni keeps highest level, and I treasure like crown jewels.

Candidates for seminar a little undistinguished this year, and I
am fearful. Too many from Drama School, no doubt wanting tips on how to
compose musical comedy. But four excellent Italians (or seem so) sent
by Agostino Lombardo of Rome (sent new book today containing article on
EP (not yet read), and a Filopeanut. Usually I count on a Jap or two,
but none have appeared so far.

Looks like interesting article also on EP in TEXTE UND ZEICHEN,
sent me by a contributor, as one of "Zwei Entymilogisierungen". The
other being Eugen Winkler, treated, however, separately.

But general world seems more screwed up than ever. Much to be
said for the peace of the Arctic.

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Dear Ez,

forgot to ask in my yesterday's note a query
his dissertation under me last year on EP and Brown
i to "do you suppose Mr Pound would want to see it? I
to him, at my expense." Does EP?
from Slatin (who did

Also re <u>mmorbeaux choisis</u>, have you consider
one's Robert Bridges before one comes to him. I thi
perhaps, or Johannes Milton, Senex", in which the me
be enlivening, not mass media. I could send copies
easily at hand.

not crossing out
k, offhand, of "November"
trical invention can
If the texts are not

NHP/ Manion apparently knows he wd/ be put off the air if he tackled money question.

Impos/ believe in good faint of the endowments/ BUT not necessary to believe even Fullblight intends definite evil.

Decay of curricula/ no longer need of two languages to get in / or even get doctorates ???

Question whether shd/ leave french requisite and bar those who ignore it from benefit of Bude publications/

NHP has never mentioned means of communication, bootleg into ANY of the foul gangs /

NOT to alarm the kike watchers / really LARGE plan / say to translate ALL the Bude vols/ proceedings , etc. Editions Belles Lettres/

Ass/ INTERNAT des Historiens de la Renaissance.

That cd/ provide jobs for all the BHHBH Grabs and Reids.

without allowing the Dex Whiteers to discover our decent intention until too late to block it

( even then they might delay publication/ BUT one wd/ have a start.)

Sfar as I know this group is ALL that is left of cleanliness in frogland.

no need to lose MORE time/ they have been doing decencies since 1926/

gornoze how long before that.

grampaw cant do it all.

Is yr jale-brarian aware of ANYthing ?

this looks to me more plausible than trying to get hand out for the one in ten million who has an unusual sensibility.

Carballo and Casanova goin to TOWN for Amarals Pisans. iron curtain in Mexico been pierced at least once.

Jas speaks evil of Das/ printer didn't send proofs to Dave so Bill Wmz and two chinks omitted from enc.

American Note Mercury for Jan/ and apparently previous HAS mentioned the Constitution/

baptist millions however sd/ be unreliable. AND Marcella says copies of Merc/ HARD to find in J.York

N.H.P. continuing /

I note that even the JEWISH foul Meyerblatt says southerners noted
attent to spear JEWISH J.K. for not having discriminated vs/ nubians in
Jew York.

He is not acting on my orders, nor did he consult me / BUT

I do not judge discretion of men acting in places I have never been.

The foulness of the country stinks to heaven. J.K. objects.

BUT in the eleven years in jug NO quiet american seem to have grasped
the implications of Senator Wheeler's remark ( 1939 )

" He ( his foulness the Roosevelt )

has packed the Supreme Court so that they will declare anything he
does, constitutional."

None of you objected to this cad and liar who perjuried himself
anh every time he took his oath of office.

I therefore do not condemn activity in itself. Nor do I expect
the wisdom of Solon from a y.m. whose parents thanked me
for straightening him out AFTER he had been extremely muddled by
four years in a JEWISH jewisch beanery in jew h york /
Columbia JEWniversity.

Did I send you del Valle's article in Task Force, last summer ?

The J ew York Herald printed lies that have been refuted
long ago in *'ercure de France*, and now in *'rit. Who's Who*

and if it gets impatient with his alledgedly educated
elders or the fluid and supine state of my generation, and
yours in a deluded and brainwashed ex-republic / sunk
into irresponsible oligarchy

I don't see that it is very surprising.

"Anion and his manager say JEWISH M/ wd/ be put off the air if he tacked
the money problem.

the almost universal pusillanimity. the
failure to face etc.

Can I put it this way/ with 11 years and NO Body getting annoyed at the filth /

librarian at Ham/ Col/ complaining the stewd are being taught acquiescence /

I cant be severe on a y.m. for mere indiscretion/
considering the total indiscretion of 1860 , for example.

"ave you read Bryton Barron ( I haven't ) but he appears to have noticed something.

Until someone gets disgusted ENOUGH to be indiscrete yr/ generation
wont act of its mild dispeasures.

at least it hasn't.

AND the connie penetration going on at slot machine level / with
NO publicity.

Did I pass on Archie's simile re/ the Haaavid History Dept ?

Got anybody to translate Yoskhikawa / East flow West flow ?
am grinding alon thru the ideograms, but kno no kana.

He has a nice reprod/ of the painting Sheri gave him.

Next day wedns. in the marning.

I have not reread what I wrut las night/

all thst concerns NHP is that I protest
against people giving importance to
lies and half or 78% truth printed
in papers known to SLANT, or to
hold in, at any rate c
paper conditioned by desire to sell
and to fit into', and accomodate
impurity and sloppy reporting.

Morrow did better than might hv been expect
But they all live in varying degrees of
terrorem of 100%. truth.
-ed.

NORMAN
HOLMES
PEARSON

15 Oct 57

Dear Ez,

Glad you like Geoffrey my cat. Also Thoreau, and general
tenor of selections.

Keeping in mind Jr rather than senior anthology, keeping
out of mind chestnuts even when strung by a golden hand, am sending
along another ten (eleven), though I cheat by including three from
Lenier of which one (1) might be useful. Seriously, I think much
could be done in the way of such an anthologism as you surjest, not
relying on the circumsized names, though occasionally going to them
for something which is useful but not neon-lighted. (Let others
hold the floods back by poking a finger in Van Dykes, Quilted Couches,
Oscar Dillydumbs, usw.) Keeping also a kind of freshness of diction
squarely in front of those used to cope-paper flora. And showing
what a good ear can do with an unextravagant metric.

WCW, breathless upon a peak in Poetry, did not realize he would
have to look across the god-damned Pacific Ocean if he wanted to see
Homer behind Chapman. I suspect I was closer this summer on an ice
pack in the Arctic.

Please register my personal approval of movement against
queerative writhin coarses.

But register also, in approval, EP's answer to people he does
not answer, re EDGE!

Doubt firmness of presently enclosed batch of pomes, but glad
to assist with suggestions now or in future.

Hart Crane

Island Quarry

Square sheets--they saw the marble into
Flat slabs there at the marble quarry
At the turning of the road around the roots of the mountain
Where the straight road would seem to ply below the stone,
that fierce
Profile of marble spiked with yonder
Palms against the sunset's towering sea, and maybe
Against mankind. It is at times--

In dusk it is at times as though this island lifted, floated
In Indian baths. At Cuban dusk the eyes
Walking the straight road toward thunder--
This dry road silvering toward the shadow of the quarry
--It is at times as though the eyes burned hard and glad
And did not take the goat path quivering to the right,
Wide of the mountain--thence to tears and sleep--
But went on into marble that does not weep.

Bells for John Whiteside's Daughter

There was such speed in her little body,
And such lightness in her footfall,
It is no wonder her brown study
Astonishes us all.

Her wars were bruited in our high window.
We looked among orchard trees and beyond
Where she took arms against her shadow,
Or harried unto the pond

The lazy geese, like a snow cloud
Dripping their snow on the green grass,
Tricking and stopping, sleepy and proud,
Who cried in goose, Alas,

For the tireless heart within the little
Lady with rod that made them rise
From their noon apple-dreams and scuttle
Goose-fashion under the skies!

But now go the bells, and we are ready,
In one house we are sternly stopped
To say we are vexed at her brown study,
Lying so primly propped.

Thomas Lodge

Montanus' Sonnet

From Rosalynde

Phoebe sate,
Sweet she sate,
Sweet sate Phoebe when I saw her,
White her brow,
Coy her eye;
Brow and eye, how much you please me!
Words I spent,
Sighs I sent,
Sighs and words could never draw her,
Oh my Love,
Thou art lost,
Since no sight could ever ease thee.

Phoebe sat
By a Fount,
Sitting by a Fount I spide her,
Sweet her touch,
Rare her voyce:
Touch and voice, what may distaine you?
As she sung,
I did sigh,
And by sighs whilst that I tride her,
Oh mine eyes
You did loose,
Her first sight whose want did pain you.

Phoebes flockes,
White as wooll,
Yet were Phoebes locks more whiter.
Phoebes eyes,
Dovelike mild,
Dovelike eyes, both mild and cruell,
Montan sweares,
In your lampes
He will die for to delight her,
Phoebe yeeld,
Or I die:
Shall true hearts be fancies fuell?

20 October 1957

Dear EP,

Had a frantic call from New York television office the other day and thought it must be in answer to my suggestion for Santa Sofia. No soap (opera or otherwise). They simply wanted to know how to pronounce Sam Clemens' middle name, and how one cried "Steamboat a' coming!" I knew the first and pretended the second, so as not to hurt their feelings. Result: the star of the show was brought to the phone while at long-distance rates he yodelled s-t-e-a-m-b-o-a-t a KummIN until I professed satisfaction.

Thought you might be interested in this hitherto unknown datum
re Van Buren. No need to return.

NORMAN
HOLMES
PEARSON

28 October 1957

Dear Ez,

Am sadly behind in writing you. But I cannot let the 30th
go by without extending the hand (for what it is worth) on such an
occasion.

tout passe--l'art robuste
seul a l'eternite

You know the rest. You know more than perhaps one ought to have to
know. Let the gods sleep!

Still no word from "Yu assed for it." Had thought perhaps
my official stationery might arouse some little flicker of response,
the dying gesture of an automaton.

No opportunity yet to query your early Elizzie words. Kokeritz,
the chief specialist, alas is in Sweden until Xmas or thereafter, but
a Prouty may be able to help. Is no slouch, though onnery.

Postcard in this a.m.'s mail from Fred Grab, written with greetings
"from this Himalayan mountain resort." Card reads Kanchenjungha, but god
knows where in India that is. Says he "will write later regarding graduate
school next year." Oh yes, postscript reads care American Express, New
Delhi. The boy gets around, as last heard from in China with the boy scouts.
Also card in mail from a Jap in Turkey, so the world is round!

Glad the Lanier poems helpful. I could never make up my mind re
your favorite "Symphony." The sentiment good, but metrically I found it
rather dull. In point of imagery almost think I prefer some parts of old
John Gould F's similars.

Have checked on Conrad's vols and James' in paperbacks, as per your
request. Of former:

Heart of Darkness and Secret Sharer (New Am. Lib.) 35¢
Lord Jim (Bentam) 50¢
The Secret Agent (Anchor) 75¢
Victory (Anchor) 95¢

Of latter:

The American (Rinehart) 65¢
American Essays of (Vintage) 95¢
Future of the Novel (Vintage) 95¢
Nathaniel Hawthorne (Cornell Univ Press) 1.45
A London Life (Evergreen) 1.25
Portable Henry James (Viking) 1.45
Portrait of a Lady (Riverside) 80¢
The Sacred Fount (Evergreen) 1.45
The Scenic Art (Trama) 1.35

19 Novembre

Dear EP

Forgive me for not having sent you this sooner, but I gave
it to a purfusser (a nice guy named Prouty who works in that period)
so that it could have the *profeshional* touch and only got it back in
my hands last evening. Prouty's wife ill, which was the reason.
"He has done what he could with it in terms of contemporary definitions,
and come up with the enclosed list. Unfortunately cannot *guarantee*
all meanings to be precisely affidavited as 1565, but the likelihood
is that he near enough to suit the fastidious. The two definitions
from Cooper, of course, are at the bull's eye.

The whole passage from Golding is pure honey, and I am glad your
old eye has not lost its cunning. I shd have put it in the Poets of the
English Language I edited a few years ago. Why not, for the morceaux
choisis, although equally good for the environs of Dioce--one's feet on
the soil and one's elbows on the table.

Am trying to get hold of copies of Conn charter thru Conn historical
society, and will send off a list of editions (chez Yale) of Coke's
Institutes.

Obviously still no answer to missive to You Asked. My official
stationery on which I wrote was a flop.

22 November 1957

Dear Ez,

Merchant definitely a good person to know. Thanks for sending him. We had a good hour or more together yesterday morning, and his Yale talk in the 4:30 p.m. worth listening to. No twaddle. But liked the conversation in the office even better. When he leans forward one can see the shirt beneath the clerical bosom. He has a light in his eye, too, that is worth remarking. Conversation good, and he knows what a stone is on Penikese. He does what he can about EPisode, if that is the right word for the circumstances. We will keep in contact regarding the St Elizabethan period.

Had enclosed letter in this morning's mail. Easier for me to send, and you to return, than to copy out. Presume that Dec. of State of Conn. includes the significant charter in State Register. If so, how many copies does EP want. And would he be interested in having the late Albert C. Bates' study, which NHP would be glad to order as early Xmas card.

Could not look up copies of Coke in Library today, but will get to it early in the week.

NORMAN
HOLMES
PEARSON

233 HGS

27 November 1957

Dear Ez,

Herewith not beaver's fur but wool. In two versions, or grades.
Poem, not wool. Went to the 1631 folio, and found (as enclosed) the song
at the end of the scene, and but two verses--no more elsewhere, no less
at the drawing of the scene's curtain. Put in Black's Elizabethan and
Seventeenth Century Lyric<ins>es</ins> (a useful collection) there are three vers<ins>es</ins>, also
as herewith. Can perhaps solve problem (can certainly solve problem) if
you prefer three-verse version, and do not want modern spelling. But see
no reason why two-verse not okay, as in 1631 folio if you prefer not having
lady out in her Cadillac.

Compliments conveyed to Prouty.

Of Skelton... I find some s.o.b. has taken my edition, and so have
recourse only to previous selection by Auden and self in Poets of English
Sandwidge. NHP's personal favorite (the liking Phillip Sparrow) is that which
begins

The ancient acquaintance, madam, between us twain,
The familiarite, the former daliaunce,
Causith me that I can not myself refrained
But that I must write for my pleasaunt pastaunce:
Remembering your passing goodly countenaunce,
Your goodly port, your beutous visage,
Ye may be countid comfort of all corage.

and goes on nicely, and includes

With bound and rebound, bounsingly take up
His jentill curtoil, and set nought by small naggis!
Spur up the hinder girth, with, gup, morell, gup!
With, jaist ye, jenet of Spaine, for your taill waggis!
Ye cast all your courage uppon such courtly haggis.

etc. If EP would like a glance at all of the whole of the toute ensemble,
NHP will be happy to oblige.

Gather that Yale economist mentioned must be Prof. (emeritus) Fred
Fairchild, who remembers when Irving Fisher was not confused with the guy
in TomE's Waste Land, who was trying to put his lands in order while listening
to a chorus of shantih-boat songs.

Cries of horror and pointed fingers led me yesterday to Nation of
16 November. Who in God's name is this Feelbrighter?

S. S. DELTA QUEEN

Main Street at the Ohio River
CINCINNATI 2, OHIO

9 December

[1957]

Dear Ez,

Have at last been able to check
available editions of Coke in Library.
"We have, either at Law School or in Main
Library, London editions of 1642, 1669,
1681,1797, 1809. Earliest editions however
not circulating, so if Horton wishes to use
these the rights sections would have to be
photographed here for offset process. This
easy enough to do, but sorry I can't send
along for your okay.

Told a graduate student, Tagliaferi,
from Italy, he could write you and ask per-
mission for visit. Guarantee he's no Rat--6.
Quite a gang of good Italians here this year:
including a Galigani and a black-eyed girl of
intelligence named Francesca Dragone, who also
wants to pay her respects during holidays. Also
a good Greek, Veliogiorgis. And a number of
Italians in to see me lately. Today's was a
Professore Anzilotti from Pisa.

Dondo's poems in today from Hawaii.
Thanks for alerting him. Any special briefing
for me on him?

Letters from me still to come. But I
clear my desk as I can.

15 Dec/ NHP

E19573

IF yr/ sekkertary has time. quadruplicate as easy as 3.
E.Sill / no where to stand but on, nowhere to jump but off.
Starts ? Nothing to do but work, nothing to eat but food.

//

only available anthology of frivolity, contains only his Monads, and
some trash.

AS, apart Whitman, U.S. product pre 1900 mostly will NOT stand up
against greek and chink. Question of very brief profile.
? Whit Riley ? Good bye or Howdedoo.

Whittier, Barbara, Up from the 

Bret Harte, Ah Sin.

alzo"Fanny", Gordon after patient search cant find her in Willis.
My text, seen in London was anonymous/ Do

My text, seen in London was anonymous/ Do kyle POsess her.

Attrib/ to Willis was conjectured by gorNoze zoo.

The young wot fall fer Carman/ tho admit I haven't Vagabondia handy
AND the best of that was Hovey.
Santayana re/ stickney and Loring

Santayana re/ stickney and Loring( a Wadsworth ) as quoted" they died,
they died because they just cdn't stand it. "

No dont copy the Riley, I have it/ but want serious opinion/ CAN
one ???

Saxe no WH worse a translator than some/Must look at Bay Taylor
Faust again.

BUT if yu look at the INSIDES of the stuff in Kung's picked 305 ???

Skelton as yu op/ dont seen grade A.

wonder who transd/ Marguerite de Navarre in that orful Ham Mabie, Dud
Warner 46 vols.

I suggest if you are assigning a thesis that someone COLLECT
Sadakichi Hartmann, before all trace is lost. Bruno's weekly etc.
heaven knows if there is anything savable./ When he reemerged
in the 1920s HE didn't seem to have access to it.

Does out " lighter " U.S. etc/ stand againt Tom Hood ?

proportion, if you want deeper aim / Sadakichi vs/ E. Dickenson.

the WHOLSoF the above is Interrogative. whether anyone can be
bothered to HAVE an opinion

remains to be probably unseen.

This after 20 years greek and chink / proportion of occident to
China ???

wotchu know of Seymour Lawrence, of the Atlantik ?

is old Sidgewick dead ? or wottell ??

MARTIAL XII:xxxii

DE HORTIS MARCELLAE VXORIS

Hoc nemus, hi fontes, haec textilis umbra supini
palmitis, hoc riguae ductile flumen aquae,
prataque nec bifero cessura rosaria Paesto,
quodque viret Iani mense nec alget holus,
quaeque natat clusis anguilla domestica lymphis,
quaeque gerit similes candida turris aves,
munera sunt dominae; post septem lustra reverso
has Marcella domos parvaque regna dedit.

Si mihi Nausicaä patrios concederet hortos,
Alcinoö possem dicere 'Malo meos.'

DUDLEY FITTS

MARCELLA'S GARDENS

The grove with its quick fountains,
flickering
shade of drowsing vine,
the demure
brooklet of curtseying water,
deft cessions of meadow,
roses redder than Paestum and all its roses,
vegetables
snug asleep in January earth:

our own
eels in the pond,
the white colonnade
with its pairs of muttering white doves:
All these are Marcella's, my wife's,
and mine: since now,
after my long exile, she cedes me
rule in this tiny empire of her love.

If Nausikaä promised me her father's gardens,
I'd say to Alkinoös 'I prefer my own.'

Copyright, 1957, by Dudley Fitts.

NORMAN
HOLMES
PEARSON

233 H G S
YALE UNIVERSITY
NEW HAVEN • CONN

31 December 1957

Dear EP,

Wuz goin to begin nude year with letter to saint lizzie's, and
may still; but better be sure to end the old one --good riddance to bad
rubbish -- with a fragment of lengthy EPistle.

Letter from an Arnold P. Hinchliffe, at University of Manchester,
who was a student of mine a couple of years ago, enclosed the enclosed.
"The accompanying," he said, "is a poem I wrote for the Manchester Univer-
sity Arts' Festival; I don't propose even to attempt to make it public. It
deals with a visit to Ezra Pound, and if not satisfying qua poem at least
it satisfies my desire to commemorate that event. Mr P. would doubtless
think it an impertinence--or would he? I send you the copy because you
were so instrumental in my visit, and in my understanding of Pound's great
work. It is, inadequately ales, a thank you -- and a New Year poem anyway,
which I offer to you affectionately."

Cdn't see any reason why EP shouldn't see it, if only to prove that
not every visitor turns out to be a RATtry.

Yr letter of the 28th also in this mewnin's post. Have always
wondered how Mrs EZ managed to keep muniment room in flat. Of course send it
along, as much or as little as she or you want to. Better than my house
as storage is the room I have in the library --that is, if EP doesn't mind
nudging elbowroom with Nathaniel Hawthorne. Everything will be fireproof,
out of the way, etc., and can if necessary be put into some sort of order.
Remains cole property of EP, with no right to be seen except with his
permishun. However can be otherwise housed in Yale library, on restricted
deposit --that is, EP's property, not to be seen etc., removable at will, and
the like. This is the way Robt Penn Warrens' papers are there, all papers
related to the Dial, etc etc. Bill Willyums papers also here, but bought or
given by him, although not to be used wifout his permishun. Have always
hoped that someday EP's votive shrine might be here as part of theymost
extensive collection in country and only library (thru Bollingen etc) to
give a god damn about living writers. But all I would like is the first
chance to have Yale bid if that time ever should arise.

On the whole probably better at moment to have stuff stored in my
library room; I can get filing cabinet or cabinets if necessary, so that
it is strictly between EP and NHP. Much easier to get stuff in and out.
Incidentally have all Hilda's papers similarly, as well as Bob Mcalmon's,
ahtough as you know I bought the latter. My suggestion would be that Mrs
Pound simply pile stuff into cardboard boxes and send along; and then, as
"ed Warren does, and "ill W., simply send along another carton when it is
full. from time to time. EP can be assured that correspondences, mss etc
will be safe from fire or mice; and if EP prefers they can be left in
aspened cases which arrive, without necessity of being seen to be sorted.
If Mary wants books etc probably better for Gordon to take to B, but would

### III

Why have they put us here, Ezra Pound
for you are and you represent;
and what has poetry, which is useless, done
to anger the useful world?
what is our crime that we receive the hemlock
of the long corridors?
why do we sit in the shadow of the world's psychosis?
You want out, which is only natural,
as the cherry blossoms if only to die.
You said it, and I say it again,
in another time, in another country,
to other grey lords in dark corridors,
without logic or reasoning.
For does the blossom of the cherry tree
consider it must die?
does it think that life is but a dream
that too swiftly passes by?
next year it will grow the same,
the same blossom and the same pain;
and the year after;
even the light barred thru the windowpane
disappears to try again.
All this is gracious not logical.
All I remember then is this:
the promise of pink blossoms and the phrase:
you want out
and large quotations chanted out
to the beat of a sandalled foot,
on the floor of the dark corridor,
against the iron panels of the door
against the windowpanes with bars
that will not let in the stars;
and along and out, all in, about,
the grey personae prowl
and witness our conversation
like the tourists who come to Washington
to see the cherry blossom and die.

### IV

I have followed your advice, dubiously,
and though this is not a canto
nor a cocktail party; though Lycidas is not mentioned
and we know that Socrates is dead;
and though my personae are the merry mad,
my emblem is the gracious cherry-blossom;
my correspondence is the dark and light;
and which is dark and which is light.
The spring I celebrate is art
the autumn in our values,
a vice among the very young,
the old man's mild insanity;

Dear NHP

Recd/ Yale. I see they run three months. and three
mon6hs. ANY chance of continuity, for at least the March/ Ap/May. ?
I enc. as much Santayana as has come to surface. It is to have an
introd. by M.S. /
of course must be paid for, Question : where most
advantageous / as the Anthology hasn't started to feed her.

Fine article by Fr Ginder, in Catholic Voice, Nov. 11 10 th
but Gordon didn't send address of the paper.
Are you in touch with Operation Text Book. America's Future
542 Main St. New Rochelle. N.Y.

best heave yet. BUT they shd/

shove Sq $.

Will the Yale/ Rev. exchange or send copies to useful places.

Michael Harald, 1 Berkeley House, 67 Belsize Rd London n.w. 6
Vanni Scheiwiller, 6 via Melzi d' Eril, Roma.

?? Idea Nazionale, Tip. Coccia Piazza Armellini 4. Roma

where Ramperti has just done magnif/ blast. and is
also rinformative re/ enemy personnel and quality.

I spose they'll send me a few copies by slow ?

I shd/ think Vanni cd/ B say where to put it on sale in
woptaly.

IN FACT, how much can one do for or with it ??

Exchange with European ?

m best via

Michael Harald as above, then wont get
mislaid in office.

& with
Listen,

Marvell Press, 253 Hull Rd. Hessle, E.Yorks
England.

they Evidently have money for production de luxe. what for
authors. which Kennedy is it ?

shall have to be content with

Beauson's Tseng's estimate re/ transfer of meaning from
chink / TOTAL meaning per poem.

Merchant about the first ADULT estimate printed.

OP/ Textbook. and Ginder on Historic Blackout, shd/ be
CONSERVED in Yale, something or other.

I dare say I can get 'em a press copy of Boris bk/ of dead ,
if they can wangle a sale of hardback to Yale library.

FILES are packed with matter that SHOULD be printed AND paid for.

As to Atlantic. etc. I wd/ rather build up student paper
if it can pay something . that assist in the general decay.

MUST be revision of estimate of celebrities who have
either accepted the brainwash, or collaborated in making it.

8 Jpn

European for 'eb/ carries note on 'arson / Murkn. Trag/ SCHOOLS.

4 pages restarting.

Il Verri ( Ancieschi being loaded up with Binyon and Rouse
correspondence.

shall propose alzo BUNTING correspondence or valuable lit/ crit.

hopefully with BLAST at the stinks/ who forced the best stuff
into private correspondence.

Drea Pisson's stooge Mr Anderson lies on uncontradicted
apparently.

Pegler COULD call a few lies/ but Horton in stronger position
to start libel action IF supported.

Mrs Og or HOG Reid among most evil of american pewks/

Does the Lit Mag/ reflect on the nature of the press
in ... the anywhere.

NORMAN
HOLMES
PEARSON

2 February 1958

Dear EP,

Beginning to breathe at last. Hence back to the office on
a Sunday in order at least to write you.

Deedelited with 110 (or 111 or 112)! It is a rock on
Penikese. And this okay since Aggie and Linnie should have been
(are now) on the same faculty, at least on same island. Rock
quality good to stress, since von Linne would have been first to
recognize relationship between geology and botany. Lichens at least
have patterns (I have seen them in the arctic in the pattern of a
Ludor rose) and grave the foundations of the city of man with a
metamorphosis of paradise. NHP will be catching up when Merchant
gets his cento in print. Many thanks for this privilege, and a
bow to il maestro!

A copy of 39 of CURRENT blown hither by Four Winds Press.
Curious as to whether announced PROVINCETOWN QUARTERLY, due in
May, will have solidity or be built on sand dunes. Any inkling?

Agree that something sadly needed by pUSAllanimous periodicals.
Atlantic Monthly Centennial issue shows little advance over era of
Thomas Bailey Aldrich ("I may not be sterling Boston, but at least
I'm Boston-plated!) Contemporary prose completely gutless (hence
no style), and poetry chiefly more skilled than in Aldrich days but
technological in sense of craft acquired without corresponding depth
of feeling. Better two good lines in a sprawling jungle than a
stanza of sleekness.

Am having to go over early pomes of century in half-hearted
revision of my Oxford Anthology of American Literature. Marianne
Moore a puzzling case. The feathers sparkle on her birds but they
are stuffed birds. In reselection of EP (to be paid for of course)
am thinking of including Propertius in addition to Mauberly (already
there), plus a translation or two from Classical Anthology, and how
many cantos can NHP purchase privilege for?

For god's sake don't let Leoun die out, even if cantos crowd
out for the moment. DON'T!

Have extra packages of Conn charter packed to send out as
indicated to EP, but will hold until you need.

Yale bookstore threatens to put in periodical rack, but at
moment, nothing to help Evans with. Will keep in mind as against the
day.

NORMAN
HOLMES
PEARSON

3 February 1958

Dear EP,

More steps in ketch-up.

Never did, becuz of this und thought, send copy of A.C. Bates
on Conn charter to replace one given by you to Merchant. OR which
was contemplated by you to give him. Did you and do you (want a second
copy)? Will order now if you give signal.

What happened to Gordon's offset of Coke's Inst. 2. I sent
list of what is available at Iste, but heard no more from you or him.
resume he solved probablyem in Wishingtown.

Had announcement from little mag called NEON (Zukofsky seems
implic placated) saying there were to be two installments of translation
of ideograms in cantos. Have you seen? NHP's students keep translating
for me, as does EP in cantos, but this is not like have the things in
neonlights.

Mathurin Dondo sent along, as-you-say, readable book of poemes.
But HOW did het get out in the pineapple country, i.e. Hawaii?

Letter from Grab in Wien asked for letters of recommendation
to various higher eggaddoomees of learning for next autumnels, and
briefly indicated state of exhliration with austrian kulchur, so I
have written various deans of admishun as requested. No sign when he
intends to return to this side, but suppose he will have good sense to
stay as long as possible.

NHP ready to receive sections of EP's muniment rooms at any
time EP or Mrs P wishes to send along. Back now reasonably clear at
this end.

NORMAN
HOLMES
PEARSON

233 H G S
YALE UNIVERSITY
NEW HAVEN, CONN

5 February 1958

Dear Ez,

Heaviest on NHP's conscience has been delay in sending you the requested copies for your virganthology. But herewith at least a start on it. Took a little hunting to find the Riley poem, which seemed a little like the imaginary young boy who accompanied him everywhere and to whom he would turn to talk at dinner parties and the like. Note also that typed title to Bret Harte poem is the correct one. Am including a copy of the "entry VIII poem, but am having trouble to get it in Lizzie-type-spelling. If you have a young visitor with time, he might go to the Folger library and they would get out the text for him. The Yale copy is either missing from the shelves, by being misshelved, or has been stolen. They search for me.

As to Lizzie herself, the chief references come from Puttenham's
THE ART OF ENGLISH POESIE, where he praises her and quotes the enclosed
as being by her. This like the other scraps are imperfectly authenticated.
"Importune me no more", also ascribed to her, I can get only in the
modernized version, since there is no copy here of the original source
(Rawlinson Poetry Ms.85, in the Bodleian). But if you like it, the Folger
can probably help. If you have no one to go there --if Mrs P goes, tell her
to ask for Giles Dawson and use my name-- I could write them, but direct
contact would save time for you.

Because Fanny (actually by Fitz-Greene Hallack, not Willis) is so
damned long, but good clean lines, I am mailing you the library copy. If you
indicate what you want copied from it, send it back and I will have done.
BUT WHERE IN GOD'S NAME DID YOU RUN INTO THIS. I REMEMBER YOUR MENTIONING
IT IN L'HOMME MOYEN SENSUEL. IN FAMILY LIBRARY?

And so, include also for your perusal, a volume of Lizzie's
royal translations, from which you might get something. Even for cantos.
viz: the glosses to plutarch's curiosity:

If an unhealthy
house cannot be
done away with
altogether, it
ought at least to
be rendred more
sanitary.

Example of
cities which have
been altered on
account of their
unhealthiness.

Poems in themselves!

9 February 1958

Dear EP,

Glad to know that Horton is providing shortly a new Coke
dispenser, in handy containers. Sample tastes good!

Recent Stock issue was okay, and was pleased to see glimmer
of reborn light in shenandoah, with I Po Li striking a spark, from
usually reluctant flint, and 'arter indicating that he he may (perhaps)
re-emerge. However, general apathy of mags still lingers.

Fitz-Greens Halleck(1790-1867). Fanny (1819) so popular that
he added fifty stanzas to it two years later.

John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-1892).

Elizabeth I (1533-1603), queen(1658-1603).

Enymore?

Will look at Puttenham this week in library.

Think I have a small volume of Sills' poems which I'll send, and
you can return with others when finished with. No particular hurry.

Bates will be written for tomorrow, and sent direct to you.

Also sending as gift to the maestro two volumes (actually put out
by Far Eastern Publications here; don't see why title page reads as it does)
on translations of Chinese lit (prose and poetry, pose and poesie) into
english, french, and german, which methought you might be interested in
having.

Did EP wish copies of all Swinburne translations except "Ballads of
the Lords of Old Time?" Can do, but enclose list for EP to check and return
indicating which he wants if not all, and whether four copies of each.

11 February 1958

Dear EP,

Glad N. Directions running off more wantos, BUT wish to God
they could be persuaded to correct pages into single consecutive pagination
instead of having to begin over again everywhere. Presently rotten
for giving references, and not just in the seminar room.

Hard to tell what is vital, since people seem to get idee or don't
get idee without knowing what it or is not presently an error. But you could
profitably remind them of eventual job to be done by errat for things like:

Canto XXXIV lines 17-18: Jan 4th 1811 should read June 4th.

XXXVII (English edition), p.188, line 60: for 'said Mr Webster' read
'said Mr Clay.'

p.190, line 1: for 1837 read 1832.

192, line 2: for Yeats read Yates.

(these two were noted as necessary by you!)

LXX, lines 18-20: should read Pickering instead of Pinckney.

LXXIV, line 7 should read Digonos,

L, page 45, line: 45: for Brumale read Brumaire

LXII, page 358: baker's boy should read barber's boy

LXIII, page 369: Gordon should read Gardiner
Leighton should read Lightfoot

370: Fleta on Glanville should read Fleta and Glanville.

But ez (I say), don't know the world will come to an end if not changed at
this moment. All of above have been okayed by you. Also others, but
chiefly mispellings.

Not a bad idea about Benton excerpt. Will ponder selections and
write. Could send earlier version of Oxford Anthology, but of course this
was choice from 20 years ago. Can't change more than one third in new
edition, but want to do this where it is meaningful.

Did not get Sill volume off to you but will do so later.

NORMAN
HOLMES
PEARSON

231 HGS
YALE UNIVERSITY
NEW HAVEN · CONN

9 March 1958

Dear EP,

Sorry to have been a sluggard in regard
to the enclosed, but at any rate, here it is.
What progress with the morceaux choisi pour les
vierges? Altho natch progress with the cantos
is much more EPetizing to contemplate.

Working a little more on revision of my
own earlier Amurikin one, and at the moment
re-reading Cummings who is a good guy and often
a good or pretty good poet when he dont substi-
tute typography for sensibility, that is make it
take the place of: though the guy has an eye
and an ear, and presumes his audience does too.

Hope to be coming down to Washington
at the end of next week, but will let you know
when to expect me. Are there still special
days and hours, or can I get in, as before, on
plea that I am an old grandpop who comes from a
distance?

N O R M A N
H O L M E S
P E A R S O N

2 3 1 H G S
YALE UNIVERSITY
NEW HAVEN • CONN

15 merde'st 1958

Dear EP,

Having just heard from the gals-in-charge at Howard University, I can now begin to settle on schedule for NHP's invasion of Washington, burning of white house usw. Would like to visit EP Saturday afternoon after lunching with Mrs P, unless you would like me to come in the morning also, but am not sure they would permit that if I was to be able to come again in the afternoon. I might be able to add a Sunday morning visit or early Sunday afternoon. We can discuss. Why not have a note for me at the Hotel Statler, where I will come in on Friday. If Mrs P or you could send me at the same time her telephone number (if not in the book), then I could speak to her and make arrangements for luncheon on Saturday.

What will be left of Friday after arrival has to go to Howard which is giving a lunch for me, also a dinner and party after my talk that night. It's their show.

Enclose copies of Boethius prettily typed. Anything else? Did you find the copies of Smart's cat?

If some ADULY wd/ tell people like Frost and Sandbug that E.P. knows some history.

RUB in Coke on Misprision / say E.P. had no RIGHT to keep quiet.

that they swallowed the barin wash of the dregs of infamy
and did not take the trouble to ascertain the
facts.

That they did NOT combat the hoodwinking of the U.S. public.

that he spent 20 years trying to get euripean news past the
inky curtain.

whether you want to say navy and army like him ? if such be the case.

Anyhow Army didn't WANT him / tried of being betrayed at P. Har/
and in Corea . and sending money plates to Moscow.

and rule by Ogden Reid Dex White.

vs/ the constitution.

mebbe this still premature.

ANY way of tracing Packhard's last i% inches/ re/ Guam ?

Even A.L. Roosevelt a FOOL.

at any rate the bastards made no attempt to USE what E.P, did know

Teddy on Brooks Adams/ as if NO group of men cd/ do anything
ABOUT it.

Hamilton Trustees unanimous r/ E.P. correspondence/ I was trying get $ for Paige/ they sent durty contract/ merely a muzzle, and to get control of files.

CAN NHP get SULLIVAN(T.) fellowship to work on current files to date?
have told Bill W/ trow out Thirl / ? fellowship for Framp
to edit OLD WCW Ez-resp ondence.

CORRELATE/ the Agresti and Eva and a few positive statements
even from Edwards news letter.

NORMAN
HOLMES
PEARSON

231 HGS
YALE UNIVERSITY
NEW HAVEN • CONN

24 March 1958

Dear EP,

Back safely to local sandbank, within which am again safely
buried. Mightily glad, however, of morning and afternoon hours at
the Point as well as on the point. Despite other relevant considerations
of ambiente at St Lizzie's, there is much at least to be said for the
advantages of a foreground of capitol and capital, and various marble
momenti mori as stimulus and reflector.

Various items are now reposing in EP's branch muniment room,
with items given to Gallup for his perusal before return to you. If
I did not adequately thank you for such as were keepsakes, you will
understand that the tongue stammers at such moments.

Was sorry that our efforts to see Sheri did not work out, but
do want to help her before she and her Gilbert set out for the geo-
graphical angles. Have Dave lay it on to her that because I have seen
examples in Vanni and in your Chestnut schlosschen, I wanted one and
gave check for amount you suggested. Not quite sure how it can be
chosen unless, as Dave intimated, she was to store things with him
during her hegira, in which case perhaps Dave could pile them in his
car and you could make choice. Rotten way to do things, but this
under circumstances is, like politics, the art of the possible. Anyhow,
my respect for her art is sincere, and would be glad of any first rate
painting, or sketch of EP, or as seems appropriate.

Bouncing back in train I tried to recall your "four steps"
towards bringing matters directly to people, and could get only three.
Would EP repeat for NHP's instruction?

Emory's manuscript of book in this pm's mail, and will get at it.
Would EP like to see NHP's three hundred words before they are sent to
Mi-am-i?

NORMAN
HOLMES
PEARSON

30 March 1958

Dear EP,

This week has been a hectic one, with all kinds of charts to be made out for you-know-very city as to needs for next ten years, no need of which is what you or I might call a need. But...

As to taste of Sheri, why not leave it to her to send along any single thing she would like me to look at; or if this ain't existant and available at the moment, then why not wait until it occurs on paper. You said fifty bucks, so we can call this the square fifty buck series. No way to judge value of anything I ever saw except what the god-damned public will pay for it. On absolute grounds would put work of a kleinmeister alongside the G-B. Your ideas for non-userious patronage sound fine, if difficult to manage; and I was once in on sensible idea of a few people bucking up together so that artist (from Bavaria originally) had a little steady each year, and then once in a year or two he would send along a drawing or woodcut. Tall la Martinelli she can simply credit me with the amount, as a token of confidence in her work (your room I did see, which was my reason for coming across; she can paint!) Wish I had more, but the painful truth is that with a daughter in an institute as patient, I am in a straightjacket of another kind.

Am enclosing copies you asked for of the Mews letter, which I am glad to have as reference and goad. Did you want the original back as well as the copies? Will send if you do.

Result of week is that not even 500 poor words have been written on Emory opus.

Greetings to them as assemble on the point of overlook. The more I think of it, the more it becomes a delectable mountain from which one can see Dioce in the cielo.

NORMAN
HOLMES
PEARSON

12 April 1958

Dear EP:

Bad week. Please forgive silence. (Obviously bad typewriter ribbon too; it may be I am the silent type). Anyhow, here is the projected Foreword for Emory's book. No intention of having EP write it for me, but no reason for me to go off half-assed off course if a little altered navigation will correct it. Argue, without marking it 63 or 79 as a grade (cf Wabash), let me know if it contains no flagrancies and can therefore be sent off to Flowerydoor. Have kept carbon.

Had forgotten where the gulf stream of our youth had its source,
and so told secretary to make the usual four copies. I enclose, but
gordammit the poem is pretty long for anthology of the type you plan.
Waddy was aetat 68 when he wrote it, and not in his best period. The
poem in your ma's day vied with Lowell's Commemoration Ode as being the
Amurrikin pome. Personally I respect the memory rather more than the
facts ov the cases.

Agreed that best way to start kids on poetry is *not* in reference
to the history of the development of poetry (that is, periods of poetry).
Best way is to start em on poems, and especially to listening to poems.
Not trying to understand them; certainly not to gloss them. Process much
like learning of language, or how to speak, or how to understand what one
hears spoken. (as babies do.) Words sound fine together. Pretty soon
one distinguished within the sound. Pretty soon after distinctions begin
to have relevance. Don't matter whether it is the *cantos* or *Barbara Frietchie*
in question. Not at first anyhow. Eventually one learns that *Cantos* con-
tains more than *B.F.* does; one learns that the chief reason for writing
poems is to save words.

No harm in periods, ultimately, as a kind of class or category. Then
the age of the *pteraspis* has some relevance to Darwin's theory. To be or not
to be.

NHP spent part of Wednesday evening at cocktails with Harry Truman,
also lunch on Thursday --Axheson at table too. Verry interesting as to
conduct of cabinet meetings, etc.

Tomorrow being NHP's birthday, would have liked to break cake and blow
out candles with EP on Lookout Point. But hope for beginning of a more
important anniversary.

NORMAN
HOLMES
PEARSON
231 HGS
YALE UNIVERSITY
NEW HAVEN • CONN

The moment of EPiphany.

Dear Ez:

"Gods float in the azure air"

Bless you!

Afftnly

NORMAN
HOLMES
PEARSON

[1958]

24 May 1948

Dear Ez:

DAMN! time does slip a cog often; and run without winding.
These are dog days at the end of an academkopf year. Forgive, ergo,
the delay in getting the copy to you. Good thing to have the
antholomarcella ready for whatever can or will happen to it before
cristofor embarks for the new discovery of the old world.

"Nowhere to jump but off," not by Sill, but a little
researchemento turned up fact that it was by a hitherto unknown
to me (apparently a local James Whitcomb Reilly) who departed
untimely from this veil of cheers.

The three poems of Billyums herewith enclosed also. No
reason why Elsie couldn't be regarded with equanimity by the reasonably
young. Curious to know what his other ten (10) poems were. Also
curious whether in his HIC JACET, the third line was not originally
in manuscript: Their father is not of gay mien, instead of "of gay
men." But is latter both in *Tempers* and *Collected Earlier Poems*.

Still hope you can include Hilda. If it isn't fair to those
who get pushed out, then we are in position of having to kiss all
babies at election time.

Still think Daddy Longlegs often good translator, good
mythopeddler (viz Paul Revere), and so forth. And Tennyssunk went
down with some limpid crystal lines. But I ain't fighting for cousins
or step-granduncles.

Unclear about my June, except for three articles overdue,
editing of Hawthorne's Italian notebooks to be completed. Will EP
be available at Brothers Place for farewell embrace? In August am
planning to hike to Greenland to visit Viking ruins.

2 3 1 H G S
YALE UNIVERSITY
NEW HAVEN · CONN

21 June 1958

Dear Ez,

Too damned much happens to cripple one's movements. It looks as though I should not be in Washington with you. Is there any chance NHP can see you in New York before you sail, or at dock usw.??????? Will of course hold your plans for eve of departure in best manner of confidence.

Didn't, couldn't guess Virgin Cutely could be so stupid. Editrix, unknown to me, except by correspondence, always seemed to be all right (the no flare perceptible in her eye). Am occasionally asked to review for them, but have always refused, since it was to be done gratis; and I should be paid heavily for reading the particular books they wanted me to, especially with so many books otherwise not read by me for which my loins yearn.

Wylie is nice little guy, and am surprised he didn't cry BALLS! to them.

Good letter in from Boris with the account of his forthcoming op. Is obviously working. Nice and intelligent guy.

Giovannini's letter replied to, to best of NHP's ability.

Did I tell you Esquer had sent all correspondence to Rovere article here for EP's branchament room?

Regards/

NORMAN
HOLMES
PEARSON

27 November 1958

(Thanksgiving morning)

Dear E.Z.,

Some kind of demon --not simply the absence of voluntario-
has kept me from writing you since your return, and my silence must
have been variously interpreted. But I have been plagued and
deviled by the office until it has seemed to me that I have been
lucky even to have been able to breathe. I hope that part of the
year is over. Especially because I have missed your letters in the
weekly mail, as they once came.

But first, I cannot tell you how grateful I am to you for
sending #100 to the boys at the Lit. It was just the kind of a
boost they needed, as the clipping shows. A damned good canto too,
quite apart from the magic number, although I had only the chance
to read it through before it was off to the printers. They claim
to be able to have it out within about ten days now. Except for
Merchant's damned fine contribution, and Galigani's (who was a
student of mine), both of which I suggested, I have kept my hands
off. Oh yes, I did let them have a drawing by Martinelli which
seemed appropriate enough as art, and to help her, with naught to
do with her fuelminations. How many copies of the issue do you
want me to send you at B? Merchant will get his of course, and
I will see that Dave and the nice guy in Richmond get theirs,
and Giovanni. Anybody else on this side. I can send as from myself
or from you, as you prefer. Will also send one to Hilda.

Much appreciate being on the list of releases from Richmond,
and we carry on notes between us. The political set up nationally
stinks to high heaven on every side, with the world not much better
although I am anxious to have your reactions to the Italian scene
now you can see it locally.

The Pasternak award disappointed me for veracious reasons.
My own guess is now that E.P. is in Italy and no longer at St
Lizzie's (god be thanked) that the award will wait until the
cantos are finished. Which I suppose is understandable, but still
regretable. The whole Pasternak affair was too political from
start to finish to be of any "literary" significance. In that
sense it was the worst award since Pearl Buck got it as a slap at
the Japs for raising hell in Chinkdom.

Am still waiting for word from New Directions about the
anthology. I told MacDowell that I would be glad to look over the
texts for him, early last summer --in fact just after I saw you
at the boat--and he was to send to me after they had gone over it
at the office. But nothing, as I said, has appeared, and I have
not been in New York since coming back from Greenland in early

5 sec.

NHP

Considering yr/ feelings, it might , in fact it WOULD
be timely for you to ask Hammarskjold whether there is any chance
of publishing Mensdorf's letter on causes of war ,
sent to that w.c. without flush Nic Butler in 1927.

Settelind or one of the young sVedes sd/ re/ Churchill as
literatus, " more to do with our budget than with our culture. "

alzo the idea that " of idealist tendencies " was the old inventor
of explosives vs/ Ibsen's realism.

Their general stink in encouraging the k face pacifists, Norman
Angel of death typd , considered as part of machinery for starting wars
is worth comment.

As to Gide's " idealism", ref/ Mr Eliot.

Has the peace award this year been based on a fake ? I haven't
the data, merely overheard something re/ faked diary.
may need looking into.

have you ethnologized the full list of awards. Tel Aviv
or whatso ?

Cantos won't be finished until my demise, shd/ always
reserve possibility of death-bed swan.

for Aug.
Internat. Eng/ Profs, invite , presumably want anodynes.

Not invited to Paris show of the 1920s. but Cornell amiable.
wotchu kno bout Healey

Exhibits feed no exhibiteds.

Andy White better'n Dexter

ThankGoRR have got back the material , fotos, sound graph for
DECENT edtn kungthology. Vanni will bring out trilingual a
bit at a time with Scarfoglio's wop-lation.

and Glory to Hawvufd, I ye almabitch of Hroosenfeld , and pore
Archie,

THOUH

The soul of Harvard has just arrived / 4 copies "AUDIENCE". a
squatterly of talmudic pustosity.
If Yale hasn't won the Thanksgiving game, good NITE.

BRUNNENBURG
TORLO (MERANO)
ITALIA

THE probleme , mon cher NHP /
OF communication. Of course
waiting the Yale Lit Rev.
and as you say the Yale REV. is something
other.

question of continuity / where CAN one print and have
a regular audience ?

Whether Mr DREW ( of I take it not yr; immediate family ) shd/
draw response from student body, or other ?

whether ANY of the people listed as in Y. Lit. Rev, except Merchant
is capable of a serious answer to a serious question.

The known names are no damn good . for any serious purpose,
Edith playful and several plain rotten.

which Kennedy is George ?
Gallup was on infantile teething rings,
but a good guy.

No wu chuan/ fer an advance.
Can these kids reproduce some fofostats of Tinkham and Capehart,
( forget if I have yet found cutting's.

ANYhow, can the take a line
and continue ? are they monthly or ¼ ly.

apparently the U.S. can't git much beyond ½ly.

Wallignani, Duran , unknown to y.v.t.

Next question , have you ANY honest scout in Bastun ? Lowell
honest but tacit.

is there any communication between arcadia,
or scholaria, and " Society ", or the whatever has replaced the beau
monde.

Aaffritz, and Elsa axwell. and I fergit the tother
ambassabitch.

anyone know Geffries Wyman / now directing UNESCO /
and overriding or acceding to the over-riding
of the late Louis ( or Ludwig) Keimers , re/ Zoology and
Botany ).

I mean Keimers wanted Boris to continue his work/
and B/ has done Pelo Pardi's.

B. going to Francoforte domani. etc.

Spent all his subsidy /
on getting MATERIAL , fotos etc. and then got jipped.

Perfect disgrace to the floondations that
Bk/ of Dead, NOT the one Budge trans/d done by B/ and Vanni.
with the filth of Ox, Cam/ Calif/ Princeton, pouring it out
on various loafers and spongers.

Mary so intent on my glory, that completely failed to
TELL me what Boris had done. And of course I shdn't be tied to
his tail as tincan, any more than to Hammarskjolds.

Let us altert to UNESCO drive for uniform text books for ALL
nations. and start resisting brain wash in THAT morass.

Incidentally it warn't me that said. Mus. " il piu grande
uomo da me conosciuto ed e senz altro uno dei piu profondamente
buoni. "

Will Powell collaborate or at least connect with
Healey at Cornell, Leo. H. cuRAtor, and Eng/

13 Dec 58

NHP

Where hv I heard name Malcom Bradbury ? has done decent art/l
on Ford and English Review, in some damMAG, that Rex not sense to
indicate WHERE. evidently in Eng/ or writ/ from Eng/

was he one of Possum's Mortuary ? only got a few acid sours /
but quotes enough to annul 'em for perspic/ r.dr.

ALZO. YOU not knowing yr/ own Campus/ these yanks NEVER speak to
yitchudder.

Willmoore Kendall / member ext Bk/ Evaluation Committee.

with J;ean Mathews . and Tansill.

negative drive, for purification.
SHOULD at least be TOLD Sq $/ has started POSITIVE supply of
texts fit to educate High Schools.

also Yale Lit/ Rev. should review Marson " American Tragedy".

Are they ripe to print some fotostats of Tinkham, Cutting, Capehart
letters ?

Agresti writes that McGuire says by letter what he probably dont
want quoted in public.

What does Kendall know of others on his committee ?

DO the read task Force ? Oct and Nov. issues are good.

The European reviving, but of course open to smear.
Listen, is to git a canter / and Hartley doing the Gaudier,

Listen, is to git a canter / and Hartley doing the Gaudier,
interested in Wyndham 3 Says / and Gourmont Diomedes, for 1960

Theobald has imprudently lent letters to Stephens, who has
friend not to be trusted. I doubt if Theob/ meant HIS letter to
be printed. BUT must be treated with cautionuntil we know
more about him.

I am NOT going to write YU re/ " America's Future" cause YU
ought to get it , at least by phone, from Kendall.

? Merril Root, cant remember name of Elihu's bro/ with whom
I stayed in '39. or if he is still alive.

ANYhow ^endall has at least 2 honest men on his com/ee.

NORMAN
HOLMES
PEARSON

14 December

[1958]

Dear Ez:

Separately, but as printed matter by air, to save money, a copy of the Homage goes out to you. I have not had a chance to do more than glance at it, since it came from the printers only yesterday. What Kennedy does with the Chink I don't know. I do know that Merchant's article is damned good. And that I like the Canto, and that it was wonderfully generous of you to let them have it, and that it will help them to sell enough copies to break even. I wish there had been time to get the proof shot back to you, but blame me for any errors that proof-reading could have caught when done by anybody but me. I changed Goerge to George, and a variant in spelling Napoleon--but was not always sure that I got all of the divisions (white spaces) between the lines. Curse me and then let me know.

The shin-dig also in honor where your poems were read was well attended, and the blonde McGeoy in a bikini would be worth standing for. She did the Nude Erections selection from LXXIX wonderfully well, really wonderfully well. On the whole was better than Sillings. "Ancient Music" they did contrapuntally, and the effect was superb. It should always be recorded that way.

All in all this is an Ezra-special time of the year, not only because it gives me so much pleasure in thinking of you at Brunnenburg. But on my part I seem caught up in the various strands of the local web. Yale at Yule is going in for the experiment of television --actually from a Hartford station--and then to be re-televised variously, I gather, throughout the country. I am supposed to do the first series -- four parts, one each succeeding week. "Four American Poets." #1: E.P. #2: Possum. #3 cummings. #4: Stevens. Well, why not. I rather like the idea of Yale sponsoring a series in which E.P. lifts the veil on the Muse. As for me, I'm a leetle skeered and camera shy. Remember me in your prayers. Am talking, reading, etc only from the Cantos. A half hour aint much for that, but ridiculous not to concentrate as best one can. Similarly with Possums quartets, where I will go at the "words slip" parts, plus the poems as a war poem, plus "significant soil." Trying to keep the whole series on words and form and the meaning of this. Make it new. All quotes cleared with Laughlin.

Deelited that Vanni will bring out proper Kungthology. Any date known?

Much interested in your remark that Cantos will not be finished until I hear posthumous swan song. Have always expected songs and swan song, but hope the road to the City of Man won't

NORMAN
HOLMES
PEARSON

be too long and lose punch after purgatory.

Almost nothing said about peace prize award as of this side. My own personal impression is that it was given as another, semi-hidden attack on Russians. Presumably the padre is still at work helping refugees naked after stepping from behind iron curtain. Citation of work during W.W.II ducks immediate issue (as Pasternak's for earlier poetry) was supposed to do, but obviously includes present activity by inference. Since most peace efforts de nos jours get involved in U.S.A.-U.S.S.R, Swedes will be hard put. Would be much better if they chose something that tried to bring beauty or order more fundamentally, since this works more effectively and permanently for desired dove.

If you will walk like Santa Claus around your enclave, drop greetings and affection from me in the laps of D.P. and Mary, and my best to Boris and to Marcella if she is still there.

I talked to Laughlin and McGregor on the phone about the anthology. Apparently they are going it alone as of the moment, with McGregor working on ms as suggestions or corrections come in from you or Marcella. Glad to hear you were adding a little editorial comment.

If you want to send along the Santayana two-way correspondence with a little introduction by yourself to accompany it, will be glad to see what I can do with it. Difficult to tell without having it in hand.

Saluti

19 Dec

BRUNNENBURG
TIROLO (MERANO)
ITALIA

NHP

There is an oleograph of the 1870 or before then wars,
" Vous tirez tousjours sur le meme. "

poilu indignant at being hit three times.

I think I had $250 help with the Fenollosa ms/ and nowt since.
Recent desistment at Harvard re/ Odes, etc.

I have got back to the Fenollosa note books / faint pencil ,
occasionally indecipherable.

all names in Jap. and need to
be correlated to known chinese names, for any publication.

I dont imagine I wd/ get any Floundational support / I dont know
whether any y.m. wd/ be able to get followsheep and
divide the procedes.

I have given the 3 cahiers on jap poetry to Frobenius
grandson, to get what he can from.

VERY dubious that he
has inherited much from his grandad.

The Institut is under
the city of Frankfurt. The yunker against present boss .
However that explains why they dont advertise, and are independent
of OTHER pressures. I dont think there is anything in it
for outsiders.

I dont know whether Reck wd/ take on the collaboration.

re/ Fenollosa . or if you have some more biddable male on
the Yale grounds .

OR if I ale orientalism is interested.

OR if ny collegamento with the Cornell heaver, Geo. H. Healey

am sending this slow/ to spare you Xmas crowding.
Shd/ have had a vol of Fordie in the Merano.

Has anyone considered H Tiffany Thayer ? as of 1931 ??

Is he underestimated ? was there or is there something more
there than one has supposed ?

As to Santayana inedits/ cd fac/ sim/ handwrit, 2 post cards.
2 letters/ One starting : Fenollosa article has given me my first
glimpse of what chinese hieroglyphics are and how etc.

Jan 15, 1940.

7 pages of typescript in my replies.

these from 1939-40.
I think Cory had copies of whatever I had in D.C. one important.

NORMAN
HOLMES
PEARSON

233 HGS
YALE UNIVERSITY
NEW HAVEN · CONN.

20 December 1958

Dear Ez,

Finally got a chance to read the Yale Litter-ary
mag. Difficult to know what to say. Nicely gotten up,
which does them credit. Also credit for putting Merchant's
article first for quality and as much as could be done for
tone. Galigani (old graduate student of mine) interesting
on Montis, but don't know that he said anything except to
point up significance of ur-data, a signpost back to the
rocks. Ciardi not much of a poet. Babette Deutsch pleasant.
Dame Edith comme toujours, but heart in the right place.
Gallup's a by-product. Kennedy must have thought he was
giving an oral examination for a doctorate in Chinkeese.
Obviously has worked deep into field and sticks to party
line, but not sure that his conclusions have much relevance.
Canto C makes splendid recurve to Merchant's intro.

You asked me about Kennedy. He is the one who stood
in the way of the Analects here as publication many years
ago. Fundamentally a literalist in translation, and a useful
man to have around but not at center.

You asked also about Malcom Bradbury. I heard of him
first in late October, as from University of Manchester,
saying he wished to come to the States "to finish a Ph.D.
dissertation on American literary expatriates." I was
supposed to, and did, offer an official letter for immi-
gration saying he would be welcome at Yale. Gather he will
be on my doorstep in a fortnight or so.

Willmoore Kendall on leave of absynthe from local
beenery for this academic year, so have not seen since last
spring.

Keep me in touch with what happens on Ur-o-paen
front re magazenes. Very hard as from here to know of
anything except the most obvious.

In other word, communications system not much improv-
ed with exception of Meecham issues. Daresay that it best
way to continue, with EZdra special correspondent.

Am finally through with the E.P. broadcast on the
Cantos, which will inaugerate Yale on television. One
half hour program wednesday nights at 7, which is at least
one break into the sacred realm of Ranger Andy and Lucy and
Dez. My part to speak sincerely for 22 minutes straight,

NORMAN
HOLMES
PEARSON

and did my best to look into cameras without blinking while
camera men and directors ran about distractingly. Kept it
on Cantos, with emphasis on story line and Dioce grail.
Disorder brought in as means of emphasis on order: art, law,
economics, state, etc. Cleared with Laughlin and used 1½
minutes of your reading of selection from 17. I read Kung of
course as core and then went on thru with 90 to end on. Hope
it gets across, but am no t.v pro.

Enclose letter which was passed on to me to answer.
I guess he may have been thinking of Thrones, since I'm
not sure what serial rights to Canto C would be. Have no
idea who the bloke is. Told him to get in touch with you,
since this was non-USA, but should I have sent him to Faber?
Or anything anywhere to Laughlin. Probably won't happen again,
but it might.

If this arrives in time, again distribute my affection-
ate greetings.

Biff ib th eye, plus one or 7 wenn. 59

Monn cher PIERRE-zonnh

In criticizing the style of diction

etc.

and in re/ Ari Stotl on swift perception of % etc.

the precise use of languidg !!! Mlle SpaNN living far more
in the precincts of the Church of Xt, ( teXas) than in the
lofty realms of Miss Martinelli's phantassy

the metaPHor in yr/ last pp/

of 1st inst.

caused a certain shock.

the bunting is a bird ( of, I believe small volume)

as to its offsprings being chicks or mammalian , I believe yr
friend Agassiz wd/ incline to the former category

the circ/ medium has been ref/d to as a scad, as a
frog -skin , but not in my bk/ of Unc. Remus or elsewhere
as the pelle di coniglo.

ANYhow

Mr Pinck's private life is not to be presumed to be authentic.
etc.

I dont want to bother with Cory until one is certain to NEED the
permission. Shd/ then be glad of yr/ vote to effect
that it shd/ serve to revive sales of CORY's colection of G.S.
and that one supposes he will collyBOrate,

esp in view of value of E

E.P's good will.

Mass of Binyon and Rouse correspondence, being shipped to
Anceschi . Vanni aiming to reprint in vol/ettes after
Il VERRI , serializes.

One most valuable from Rouse.

IF the Yal/ is too damn DUMB to TELL its distributor where to
send for exchange, gorheLLup Connectikutt.

Wonder if Sheri has dug up or unstuck the SMALL paintings
she first brought to Sliz ??

Vanni also gunning for place to print translation of the merchant.

Appreciate the order of Boris Bk/ wot about the recensione?
ever hear of a guy named David Palmer, once with
Huntingdon( or ton ) bybury in Calif/ ) son of ole frien H.D's
an mine ?

IS there sufficient integrity in the U.S. to resent smearing
Horton as hate-monger ??

Yes, chance of sposition IF I can swear to progress and
PRODUCTION, not regard the product in retrospect alone.

Sheri NOT pleased with selection of drawing fer the Yale?

19 January 1959

Dear EP,

Stupid week just passed, or would have written before
this 150th anniversary (today) of Poe's birthday; solemn
symbol of American uncongeniality to any who don't play the
game according to "official" rules. Can't say anyone has
seemed to learn anything from this particular chapter of
hist-ory. Except maybe by indirection through the French,
but of course the French are French which explains everything
to everybody and leaves everybody out of consequences. "Let
them eat coke!"

Many thanks for catalogue of exhibition which I wish
I might have seen. More complete even than the Yale birthday
party, especially in translations. Useful and important to
keep track of these, and am passing on information to Gallup
for his bibliography.

Also for Christmas photograph, which was a delight.
Yes, Martinelli was upset at choice of her drawing (not by
me) for the Yale Lit; mine, and perhaps hers, was for one
constructed of ideograms, more truly caligraphic. But harder,
one gathers, to reproduce as per designer's whim. The Lit
drawing also used in making film for forthcoming t.v. half
hour on EP. Date for telecasting not yet set, but probably
mid or late February. Them as has seen the film seem to
like it. Naturally difficult for NHP to get proper aesthetic
distance.

Anyhow Martinelli who is at last back to painting
again was fired to do what she called an "imaginary" black
wash of E.P. which is large and impressive. Really impressive,
and the best so far. Do I gather that you are planning a
show of her things (some of 'em) in Italy? She sent me a
self portrait in chrome, and her drawing of Eve (holding
first child) for me to send to Hilda. Saying that Hilda
would lend them to you for the show if wanted by you. Also
said she had sent you three paintings (early) which you had
said in S. Lizzie letters to her you had wanted. A re these
the ones you asked about in your last letter to me?

La M occasionally hits off a good phrase in her letters,
but I tell her the place for myst is on the canvass. Did not
do not hold her up as stylist.

Have written *European* for subscription, and will answer
Neame's letter as of this morning's mail. But have to depend
on you for continental appearances. Maybe Mary could keep me

mind, and I could send her cash against which to draw.
As for Vanni also in terms of your plans. Will want Il Verri.

The Yale Review has returned the Santayana letters
with that stupid editorial phrase "not for us." Betes.
Shall I send on now to New World Writing? Or have you
preferences.

Returning to La M for a moment. I have only one
painting, a head done in '53. Hilda has a version on
Leucothoe, very good.

Whatever happened to some (French?) magazine I sent
article on EP to last summer for special EP number. Believe
Mary put them on to me. Just as leaving for Greenland, so
sent them version of introduction for Emory, from whom
nothing but silence.

Don't know David Palmer, of Huntington (once) but
could trace if needed, by writing Huntington where I once
had a summer fellowsheep.

Who is smearing Horton? No echoes of it, or anything,
in this province.

Matter of Fenollosa mss very interesting. Sorry the
jap poetry vols went to Frobenius grandson unless he actually
proposes to do something with them. Always possible to get
chinese equivalents for jap names here, if I have material
at hand, and am not sure that this needs foundational
support. Depends on what is to be done. As I told you, I
had able graduate student do dissertation on Fenollosa and
his influence a couple of years ago, and he is about to make
a book. Extremely interesting line down, partly through Dow.
Chisolm in contact with Mme F's son and daughter by earlier
marriage, and got from them (to use) the few mss they had.
Not too important, but as I recall one was a partial chink
history. They have also his collection of No masks. Don't
know whether you want to fill out Chisolm's book with solid
data from what you have or not. Naturally would make F's
re-emergence, outside province of Written Character more
impressive. Leave it to you.

Tiffany Thayer mostly forgotten, but will try to look
into.

Regards.

2 giugno

[1957]

N.H.P.

sorry you've been ill and probably still are.

have just hit another treasure, i.e, Guzzo's " Dialoghi del Bruno
with some very clear pencil notes by Santayana.

to whom an inscription by G.

It OUGHT to go that centre of corruption and stinginess, Haavud.

the hellhole of Roosevelt, Weenie, and Connant.

I shd/ like to get back what the
have scrouged ... and before god OUGHT to have paid me for the
Odes, which their apes sabotaged.

sorry they can't be reduced to poverty, the doubtless now
mortgaged to Weinberg.

Shd/ one ask a mille bucks for such an item.

Not that I want money. But I want that dirty institution to
PAY.

Gallup might bid it up ? If I promise not to land it on him
at some outrageous figure.

??

Of course Cory wd/ control right to publish.

I can READ the notes.

The buggars are horning in for half the proceeds of the paper bak
after having admitted they only signed the contract for decent edtn/
in order to get rights to the lousy vol. they did print,
WITHOUT an index.

Their soul has oozed thru " Audience", an almost all the time low ever for
Roos (v)elians.

Does the brother of the infamous Niebuhr run the theology racket
in New Haven ?

I might do an article on Bruno and Santy if PAID.

lat, bloody item from Furniss' acc current jewishprudence.
also remains to be said whether the foundations of pimps are Ox
auto, or heavy quarterlies that PAY index in the very name of the Ox
tax office.

on Bruno, with 88sinotes, their warm dieth not. and professional
honour is obviously anti-sindacal.

ALBERGO GRANDE ITALIA & LIDO

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

RAPALLO

TEL. CENTR. 54.92 - 50.30 - 50.14

part of the Perkins pimpery / to penalize production of
writing of durable merit.

and drive 'em all into slop choinulism.

are there NO moralists left in Jew England ?

Sample of G.S's notes . p. 140

" He was akin to protestantism in this his shady side.
He was clear and sane only when pagan. "

probably as much fit to quote as in a whole vol. of S's
essays . / that is to say in some vols.

Oh gawd, I spose I shall have to read the Guzzo.

me. forget when he gave it to

Some naive teuton asks why I " PERMITTED TRAX to be done
in Berlin befo on Broadway .

Brit. TV seems to have had a whoopiday. and boosted
Sq $ buck.

I hope to get text sometime.

dunno wot the wops TVd. but material was much milder.

Of course I wont sell the Guzzo till I have read it. no haste.
but lets hope to devastate some bugiatolo.

rare bit of ole Jarge, writin as he talked
and not b fer publication.

25 June 1959

Dear E.P.

Much regret on my part for silence in respect to
your letter of end of April and early June. But stupid vesuvian
eruption of duodenum as of beginning of February left me both
weak from loss of blood and much behind in all chores. Fortunately
it has been possible to proceed like Aesop's hare, and so at the
moment have pretty well cleared my desk of academic chores. This
is good since I now have the manuscript of the anthology as
from New Directions and can begin to check the texts. This is
as I believe what you and Marcella wanted me to do. If you will
permit I may have questions as I go on.

For example: if you use the old texts for opening
fragments of middle-english poems and for some Elizabethan
ones, do you prefer to use modernized texts for Shakespeare as
you have done. I shall drive you bats I am sure. Perhaps
better to forget above as query until at least I am well enough
into text to begin to get the drift. But I did like both
Marcella's and your notes and prefaces, and thought her ex-
instructor wrote with punch. Where does he teach? And does
he write?

Question of disposition of treasures being dug up
among archives and muniments is a little difficult to answer.
Only way is by analogy and precedent. For example, tory has
been peddling books from Santayana's library which have been sold
by Goodspeed's in Boston. I was in Beanville for an editorial
meeting ten days ago and talked about prices with owner whom I
have known for many years. For example I sale bought S's own copy
of his Life of Reason (5 vols.) filled with all S's annotations,
rewritings and corrections for a revised edition (all this
unpublished) (and part of the 15 volume triton edition also
marked (I gather) for $300.00 which was considered high. Harvard
did pay $200 for S's copy of Possum's Uses of Poetry and use of
Criticism, also heavily filled with annotations and little poems
like the following:

What a virtuous person
I should be,
If I were created
By T.S.E.

But one gathers this was bought because of Our Tom rather than
because of Santayana, since (I also gather) Harvard had had first
chance to get the Life of Reason. General feeling on Goodspeed's
part was that there were not many takers for S as of the moment,
and among what existed was not apparently Columbia to whom, for
some reason, tory gave all Santayana's mss and papers. I shouldn't
have been so vague: the reason was that tory went to Columbia and

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liked it. Personally, I have yet to learn anything very interesting that has come out of Columbia since Dow died. Perhaps Dewey, but that was a mixed blessing. General opinion was that Guzzo's Bruno could be judged only in terms of nature and quantity of notes; I am a little vague on importance of Bruno to Santayana. Naturally all this is a strictly business situation, not of right or what is proper but what people want: the opinion was that a hundred would be all one could hope to get. This is stupid, as you know, but that is a wholly different question.

As to the galley proofs of Bill's *Voyage to Paganry*, the only way that these would have value would be if there were extensive changes between galley version and final printed text--as there were in the case of his Autobiography, where the lawyers made him take out things -- or if there were many autographed and significant corrections in Bill's own hand. The galley proofs as they stand might get ten dollars from a Williams collector; and I asked another New York dealer what he would expect to ask for an unmarked set of galleys but with your autographed statement etc as embellishment, and he said $35. Naturally again if you wrote an essay of sorts, or all sorts of marginal comments it would fetch more.

The University of Texas is where they are shelling out the money for manuscripts and books these days. Maybe Marcella went there.

You asked about property rights in letters. The words belong to the one who wrote them, and he can print without permission of the recipient. He can also refuse permission to the recipient or anyone else, as can his heirs. The paper on which it is written is considered a gift to the recipient, and so the recipient is at perfect liberty to refuse to let anyone see a document because the paper is his to decide on. Similarly he can sell the document for the same reason, or destroy it without permission of the sender. He can also refuse to let the writer see what he has written, or the writer's heirs, or biographer etc. I will mail you a copy of an article I once wrote on problems of literary executorship which may contain some of the information you are looking for. It at least caused Thornton Wilder's lawyer to redraft Wilder's will, ditto with Auden etc. All a very tricky business, to be sure, but not necessarily a memento mori.

Much interested in hearing of British t.v. program, and also hope to see text some day. Ditto with Wop tv. My own on you apparently went well. Fortunately it had been filmed during Christmas period, since my hospitalization would have made it impossible to do live at the moment required. So I sat back in chair, just after coming home and watched it that way. A few converts.

Letter from Chao Tze-chiang enclosing his translation
from "My Heart's" relief near the Water Balustrade" as from
Tu Fu, which had some quality. He wished you, through me,
"speedy recovery" from bad health which he had heard you had.
As do I.

Very little of interest in literary matters as of the
moment. As tho in end of the century doldrum's. All very
polite in urbance manner of New Yorker which has replaced the
Atlantic Monthly as holy arbiter; have been reading countless
manuscripts for Wesleyan University Press poetry series, but
on the whole have been unmoved even by what I chose.

It will be a relief to read the poems in the anthology.

Don't think me a bastard and s.o.b. for my remarks on
the literary wares. It is only as with looking at a fish, one
has to define the facts. Mss of your own poems are a different
thing; if you want me to market those for you, then that counts
for something. Still, one doesn't want to get like old Jaimie
Stephens in his crocked gold.

Greetings to D.P. and Marcella.

3 July 1959

Dear Ez,

When I wrote you about the Williams galleys and the Pantayana volume I did so in cold business terms, as I gathered you wanted it. Only I did not know the whole market situation as of the moment, which is highlighted by the sudden re-emergence of the Quinn typescript of *The Waste Land*. I gather that Quinn's girl friend had it, to whom he left his papers etc. With it is Possum's handwritten collection of all the poems he had ever written which he sold to Quinn too. But only the ms of *The Waste Land* is being hawked at the moment, and the asking price is $100,000. This was the offer to the Morgan Library which turned it down flatly, as had a mid-western university (probably Indiana) which had turned it down at $125,000. The truth is I think the owners will get it, and probably from Texas (Univ of) which is buying hog-wild with newly released oil money that had to be spent only on buildings before. It makes sense from their point of view, and if an indifferent ezanne fetches 150,000, then the pride of ownership of W.L. is cheap at 100,000. What really feeds my ass of course is that Possum will get nothing of this, even though he's alive at the time of the transaction. Texas has been buying huge collections of Faulkner also, including the ms of *Absalom, Absalom*; again for which the author will receive nothing. Painting of course has long been the same way. Certainly it's time for writers and painters to insist on a bill of sale by which any resale during their lifetime or a certain span of years will give a percentage to the originator of the thing sold. Anything else is usury, as well as a devastating psychological impact on an artist or writer when he gets turned into an attitude towards mss which this breeds.

Now if you do want to sell any of your own mss or those which have been given you, my advice would be to do so through some dealer like Bertram Rota, in London, on a commission basis. No other way. Rota, I am just told has been named English and European agent for Texas. He's charge a commission but the higher the price he gets the greater will be his commission, and he asks high prices as I know from the valuation he set on Sylvia Beach's Joyce remnants. Don't sell to him outright, because he's put a 100% markup on anything. This is orthodox, but when he doesn't have to shell out money to you he can afford to wait for the right taker.

I finally got down to Rutherford on Tuesday, in a 900 heat, to see Bill Williams and Floss. I had promised to go for some months, but my slow recovery from ulcers kept me away.

5 July 1959

Dear Ez,

A letter from Hilda this morning, in post, says that the Yale Lit did not, after all, send you the extra copies of their Round number. I am sorry about that--the kids get mixed up in their ideas, for sure. I told them to send you some, and also to ask names to whom you wanted the issue sent; and I myself bought a number to send around the circle, such as I knew it. Also gave Martinelli several copies to send to her group. But bought some extra ones still against a later emergency, and so am sending a half dozen more to you by surface post. Still have another half dozen if you need them.

Hilda also said you mentioned that I had not sent you a copy of the script of the t.v. program on you. That's true, and I'm sorry. It wasn't mimeographed up until given, since I used not written script, and although filmed during the Christmas season was not actually televised out until after (just after) (by about three days) I came home from the hospital. It was some time after that before I could do much, and since a couple of months had gone by without any communication from you (it was about four months altogether between your letters) I assumed that I was in your doghouse and ought not to bother you. Ergo.

Delighted to see by an issue of a new mag (Vol I, no II) Critical Quarterly out of U.K., that at least a future issue will contain an article by merchant. Is this the same that came out in Yale Lit? That was excellent of course. Hope there will be more.

One of the instructors in American Studies here is re-
writing his dissertation on Fenollosa for publication. It was
done under my direction and my original suggestion, but is
chiefly concerned with the overall influence of E.F. on American
scene through his art works, ideas of Chinese history etc. The
section of language and the philosophy of a natural language
is one chapter. For the sake of describing the rock correctly,
as Aggasiz would say, could you take a look of this para to
see if the particular granite is correct. I don't mean this as
an argument between Possum and me F.

Pleasant card from Marcella in this morning's mail, as from
Florence. Excellent photograph of La Calumnia, with wonderfully
intriguing reference to the Primavera, with similar ascending
nude Venus, hand upheld, but birth-shells no longer her support
but relegated to semi-halo effect for various onlookers. Absol-
lutely first class reproduction.

Dear N.H.P.

wot is this rubbish re/ doghouse. calcification ,
inertia etc. but never no NHP in no dawghouse.

Mr Chisolm gets about as much bunk onto one page as possible
even for an academik splurge in a murkn beanery.
Why dont he write what he KNOWS , and leave off speculation as to
whether the pink-pearl

cf/

E. Rhys remark re/ Luncheon at Gosse's :

And what did you meet there ? three lords and three pawn H
brokers ?

I dont see use in spending time and postage on people like
Chisolm who bring in NO food to the writer on whom they
batton .

Esp/ as some of the facts are in print/ and what is a bloody researcher
for if he merely bothers the subject of his wallow ??

A minumum of $25 shd/ be charged for every question ,
and the pest of these people who expect one to write their
tttheses for lem.

benedictions. Hilda sent on yr/ noble effort to
crown me with glory , bayleaves, halos etc.

beautiful contrast to Marianne worming and weaseling .

There IS incidentally some damned interesting matter in the
UNPUBLISHED Fenollosa notes/

out and get ME anything ($) for printing it ??

But I dont spse Chis/ wd/ go

30 July 1959

Dear EP:

Glad to get the comment on Chisolm's paragraph. Hadn't meant to
indicate this was more than a rough account using Mrs Fenollosa's manuscript
account. Plus that of her daughter. Think I told you, as of Washington
period, that he had found Mrs F's daughter in one place and son in another.
I had noticed snippet account of Mrs F's death in the papers a few years
before. Son (rather better: stepson of F) had a number of mss especially
on Chinese history, some sheets of translation much as what you had etc.
Also F's collection of Noh masks which Chisolm said was very good. Knowing
F's good taste as in his own collections, at Boston Museum of Fine Arts, and
in building up the Freer Collection etc., it is hard to believe they would
be bad.

Don't know where Chisolm would turn to for getting any money beyond
whatever came from royalties for publishing your unpublished Fenollosa notes.
Hard to say what likelihood of getting them in print there would be without
knowing pretty much, actually without having transcripts in hand.

Nice Wop girl who has been two years in States at Yale is returning to
homeland for month of August, and would like to pay respects to you. Since she
is intelligent and has lively mind, with considerable (thank God) independence,
I suggested she might write you and see if you were receiving. Was originally
one of Lombardi's girls at Bari and Rome, if you keep in touch with that sort
of thing. Took my seminar last year and an intelligent admirer of EP. I can
recommend her, but you are free to welcome or keep her off. OBVIOUSLY!

Am not much amused by antics at Geneva or by Nixon in Russia, so keep
at footnotes for Hawthorne's Italian journals which I hope to God I can finish
up before too long.

Regards to all.

carbon sent to Jas KackXXXXd Laughlin

9 Sept

[1959]

, long suffering and ble sed N.H.P.

As Brunneburg is evidently not HHH a safe place of deposit, from
the economic angle,

as everyone I suggest to do work seems disqualified
to receive practical support.

My last suggestion was fellowship to do thes
on actual articulation of at least some of thexsources of canto
facts

ANDH / not as retrospect but as FIELD for further clarification
of history / such as in Rouvere on Medici Bank.

Would there be any chance of a grant or fellowship to ME, to sort out
such books as Memorie Istoriche , La Zecca e la Moneta di RIMINI.

Bologna 1789.

Salmasius, etc.

The , I suppose unique, greek with latin translations, or
Martial done for Lorenzo di Medici in 1480. etc.

Prices Gallup mentions for items wont pay for breakage of glass by
wind at Brunnenburg.

Things like Salel and Gavin Douglas etc. ought to be kept together.

the brilliant Jacob Schwartz mentions Texas, and his veritable exstacy
of mercantile prowess. etc. which wd/ mean the gutting of Brun/ etc.
and heart break for Mary. As Gallup can probably imagine.

Cavalcanti editions. from insertion in Aldine Petrarch. etc.

Thanks for yr/ introd. to Emery " Id to Act".

Kyoto Hotel
Kyoto, Japan

14 October 1963

Dear E.P.,

Mary will have told you, presumably, of my trip to Japan where we are staying until about the beginning of January--perhaps a fortnight longer before returning to the States by way of India. I had wanted particularly to write you before leaving to say how happy I was to know of your award from the American Academy of Poets. This was announced only a day or so before I left, and although I had known of it during the discussion days and after the decision, decorum made me wait with my huzza. But I was happy, and I am pleased that you were pleased.

I had wanted also to write to say that I had sent you under strict orders from Martinelli a package of books she had sent me to send you -- books that were apparently really yours anyhow. I trust they arrived.

But today I have thought of you especially when I visited Fenollosa's grave at the cemetary of Hômoyôin Temple, just a little mile or so beyond the Miidera Temple and high above Lake Biwa. I clapped my hands to summon the gods in your name, and bowed low as from us both. It is a long climb up the steep hillside along a narrow winding dirt road between the houses of a village and along the bedraggled and littered path that follows a falling mountain stream. I was disappointed until suddenly I came on an arched bridge of stone, crossed and began to climb stone steps, and then through the bamboos and maples until I reached another steep set of steps and emerged at the temple door. A family lives there now and it seems more like a multi-roofed villa, with a disheviled garden--stone lanterns and a pond and clipp shrubs all facing a view of the Lake which must have brought great peace to Fenollosa when he lived in the detached house adjacent to the temple. It is a place of great beauty and serenity. F's house had been destroyed but has been rebuilt as it was, and is now a kind of shrine, with his large, bearded head (in a photograph) at the back, and beneath it a candle, altho an electric light was switched on the better for me to see. But to come to his grave itself one walks beyond this to the far edge of the garden and then up and into the woods along another series of stone steps, passing a few moss-covered buddhas, small stupas, and then a bronze buddha-like memorial to Sturgis B's buddhist tutor, to Fenollosa's own grave, a raised platform of stone now encrumbered by plants and trees so that it almost seems like itself or embraced by it. The inscriptions are in Japanese, though given by Binyon, Dow and Freer, and a Frenchman. Just a little on the hill but next to it is the similar memorial platform for --an odd enclave of Boston they make, but at home. The place really a cemetary in our sense, but a hilly path with a few graves along it, beautiful with a touch a sadness.

I have been seeing Noh, to my great enrichment. On November 30th, I am to lecture to the Kanzai district society of English and American literature, and they have asked me to talk about the Cantos. Reading your commentaries on the E.F. book, I think I see now the role that Noh played in the evolution of the Cantos. I had not sensed this before; I hope I am right.

If as maestro you want to send a message to the Japanese I should be glad to give it to them then. A note to the hotel will always reach me. A young Japanese who went with me today took pictures. If they come out I will send you a set.