12 Ap 54 /

CIAO /

thank Boris for copy Martins'
broadcast, and salute la famig/ reunit/ as much as is.

The del Bo notice also appeared in N,Y,Herald .
this 16 Hon. Dino . ( I spose no relation of Carlo , and Carlo
hadn't a del.

When B/ sees Martins he might argue a little about
Kung /

My thanks to Martins ( is the Duarte Montalegre a
regular pseudonym , or a vatican regular comment ?
pen name, air-name or what . )

I don't think there is any argument re/ other points , NOBLY
stated.

only I don't see that Kung is anti-metaphysico. Plenty
of " spirtiti " plenty of non mateiral in the Confucian
universe /

merely Kung ( and in minor a nd rather crude
way , some quakers ) refuses ( refuse) to dogmanize
about the spiritual powers.

Vide front flap of the Agassiz Sq/$. via Mencius,
Dante , Agassiz.

Dante against those who have only nomenclatures and
no knowledge of quidity.

Wd/ Martins be interested in new drive for Dante studies?
correlation : Richard St Victor ( whom D/ cites), Mussato
( Dazzi's racket ) and the terminology from Guido C/
on into Paradiso.

Dazzi's trans/ Eccerinus is out of print / Ought
to be reprinted with an introduction re/ Mussato , whom
nobody except Daz/ knows anything about ( apart from
me, and I only know what I have got from Daz/ )

No You might forward this to Boris , if he isn't bringing
easter rabbits to Brun/bg/

AND thank him for transcript ofMartins.

Writing to O/ at St Amb/ but she will probably be in Brun/g
ET ceteraaaaa.

Also thanks for Agricultura, with BHHHH peloP/ notice

3 Ap/ 54 CIAO :

The natural bloody-mindedness of Xtianity
amply shown in yr/ son's epistle. LARGE swords and almost
invisible Xifix. As to the more immediate problem of dawg & kat
I had 3 dawgs and innumerable kats, was not at that distant date
expected to use $ to obtain same. Were all the felines eaten
during late unpleasantness ? Idea WAS to obtain 'em as kits
or pups and form their characters or at least have 'em get
used to you. Cane di razza gets stolen. Best dawg a mongrel
anyhow, less fussy and more character, or kur-akter. However
if no likely animals obtainable free, I might run to initial
expense, if moderate. Fancy prices for kennel's prize-winners
are out. If breeding animals, better be smoos or at least
provide eggs. Cant much fancy eating rabbit.

How much land can one man actually work, or work
with one female and young? That much homestead ought to stay
undivided. Didn't Adolf put thru a good law? Unrestricted
primogeniture leads (in centuries) to latifundia. American
revolution objected to and got rid of eldest son grabbing
everything. Mencius gives size of allotments under the
3 different dynasties, I think 50, 70, and 100 " mow"
not certain if mow about size of ettaro. I take it
Titolo has held onto Hofgesetz, at least for present.

I cant read all the Soil Association stuff etc/etc.
am against poisons in general and chemicals. Radio advertising
some bread with unbleached flour, but then goes on re/
homologized AND minerals etc.

Caico a small Siciliana, suffering from VERY bad
Pneumatics, but read and translated english, and sent in
stuff for the Mare. All I actually remember was that she did
the French Poets essay. and a lot else, but dont remember
what.

Thanks for the HHH clippings. i.e. yr/ quotations
from same.

Dave is printing some Benton. Brit notices of
Essays, Translations, respectful, but still wallowing
round in what waw done 30 years ago.

O.R.A. our best correspondent, at least I dont
know whether she writes to you, probably you hear viva
voce or by letter from B/

Walt seems to have put an egptian key of life
onto one of his crusaders. O.K. with me. Is his
style traditional or ex novo ?

Janitor's son at very early school when I was
7 had definite style, but only did frigates of
Napoleonic era, alle samee Douanier Rousseau. Nothing
anyone had actually seen at that time, 1992. Dont
think he and his immitators did anything but naval
combat, or at least war ships of a past era.

As to Walt's monarchical urges, tell him it requires
a lot of carattere PLUS a lot of intelligence,
better start on being able to run an estate IF he gets
one. Whatever he considers his initial endowments
he 'd have to svillupare. That 'll give him something to
chew on. banzai, ouqn soui.

dont discourage his lust for responsibilities, that's O.K.
he can consider the estate as a start, practice, exercise.

How much land have the Marchers ?

Dont depress Walt/ with the size of the requirements.
His heart is in the right place.

Best to Boris, et proles

"ext time you are in St. Amb/ or that O.R. is coming to Meran
pick up the Wadsworth Family History ( and the "oomis pamphlet)

13 Ap . Ciao

No, there was nothing in Walt's letter that looked like a bid for $ / and, as I thought, the animal question was matter of convenience not of means to acquire ( poter d' aquisto ).

BUT them brrrattZ's birthdays are long past,
especially Patrizia Barbarissima's . May be she better have a
bel vestito

and we reconcile ourselves to having one member
of the tribe who isn't goin' highbrow.

Boris mentioned " pamphlet " / re/ Vatican spiel / some of this
might go to printing Martens ?? and have the translation
ciclostile / original

You may remember that for music notices in Rap/
we had the stuff printed in Il Mare, that saved composition
costs, and we only had to pay for the printing.

Yrs/ of 8th adds several items/ and ORA has sent Secolo /
the clip that came yester was without the final sentence
re/ " fer once a dem/Xt dep/ was doing it right.

Pellizzi cheered by seeing Vanni's libri in v.Tornabuoni /

Dazzi ought to be stirred up to get on with Mussato items.

The Dante RISveglio / in three heaves. Richard St Victor,
Mussato, and the Cavalcanti terminology, carried thru into
Paradiso.

Can Boris tell what alphabet this is / shd/ be phoenician
( Sankoniathon ) . but HM La Fuente has VERY different phoenician
alphabet.

Bunny Pascua

Ciao/ I enc/ note that Vanni can send to Barncusi.
send also Usura and 3 Cantos/ preferably NOT any of the art
books, at least NOT with the invitation.

Too late to do Gaudier any good / Brancus is alive. So is Lekakis.

I am all for feeding the living producer / public instruction can
wait.

Boris not worry about letter being CUT, I know how
editors behave.

I wanted the quotes from Payne, Santay/ etc. sent here. No harm
in their going to Edwards /

BUT he is of very limited capacity.

When you copy out useful stuff, use carbon and make it in trip/
or quay/

yes of course Vanni can have my note on Brancus / no charge,

Formalities for WHOM, re translations ? Anything YOU do
is authorized.

Jas's " representative " can struggle with the outer world.

Wot about Monotti ? he cd/ do a studio / Pellizz cd/ also /
in fact almost anyone who can read english cd/ cook up
something /

AND some of the stuffier profs/ might be lured into
broadening their minds, by being invited to write about what
they haven't read/ i.e. might be trapped into looking at some of
it.

as to treatment of B's letter / by F/ let me AGAIN recall Ford's
frequent : It is hypocracy to seek for the person of the Sacred Empero
in a low tea house.

i.e. expect people to behave at a level higher

that their nature inclines 'em to.

No, have never seen Punto or Italia/ " 12 inches, guinea and
inch"/ and gives chance to write rettifiche.

rettifico/ a Jay is a brid, and a jade is a stone or
a she female biped ( featherless). Very few days have been warm
enough to get out onto lawn. Dialect very valuable / even my
" Gruss Gott " was useful. on occasion.

Vanni write Brancus re/ his father's having wanted to, long ago,
and Cortus having etc/etc.

The young daLECT-ician owes me a letter. enc/ stamps.

22 Mag/ 54

Ciao/ how long is Walt goin' ter keep that suit WHITE?
re / Vanni . I WANT the Stone classics, reduced in size.

i.e. uniform size with the Lav/ ed Usura /
preferably one vol/ but that is unimportant, i.e relatively
unimportant /
and if he dont like the term offset / call it
rotocalco/

KUNG ought to be tascabile. Only reason for not
making it even smaller than ~~ Lav/ ed Us/~~ is to keep the
Ezratic series uniform.

The Mussato/ Ric StV/ Guido / same
size, Its a good size, and properly mercantile to get people
used to same size to represent same quality.

You HAVE the italian for both/ Stud/ Integ/ and Asse ?

Can you and B/ see if there are improvements in the english
text. It wd/ be worth while to read it carfully, I mean
AS carefully as you would have to do to compare the
two versions. I imagine that I have made about 12 emendations,
but not sure I have made even that may.

The Stud/ Integ / done with Luchini should
be left AS IS , unless I have made some very important
improvements. in interpretation

Does "<u>is</u> almost as good as having a head
and feet" come into that part ?

How well does Vanni read <u>englische</u> ?

DIVIDE . hell NO. You hang onto whatever comes in
from Vanni's publications. dont try to Export purchasing
power, or put anything into my trustee account, which
is where everything has to go that reaches these
perjured shores.

Boris will tell you, or rather he prob/
dont know that I have had <u>VERY</u> nice letter , very firm from
G.B. who found Boris simpaticissimo , but perhaps you better
not tell THAT to B/ whether my idea of B's taking on two
pages fer KUKCHUR will enter into action gor/Noze.

Walt on the battlements looks like a bloomin' pirate/
CHEERZ. !!!!

and the Andrews cross , or whatever , like a mace to
bash infidels. Banzai <u>fer the</u> <u>CH</u>/MILitant.

Churcrh

Am on verge of conversion/ cheered by / the latin text
which certainly means " Because she had such a good time. "
quonian dilexit multum.

I wonder if they have expurgated THAT, and that it remains
only in Ric's quotation. Dante and Guido are full of Ric.
Scotchman who went to Paris. Must have brought
some clarte' of his own , as well as what he cd/ hv/
mugged up in Frogland.

GO into question of cost of rotocalco/ the STONE must be
bilingual. If Vanni hasn't the cash , one might advance
it. Depends on how much. Get the figures/ preferably both
Stud/ Int and Asse toegtehher. Yes, yes, it shd/ be in ONE
vol/ especially as the damn Harvards are cunctating. blast'EM

And O. says Lowell has had break down/ well
you are nearer /source of that news. " Died, because

they just cdn't stand it."

Layoman's BRUT/ line 7445 /
Aeridius the king
his Scottes he laede.

against
v. J.Cnesar.

at any rate not those vulgarians from Antioch

Plenty of Barats turning up in curious bk/ by aged ex-governor
of Oklahoma / which I may be able to send yu. In mean time
how much of L.A.Waddell's research has come into Boris' way ?

Wad/ deceased before 1951 / Certainly a lot of
interest in British-Sumerian link up/
GRS Mead on Apollonius of Tyana / as from Philostratus/
B/ got any special italian news on this character ? Apol/ not
Philostrat/ "lead's line is that egyptian sense
came from India / Waddell hel fer leather aryan( not
necessarily in contradiction. ) Murray ( the ex-gov. ) still
a bit christian. Wad/ has got some very simpatici imprints
of Sumerian seals.( sigilli , not foce . phoques)

Ward and Benedite responsible for some of the sigils.
Whether Waddell as important as Frobenius, I can't tell
from Murray / but certainly Wad/ is complimentary , and
may also explain why Frob/ hasn't gone over big in England
after first trans/ of Childhood of Man" ( in 1910)

Some of Mur's news right up to 1950/ but he was
81 in 1951 , I dont know if still alive.

Whether B/ can find any bright lights in Roma /
goRRnoze/ BUT to start attacking Freud and sequelae/ as
soon as posibl/ the system is to to hunt for single bits
of filth in sewer or in pozzo nero / thereby keeping attention
( of EVERYONE ) fixed on filth , pozzo, cloac/

AND the opposed method is in Ric/ St V/ ( and presumably
other theologians of Abelard's monastery. ) LaDriere " sick"
acct.L. on sunday , so did not bring more Migne. However
am flooded with printed matter/ and cannot do ALL the work.

Whether O/ can be led GENTLY to practice ONLY method
leading to efficiency ( she has on rare occasions ADMitted
it is correct). her IMPLEMENT is fiddle bow. I admit I
have spent 30 years NOT getting her concentrated onto this
PROCESS ( tao), everything else a waste of time.

Trouble with Waddel/ and archaeologic excitement of ALL
kinds is that ( vid. Frob. on african tribesman saying theM
" fables of Aesop" were NOT the real McCoy / the REAL
thing told what was going on NOW. archeologs get the public
eye OFF what the s.o.b. are doing to us at THIS moment.

rotocalco does the same/ quantitative difference in
time/ better, of course, to LEARN from 4000 B.C. than
to not-learn from account of 1946 a.D. And as found
when doing Cantos/ easier to spot Cosimo de Medici than
to know what KuhnLoeb are doing NOW.

Fitzgerald has sent me ANOTHER god DAMN b/ of Odyssey /
I dont propose to spend ten cents answering ,or
to read further than line 2 of his ms/ which
contains " the dear son of Odysseus. "/

Stan(islas) Yank(owski) has done a comment on TRAX/
but Fitz/ cant learn from it unless someone prints it.

TELL Fitz/ s.v.p.

O.R.A. send nice new stamp for Marco Polo , with chinkograms
and Leone S.Marco

// Patti PALWICK, the polish-yanko bombshell / temenjus RED
head/ three marriages of six weeks each / or maybe only
two divorces as sudden as conjunkz/ anyhow now spliced to
a character named Luzzato ( re/ whom B/ can supply some
details... ) I doubt if ANYone ever survives these collages.
BUT Patti now working at FAO . she is O.K. , or at least
impulsive / but of course cant trust any information to her
as now circumstanced. Igor might look into the matter.

2 June / Ciao

No use waitin' to send this Martinelli madonna/
though it does not give general idea of work. It was made
for a Lebanese, who has taken it to Lebanon, and fits the
milieu. What I have on my wardrobe is a Giotto, and a
new "Patria", with EP in corner etc.
Art is what artists MAKE / what people say about it is WIND.
However Vanni may as well get started on idea that S.M. exists
and that someday/ unless .... etc.

Lets see what Walt says of a different kind of Madonna.
This is advance news of art in america / and may not be, as
everything will come out to KILL it. Santayana re/ Loring
and Stickney: They died, they died because they just couldn't
stand it. It is happening, but on the edge of the abyss,
on the brink of volcano. Lekakis is fine sculptor, but he will
do giants and not gods.

I mean the art may NOT
get done.

Forward to Mary/ when you
send the St Liz Madonna
the one now on high seas
i.e. going to Lebanon.

19 Lug 54

Caio CARA ( Oca)

ALL the Noh plays are reprinted in the
collected "Translations" of yr./ venbl./ prog/r

Only thing omitted is the foto of Umewake/ which might
serve as passport

( as the Mao edtn/ did on earlier occasion
fer y.v.t. ) in unmentionable circles /

AND if you will watch timetable/ and calculate what it wd/ cost
to git you and BHH Boris to 'venice', the difference might be
added to yr/ birthday usual( which damn it is already overdue)

grampaw gittin' very vague in his witz. AND
damn all the show is in August ?? STEP on the bleedin' gas.

Did the kids get any birthday reminder/ or was I concentrate
d on gettin the LAND ( bressuZ an' saVUZZ )

starting with general proposition : grampaw cannot
keep track of EVERything, we git to : he cannot keep trak of
ANYthing.

And this being a air letter, no place fer enclosure.

If neither you nor O/ has seen a copy of the Translations
go take the hair off Possum and McGregor

Probably no one has opened the"Translations" to see what is in
the volume.

with which Ipius reflection I close.

if you go to St Amb/ first you ed/ collect the Noh vol/
and carry it to 'venice. The young Minoru wd/ recognize
the frontispiece / and might not be able to read wop
or english.

and god knows how Fenollosa's name
ois pronounced in Nipponese.

Sound nip enuff / but
who noze.

I can't be held responsible fer bad debts of all the
rising generation of yanks /

AND I can't recall
suggesting the term "talent" in many cases,
for BHH even intelligence."

However I wd/ like to supervise
the painting of the chapel /

Vernacular comment on Sidg/ " What a CAT $".
I dunno that this is the latest in yank-abularies,
the term occurs already in the yank version of odes
/ BHH with minor emphasis in "hep-cat" / in fact
I wd/ disagree with old Earp , and consider it
language , not slang.

Pull up yr/ sox, re : the Venetian time table / AND of
course you must meet the Minoru / etc.

Wad of Rome papers just ceom from J.D.
Cafe/ Apr/ Giustizia 1 Giug/ Tempo 15 Giug
Paese Sera 12 g/ Paese 16th
Giustizia , the new item / quella DELiZiosaaa Liliana /
Demo-xtianity at last defined from the inside.

IN fact you might write to G/ care Rupnik and get
and agreement that she try to behave in a european
NOT an american manner/ say pleasant population very
CONventional... My Paris lease read: vivre bourgeoisie.
I asked old Mme Bastide what the HELL that meant , re/
a STUDIO , presumably for artists. She said : pas aqmer
les murs.

FOLD SIDES OVER AND THEN FOLD BOTTOM UP AND SEAL.
NO OTHER ENVELOPE SHOULD BE USED.

21 Lug/ ciao / the enc/ $80 is yr/ birthday . plus a bit
to get you and Boris to Venezia for the Noh plays.
diyieto / to use it for anything else. Have told mchoR-

RRse to send yu translations vol / in case yu didn't get one/
only

IF yu have one, you can give the second one to Minoru , regretting
his grampaw's foto is in early and now unobtainable vol/
only

** Mr Kwock compliments me re/ 2nd/ enc. which I haven't yet translated fully . Igor will have no trouble . It refers to Great Learning, Chung Yung, Analects , Odes and seems to repeat itself a bit. It is the part to which K/ has directed the eye by his red ink line / you might forward to Olga , as I have only one extra copy / I send it to you first as you are probably quicker on the transmission. than she wd/ be.

Will giv yr/ COMforthing note to Gloria on Satrdy/ Dazzi has
sent some six pamphlets on Mussato , VERY timely as had just done
a yowl about Verona fer a Paradiso canto. And Padova is in that
general direction/ " Twentieth Century ", one of the few serious
brit/ mags/ has a few kind words re/ Roosevelt being WRONG, and Ez
desertin to git fisicamente to whaar he ought to be. May
issue. signed B.W. rest of batch of Faber clips/ the usual snooze
wyper piffle. They dont LIKE it but got to take it. Revs/ of
Essays vol/ ( all 30 or 40 or 20 years old ANYhow. Will use dic/
on a few of the idiograms: Flowery Kingdom Great Odes man. English
translation Classic Odes etc. seem to say Ez been pluggin away
since he did first trans Stud/Int/ and went on to Chung Yung,
an Analects.

frogs

Dazzi cd/ liven up new edition Ecckerinide, by
brief note on Mussato and Can Grande, vid
pag 382 Mussato Storico / dont let Vanni go
to sleep on it. His Gian/Mazzini
been in BAD company with lower

AIR LETTER
AÉROPROGRAMME

Pc/sa Mary de RACHEWILTZ
Schloss Brunnenburg-TIROLO

MERANO
ITALY

VIA AIR MAIL
PAR AVION

MESSAGE MUST APPEAR ON INNER SIDE ONLY
NO TAPE OR STICKER MAY BE ATTACHED

IF ANYTHING IS ENCLOSED, THIS LETTER
WILL BE SENT BY ORDINARY MAIL

FIRST FOLD

SECOND FOLD

suitable name fer theatre.
Yes, remira B/ of Filip
etc. wot elsz.
O/ sends on clip re Bardwell / thazz O.K.

新

5 Nov.

COMbloodyPLIcate my life ??? Daaahling :
had At any rate reviewed to knowq/ arruv in time.
has sent airletter to O.R.A. yester, to find out if air
mail to Meran was verbitchd.
O/ will have to adjust herself to grampaw's new and
independent sperrit / Or as D/ remarks : what does it
matter unless we ALL go to Europe ?
Only for gawdzache
dont use that as quotation from that source. No need to tell
O/ HOW the cash got there. Simply say / which is the
truth, th at yr distinguished progenitor did some kind
of wangle / AND that it is not being poured down the
drain. AS ANY contact with american official machinery
would be. i.e. wd/ be pouring down the drain /

† Kagekiyo † arruv on the 30th/ Reck bak from Nippon and Fenollosa's grave / and Lake Biwa / and start on Nip/trans of TRAX. Wants to get bak there and concentrate life on getting Noh onto colour film with muzikaaa.

Hav yu yet invited Goachers and Whighams ?
Swabey now address , Raithby Rectory , Louth , Lines.
England.

I doubt if yu hv/ ever actually MET Rossaro.
O/ does not mix with everyone, and DEEspises various
segments of wopLife etc.

I wonder ed/ YOU write to Edgardo Rossaro, Rapallo ( basta quel indirizzzz ), Say that O. is often in Siena , and that there ought to be QUICKER exchange of USEFUL items printed with FACTS . Would he attend to Genoves and Rap/ notices , and link up with half a dozen live wires ? Gen/ and Rap, papers dont get to Roma , per esempio.

Have YOU the addresses Goacher, Forssell, de Campos , and Giov. Giov. ? those with Boris 33 /Quat Font/ and O.R.A. AND yrself. / just for clippings/ God knows if Rossaro gets any CONTANTE / may be on absolute edge with svalutazione and no means of augmenting his incasso, so say there is a FUND for purchase and postage/ foreign air mail etc.

one word in yr/ distinguished communiQQ IS
illegible/ looks like surues , with a DOT over the
e . It is pejorative. Something yu were going to reemind
Hem/ about.

I doubt if there is anyone save Paige capable of
picking the VITAL items in press comment.

Am hoping he may get out from under department store
where he earns his FOOD. Giovanni has intentions ,
" America " the Catholic weakly thought the Vat/Broadcast
unusable IN its present form / and G.G. is trying to
do what they want. Whigham thought the broadcast
" rhetorical ". ( That, with best will in the world,
simply the DIFFERENT type of mind, Anschauung ,
leverage. And even Denis writes " being english it
will not be a MANIFESTO . " again with compleat
devotion and wanting to do the PRACTICAL thing.

despite fact that Imagist manifesto has WORKED.
has even been approved in N.Zealand 40 year AFTER.

Denis may want something more immejit.

Eva quotes VERY good artl/ or at least damn good paragraph FROM artl/ in Frankfurter-HEFTE † for May . If yu cant get it from Eva ( who ought alzo to be on Rossaro list, WHEN he has answered and said he WILL function ), wonder if Hauer ed/ get yu a copy.

trans . If not I will copy out Eva's

Is that word " sQuruls " with the Q left out ?

7 Nov / CIAO

Gordon LEARNING/ but blue foto of Gea Mater MUCH
too pale, and has lost all the deep green-blue quality / also
the gold of the eyes may not / foto AT all / however , be'r
nothing / I haven't seen original of the S.Liz Madonna, but
that probably loses as much character alzo.

HOW , OV course , one wd/ ever get it into O's head that S.M,
is not trying to kidnap me/ GAWD alone knows. The possibility
of CONversation / RARE in this country , if not unknown.
Dare say HHH D's horse-sense shows in " What does it
matter unless we all go to Europe ? WHICH aren't
doing yet ANYhow. we

Opening paragraph refers to foto/reprods which D/ has sent
or is about to / also some books , one at a time /
which p&H please acknowledge when they arrive.

Vol/ of William's essays has come ( WCW) with quite a
lot of good stuff in 'em. Learned a lot from Ford / VERY
mixed bag/ BUT possibly _more_ critical thought, at least
off his own bat than the eminent Elephant. Alzo
handsome reprint of spanisk book on Usura . Seicento
Derecho Mercantil , by Crb/ de Villalon.

The wicked Hui Lan, despite commies having bagged
about all that was left of he pa's property / wasting
god knows what ( I shd/ think $20) trying to get me a cap
fer birthday / first purple beret / NO use, as no eye
shelter/ then a hunting cap . purple and fur, too small/
gornoze wot will result. Did I say Sanche de Gramont
best type/ needn't hv/ worried re/ his getting Parisian
nonsense in consort / seems gentle yankessa. No time
to find out if anything inside its head.

9th/ re/ Boris from
Roma / am sending this to Brbg/ as dont know whether he
will have got back there. re/ the seven rate. gravati. @ 6%
I don't know what YU get on deposit/ IF there is any
advantage in paying the FIRST rat now ? That cd/
be considered/

but in that case the second RATT
ought not to be OBLIGatory till end of year after
NEXT. Though it might be OBTainable.

I suppose it is only question of about $30 a year
possible saving / which might not balacne the ADVANTAGE
of having the mezzo/mil on deposit against any
sudden empergencies, snares and wiles of the devil
etc.

And heres to having PM Barth in the Parthenon.
Perth in the Barthenon.

Anyhow, dont exhaust the deposit
until we see what possible tricks can be wingled by
vanglers.

Eva just come thru with LARGEST, thickest WOOLlest
scarf ever seen south of Iceland. hembroidered with

Hope to dry O's tears fer clothing eaten by moths in Rap/
trunk.

The wiles of the damn usurers in woptaly / Doubt
if wop RADIO is as polluted day by day and all day
with propaganda for DEBT pubk/ and private/ think wops
wd/ twig. Dates just sent reprint cinque cento spanish work on
Derecho Mercantil , kursink the chews. by Cristobal
de Villalon. I take it the prof/pest qnd the good hunProf

hv/ both departed.

14/ Nov/ Ciao / Hui Lan has NOW heard Aida's story SEVERAL times / she did not spend $20 bucks fer gramp's hat / very splendid / rather like greeks at congress of Ferrara , 1435 or whatever. A pretty efigy of Walt's BIS-nonno hung up like parlour ornament on a plank of travertine in Rap/ evidently pleases local taste / in fact very pretty , old H/ as wop / refined à la Toscanini / well, he wdn't have minded being sculpted as a wop/ Feud reported bwteen Ina and Chute / let us ENJoy it, and seek the facts / proper design fer grave yard MONUMENT as sold block WAS agreed on/ with mask set IN , like those roman heads on gate in MiLAno / style / etc.

I saw the TECHNICAL difficulty of sinking the head IN, BUTT Fastene sent design with it set in / as in cassone. Now lets all have a" coke"/ and sprudel. Ina SAYS Chute had a finger in it / leZEE WHICH finger.

Apart from the Fitz-fizz , there is a vulgah murkn eggspression : "I aint had so much fun since old ma caught her teat in the wringer ."

Whether that impliment ( wringer) is familiar to denizens of the Tirol , I do NOT know. two rollers for squeezing water out of the bucato ( with one or two c/s ).

I must have seen the blokes name in Fiera/ BUT cannot keep track of wop gens de lettres / do what YOU think best/ I dare say he wunt be worse than anyone else.

AND what the hell do I care about " LITERARY essays" or prose palaver ANYhow ??? Did I say O/ will be annoyed that there is some quite good crit/ in ole WullUmz' COlected Essays NO SElected/ I dunno who weeded 'em out SElected. 3 to the glory of E.P. / and NOT in style of pore ole Bill'z autobiog/ I Did I say Morgan came in, and reported Hem's proper remarks had been DELETED by the b/press, leaving palaver re/ Sandbag, Behrenson and whomsodam. As yet no report on what he did say in the deleted paragraphs or phrases. However dont start anyone calling him anH a.s.o.b. / Never in fact attributed to ANY man what any reporter says he he has SAID. When thex reporter does his damndest , there is still the " copy-desk ", Yes , yes , two fastidious and finikify ladies ( or sloits ). All it now needs is Miss Sitwell to make yr/ triple wreathof posies intertwined. And, in fact , yu cdn't have asked fer better. Must ask the old Admiral if he reads wop.

In the Wed/s history , it is the Charter Oak story that matters / I don't what else / possibly Israel Putnam riding down the stone steps on his " hoss" backward. But that hasn't much use as precedent. or may be it has , however , he got to the end of his ride.

AGRICULTURA , that handsome magazeen , might take note pf arachidi , and kadzu. I dont think either HHHHHHHH useful for Meran / but for bare hills in Liguria , or any loose sandy soil / wonder if kadzu wd/ grow on that poor white soil round Siena. THAT wd/ be useful point to use as follow up on the MHBBH Maple. and NOT enrage the Sugar monopoly . Monte dei PASCHI , paschi sheep grazing down by Grosseto / I dont know what they grow on that white crumbly stuff nearer Siena/ Might even grow peanuts / O/ heqrd one bloke in railway who had made a lot out of a quite small peanut field. Yu got to GO ON tellin' 'em. for B/ Ramperti AND Filippani. I cant remember/ but dare say Agostini is as good as yu can get. esp/ if John D/ recommended. AND so forth. wot elsz ? Kagekiyo DID get here on the 30 Oct. I dunno what I said/ what didn't get here in a hurry was news of arrival of the XREA/

23 Nov/

NO 44

My chick , NO

BUT three Cantos, ELEVEN, ten or eleven, I think we may say definitely eleven. a SERIOUS volume.

And I am afraid not by Feb 9 / for Vanni's onomast/ Morgan
prints 85 in Jan/ and 86/7 in April/ I agreed not to print
abroad till then /

tho if it were NOT on sale , he might alter that

BUT may as well do 500 /

AND certainly NOT Mr Eliot/ or 0.12 +

Mr Eliot can buy one if he likes /

He has left the Kung/ Antology

out of print for five years

AND not prevented the many little
Harvard edition , minus seal text and graph of the prosody.

Alzo I dont think we way the vol uniform with the Lavoro ed Usura
it should be taller and narrower / almost the shape of a folio
in miniature / I think sheets used to fold duodecimo /

Aldine's a very nice shape, but better be a bit larger to get
larger font.

I take it this will suit Vanni / he can start composing with 86
and wait for the Hudson 85 , to get the spacing of the
ideograms. of which there are more than on the enclosed sheet
and some of them large and " sprendid " for emphasis

Morgan has promised to send back the final photos used for Hud/
so Vanni not start on the enclosed sample / of which
zinc blocks will be needed.

Proportion of the Kagekiyo and Massimi vols/ O.K. only
larger/

and four copies on REAL parchment ( tho the price is up/
Vanni can let me know what that lusso will come to.

Alzo, when V/ sets up sample page / let me have it / as there
might be four or five disegni / apart from the sumerian
sun hawk.

Boris calligraphy seems to me better in his usual size than
the King Khabi line he sent me / which was intended for
Faber Size page / may be he wd/ do a new draft of it . as it
starts Canto 89 or thereabouts. 91 probably

113 sheets of typescript so far. about 28 lines per sheet.

S/ eyes/ these miracles had of talent have physical basis
like that french singer, talkin about her caveau sonore/
special construction of the throat cavity to get the notes
clear. S/ did frame angles without any carpenters gadgets, just
looking / alzo the last isis globe, done by EYE.