25 Sett. 53

Ciao Cara

Do thank la Pesce Gorini and Prof. Magnino their for this noble effort, whatever comes of it. Its just come and I am sending her two lines/ any fuller reply; saluto to the Cong/o etc. wd/ have to be thought out after knowing whether they get any reply from the Embassy /

cos del palacio van con espacio

I dont see the burocracy gittin off it office chair by the 16th Ottobre.

But anyhow / the pair of 'em is doing noble.

AND I have forgotten most of the italian grammar I ever knew. "Voi" is venetian, long before the E.F.

Am also sending her copy of Eng/ Institute program.

Yes, to be more explicit, A letter of Invitation from the Ass/ Internat/ di poesAAAA in style equal to the occasion. to their congress in Venezia. and as there isn't much time, all I can do is to get off the two lines AT once.

**apart from a few exotic stamps for Walt / I don't know that there is much else to report. Stef/ discontented with press notices of Translations. naturally.**

stamps under sep/ cov/ including Jamaica.

M d R

Weeeeel

IF you aren't buying half a mountain may be you may
as well have a little birthday celebration, as usual tho
a month and more late.

Walt's weekly allowance was supposed to
have been arranged while you were here.

Fang being optimistic, some business progress, but F/ worked
himself into a collapse.

Jas/ REported to have finally got sheets
of translations out of customs house /

anyhow, the brit/ edtn
exists.

Eva's vol due for Sept. Amaral's Pisans been KOrected
in typescript.

Mr Susman supposed to be collecting N. Age varia
and also being optimistic re/ future of american kulchr.

Bibop has married without making an ass of himself, AND he
he seems to be recovered from the GLOOM, oh yes GLOOM into which
he descended when he lost his articulo di lusso some years ago.

LaDriere working on literary part of revised Webster dictionary,
Hui Lan recovering from the climate, at least temporarily.

HUUU Dulac dead, if you know who he was. H.D. reported recovering.
AND so on / new supply of squirrels.

W. Lewis issue of Shenandoah printed but not yet arrived / Carter
apparently to continue with a magazine fly.

AND so on.

9 Dec 53

Ciao /

having chewed over it, I don't see any point in
delay. Am not sure what the exchange was, or may be, but
think it was 585. Anyhow counting about that, $2060
is starting for you within a day or so. If it don't
meet the 1,200,000 you have the small Xmas cheque, and if
that don't fix it, I can probably send the rest fairly soon.

Am proceeding on idea that the sooner you have something on
hand, the more likely the problem of solvibilità can be
settled / possibly with a bit prestige. Also if you get in
soon you might get wood for the winter ( if the wood comes from
that terreno. ) At any rate the sooner the renters are
stopped from depradations the better.

This goes on specific condition that it is to be used
for land, and nothing BUT land, and that at no time shall
the land be hypothecated, or used in any way to raise
money by loan.

CIAO...

Did I say Forssell's translation sold out at once, and he
pleased at joke on his publishers who had already destroyed
the plates, and had to set up all over again.
Giovanni G/ repeated to day that he liked the movement
of yr/ Ten Cantos / that being also his favorite part of the
poEM. Eva sd/ Die Tat gave her E.P. Dichtung u/pr a full
page, but hasn't yet managed to get an extra copy.

Am asking F/ to send you a copy, very neat vol/ and believe
he is best of the young in " them parts ".

Know nothing re/ Rizzardi except the Montale mess in Corriere
/ which O, says probably does more harm than good. Nan harm
At any rate Riz/ did not venture to submit typescript of
his whatever to the original author/

and no responsibility
flops onto any of us for the ???? ignorance or whatever
shown in the edition. Pore old Rossaro melancholy, Cocteau
says life unbearable, etc. etc. Ros/ going further up hill
at St Amb/ I dare say an Etruscan retreat to higher ground
will be possible for some time even in Liguria.

Glad to hear from Lowell again, he may ( or NOT) get here
next week. Chak/ been in, and a new lad, MacNaughton
brought in a chaRRRming chink named Chang, doing a history
of neoconfucianism, have seen Chap. xvi, on Wang Yang-ming
which Hui Lan pronounceá Wan yUMENH ya-min, She
approvesó Chang, tho I dont know that they have met.

He and Fang wd/ prob/ meet head-on : DIFFERENT brands of Kung.
to Dec a.m. two more molars. out/ fine bright day but too
windy to " set " outside.

Amaral got a bid for small SElections in baRRRcelona / pinks
supposed to be blocking Mexican imprint. Morning paper
says Beaverbrook weeping that H.D. White deceived Keynes.
which is one joke. However I started on " Bukos " long long
ago.

Gute Weinacht etc.

13 Dec 53

Ciao

Have written Vanni direct. Suggesting title: Lavoro ed Usura ", with quotation and definition to go on title page, or sub-title. Trust " perenne " is correct form accusative neuter, but haven't seen a latin dictionary for more than 40 years So that better be checked. Also the italian translation of definition : Usura : una tassa **illuusivuus** sul potere d'acquisto prelevata senza riguardo | alla produttivita , sovente senza badare nemmeno ? alle possibilita di produrre. ? persino /

I think I made mistake in gender in letter to Vanni / i.e. wrote prelevato / question whether one need insert in brackets ( dato in prestito ) potenza d'acquisto.

in english there is " for the use of" / a charge for the use of purchasing power. I shd/ think it cd/ be omitted in italian. But see if Van/ understands it without the cumbersome phrase. Also the eHHHHH exact usage of " riguardo "

And is" sovente" archaic ? It is more elegant than " molte volte" or frequentamente.

The chinese text of the Kung / is all there in St Amb/ the original zinc plates . Wd/ mean slightly larger format than Sq/ $. But with Van's more elegant type for the italian , wd/ make bk/ more important , and no expense for the composition. Both the pages, and the single ideograms were all there.

,con espressioni di alta stima.

Hope last week's epistles have arrived in satisfactory manner. Two contained enclosures.

Did I say Forssell amused , his 1st/ edtn/ sold out at once, pubrs/ naturally NOT expecting this had destroyed the plates and had to start new and compose the 2nd/ edtn.

Chang , new chink , has sent another chapter of his history of Neo-confucian thought in China. Near my age, had studied with Euken. ( an item which may interest yr/ Dr. whatzisname.

Tell Pat/ if I were arrabiatevole I wdn't have sent her HER part of the roof.

Some krank is trying to freud out the Krampus / I trust prompt local resistence will frustrate that nonsense.

The de Campos boys have done grand splurge.

E.P. la beleza e dificil / 'in Diario di Sao Paulo, Brazil. I remember enough " portagoose" to make it out. But will try to get Giovanni's friend Manuel to translate it.

The P/G/ might note date. Aug. 23

( I dont know why it took so long to get here. )

Also there is Die Tat , review of Eva , which I havent yet seen and the swedish criticism of Forssell. You might drop him a line. ( whether Benny reads SVVeditsch ?? or only norweg ? )

Lars Forssell, Skeppareg 33, Stockholm, Sweden.

No harm in saying I was pleased with his edtn/ knowing the original text , some german, and some anglo-saxon , one can get an approximate estimate.

The small Barcelona series is doing snippets of Amaral's excellent Pisans. He thinks the pinkos are sabotaging Mexican edtn/ of the whole Pisans.

23 Dec / 53

Ciao /
The"half" idea was a bad one / I didn't know I had left
it in the letter /
let us hold breath until ....
Other good news yester was note from Dick d/Ub/

Agresti artl/ not yet arrived/ J.Dr/ was supposed to have
small fund to send one copy of useful items by air
and the other nine by slow/

Thank Walt for his KRAMPUS and Holy Nik.

the p/s/ verso, tother side, was writ a few days ago
been waiting for yours, to send it on.

Dont seem much to add at the moment.

nor any reason to delay this