Dear Mr. Pound,

Your letter to us came just
after I had mailed one to you.

I have written Mr. Clapp of Boni and
Liveright that I have authorized Houghton Miffl'
Co. to send the fee of thirty dollars directly
to you.

Have this morning written them to send it
to you without waiting for publication and
have given them your full address. Houghtons
advance the copyright fees and charge to my
royalty on the book.

I think this will take care of the mat-
erial side and on the literary side I will see
that the poems are proofed with great care. I am
so glad to be able to use them.

As I said in a former letter, please
instruct the American agent of The Exile to put
us on the subscription list and send bill to
Mr. Scollard at the address below. We should like
greatly to have it.

Again with thanks and regards in which
Clinton warmly joins me, I am,

Yours very sincerely,

Kent, Conn.

Aug. 16th

My dear Mr. Pound,

As the enclosed form will
show you, I am bringing out with Houghton Mifflin Co.
in October, the third of my anthologies of modern
American poetry, and doubtless the last, as I shall
devote myself in future to my personal work.

I am most anxious to have some of your
rarely fine work in this collection and hope that I
may have the privilege of including the three selec-
tions named on the blank.

I have spoken to Boni and Liveright and they
are quite willing to have me use the selections, sub-
ject, of course, to your approval. Whatever compensa-
tion you or your publishers may name, I shall be glad
to pay.

As my book is now due at the publishers and
they are waiting to put it in type, may I ask if you
would cable me, at my expense, the one word _Yes_ or _No_.
It would take two or three weeks to get a letter
back from the other side, from the present date.

I hesitated between the _Envoi_ and _Poem By The Bridge At Ten-Shin_, my favorite of the Chinese group, but finally could not resist the haunting beauty of _Envoi_. However, I recognize just as great a beauty in another form in the _Poem By the Bridge_ and if you prefer it, and are willing to have me include your work, please cable _Yes, Bridge, otherwise Yes, alone_, and I will use _Envoi_.

You may be interested to know that last
winter the Poetry Society of Florida, of which I am
president, since Mr. Scollard and I spend our winters
down there, devoted a meeting to your work and keen
interest was manifested. I gave a talk upon the work
in general and read from _Personae_. Others also dis-
cussed it. There is a college in Winter Park, where
we have our winter home, and the students, an advan-
ced group, interested in creative work, were very enth-
usiastic over _Personae_.

Hoping that I shall have an affirmative
reply, I am,

Yours very sincerely,
Kent, Conn.

July 11th.

Dear Ezra Pound;

I greatly hope that you will
feel that you can grant Mrs. Scollard's request
which accompanies this note. It would give me
much personal pleasure to have you represented
in the new anthology.

I have often dwelt - and most happily -
our
upon foregatherings in London some years since,
and thought how good it was of you to trot me
about. I was up at the old college last year
at Commencement time, and wish you might have
been there too for you would have been warmly
greeted. There have been amazing changes on the
Hill, and all for the better.

With the very best of wishes,

Yours very sincerely,

Kent, Connecticut, July 11th.

Dear Ezra Pound;

Another autumn Mrs. Scollard
and I are to issue through Houghton Mifflin
Company an American Society Verse Anthology,
and should very much like to include your
"A Virginal." May that privilege and pleasure
be ours? We shall of course communicate with
your publisher.

I trust all good cheer is with you and yours.
I'd be willing to match our Winter Park skies
with yoursof Rapallo and our palms and magnolias
with yours - but of course there are other mat-
ters!

Our best greetings go to you.

Yours very sincerely,

459 Henkel Avenue, Winter Park, Florida.
December 19th.

I was in Clinton last June, and they made
me (alas!) half-century annalist. Had I
your skill in CANTOS I'd do one for them!