Waaa 1 CETUS

HAZ 'somebody in th' FIRM hadda shot ov ADRENALIN !??!

Ov coursé I haint seed haaar nor hide ov them POLEcats/ but
on sabath morn it begun to rain proove/sheets. The Critter
sheets has/is gone/going BACK by this pust.

But fer the WOLLUM. KY/rist. Will SOMEONE BUY the british
Empire a DECENT font of greek type ?

This fer the TO DIONA passages in XLVII.

IF no firm in England has the decency to own ANY proper
greek tupe the caps/ of the transliteration ought to
be reduced so as to make line of same length as the greek.

BUT SORR that greek font is LOUSY. It is unworthy of the
firm of nurses and chasers/ it is unclean/ it is Baldwin
it is Chamber/

I am not making identi'al suggestions for vol/ and fer Criterion
as the type faces are so different.

For XLIV. gal/ II

The latin inscription to Ferdy/ can be centred
it dont need a pixchoor frame , like the Gibraltar club notice.

original

On the other hand it od. be framed. The inscription is not

quite in that. word order/, so that centering may be more suitable
than a frame which wd/ imply the actual text
of inscrip.

XLIX, gal 23. The Chinese words ought to be
in columns and wider space between 'em.

Waal, CETUS bi Grumpus

DEW givv yr/ aged friend credit fer
knowin that Doubledealer's doornails wd/ come unstuck from ANY
bdy/ contrakk the minute he lamped the bukk I wd.
write on thot subjekk, spon I wuz fool enuff to waste the
time doink it.

AND fer havin patiently TOLD Butch why not/ and
ditto to Larry the PoleHinger.

//

Waal 4 scarlet PoleCatz iz at last arruv.

an nas fer yr/ EPISTLE.

do I GITT you. Faber's lament fer NOT commissioning ABC
of Reading/

but wantin something more COMprehensile.

The monkey's tail, let us say ?

WOT EZ KNOWS, all of it fer 7 an sax pence.

O.KAY by me/

watch the yaller sheet, or the next sheet fer summary.

BUT the proviso thot I can REVISE the d/mn thing from time
to time as I git wiser.

and that it dont need to be full
of padding an sawdust.

THE NEW LEARNING

THE NEW LEARNING

Intro/

( Paideuma being too long a
word for the publikk. )

Intro/ on what EZ don't know.

PART I. METHOD.

( digest of the Analects )

Philosophy / history of same. guide being FR/ Fiorentino.
plus a few scraps wot he didn't know

Licherchoor / restatement of How to Read and ABC. Reading

not repeat, save of one or two essential
summaries,

Econ/ element in history. and/or the CONCEPTION of history

in Living historians who are alive.

with retrospect to Cl. Salmasius an a few
wize guys.

"ebbe title sub title / HOW TO LEARN. wd. be useful.

Mebbe it wd/ sound safer to the Coal/leagues if one putt it.

METHOD

PHILOSOPHY ( a hist. of though )

HISTORY ( hist of action )

Licherchoor an deh AWTS , the flow/yet off civerlizashun

congrasts between Hoccydent and oRient.
racial elefunts neCessary fer the whole
of Kulohur.

HOW much does EZ git fer eggsposin hiz iggurunce

In the brasscovered manner ?

and when do you want the mannerskrip
to git to deh prunterz ??

an how you gwine ter keep deh Possum in his
feed box when I brings in deh Chinas an blackmen ??

He wont lasak fer to see no chinas an black men
in a bukk abaht KULCHUR.

dat bein jess his low down unitarian
igurunce...

does we has ter allow fer it : or it is it
a nall in wrastle ??

Wot Ez knows, or a substitute ( portable ?

g fer the British museum .

Dont need know new ORGUM/ deh ole flute is still in workin
order.

and to hell wiff Uspentszky.

and as fer SIZE of book/ I have got to be
absolutely FREE.

Waaal / Whale

WOT I SEZ IZ fundy/mentals.
no mais proHundo Hundu das' proHundas
portagoose Fs bein pronounced H
is fundy/mentals/ like bay of Fundy. where Whyndham born was.
Now/ first in clear/ writing. YES.

Print and be blessed. and the sooner the quicker.

But FUNDYMENTALS/ I GOT TO EAT.

now that there possum forgits FUNDYMENTALS/
why IS a Criterion / Why is a publishing house ?
They IS that a few clean writers shed EAT.

othersiwe they is Heinemans and Johnny Lanes to perditiin
and NO excuse fer distractin a bloke like the Possum what onet u
used to rite a POEM now and then/ when I wuz near enuff to
annyo annoy him/ and he not thinking he was a bishop and
rife fer ecclesiastikle preferment.

So thet IF the remittences arrive/ that is THAT.
The ecclesiastick
has assented to my little list of writers who ought to be
let live.

Now let him livv up to it.

why dont you dem me th dope on
Eddie and Albert the nee star turns in British
vau/deville ??

O Eminent BALBINE !

O Sandras Pollingovitch SAYS he has
snipped some of the Polegots, but I reckon they wasn't
properly labled for quarantine/

anyhow/ this is to state
that the Essurient Possess got round to tendin to some of our
bizniz/
so now its yr/ turn

Carlo Linati

20 Via San Vittore, Milano
says he wants to write about Active Anth/

in Ambrosiano.

WHY he didn't have it when it came out, lillard knoze/
anyhow, as the sales is a still market, I suggest he have a
review copy/

AND same for them blocks on a new verse
what had sense enough to smack ole WilYamPo

Ye/ats.

And of course speakin og lookin FORWARD

I am sending the Baron to the Archdeacon/ So far as I know an/pr
conjecture the Baron is about the ONLY man that aint ever writ
a book or ever THOUGH of ritin a nessay for the Criterariom.

I mean I think he is both a SAME and suitable acquaintanc
tor the Elefunt, especially SANE.

yrz E2

Of course I have to look AHEAD; now WHAT cd/ sell in the aUroaD
I said SKILL... this here dilly/tatism is mweerin'

Two names occur to me/ or three
one is Gaudier{ non messianic } one is Cavalcanti in LOWbrow
edtn/ as in Eliot once desired/ and one is Kumrag Kumminkz
which is plctonic and nowt to my purse.

day before Wasnthnz birfday.

Wanal naow Cetus biGrumpus/

havin' loaded up the ecclesiastical
wing of the firm wiff abahat all he cd/ hold or me
in the antemeridum think of.

an me ole bean a buzzin' on the
GNU Learnin'

It occurs to me that me traduction of DeSchleezer's "Strawinsky"

aint never bin printed/ and that IT plus a few muzik
essays by EZ

wd. be easy to print and might be shoved off
along wiff me compliments on bustin into the Listener/ and
Muzik an letters etc.

with a few inedits...

This just to console that empty feelink in yr/ listn in case
it takes me six weeks or more to condense AWL UMAN knowledge
into less than one flitch of Bacon.

After awl me ' Antheil " didn't do so bad/ and the Schleezer
is a damn fine bit of work/ plus the added interest of
me ritin on Muzik.

A loght buk, a slight buk. But nevertheless ...

This aint an yally boy or a netherwhere.

AND bu the way I tole PosM that there wuz some decent GREEK type in
the PoleKat, vide Page 34.

Of course HOW I am to find that Slozver/ if Pol. banger aint
got it/ ger NOZE.

Did the ecclesiastick ever carry them spare parts to
me mover/in/row ??

NO, you sent 'em back here/

at least most of 'em/ mobbe awl.

rstan this idear about ole BereUs de Schleezer come on
while waz mappin out the Mappemonde of Alle Knowinge

a listin up all the guys wot ever knowd anyfink.

b
falla, Varchi, St Victor, From, Fen, etc./Vaireli, Fiorentine,
and so forf, and thinkin all that Schleez won't condense into
two pages.

ALthough muzikwissenschaft cd/ be holey omitted.

waaaal naow I leev yuh, to go on DIGestin them AnalexXxX.

fourfootedly

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FABBAF, WESTCENT, LONDON

G.C. Faber, chairman

C.W. Stewart

R.H.I. de la Mare

F.V. Morley (U.S.A.)

T.S. Eliot

FABER

& FABER LTD PUBLISHERS

24 RUSSELL SQUARE LONDON W.C.I

Ezra Pound, Esq.,
Via Marsala 12-5,
Rapallo,
Italy.

11th February 1937.

Oh noble Panthus:

Dont think in spite of congenital silence (for a whale's
mouth is so full of fringes that he can hardly hear hisself speaking)
that we too aint looking ahead. Now in your last you said what
could sell in the autumn you said SELL.... this here dillytantyism
is awearin.... thas what you said.

Reverend and I has in our way been cogitating, and we
caint see real big commerce in Gaudier Cavalcanti Qumminkz.

What we is brooding on is the suggesterum of your doing
a book of Kulchur for the Millyum. I mean a seeryus & good sized
home university library for the seeryus aspiring & highminded youth.
I mean ol Panthus litry education for the aspirant with all the
excavations you wish blowing up what it is the academics do instead
of their job. I mean statement and restatements if necessary, what
no one does for no one what every one must do for hissef; but giving

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11th February 1937.

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Ezra Pound, Esq.

in the coherent account of the book suggestions of self-education
you has found necessary either a well preached programme for those
who would like to try to step their smaller footsteps in your snow-
shoes, or for more independent a great comparison.

I want to discuss this more fully with Elephunt and then
the colleagues, to see in a practical way what the traffic would
bear; which I think might be something decently commensurate. Don't
know whether you looked into a book called MATHEMATICS FOR THE MILLYUM
by a man called Hogben. It aint a good book; smatter of fact it's
a gold brick; but it has one virtue, that it's anti academic; and it
has this much in common with gold bricks, that it has sold in the
big way. I aint suggesting that you could or would write so bad a
book; but I is thinking that an anti academic public is beginning
to grow. I is still speaking prematurely, because I really intended
to shape the proposition first before putting it to you. But I do
speak prematurely because Butchart has been ringing me up about
Doubleday's offer for you to do a book on the life and times of
your good friend and near neighbour Max. I don't know what you is
saying to Doubleday's suggestion; pusonly, being a good friend
and near neighbour may be two good reasons for not doing the gossip
what is what Doubleday will chiefly want; and I do see a danger of
future WOE in what I think must be an inevitable hiatus between

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Ezra Pound, Esq.

Nelson Doubleday's conception of a book of yorn. It may be may
Kulchur suggestion aint got exactly IT, but I did just want to
tell you, before you sneeze on anything in desperation that there's
more than one hankercher about.

Expect a further letter from me after I can consult with
the Reverend and cosort with the mechanics.

The review details you was speaking of for ACTIVE ANTHOLOGY
is being attended to: Carlo Linati and *New Verse*; but my impression
is that the *New Verse* was Grigson, and of course he is an old sold
stand-by.

Yours ever,

F.V. Morley.

G.C. Faber, chairman
C.W. Stewart
R.H.I. de la Mare
F.V. Morley (U.S.A.)
T. S. Eliot

FABER
& FABER LTD PUBLISHERS

24 RUSSELL SQUARE LONDON W.C.1

19th February 1937.

Dear Ezroa:

Cetuz was very pleased with letter and your other letter
to Appollyonger about Max. There would have been a crevasse between
old Cetuz vertebra if you hadn't answered as you did. It weren't
no insult that I wrote so gently, for I is accustomed to the way
that Misry can produce temporary insanities, and if a friend should
fall of a fever under any Tipperary blindness, no man with any instinks
of politenesses would reproach his illness. But all the same
what is particularly cheering to a Cetuz is to know that rocks is
rocks and not holes in the ground.

You git me on Kulchur with the speed expected of a panthus;
in the meantime we has been rustling the undergrowth here and has
brought down 100 coconuts if what Panthus will spew is 70,000 words
so that the portable university library can retail at 7/6 & look like
good value to all the hyasses jackals and so forth.

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Ezra Pound, Esq.

I should think little Donaldson, of the Yale University
Press, would probably jump at the chance of shaking down his coconuts
for America.

Anyhow, I am talking this morning with Appollyon or his
side-kick to the same effect as above.

Yours ever,

F.V. Morley.

P.S. As for any Possum's inhibitions, take it from me you don't
have to pay attention to them. A Guide to Kulchur has got to be
an all in wrassle. As to dates, I pusonly feel next January would
be a good time to publish; and you ought to allow four months
for us to get the great woik through the press; specially if they
is any fonts in question.

PAGE I

Naal; Whale my Cetus, as I was a billy DUXin, along
comes the PoleHanger with a concrete/ which I answers
by this postum/ but to save stylistic jem/ I also sends you
the " turn this the udder way hup."

and me already a sailin' into what the greek fly
lozzerfers AINT by comparison with Kung/FuCIUS.

I snuggest " The New earning " as a be'r titl than Guide ter
Kukchur. the pubic mightn't take the Guide idear seereeyus.

HOWEVER, if yr/ pubic is rough you kin call it the Guide
ter Kukchur, so long as you dont call it the Gide.

Was I; now about printin' bitz as we go along. I mostly dont
care/ and not likely that I cd. serialize very much of it...
I will list to yr/ whimsey on thet pint.
(all ezzop, a lil bit of Kung which I
Scheiwiller will do in a pocket de luxe.

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FABBAF, WESTCENT, LONDON

G.C. Faber, chairman

C.W. Stewart

R.H.I. de la Mare

F.V. Morley (U.S.A.)

T.S. Eliot

FABER

& FABER LTD PUBLISHERS

26th February 1937.

Dear Ezro:

This to acknowledgise yours of the day before Washington's
buffday. I acted with surprising speed in axing Lallypo if he had
your reduction of DeSchloezer; as much for my own indefatigable
education as for anything; fer while you is buzzing to disgorge
whatever it is you know, I dont want to interrup the ptomaine pro-
cess. Seems to me a good man should be lapping his hand round
yor forred and helping you disgorge yourself, with at the most kind
of soothing noises, and not entrying side arguments on muzik. But
dont you answer that side remark; as I say, I is getting hold of
the DeSchloezer if DeSchloezer is getholdable.

Reflections on muzik kin scarcely be kept out of an outline
of gnoledge, I should think, What worrits me up to a point of almost
kasserbation is that you is so ignorant of mathematics as I can hardly
even begin to tell you anything. What we is going to do about such
gaps as that I dont know, and when you meet Simon Megus (? Negus)

FABER
& FABER LTD PUBLISHERS

Ezra Pound, Esq.,
Via Marsala 12-5,
Rapallo.

15th March 1937.

Dear DP & Ezro:

That there last harpoon reached the Cetus below the thick
rib, and you should have seed him raring round. Of course the
Greek type is going to be attended to; it shall be changed to
the polecat font. And more especial: we have found the drawings,
and blocks is being made instanter. Now you might think it odd
that it should take any time to find the drawings, but the truth
was I suspected they was part of the scenery of old Possum's
winter nest; he collects papers of all kinds to keep his cir-
culation dormant while he hibernates. It was only while I was
so busy tearing through his impedimenta that his secretary dug
into the hole that Cetus uses, and you wouldn't believe me, but
the drawings had all the time been under my own thumb - successfully
concealed under a wrong entry - the letter with which you sent them
was so hypobolic that it was considered that they was illustrations

MUSEUM 9543 (4lines)

FABBAF, WESTCENT, LONDON

G.C. Faber, chairman

C.W. Stewart

R.H.I. de la Mare

F.V. Morley (U.S.A.)

T. S. Eliot

FABER

& FABER LTD PUBLISHERS

April 19. 1957

Ezra Pound Esq.
Rapallo
Via Marsala 12/5
Italy

Dear Mr Pound:

Your last correction, sent to Mr Morley, arrived in time to be made, as did your request to Mr Eliot that the Greek be centred above or below the text. Actually we had a set of revised proofs in order to check all the corrections after they'd been made. I read the Cantos for press at this end, enjoyed them very much, and can vouch for the printer's accuracy in the revised proofs.

Yours sincerely,

Secretary to Mr de la Mare
FABER & FABER LIMITED

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FABBAF, WESTCENT, LONDON

G.C. Faber, chairman

C.W. Stewart

R.H.I. de la Mare

F.V. Morley (U.S.A.)

T.S. Eliot

FABER

& FABER LTD PUBLISHERS

30th June 1937.

Dear Ezroar:

Whale takes breff long enough to repoart. Kulchur what
Elehunt disgorged is in Whales bag, becoming into ambergris.
I am a reading every word, and you is right, she reads, thar she
reads. What I am a doing of (Panthus never know how Whales work
while they sleeps, lazy landlubs - sleep is a invention of the
land) is putting a few breaks whar the young of Idaho in the year
1938 will need um. The thing will need keerful printing and I
want publication in Jan or Feb '38 when there is time to promote
rayther than the gordam Xmess autumn traffuct. That will be
painful delay to hasty Panthus?? but truly darnsight butter.
I want 2 things. A. Subtitle reading The Book of Ezro. B. Leaf
to change 1937 wherever to 1938. And as to where Whale is one
fluke ahead, yeon ought to read Talmud for complete sympathy yr.
history usury.