Chalon-sur-Saone,
Saone-et-Loire, France,
August 30, 1925.

Dear Mr. Linati:

Ezra Pound has written me several times of your very great kindness in helping us with the affairs of the review THIS QUARTER. I am very anxious to meet you and thank you in person for all the assistance you have given us. And I want to give myself the pleasure of meeting an Italian artist of the first order.

May I ask a great favor of you at this moment?

We shall be on our way to COMO, Italy this week and expect to arrive there September seventh. I do not know COMO or its hotels and I put my case before you to ask if you can reserve two rooms ensuite for Miss Moorhead and myself from September 7, and for the month of September in a hotel with a lift and a bath and a good restaurant at prices not too expensive? I would wire myself but I do not know the hotels or the city and it is a great disadvantage to reserve rooms for a long stay from a distance. I am not in very good health and we shall make COMO our headquarters while the magazine is being printed in Milan on that account. We can then go into Milan whenever it is required to see the printer. And be near at hand in case of need.

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We are motoring as far as Mentone and taking the train from there to Genoa and thence to COMO.

We shall be at Mentone September 3, or 4, and if you would be kind enough to write me as follows:

Ernest Walsh,
Poste Restante,
Mentone, France.

I will get your letter on the way.

I hope I am next not putting you to too great a bother by asking you to reserve rooms for us at COMO but I have a terror of arriving there without a home and having to go about in a city I do not know searching in a language I do not speak. It will be a very great kindness on your part to do this.

I shall see that the chef at CAMPARI's does his best to make you a great feast when we meet in Milan!

Meanwhile, and looking forward to our meeting in the good Italy,

I remain,

Yours very sincerely,

Ernest Walsh.