HAMILTON COLLEGE LIBRARY

JOSEPH D. IBBOTSON, LIBRARIAN
CLINTON, NEW YORK

March 22, 1935.

Dear Ezra Pound:

For a long time I have been intending to write to you about
things that interest me and may well interest you also. Now, after
a half-evening poring over books about wrought-iron work, planning
new lighting fixtures for our library reading room, I have a bit of
time, and the mood is on me. If you are bored you can make your
escape more easily than I can when certain fellows buttonhole me.

Some years ago you printed in _The Nation_ an amusing letter
about American public libraries which I had the satisfaction of
reading in part at several library conferences. It was amusing to
watch the reaction among the librarians. A good many took the mat-
ter to heart; but what could they do about it, overworked as they
are? They are dependent on the American "literary" reviews for their
selection of books, and are subject to the ballynoo that deafens
us all. And they are working in a "democracy" and have to consider
what the public wants. The public, meanwhile, is subject to the
same ballyhoo. But in spite of all the obstacles, very many of the
public libraries are vastly better than they were some 25 years ago.

May I tell you about our library on college hill? You know
what a dismal thing it was in 1906-8, with some 40,000 volumes very
largely donated by deceased clergymen. It's rather different now,
with four times as many books, selected since 1911-12 in accordance
with definite policies. (1) Scholars' books. (2) Important older
works (found by constant reading of old book catalogs). (3) Special-
ization for departments that are active. (4) Constant purchases
by the librarian from his adequate fund for subjects and literary
kinds that are not represented in the curriculum.

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A few years ago Mrs. A. P. Saunders gave us a fund of one thousand dollars for American poetry. The income of $50 a year has been very useful. Now we are setting up a fund, in memory of the late Clinton Scollard, for English poetry. We have, I believe, almost all that you have published. I enclose a list, and shall be glad to know about omissions. Any titles that you mention to me I shall try to get. Of course we are trying to keep up with all the movements and schools of the day, at least in a representative fashion. And it would delight you to see how many of the boys in college read poetry a lot.

Suggestions from you for purchases will be most welcome. Of course we need more than $100 a year for current English and American verse, but we are making a beginning.

You know that Dr. Shepard has given us his splendid collection of books in Old French and Provençal. With what we had before and what we are getting, that makes our library one of the important ones for these studies. A large room is devoted to this collection, where the student can work in quiet with all the books at hand.

After our students adopted the honor plan for examinations many years ago, they extended the plan to the library; so that they all where they will in the building, handle the books for themselves, and even charge the books at the desk - all without any supervision-except as they may need help. Only the rare book room and the newspaper room are locked, with admission on request. We lose very few books.

Two large rooms are devoted to fine art. The boys are free to explore among our very valuable collections there at will; and I know of no losses except one or two cheap textbooks from that past of the library.

HAMILTON COLLEGE LIBRARY

JOSEPH D. IBBOTSON, LIBRARIAN

CLINTON, NEW YORK

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As we cannot develop all parts of the library into scholars' workshops, we have thus far devoted ourselves to the following departments: Old French and Provençal; the ancient classics; Greek art; English literature; medieval history; international relations, especially since 1870; economic history; Germanic philology. We are now making a good beginning on the history of science with the active help of an alumnus who is a professor in the University of Penn.; and in philosophy.

Our "Browsing Room" is a lovely Tudor place with about 1800 volumes, to which we make frequent additions; the gift of Charles Rogers, with an endowment for upkeep and for new books. No sets or complete works in it. It's a sample room. It is constantly used, till eleven o'clock at night daily.

For a year I have been sending to many of the alumni the monthly list of new books and book-lists that we mimeograph for the college. We are lending to alumni hundreds of books a year, and the number is growing fast. It's the younger men who borrow. One chap who is a graduate student in the Univ. of Penna. wrote me the other day that it is easier for him to borrow books from us that from his own university library, they have such restrictions down there. Of course, they have to make restrictions in a big place and in a big city.

I have naturally been following your published work through all these years with immense interest. If I haven't written to you, it was only because I feared I should bore you. Long years ago I wrote to you at great length, when you were so good as to send me a copy of *A Lume Spento*. I used to lend the book; alas, once too often. When I was last in Paris I tried to find you, but without success. That

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was in 1928. When I retire, which may be in a year or so, it is
my plan to spend a long time in Europe - Wanderjahr - and then I
shall, I hope, see you once more. It will do me good; what the
effect of the visit upon you will be - - - ?

I have often wished that you could visit this country and
spend a few days here at the College. I am sure you would be sur-
prised at many things you would see and hear. A musical art society
that brings to the College first rate artists in several recitals a
year; a college choir that sings daily in the college and gives suc-
cessful concerts in the larger cities and always in New York; many
lectures, such as the series sponsored by the Political Science Club,
which finds it easier to get radicals who are interesting than con-
servatives, and has men of international reputation for its six lect-
ures a year. I could go on, but mustn't. And these things are sup-
ported by student contributions in the main. It's interesting to see
our chapel filled for a recital by Iturbi or a lecture by Norman Thom-
as.

As for myself - I live a very quiet life. Live at our Faculty
Club, with Shepard and two others. Since an auto accident in '29 I
cannot walk much. My evenings are largely devoted to old book cata-
logs and current books. My wife died in '14, before the misery of the
war. My sons are like myself college librarians. And like myself
are trying to understand this horribly complex world. One's views
have been revolutionized these last years. I wish I were younger, to
see how this vastly entertaining story is going to turn out.

Most cordially yours,

HAMILTON COLLEGE LIBRARY

JOSEPH D. IBBOTSON, LIBRARIAN

CLINTON, NEW YORK

Books by Ezra Pound in the Hamilton College Library
Short Titles

The A B C of economics. Lond. 1933.

The A B C of reading. Lond. 1934.

A lume spento. Venice, 1908.

Active anthology. London, 1933.

Antheil and the treatise on harmony. Paris, 1934.

Antheil and the treatise on harmony. With supplementary notes.
Chicago, 1927.

Canzoni. London, 1911.

Canzoni and ripostes...complete poetical works of T.E.Hulme.
London, 1913.

Cathay. Translations ... from the notes of Fenollosa. Lond. 1915.

A drait of XXX cantos. Paris, 1930.

Exultations. Lond. 1909.

Gaudier-Brzeska...a memoir. Lond. 1916.

How to read. Lond. 1931.

Hugh Selwyn Moberley. Lond. 1920.

Imaginary letters. Paris, 1930.

Instigations ... with an essay on the Chinese written characters
by ernest Fenollosa. N.Y. 1920.

Indiscretions; or, Une revue de deux mondes. Paris, 1923.

Lustra. Privately printed. n.d.

Lustra. With earlier poems. N.Y. 1917.

Make it new. Essays. Lond. 1934.

Pavannes and divisions. N.Y. 1918.

Personae. London, 1909.

Personae; the collected poems ... N.Y. 1926.

Poems, 1918-1921. Including three portraits and four cantos.
N. Y. 1921.

Profile; an anthology collected in MCMXXXI. Milan, 1932.

Quia pauper amavi. London. n.d.

Ripostes. Whereto are appended the complete poetical works of
T. E. Hulme. London, 1912.

Selected poems, edited with an introduction by T.S.Eliot.
London, 1928.

The spirit of romance ... London, 1910.

Umbra ... with translations from Guido Cavalcanti and Arnaut
Daniel. London, 1920.

Cavalcanti, Guido. Rime. 1921.

Cavalcanti, Guido. The sonnets and ballate, with introduction
and translation ... Boston, 1912.

The exile. Edited by Ezra Pound. No. 2-4. 1927-28. (We tried to
get no.1, but repeated letters to the publisher got no reply.)

Fenollosa, Ernest. Certain noble plays of Japan. Churchtown, 1916.

Fenollosa, Ernest. 'Noh'; or, Accomplishment. By Ernest Fenollosa
and Ezra Pound. London, 1916.

Fontenelle, B. LeB.de. Dialogues. Translated by Ezra Pound. 1917.

Gourmont, Remy de. The natural philosophy of love. Translated by
Ezra Pound. London, 1931.

Johnson, Lionel. Poetical works. Edited by. Ezra Pound. Lond. 1915.

The New Review. Paris. vol.1-2, no.5. (Were more numbers issued?)

Also criticisms of Ezra Pound by Ford M. Ford, Glenn Hughes, hene
Taupin, W. B. Yeats, T. S. Eliot, F. R. Leavis, Samuel J.
Looker, and others. Notably, The Criterion.

HAMILTON COLLEGE LIBRARY

JOSEPH D. IBBOTSON, LIBRARIAN

CLINTON, N. Y.

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are stirring things up. They are contributing to the ferment.

You know about the "teachers' oath" laws? In this happy State, every teacher is required to take oath to support the constitution of the Nation and of the State. What that means, who knows? I objected when the thing came up, on the ground that I often have to show boys why it is necessary to amend the federal constitution - and help them to find reasons - in connection with their debates. But it seems that that doesn't contravene the vow. Now it is proposed to require all college and high school "students" to take the same kind of an oath! W. Randolph Hearst, the American Legion, and various Daughters - male and female - like the Daughters of the American Revolution (you know they are wild revolutionaries) are behind this asininity. Soon, if this bill goes through, all these sundry "patriots" will begin nosing in, raising hob about things that they are too ignorant to understand. On one side they will be charging folks with communism, one the other with Fascism or Naziism, and always they will be springing to the defense of the Good Old Constitution against us wild eyed college professors. "We don't want any dam college professors butting in" as one of the state senators remarked to Davvy when he suggested that Professor Seligman be called for help in framing a difficult tax bill.

I may as well tell you, though it's a secret till the meeting of the trustees, that I shall retire this year. I've been librarian 25 years. The library has grown from 55,000 to 170,000, and annual use (loans) from 3500 to 28000, and average daily workers in the library from 35 to some 325; so it's time for me to quit.

HAMILTON COLLEGE LIBRARY

JOSEPH D. IBBOTSON, LIBRARIAN

CLINTON, NEW YORK

Faculty Club

April 5, 1936.

Dear E P:

Your letter - so like you - came a couple of days ago. I have seen A. P. (Saunders), and he is interested. But he says: How can we propose a piece of musical research to one of the foundations until we know quite precisely what it is to be? It is first of all essential that we have full information about it. And I myself should like to suggest that, if the research is to be conducted by some one on this side - unless you have in mind the person who is to do it - that Berrian Shute, our Professor of Music, might be just the man for it. But of course I have said nothing to him about it - nor shall I till you tell me to. He is a first rate scholar, broad minded, with a good linguistic and of course musical preparation. A splendid teacher of the appreciation of music, and history, etc. But I suppose you have in mind the researcher. Is his name EP?

Tremendous floods again have done enormous damage almost all over the country. FDR'S reforestry schemes, which probably amount to more than most of the other new deal program put together, come a generation too late. There is the danger that if the republicans regain control they will scrap this along with all else that he has started which the Supreme Court doesn't smash. I have visited some of the camps, and they are fine things. They take on only unemployed young fellows, and make good men of them, while they are trying to get trees to grow where the folly of our people has let the soil wash away for years and even generations.

I am sorry that I left out at least one of your books from the list at the end of the last number of the *Review*. It is one that

HAMILTON COLLEGE LIBRARY

JOSEPH D. IBBOTSON, LIBRARIAN

CLINTON, NEW YORK

we haven't got, too; but I expect that I shall run across it
one of these days in some old book catalogue. I hope there are
no other omissions. You see our library has done pretty well.

Do you happen to know of the work that is being done by the
Institute of Economics (Brookings Institution) in Washington?
It is an endowed affair for economic research, absolutely inde-
pendent of outside influences - industrial, socialistic, or
banking. In some of their books they have analysed the new deal
most destructively in the soberest manner. A series of recent
books, based on extensive research, is: America's Capacity to
Produce; America's Capacity to Consume; The Formation of Capital;
and Income and Economic Progress. They recommend two ways of in-
creasing economic distribution: sharp reduction in prices without
reduction of wages, and a moderate redistribution of *income* by
taxation of the very largest and very large. It was Hoover's
stabilization of prices between 1921 and 1929 that was largely re-
sponsible for the stock market crash, because it reduced purchasing power and stimulated speculation (the wealthy having enormous
profits that they could only invest abroad or in the stock market),
thus driving stock prices up and up, and drawing others into the
speculation mania. Of course the Brookings people wouldn't say
that those were the *only* causes of the crash, but they point out
their importance as contributing causes and I think they are right.

So you are crowding the Bank of France! Good for you. It ap-
peared that someone was pushing that venerable money monopoly hard.
I have seen a good deal about it of late, and nothing that increases
my respect for it.

HAMILTON COLLEGE LIBRARY

JOSEPH D. IBBOTSON, LIBRARIAN

CLINTON, NEW YORK

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Personae in Cantos. I await the result eagerly. Perhaps some of the lines will make me angry. If so, all the better. Do you bring in Hitler? Amazing, what that little fellow has done for Germany; and he wants to stabilize the peace of Europe by the only practicable plan: everyone to make non-aggression pacts with his neighbors, with strong guarantees and reduction of armaments and agreement to stop the sensational press from printing nasty yarns about the neighboring countries so that in the course of the next twenty years or so mutual confidence can be restored. And of course the French politicians will have nothing of it because they see leadership in Europe taken from them. Collective security is nonsense, especially when it is tangled up by means of such alliances as are constantly going forward in Europe. Adolf Hitler does not believe in military alliances; he thinks that they were the real reason for the last war, and are making for another. And he is sure that real peace can be secured only when nations are treated as equals, and not ordered about by others, as Germany has been for fifteen years and Italy, now, also. He asserts Germany's equality within her own boundaries, and will respect that of others. He has grown up since 1922-23, when my older son watched him in Munich. His hatred of Jews and communists goes too far, but one must know what his experience of selected specimens had been.

Schacht - that's another matter. Wait a bit. He'll go.

Let me know details about that music matter.

As ever, yours,

/ precice to point of its being utterly anti-social
but with the F**HH fine-nees that comes of precision
and the honesty.

Maddening that he hasn't enough social suppleness
to have made career.

BUT comfort to have so good a musician
exiled to Rapallo by finance.

Something to have concerts in a place like this (15 000 inhab.

10,000 peasants in back hills.) as good AS PERFORMANCE
as you get in London and Paris and damn sight more interesting
as sequence of music given.

Vide Delphian Quarterly recently.

Do your profs/ EVER protest against the errors of the English
Journal.

Hatfield has velleity toward the light. but needs MORE
than my admonitions.

What effort has the Library made to save rare but REAL
periodicals.

Little Review 1917/19 must be worth something by now.
transatlantic review, less, but some items.

New Democracy

New Age

New Eng. Weekly.

whole series of my articles in Brit Italian Bulletin.

possibly too jabby/ but that has been emergency work.
pro Europa.

EZ P/ bibliography wd/ include a lot in Saviotti's "L'Indice"
and in the Lit. Supplement to Il Mare ( Rapallo ) that ran
for two years.

I suppose "edoes stuff in German is simply lost ?

time, damn it/ never enough TIME.

ad interim

THE FACULTY CLUB

HAMILTON COLLEGE

CLINTON, NEW YORK

April 30, 1936.

Dear Ezra Pound:

Though I haven't time for a letter, I
must send you a line of thanks for the copy of
Prolegomena I which I am happy to place on the
library shelves despite the misprints; and for
The British-Italian Bulletin for 4th and 11th
April, containing your contributions and further
evidence that not all English people agree with
their government's actions under pressure from
the socialists, communists, and the well-known
nonconformist conscience. Conscience is all
well enough if only it is not noninformist.
But before the conscience can act rightly it
must be able to know right from wrong. The
spectacle of the holy wrath of the British mid-
dle class when any other nation ventures upon
the ancient British policy of taking everything
it can lay its hands on is amusing; and when
that wrath disguises itself as moral indignation

the explanation of "British hypocrisy" is evident. For not all
people are as dense as the British.

My resignation was received by the trustees with such ap-
plause as I had expected. It came as a surprise to them and to
my colleagues here, and everyone has said pleasant things to me
about it, which makes it easier. But I get so tired out every
day that I must have a chance to rest before I venture out into
the wide world as I hope eventually to do.

I think we have all the commentaries and discussions of
your work, and we shall look out for whatever may yet appear.
For I believe that our library should be headquarters for the
study of your work, with everything available for the students
who, a hundred, two hundred years hence, wish to investigate.
They will make a path to our door - no doubt, of that.

As ever, yours,

HAMILTON COLLEGE LIBRARY

JOSEPH D. IBBOTSON, LIBRARIAN emeritus!

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Furstenweg 8

Wernigerode a.H. Germany.

December 3, 1936.

Dear Ezra Pound:

Your card was forwarded to me from Clinton, and arouses my curiosity and deep interest. I have not the faintest notion of the subject of your letter to the Review, but have written to Fitch, the editor, pointing out various reasons why it should be printed in the next number, even if it is likely to "shock" some of our staid alumni - reasons which are doubtless obvious enough to him.

For a long time I have owed you letters, and have been on the point of writing, but never actually got to it. Those last weeks before September 1, when I stepped out of the library, were hard on me, there were so many loose ends to gather up, and things to get ready for my successor; and after that there was the bother of getting my duds out of the Faculty Club and moving to a room in the village, and seeing endless people, until I set out on my travels. I drove to Galveston, Texas, of all places, because my youngest son had just settled there as librarian of the most important library in the deep south, and I wanted to see how he was situated. Thence I sailed on Nov. 7th on a freighter which carries a few passengers, and arrived in Bremen on the 30th! The only passenger, I had leisure to read and dream and think a bit. The captain was a most interesting chap, who has lived in Africa, Argentina, China, Japan, and India, in the last country as a guest of the British government for two years, 1916-18. A fellow of vast humor and good-will, full of yarns: I wish I were competent to write him up. He is worth it.

I plan to spend part of the winter in Germany, mainly in this

Harz Mountain region, visiting old friends and trying to get back enough of my physical vigor to travel a little in February and March. Eventually I have to go to England on a mission for the library. I hope to get into Italy if possible, and should enjoy nothing more than a visit to Rapallo - not on account of the beauty of the place, literary associations, etc., but because you are there. Lots of things I want to talk over with you. But I am unluckily physically no good. Cannot walk. Horrible, to lose the use of one's legs. Thank God, I still keep the use of my other end.

I am a social-creditor, of course. Got a men's club in Utica that I belong to, to have a lecture on the subject. Our library has all the best books and pamphlets on the subject, and the students debate about it a good deal - which is the best way of getting them awake to it. Voluntary, you see. What a pity that those people in Alberta seem to be making such a mess of it. I had hoped...

Fascinating to see what is being done here, and to get the point-of-view at first hand by actually talking with people who know what is happening. Strange that our newspapers in the U.S. misunderstand everything.—And the way they misrepresent the conditions in Spain.

"Loyalists" and "Rebels". *Loyalist* sounds so fine. A loyal man is of course a splendid fellow. A Rebel - lots of folks, otherwise decent enough, still think of our own war as the "Rebellion". Have you seen Claude Bowers' "The Tragic Era"? Reconstruction, U.S. style.

If you haven't read it, I shall sebd you my copy. Somewhat partisan, perhaps, but still sound and illuminating.

This is a lovely place, even in winter. I am at the home of my wife's sisters, on a mountain side above the old city. Town hall, 1491. Old town hall, used before 1491, still in its place. From the window of my room here, I look out over the red roofs and towers of the little city to the Schloss, picturesque, Gothic, Romanesque, 1200. From the living room, a view straight up between the mountains to the Brocken. All this region has for me delightful associations that go back to 1894.

If you, busy as you are, can spare time for a line to me, I shall be gratified.

I shd/ like any real data re CONSTRUCTIVE effort in Germany.

Tinkham gave favorable report on Schacht/ but one gets very
little DETAIL/ and nobody knows anything about econ//

I shd/ like to see the Powers/ when you have finished/ and
od/ shore it against yr/ arrival.

Hope Baldwin has bust his foot trying to frame young Lavie/

Bloody stew with Faber/ re/ foozling in the office/ what with
Eliot bein an infernal trinity/ himself/ edtr/ Criterion/ and
a Director of the bloody firm of Faber/

However/ Cantos 42/51 have been sent up/ and contrakk in
pruggruss.

so I haven't exactly layed off Clio! "elpomene et cie/

If you find any LIVING young/ put 'em in touch with me or with
Fox.

wwwaaaaal, there is too much to do
if one has no more sense than I have ; and gets "het" up
over this that an tother.

C'mon down when the urge takes you.

yrs iggurunt/ iz it a.H or 1/H

"Historians know no economics" / nearly true even NOW,
a few historians nearly all outside Universities ( one Russian
in Yale ) have looked at econ. causation.

No intellectual life at Harvard. etc. Monastic segregation of
learning.

Nucleus of Hamilton men in Princeton might start something.
"General Hamilton alumni might back it ( mildly )"

I'll go into more detail if you take the trouble to read
answer this.

Old Breasted liked the idea, some years ago ,
naturally his work was outside the" mod. lang. accr. " etc.
He thought it " a dream above the heads of the people ".

Time lag in American universities/ a handicap, and a point
whereon the average prof. merely gets more if one mentions
it.

ad interim

9 Jan

Dear Bit ::

Thazz ell vurry well . And I am out of this year's
note paper. AND I have dan well get to get a copy
of Johnnie ADAMS' letters QUICK. and Some how.

No use in the Boss quoting Gustav le Don when
he might just as well be quoting J.Adams. (pere )

If the Col/ Lib/ hasn't a spare copy , duplicate. Steal the
bleody copia unica/ IF they got one. If not , take it out
of the Congressional Library or anydsomewhere ellUs.

Clad to get yr/ letter and will answer civily
sometime.

JOSEPH D. IBBOTSON
WINTER PARK, FLORIDA

February 10, 1938.

Dear E. P.:

Reform of college curriculum? We've been at it for two years. Bill Shep was chairman of the committee. Extensive reform postponed because the Pres. is to retire this year. Supposed that the educator who will succeed him may have notions about it. We've been watching experiments in "progressive" places; e.g. Colgate, where most of freshman year is given up to "survey courses" - as follows: fine arts, 3 hrs. a week for the year (all the arts of all the world from the beginning of things to now for 17-yr.old kids); science (ditto); social sciences (ditto); philosophy and religion (ditto)!!! How those lads must suffer indigestion. In sophomore year they begin to specialize - "seminars" etc. My first seminar was in the graduate school, and my first seminar paper kept me busy two or three hours a day for six weeks. Our Amer. fondness for the highfalutin and big words has done wonders. Ere in Winter Park is Rollins College - very "modern" - very Hamilton Holtish. Here they have seminars for freshmen - in art, books, biology, etc. One faculty member, a lady, teaches 40 to 60 hours a week, according to the catalogue statements. They are now revising the curriculum, and propose to cut out foreign languages in underclassman years in order to get time for a lot of required science and "sociology". God have mercy on the boys and girls!

At Hamilton the better seniors and juniors regularly use books in French, German, Latin, and Italian in the work they are required to do. Faculty no longer teaching 18 to 20 hrs a week - as was the case thirty years ago. Nine to 12 hrs., leaving time for real work with the students. Most colleges send out a majority of the graduates into beeznis. Many colleges are all for the "practical" - typewriting, bookkeeping, business methods, and all sorts of "methods". We have kept out of all that nonsense.

Professor Berrian R. Shute, head of our dept. of music, is in Europe this year on sabbatical leave of absence with his family. At present working in Vienna. I hope he will be in the vicinity of Rapallo later, and call on you. I want him to make your acquaintance, and am sure you will like him. He is an enthusiastic chap and a scholar, interested in the old music.

I have been interested in micro-photos for years. That's the way we keep old newspapers. The paper is so rotten that these historical records disappear in a few years. I proposed the method ten or twelve years ago at the meeting of the college librarians assn in N.Y. And now the big libraries are using it; and we shall make photos on films at Hamilton for central N.Y. papers soon. For mss. the method is great. Hamilton is associated with a group of colleges that get films of medieval mss.

I enjoyed your latest enclosure, and shall tell Bill

JOSEPH D. IBBOTSON

WINTER PARK, FLORIDA

Shep about Ubaldo, your Italian translator. Wish I too
could hear some of your concerts.

Your February program is exciting.

Remember me very cordially to your Father and Mother
and give my loyal greetings to Mrs. Pound.

As ever, yours,

March 5, 1938.

Dear Ezra:

Yes: projectors. The Eastman Company have been work-
ing on that for the past three years. They have a mag-
nificent apparatus into which you put a roll of films,
turn a knob, press a button, and the enlargement comes
out any size you need on a big frosted glass surface wh.
is directly before the reader - yourself - like a folio
volume open on a book-rest at an angle of 45 degrees or
so. But it is not yet perfected to suit them. The N. Y.
Publ. Libr. is using several for various films that it
has acquired or made - newspapers, mss., etc.

For music from films, I suppose the best would be an
ordinary good quality $25 or so lantern which would throw
the facsimile of the old music on a "screen" for the
musicians and the audience to see.

Films as now made are practically indestructible IF
they are properly cared for. That means that they must
be stored in cabinets in which the humidity is kept at
the proper degree of moistness. Otherwise they will dry
up and crack - eventually.

My son Selwyn, librarian at Galveston, is deep in all
this film business, as he has been appointed chairman of a
Texas state committee to make plans for the preservation
and use of mss. relating to the history of the state. I
shall see him for a week or so very soon, and shall then
send you all the information he has, with prices of prac-
ticable materials and apparatus.

JOSEPH D. IBBOTSON

WINTER PARK, FLORIDA

Friends of mine have taken a Leica or similar cameras with them to European libraries to photograph mss. Have had experiences. Thus: the librarian in one city says: "Soandso is official photographer for us; you must have photos made by him." Another: "No room is light enough in the library to photograph; and no mss. can be taken out of the library." My friend replies: "The Leica will make a photograph in this room perfectly." But the librarian of course knows better and refuses permission even to set up the camera. Elsewhere he is helped in every way and gets good films of medieval Italians - what he is after.

In Paris - a company is making films of old French MSS. They are for sale at rather high prices. Started with a big circuler two years ago. Don't know how far they have gone. They were after the "rich Americans."

Of course a music library must have the old masters. And editions of old unpublished hertofore. When we get the money to enlarge our building, long needed, we shall have a music room, with cabinets for storing films, and cases for music around the walls, a piano, small projector and the rest of the music shelved near the room. The room soundproof when the double door is closed. People can try the music; taste it, as it were. That's all planned.

About Arnold's book, Folklore. It's important that people shld. know that most of their opinions are just that - help them to escape from bondage - be realistic.

As ever, yours -

Dear Bib

DO be serious/ and dont waste paper about Colgate and
courses in higher fly/washify.

Three years in college on readin( in different languages )
plus writin and rithmetic/ In final year, student to receive
an encyclopedie or a few vols/ on line of my ABCs.

also to be told what "authorites " are damned
liars and shs, always be read with utter mistrust.

//

re/ microfots/ the knowledge of the main monuments of
music is worth more than the New Your U final and the
rest of the usury propaganda owned by Hurst Baruch etc.

What somebody shd/ propose is a decent LIBRARY of the
chief composers/ begining with the greater inedita

wd/ cost about as much as years files of HHHH
Utica Eagle.

Naturally none of the big foundations wd put me
or any man who desr deserves to survive the era of narding
Hoover Roosenstein onto the job.

BROletto, of Como, has done a Vivendi concesse-

during past 15 months trying to get ANY precise answers
now hear they cost 75 dollars/ which p obviously aint so.

Sayce has got page of music onto grainless film, one have
half centimetre square/ and one can see its a quartet with
naked eye, and a bit more with desk magnifying glass.

Projectors not on sale in Europe.

In fact the U.S. ahead for c
BUT the interesting material naturally in Europe and
I suppose Asia.

LACK of intercommunication appa lling.

in this case I have been DUMB and I admit it;
but somebody ought to think of things of this kind even if
I omit doing so. Das seeben ICH etc...

Barron Hall, Winter Park, Florida.

February 7, 1939.

Dear E.P.:

That pretty pamphlet: Inauguration. My responsibility in
the matter ended with the form and style of the printing. I did
not write the inaugural. You feel that Cowley wants to educate
the boys to live in the U.S. as is? Possibly.

Haav'd has changed in late years. Houses. Head of one of the
Houses a radical socialist. Vastly more inquisitiveness among the
students. Gentlemen's grades no longer the thing. Discussions.
Bull sessions. Music and manners.

At Hamilton, since I left Clinton early November, growing dis-
content among livelier instructors, as I hear. Cowley has been
conducting endless "surveys" (to find out what is the trouble?) Making
inquiries among the "students"? Believe he wants more social "scien-
ces." Has a Dean of Students (psychologist, as I hear). Imported -
not one of the old faculty.

The New Publicity. Cowley is all for it. I hate it. Another
word for patent medicine advertising. We'll see what comes of it
all. Maybe good . . .

Ever since 1933 our friends the Jews have been in a conspiracy
to get us into a war with Germany. Recently they have added Italy
to their collection of enemies. Of course they pretty well control
the press by department store, theatre, and movie advertising. The
boycott is their method. Boycott, carried far enough, is war. And
if they get their war - that will be the end of the Jewish agitators,
for after the war whatever kind of dictatorship comes in the U.S.
will have to be anti-Jewish. Whom the Gods wld. destroy . . .

For years I have clamored for a Hamilton that should not be
an imitation of all the other colleges. I hate this experimental

stiff that is so widespread now: students as guinea pigs. We cld.
be different by insisting on work, stimulating curiosity, making
the curriculum fit our time's needs, stirring up bull sessions on
topics that matter. We ought to steer the boys away from our U.S.
ideologies; encourage them to explore the revolution thro which the
world is passing.

Oct.1914. First library conference with freshmen. I said: The
world is entering upon a period of revolution probably vaster than
that of 1789. An age is ending. You are young enough to take part
(the new age)
in it, to try to understand what is going forward. Pitch in. You
must undertsnad - to survive. I think three tried did it, One of them is
Columbia professor of international law, Phil Jessup. Independent,
clear headed. Neutrality.

Eleven million unemployed. "Relief" to be made permanent, with
an annual billion dollars. National debt 45 billion. Deficit, four
billion a year. Now additional deficits with "rearmament." For
years we have spent more for military purposes than any other country

N.Y.State deficit this year, 65 or 70 million. State income tax
almost twice as big as federal. New taxes - real estate, sales tax.

Rackets. Trade union rackets. Building trades, making it almost
impossible to build. My son in Galveston cannot find a house fit to
live in for less than $70 a month. Must build. Plans for a $5000
house. Contractor's bid for the same, $9000. As a city librarian he
cannot build. Must live in a more or less hovel.

In Utica. My brother worried about living conditions of the
people. Made a survey of housing. Discovery: 1/4 of the population
(110,000) live in places unfit for human (or pig) habitation. Gets
a million dollars for slum clearance. Houses for lowest-income folk.
For a million, housing for about 800 people, individuals, men women
and children, not 800 families. Touches the edge of the trouble.
And at that, all sorts of favorable conditions: tax free for 60 yrs.,

govt. loan at about 3%, to be paid off in 60 years. No garages on
the development, but playgrounds for the kids, wading pool, gardens
for the families (vegetables), a nurse for the families, for 220
families of the 2500 that now live in subnormal dwellings. And all
the rest of them?

Similar conditions in all our cities. And the South. Most farm
families live in wretched pigpens. Recent tales of 1700 dispossessed
tenant farmers in Mo. camping in midwinter by the roadside, homeless,
hungry, harried by militia. Sharecroppers all through the South going
hungry; not even "cornmeal and sowbelly." Mad world. Mad USA. In
spite of FDR's pump-priming for the past 5 years.

"Richest country in the world."

Newspaper headlines lie. Constantly. Today: "Franco refuses to end war." In small print, at end of the article, the conditions he refused to accept: disarm; hold a plebiscite, "republic" - or - "fascist dictatorship"!!! - As you wrote to me two years ago: Moscow shall not have Barcelona.

Proletarian literature. Lots of it from the WPA. Recent num-
ber of Poetry devoted to it.--Proletarian novels. Have you seen any?
Everything up-side-down. And the glorification of the proletariat,
where all virtue and wisdom dwell.

The Jewish question in a nutshell: U.S.citizen of British birth:
My ancestors for many generations were English; I have lived in this
country 40 years. If a decision must be made between Britain and the
U.S., I am an American. - U.S. citizen of Jewish race: I was born in
the U.S. Have always lived here. If a decision must be made be-
tween the U.S. and Judah, I am still a Jew-Loyalties.

What fine Jews I have known and liked. It's tough.

Greetings to your wife, and to your Father and Mother. Hope
they are all well.

As ever, yours,

BARRON HALL

WINTER PARK, FLORIDA

March 26, 1939.

Dear Ezra Pound:

Thank you for the copies of your "Introductory Text Book."
Concise it is; and includes notes and bibliography. But you
must not suppose that anyone on the Hill would refuse to let
you onto the Campus on account of it. Academic freedom still
holds. At present there seems to be only one topic on which
restrictions would be made: a reasoned defense of Hitler and
his policies. The emotional mass-enthusiasm for a "Stop Hit-
ler" campaign has reached enormous heights all over the coun-
try. It is a lovely red herring for both Republicans and Dem-
ocrats, helping to distract attention from everything else -
political jobbery in WPA, bonuses (enormous ones) to corpora-
tion executives, overstuffed salaries to the same, labor rackets,
the appalling increase of crime, the antics of the "Gimmes",
(organized groups, from youth clamoring for eddication that they
cant take, to old people clamoring for handouts of $50 or $60 a
week to be raised by sales taxes on the rest of the population.)

The noble patriots who were drafted for service in the last
war, and most of whom encountered nothing more perilous than a
few weeks in camp with the accompanying side shows, are again
getting ready to raid the Treasury. More than a billion was
invested in just one of the huge dams which provide costly ara-
ble lands to enlarge our agricultural production, which is al-
ready vastly too great. Hitler is so terrible a threat to the
American "democracies" (such as those central American things,
Brazil, Peru, etc.) that we are to provide these same democra-

cities with battle-ships, airplanes, etc. And confide to them whatever military and naval secrets we may possess. FDR has asked the colleges and universities to introduce into their curriculums courses in aviation; which would raise the devil with normal college work. Hamilton will not accept that invitation, having had a bellyfull of military control when the S. A.T.C. descended upon us in 1918. Mr. Secretary Hull goes on preaching moral sermons to the world in general, quite forgetful of our own past (1200 wars in our pacifist history). &c.&c.

In 1933, Hitler said he would smash the Versailles jobbery without a war. That, in spite of Lloyd George's prediction of 1920 or 21 that the "Treaty" would involve Europe in another great war within 20 years.

We have some 10 or 11 million unemployed. And take in thousands of Jews every month. Russia, with 1/7 of the land of the world, boasting that it cannot have unemployment, takes none of the refugees. Wasn't even asked to the Evian Conference. Why?

The Jews are giving Britain headaches. They refuse to go to one of the colonies, e.g. African, but insist on their "homeland". I wish the British would clear out of Palestine and turn the country over to the Chosen People. Let them fight it out.

We are a land of parades. Yesterday there was a "Stop Hitler Parade" in N.Y.City. The mayor made a speech. We are such moral people that we like to holler our heads off about the bad things the other fellow does. Meantime some 1400 dispossessed tenant farmers in Mo. are driven along the highways, ragged and hungry, by the militia; southern negroes - and whites - live in shacks that are not fit dwellings for cattle; in most of our cities, 1/3 of the people occupy sub-standard dwellings; the

BARRON HALL

WINTER PARK, FLORIDA

labor racketeers and other racketeers make housing so expen-
sive that adequate governmental housing projects are blocked;
and we keep crowing about the "American Standard of Living" -
which means the possession of countless gadgets in place of a
normal intelligent way of life.

It's a mad world; and we are no less mad than any others.
The other day I remarked to a friend here that there seemed to
be many people who preferred to stay on "relief" rather than go
to work; e.g. in central N.Y. we have trouble finding a second
maid at the Faculty Club tho' we pay her $10 a week, room, bath,
sitting room, and good board. The answer of my interlocutor:
Of course they go back to relief. Why should they work many hrs.
a week for starvation wages?

FDR is an enthusiast about redistribution of wealth within
the country, but seems quite incapable of understanding that a
similar redistribution is long overdue between nations. While
he and His Eminence the Sec.of St. shout about legal methods in
international relations, they forget that the present world
setup can hardly be described as the result of legal methods.
No end of indignation about bombing in Spain, but no word about
surprise
British bombing of unprotected towns in northern India. Of
course the British (playing fields of Eton) can do nothing un-
sportsmanlike or immoral.

"Dictatorships." So the "democracies" - such as Russia, &
now France (of course Daladier is not a "dictator";) are to line
up - and Britain will expect every American to do his duty. Is
that why FDR wants us to have 10,000 war planes? And what wld.

FDR he, if he should take us into another war for democracy?
We'd have a dictatorship, and it wld. be here to stay.

No doubt the money problem is at the bottom of a lot of our
troubles; but you must add speculation (the gambling passion is
almost universal); and mob control; and the declining birthrate;
and for us the notions about the American standard of living;
and here also "automobiles instead of butter"; and wastefulness
(we've squandered enough to make us all well-to-do). &c.&c.

Why should the head of a big corporation get a salary of
$350,000 a year? Of a little corp. $60,000? Or a salary of
$12,000, plus a bonus of $1,500,000? (Secret bonus, supposed to
go to skilled workmen!)

Am I a pessimist? "Thaes ofereode, thisse swa maeg."

I shall leave Winter Park in a few days. Expect to be in
Clinton about May 10 or 15.

As ever, yours,

Clinton, N. Y. August 15, 1939.

Dear Ezra:

Your letter came when I was enjoying a bout of acute arthritis
in my right hand. Three weeks in a hospital in Hanover, N.H. Then
slow recovery of the use of the hand. It all seems to have come
from a couple of teeth.

Arthritis not amusing.

You were not sheltered, nor were the students. When you
got here they were finishing semi-annual examinations, and excited
about getting away for the vacation. And those who stay for com-
mencement no less excited about their guests. Just one dam thing
after another - as they put it.

Semi annual examinations mean business for the students.
Those who are not students get dropped; some 18 of them last June.
And those who fail in any examination have to make up their work
in an approved summer school. A lot of more or less dubs have been
plugging in summer schools up to now, so that they can return to
college in the fall. Such things as dink exams are out.

I have seen Cowley once since I got back to Clinton a week ago.
He is busy now writing a 40,000 or so word report about entrance
requirements, curriculum, etc etc for the college, to be presented
to the trustees and faculty for discussion in the fall. Thus there
is no opportunity to talk anything through with him till that is
out of the way. Any plan for lectures must of course have his
approval, and also that of the trustees' committee on instruction
I suppose, of which the chairman is Charles A. Miller, whom you
must have met at the Roots' last June.

You suggest the week beginning May 1, and that will perhaps
be as good as any. Your plan about credits for hours taken from
literature or history courses may be practicable.

WHY is the American college system against live production

of literature? Reasons? Brass tacks; have to get down to them. (Have to distinguish between college and university. Can't lump them together. College, German gymnasium or French lycée plus a year, but with more freedom of choice. University - professional study and initiation into "research.") In many colleges that I know about, the students are encouraged to explore, required to explore to some extent. You cannot judge the work of today by what you experienced 30 years ago. Of course, few teachers are geniuses; few engineers, doctors, lawyers, etc., for that matter.

I think we all agree with you here about the stink of the publicity system. For example, boys about to enter some college - hunting about for the one where they can get the biggest scholarship, or some special inducement because they are athletes. There is one place for a certain kind of publicity. A good college should select its students, and to do that and really help the right boys to find their way, may well send a competent representative to the schools to get acquainted with the boys and give them some bit of guidance as to their choice of a college. We are doing that; advising boys against coming to Hamilton when it appears that their interests will be better taken care of in another kind of institution, or their capacity or diligence would make them liabilities here. (They will probably get on quite well in another kind of college, where they can skip languages, for example.) We have on the whole avoided the ballyhoo advertising. You know we have never given "athletic scholarships" and have not played up the glamorous non-essentials.

Could you suggest in advance the titles or topics of your lectures? That would help a good deal about getting the students interested, particularly the students who ought to be interested. "Who" and "What is it about" are the questions they are apt to ask.

all I can do is to indicate the general lines, names of
periodicals where I wrote more or less continually.

New Age/ Egoist / Little Rev/

New Democracy / Exile/

Italian/ Indice/ Mare( Supplemento Letterario )
regular fortnightly for a couple of years.
now the Meridiano di Roma/ Rassegna Monetaria

Paris, largely time went to Music/ Dial/ Pilhao Tibao/

YOU has carried a good deal/ I dare say Kit/kat wd. give you
list of what he himself has pubd/

Hound and Horn/ Economic Forum/

I dunno about coming over until you folks STOP the war.
Europe too interesting to leave.

Wonder wd/ Lester Littlefield, Wm. Sloane House, 356 W. 34 th
New York
be of any assistance to you. re/ bibog/ etc.

I haven't seen the Maclean's poem OR Bill Wm's on my econ.
ole Bull need's a bit of air and travel. mebbe when he
retires from pilldoctorin he will git some. / an Possum
allus did get under his skin. an with reason. considerable
of the Possum ed. be emended. etc. etc.

mor anon/ I can only plough thru a cert.no. pages

The Alabama
Winter Park
Florida

November 29, 1939.

Dear Ezra:

You are dead right. Most Americans hate an irritant, especially an irritant to thought. "Discontinue my subscription". That's the reply to anything that irritates. I know a paper - weekly - which has had many such letters because of a vigorous editorial expressing scepticism about "allied" motives for the war. And it is a religious weekly -

So the Nation and New Republic print the stuff that they know their readers will approve; and the St. Eve. Post and Liberty and Colliers follow their example - on other sides. But they are all of one character. The N. Y. Times prints a good many letters, some of which express views that dissent from the editorial policy. I shall be happy to send you newspaper clippings.

Dear fellow-alumnus Kaltenborn is doing a good job: vigorously opposing our participation in the war, and pointing out the deceptions of the British - or some of them -, and constantly insisting that the censorship is no less strait in England and France than it is in Germany. We get daily radio accounts from Berlin, London, and Paris representatives of United Press, and people remark on the fact that the Berlin radio speeches are far less controlled by the censor, franker and more informing, than those from Paris and London. So there you are.

To start a weekly or monthly under present conditions would take a lot of capital, I fear; and I have none of that that I can possibly spare. If I were rich, what fun I could have, making "along nose" at the conventional public!

Anyone who has anything kindly to say of Italy or Germany, pointing to their successes and achievements in non-political matters, is sure to be accused of being a secret member of the Bund or planning to set up Fascism here! Fanaticism and intolerance grow daily, while the friends of the Jews clamor for tolerance of their kind.

- 2 -

You know what arthritis is? No fun if it set-tles in the right wrist. It keeps up.

Of course I couldn't telephone or visit Noyes, because I have been here since Oct.15.

You are wrong about Cowley. The college is al-ready waking up. Immense changes are being made in admission requirements, and curricular changes will follow.

Communist Browder was refused permission to ad-dress students, Dartmouth & Harvard. Excuse, he had been indicted by grand jury for having passport with assumed name. Then a Yale club asked him, the president permitted, & he is to speak there soon. The horror of many people! He, a criminal, under indictment: But many men get in that position who are not guilty; just an excuse for refusing speech by a communist. "Freedom of speech & press in U.S.A."

Hull's "trade agreements" are to be attacked in Senate on the ground that they are really treaties & therefore must be ratified by Senate; which has not been done for any of them. Will be a big row.

Ham Fish "threatens" to run for the Republican nomination unless other Repub. candidates declare emphatically against our entering the war. "So far the Repub.candidates, who already number half a dozen, have failed to present the issue of keeping out of the war as the paramount issue, & unless they do so, I may take it direct to the people in the primary state.

Gannet(Frank) is considering the demand that he run as Republican.

McNutt is said to have 100 votes (Democratic) on the first ballot. N.Y.State Young Repub.Clubs pledge support for Attorney Dewey. Roosevelt asks that conventions be postponed two months.

Relief graft hunt in Kansas City. After the "high er ups". Started by Judge Reeves, who got Pender-gast (Dem. Mo. leader) jailed last year.

Six Amer.seminarians, just back from Rome, think Italy will be in the war by Spring; on which side they don't know. "Boston. Amer.citizens warned to leave Italy soon because the country expects to be in the war by Spring" returning passengers say. Daught-ers of U.S.consular attache in Rome sent home for this reason.

- 3 -

U.S.Red Cross is sending clothes and medicine to Poland in cooperation with the German Red Cross. Food is plenty there, well distributed by the Germans. Fear typhus on acct.of lice etc. Germans are delousing the population. U.S. providing warm clothes

Times editorial says Germans will not be moved by Chamb.'s speech of 11/27 because they are kept in ignorance of the facts. But they well remember, as do the Italians, the similar promises that Brit. made to the German People during the last war. Will they be suckers again?

All these items from yesterday's Times. I shall send you clippings. Enclosed illustrates Amer.state of mind; but naturally the intelligenzia devour the war news; the rest are bored by it. "Phoney war" say they. Old gentlemen whom I know, all for our going in to save democracy again, or save the British Empire. Very devoted to the dear Empire, which expects every American to do his duty.

Newspapers live by their advertising. Dept.stores & movies & theaters their chief support. Mostly run by the children of Abraham - or rather of Jacob, whose business methods many of them follow.

In Cuba the other day, labor congress, Americas. Speakers said: Good Neighbor Policy is dead. True? Doubtful. S.Amer. countries still glad to borrow from Uncle Sam. By & by they will begin calling him Uncle Shylock?

Prop-putty - prop-put-ty - propp-puttt-ty.

Remember me very cordially to Mrs. Pound and to your Father and Mother. I hope you are all well.

As ever, yours,

Nov. 30

Thanksgiving Day in Florida & New England, but not in NY. We divided on the day this year. Pres. R. to some states, Nov. 23? Others kept to the old 'last day' in Nov.

I Feb

Dear Bib

I don't know how many of my pubd/ works you have read.
Things were rather hurried last spring. I have remarked that
criticism is among hardest things to get in this world.
You were already in library/ BUT did you consider my ABC
of Reading as class text book ?

Has any of the english faculty faced it in that light ?
is any of 'em capable of standing up to it ? AND of
sending me an opinion of it.

so far as I know no acting prof.

has.

some MAY use it ( I believe I did hear of its being in use )
but I had no news of how or of what the pref or teacher
thought.

I want the straight opinion, not a soft answer..

// Second on opening again the Active Anthology I am glad
I took the trouble to get some of Bunting printed.

/// Now that wants are printed up to Canto 71, I wonder
if you or anyone wants to make a comparison with Chaucer

for MY enlightenment. I don't yet say to a FORMED poem/
but the published part can now at least be measured as an
omnium gatherum etc. / also I believe that at least in 62171
I have added something to narrative method.

that wasn't just lying there on the table.

8 Jan an YABB selectly my
first
free moment.

I.

With Usura the line grows thick

Means the LINE in painting and design.

Quattrocento painters still in morally clean era when usury as buggers were on a par.

AS the moral sense becomes as incapable of moral distinction as the Archbugship of Cantingbury or Ment Norman or J.P.Morgan

painting gets bitched.

I can tell the bank rate and component of tolerance for usury of any epoch by the quality of LINE in painting. Baroque etc/ era of usury becoming tolerated.

2.

Praedis/ I don't care how you spell yr/ wop painters/ and I don't know whether A/P/ was from Predi, preDO, or Predis / never been to his home town/

3/ St Trophime, in ALLES, civilization entered that district before L. Blum and co/ got centroll. better keep frog spellink. thereaint no church of S.Trofime/

4/ Eleusis is VERY eliptical / it means that in place of the sacramental fucking in the Mysteries you ave the 4 and six penny 'ore.

as you see the moral bearing is vurry high, and the degardation of the sacrament which is the coition and NOT the going to a fatbuttocked priest erregistry office , has been completely debased largely BY Antianity, or misunderstANDING of that crass religion.

AD is certainly better than PER, but neither translates the FOR

which means in vece di

per le rite Fleusiniana

dalle rite, HELLUP !!

English is half way BETWEEN inflected languages and Chinese

I am not sure that

Tellerando usura / doesn't SOUND better and give the force better than CON/

WITH in English derives from ang/saxon, and has oppositive aroma/

as in WITHSTAND meaning stand against.
I don't mean that it means AGAINST/

but tellerando has a sonorous body that helps the line.

BEHEST last line, very strong imperative/ probably NOT indicated in dictionary. but I think stronger than cenni

all of which gives you MORE trouble.. ma CHE

You cd/ leave the CON usura in various places/ but I think tellerando better in opening line and in line 2. for the repeat.

also the choice between the two con/ and tol/ gives you more freedom.

Mountain wheat/ they say HERE " di montagna " not monte

which is also associated with heck shop.

DEMARCATION; is intellectual / it is also boundary of field
if you like/ but demarcation is universal.

The bastid Cromwell and shitten anglican bishops and bankers
OBSCURE EVERY hierarchy of values/

Tagliapietra ( ?? not man who breaks stone but the
artifex..

A di Predi is O.K. if that is where he came from.

I wonder if he was da Frate ?

??? pietra VIVA ?? whazzat mean ? San Zeno architecht
also CUT a lot of the stone pillars himself and signed
one pair/group with knots of stone/

fu San Trophime, we keep yr/ rhythm/ I think in Italian
you need " la Chiesa " both for churches in Arles and
St Hilaire, of Poitiers.

otherwise it cd. mean the blekes themselves
and to the ecclesiastickal munniments.

rusteth / fa rugine ?? AL of il cesello

weave gold in her pattern/ in Rapallo middle ages/
industry of weaving actual gold THREAD into cloth.

piu
nessuna apprende l arte di tolerare con file d'oro
// damn wop langwidg has only one work for
thread and wire ????

grembo ?? how refined/ VENTRE ??

what is CHHI ?? brought palsy to bed/ 1; e; palsied old man//
Shikespeer's langwidg is so resilient..