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Vienna, 20 February 1930

Mr.
E s r a P o u n d ,

Rapallo
12, Via Marsalle

Dear Mr. Pound,

I am told by Mr. Herlitschka that you are on the lookout for a reliable
Vienniese bookshop. I beg to mention that I am since Oct. 1 st. at Wilhelm
Braumüller and Son, bookseller, Vienna, Graben 21.

In case you should be willing to entrust my firm your commands I would
take special care that your orders should be executed with utmost care and
quickness.

Mr. and Mrs. Schwarzwald want me to remind them to you and I too hope
that you have not utterly forgotten your Viennese friends. Now shop: We are
sending you to-day "Paideuma" by Frobenius. I want to tell you that this book
is also contained (as 4th volume) in a work by Frobendus, called "Erlebte Erd-
teile, Ergebnisse eines deutschen Forscherlebens", 7 Bände, which costs alto-
gether 63 Austrian Schilling. If you should prefer to have the whole work, send
back the Paideuma, not to have it twice.

I am

WILHELM BRAUMÜLLER & SOHN

UNIVERSITÄTSBUCHHANDLER

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Wien, den 2. August 1930

Hochwohlgeboren

Herrn E z r a Pound,

Rapallo

Sehr geehrter Herr !

Wir sandten Ihnen am 4. III. 1. J. ein Exemplar von Brunswig, Leibniz,
im Beträge von

österr.Schilling 8.-

und ersuchten Sie am 14. VI. 1. J. um freundliche Ueberweisung desselben.

Da wir bis heute noch immer nicht in den Besitz unseres Guthabens
gelangt sind, ersuchen wir Sie, sehr geehrten Herrn, uns dasselbe freund-
lichst umgehend zu überweisen, wofür wir Ihnen im Voraus bestens danken.

Wir empfehlen uns und zeichnen

hochachtungsvoll

Wilhelm Braumüller & Sohn
Universitätsbuchhändler
Wien, I. Graben 21

8th October, 1931.

Frobenius, Leo. Erythraea: Länder und Z生命DES heiligen Königsmordes ("Erythraea: The Lands and Times of Ritual King Murder.")

Leo Frobenius is one of the most distinguished of modern German ethnologists, though hardly in the narrow technical sense of this world. He adds a good deal of philosophy along the lines of "cultural Morphology." He has specialised on Africa. His magnum opus, Erlobte Erdteile ("Parts of the World I have Experienced") consists of seven fat volumes, and is more or less on the scale of Sir James Frazer's Golden Bough. The volumes of this series are sold separately in Germany. So far as I can discover only one of his books has appeared in English. It is called Africa Calling, and was published in 1913 in a translation by Rudolph Blind. Do not know the publisher, nor the German volume of which it is a translation.

There are many text illustrations, and an appendix of 54 half-tone and colour-plates, among the latter some very beautiful reproductions of prehistoric rock drawings.

The present volume is a long special monograph (368 pages) on the "ritual murder of kings," a theme which has occupied a number of scholars during recent years. To investigate it Frobenius and a number of other scholars undertook a journey to Africa in 1928-30. The results of these elaborate researches are incorporated in this book.

The expedition covered much ground - from the Zambesi river to the Orange Free State, then across into former German West Africa. Throughout this vast region, which Frobenius calls Erythraea, remains of the custom of ritual king murder were found; also other parallelism. All this territory once seems to have had a cultural unity, as shown not only by ruins, pottery, etc., but also by a certain conformity of half-forgotten customs and legends.

2.

In so far as possible the author has tried to
let the natives tell their stories and legends in
their own words. The result is an excellent collec-
tion of negro folk-lore. The archaeology of ruins,
like the mysterious one at Simbabwe, is exhaustively
dealt with. In fact the whole subject is tackled
with Teutonic thoroughness, but it is not dry-as-dust.
Frobenius writes vividly and with enthusiasm, and, so
far as a layman can judge, with a sound sense of
scholarship.

The book is certainly fascinating to anyone in-
terested in primitive Africa, and the problem of
ritual king-murder, which once seems to have been
widespread, even outside of Africa (see maps p. 328-
329). I have no idea how many such people there
are, but possibly enough to justify publication: the
general reader would not be interested. All first-
class public libraries throughout the English-speaking
world would have to have the book. In the long run
one might come home, but it would be a slow process,
considering the heavy initial expense of translation
and production.

Festfolge

Dienstag, 29. Juni 1938

ab 20 Uhr zwangloses Zusammensein und Begrissung der
euswärtigen Gäste im "Schwarzen Stern" Römerberg)

Mittwoch, 29. Juni 1938

11 Uhr im Festsaal des Völkermuseums:

Begrüssungsansprache des Herrn Oberbürgermeisters
Staatsrat Dr. Krebs.

Ansprachen auswärtiger Gäste.

Eröffnung einer Ausstellung der Frobenius-Expedition
1937/38 nach Niederländisch-Indien.

13 Uhr Frühstück bei Geheimrat Frobenius,
Hermann Göring Ufer 4. (Einladung ergeht gesondert.)

18.30 Uhr Festvortrag

20 Uhr Festessen der Stadt Frankfurt a.M.
(Einladung ergeht gesondert.)

Donnerstag, 30. Juni 1938

11 Uhr Gründungssitzung der Kulturforschenden Gesell-
schaft:

Vortrag von Geheimrat Leo Frobenius
Besprechung und Beschlussfassung.

16 Uhr Ausflüge und Besichtigungen.

Freitag, 1. Juli 1938

10 bis 13 Uhr Kurzvorträge und wissenschaftliche Be-
sprechungen im Sitzungszimmer des Forschungsinstituts
für Kulturmorphologie, Stiftstr. 30

15 bis 19 Uhr Fortsetzung der Vorträge und Besprechungen.
(Vortragsanmeldungen an das Forschungsinstitut für Kul-
turmorphologie bis 14. Juni 1938 erbeten.)

20 Uhr Gemütliches Zusammensein in den Räumen des For-
schungsinstituts für Kulturmorphologie, Stiftstr. 30.

FORSCHUNGSINSTITUT

FÜR KULTURMORPHOLOGIE E. V.

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Dr. Rhotert/Ml.

Frankfurt a.M., den 20. Dez. 1932

Herrn

Ezra Pound,

Rapallo - Italien.
via Marsala 12.5

Sehr geehrter Herr Pound,

ich habe Geheimrat Frobenius, der heute zwi-
schen zwei Reisen nur kurz hier war, Ihr freundliches
Schreiben vom 10 ds. Mts. vorgelegt, für das er Ihnen
herzlich dankt. Er weiss nichts darüber, dass er even-
tuell in Genua einen Vortrag halten soll. Wenn Sie
oder eine dortige Vereinigung sich darum bemühen, so
wäre es sehr angenehm, wenn dieser Vortrag etwa zwi-
schen dem 8. und 10. Januar stattfinden könnte, da er
dann erneut nach Rom reisen muss und auf der Hinreise
am besten Gelegenheit hätte, in Genua Station zu machen.
Er würde sich dann auch ganz besonders freuen, Sie in
Genua oder Rapallo einmal wiederzusehen und zu sprechen.
Vielleicht haben Sie die Freundlichkeit mir bald mitzu-
teilen, ob Ihnen irgendetwas Näheres über das Vortrags-
arrangement bekannt ist.

Mit verbindlichstem Dank

und dem Ausdruck
vorzüglichster Hochachtung

FORSCHUNGSINSTITUT

FÜR KULTURMORPHOLOGIE E. V.

Dr. Rhotert/Fa.

Frankfurt a.M., den 16. Februar 1933

Herrn

Ezra Pound

Via Marsala 12-5

Rapallo

Sehr geehrter Herr Pound!

Geheimrat Frobenius ist augenblicklich fast dauernd auf
Vortragsreisen, sodass ich noch keine Gelegenheit hatte, ihm
Ihr frdl. Schreiben vom 6.d.Mts. zu übergeben. Dem Professor
Alain Locke würden wir sehr gerne die Erlebten Erdteile schicken,
wenn nicht augenblicklich unsere finanziellen Verhältnisse so
schlecht wären, dass wir auch das Versenden von Buchpublikationen
an nahe Freunde und Interessenten einstellen mussten. Aehnlich
geht es auch mit der neuen geplanten Expedition, die sicherlich
ganz wichtige Funde zutage bringen würde. Die Aufgaben sind da,
es fehlt nur leider an den wirklich geringen Mitteln. Hoffent-
lich gelingt es mit Hilfe der Freunde von Frobenius doch bald
den Plan so zu sichern, dass er wenigstens im engen Rahmen durch-
geführt werden kann.

Ihre Ausführungen über die Negeruniversitäten haben uns
natürlich sehr interessiert. Aber was für konkrete Pläne knüpfen
Sie an diese sicherlich änderungsbedürftigen Tatsachen ?

Mit den besten Grüssen

Ihr sehr ergebener

P.S. Wir werden Prof.A.Locke
aber regelmäßig unsere veröffentlichten zusenden.

Bei Frau Professor Otto
Hühnerweg, 5, Frankfurt am Main.
Sunday, December 17, 1933.

Dear Mr. Pound:

Rhotert is away and the Institute forwarded me
your letter anen Frobenius - and I whooped with joy at the know-
ledge that there was an American - and what an American - inter-
ested in the man's ideas.

The introduction of Frobenius to the American pub-
lic is one of the jobs I have set for myself and to that end I am
sweating blood over the translation of Schicksalskunde im Sinne
des Kulturwerdens, which appeared about a year ago and with which
you are doubtless familiar. It should be finished in a couple
of months (I have not yet found a publisher) and parts of it
may be suitable for the magazine of which you speak. Later I want
to compile selections from Faideuma and other parts of Erlebte
Erdteile, from the Atlantis series of Märchen, from his writings
on the Felsbilder etc., selections interspersed with comment in a
way that will give a good round picture of his work and, more
important, of the ideas that lie behind it. In the event of find-
ing a publisher for such a volume Drs. Rhotert and Jensen have
promised to help me with it since I still lack the qualifications
to enable me to undertake such an operation on my own hook. what is bee
cause I came here less than a year ago unable to read, write or
speak a word of the language, a defect I am removing with all
possible speed. And Frobenius himself has been very pleased with
what I have done to date.

If you think our cooperation in any way possible,
I shall be more than pleased. payment is a very secondary matter.
If it were not that I'd be doing articles about the sex-life of the
Nazis. Seven years of New York magazine and newspaper work have
given me a fair and not always favorable conception of American
ideas and tastes, there will have a tough row to hoe
until we regain some sense of proportion. Your estimate that it
takes twenty years to get anything into the Anglo-Saxon head is
a mild one.... and I wish you luck with your magazine - and hon-
or the gentlemen who have the courage and the foresight to under-
take such a publication in these times.

One reason why I may be of some possible use to
you is because I belong to the infant class and so am still aszy
susceptible to ideas. Even without a profound knowledge of Eng
Frobenius' work, I have grasped his main ideas and think I can do
a competent criticism for you, a claim not as rash as the above
might indicate, for I have my step-father, Prof. Walter F. Otto,
the philologist, to help me and to check up on imbecilities. He is
one of Frobenius' warmest friends and admirers, one of the direc-
tors of the institute, not only knows his ideas but understands
them and is responsible, more than any other man, for the pres-
ence of that bouncing, irrepressible genius in Frankfurt.

May I hear from you?

P.S. Here, just now, on the gusty side, it is rather dis- couraging. For something positive you might try Spengler's new book, parts of which are really fine - others rather weak.

Hühnerweg 5, Frankfurt am Main.

Saturday, December 23, 1933.

Dear Mr. Pound:

Thanks for your prompt answer. Looks like a pretty good set-up. Magazines are my hobby. I've started three in the past six years - on paper. The dough has always been lacking, perhaps fortunately... and I'd rather have a finger in a new one, with life in it, than write the lead story for an established rag that sits, like a professor I know, "still in sein fet."... So anything you may say about the book: policy, format, scope - will be of interest.

Seems that the logical introduction to Frobenius would be through the Felsbilder which, in recent years, have been much before the public eye. Did you see his exhibition last spring in Rome, or the one in Paris which lasted more than a month and ended a week ago? I think he is known to the English speaking world only through certain very dull but beautifully illustrated articles on the Felsbilder which appeared after recent expeditions in the Illustated London News. And then people know only that he found them, have no idea of how he tied them up with ancient cultures that still live, how through them he brought new light to bear on past and present etc., how his intuitive methods solved problems which the practical men had only the faintest conception of etc.

The whole thing, retrospectively, is simple, can be put into 1500 words, with chapeau, and stated so plainly that it will easily slide down the murkn throat. I already know what I want to say but will spend next week at the institute checking up on facts.

For the second piece I suggest the investigation of a single culture, showing how he gets at it and what he gets out of it and perhaps tying up a culture like the Ethiopian, for instance, patriarchal, mystic, centrifugal, with that of Germany; the Hamitic, matriarchal, rational, centripetal, with that of France. The third should deal with his idea of what culture is, most of which could come out of Paideuma, - and simplified, of course, as much as possible. The second and third would call for more space than the first. ... If you want illustrations - and they might help - I can probably lay my hands on almost anything

Frobenius returns on Christmas from the Ebyzvez Wüste. Night after there will be a bender at the Barfussecke in the Altstadt from which some of us - and certainly the doughy guest of honor - will return pie-eyed and possibly barfussen.

With all good wishes,

I think I can dispose of it elsewhere.

I've been talking with the Professor about "academic recognition." Not being familiar with you or your work, he does not know quite what to say or do and suggests that you send an outline, for instance, of the lectures you held in Milan and copies of a few articles or books along the same lines together with anything you care to say about the direction you want to follow. Then, with information in his pocket, he can go and talk turkey to the right people and perhaps accomplish something. There is the possibility that your ideas might not coincide with those of the Regierung and that, under this sort of a dictatorship, would be extremely awkward. I can tell you frankly that our best economists, Semetic, have departed for other shores. On the other hand there is a tremendous interest, specific and general, in national economics and if you hit the line that appealed to the triumvirate or, to the men who tell them what to do about such matters, your success would be a great one. (Of course the most obvious and cheapest way to official recognition here today would be through a biological polemic - you should see the rot that is printed and taught!)

It also seems to me that as poet, critic, musician, scholar there are other things you could talk about. If you took a deep breath and spoke about American education it might go big. But it is one thing to curse one's country at home, another to damn it abroad. Still, you might even find something good to say about the states although, as I gather from the "Utter Farce" I've read it would not be too easy. (What was a damn good article by the way. Half the institute has read it and Probenius still has it. Will return it in a few days.) Purely as a question in dynamics in introducing F. to the U.S. would it carry more weight if your ac./rec. were to say, as a philologist?

The Professor also made the suggestion that it might be the most practical thing to come here and look the situation over for yourself. Be on the ground, talk to the buzzards and let them see what an exceptional American is like. If it were not for the fact that we live in extremely modest circumstances and (so long as my visit lasts) have no spare room, my mother and the Professor would be honored to put you up as it is, we shall all look forward to seeing something of you if you do come. (Did not you put on an opera somewhere in these parts?)

This letter makes me feel a bit awkward - like a pupil giving advice to a master. If I've slipped anywhere, overhok it... and I hope to hell you like the goddam article. I've tooted it so the whole institute is hanging on its fate. They're all swacting these days and I'm getting ready for the Ausstellung and F. is half nuts with impatience. I'm helping out. (Felsbild) Tomorrow I paint giraffes on a twenty foot canvas. I feel as though I were working for Dexter Fellowes.

Wednesday, January 17, 1934.

Dear Mr. Pound:

delighted that you found the piece acceptable and
hope the ones to follow will please you as well or better. Unfortu-
nately I cannot find a duplicate of VI and the dark room is too
much in use these days for me to dig out the negative and print ano-
ther. Have, however, discovered a few that are somewhat similar and,
when I get the time will drop around to the China Institute to see
what they have to say about said ideograms. The primitive
sign for a field is found as a Weltbild in almost all cultures
everywhere and its formalization is likewise common. It is
more than likely than your covered pits symbolize or represent some
kind of an animal spoor, such spoor, including human footprints,
being of not uncommon occurrence in Felsbilder. Your speculations
are ingenious but we'll have to wait till a VI duplicate is available
before coming to any definite conclusions. Looked through several hun-
dred today without coming across it, that particular file being in a
bit of a mess.

regret ABC and Cavalcanti have not yet arrived. What
you have to say on them, Max Max &/or J. Aziz and the others is in-
teresting, but until something comes and I can go to the Verlag with
what I and others more qualified to judge think of it, not much of any-
thing can be done - regarding them or regarding lectures.

F. has been in Budapest or some such place and gets
back tomorrow for a couple of days, the Ausstellung, thank god, having
been put off till the end of the month. This morning Dr. Jensen, his
secretary, came in very puzzled with your gift to the Reich which he
wanted me to explain so that he could explain it to the Geheimrat who
won't have the foggiest notion of what it is all about.

Not sure that I made a very good job. By auxiliary currency I understand the paper circulated by the French Chamber of Commerce, or some such organization. Is that right? And in this case it is not generally known to be an auxiliary currency, even in France - or am I wrong?

Re. Hitler interview, since you are not known in Germany, would suggest that you get Empfehlung from some high Italian official and then write to beetle browed Dr. Ernst Hanfstaengl, at the Brown House in Munich. He's right next to H. and takes care of such things. I might have had one myself if I'd had the dough to stay a little longer in Munich last spring. Anyway Hanfstaengl is a Hawvud man, used to run a swank Fifth avenue art shop or gallery and should be familiar, if not with your work, at least with your name. A note from Il Duce would, of course, cinch it. Such interviews nowadays, as you probably know, are extremely rare.

Note in Time states bans of "obscenity" have been lifted on Ulysses (Federal Judge John M. Wolsey) and Random House will publish unabridged edition at $3.50. gives you credit for boosting it, sending it to Margaret Anderson in '18. Joyce, in Paris, reported to be in need of dough for eye operation. Opinion stated to be historic for its future influence on U. S. book publishing. Thought you might be interested - but perhaps it is old stuff.

Have reread THE ABJECT FARCE and what seemed clear at first is, on more careful scrutiny, cloudy it is doubtless my stupidity. But, if you can bear with it, I would welcome an explanation.

Take the first page and the use of the word method. I assume rashly that the difference between the ideographic and the logical methods can, roughly, stand for the difference between the method of Frobenius and that of Tyler (Frazer is too prone

to fiction) many of us can say, is the product of his time. And the method of each is the result of his Ausgangspunkt. Tyler's was a logical one. His world was a Naturwissenschaftliche world, natural science held the absolute answer to everything, Darwin was a god and man was a reasoning creature, culture the product of his mind, Tyler was a thorough workman, a careful, logical thinker. He could even write. From the Nineteenth Century (and in America from the Twentieth Century) viewpoint there is little to be said against his method or conclusions. (Primitive Culture, 2 Vols.)

Go back a few more years to the time when the world was gerichtet by God. Then every phenomenon, natural, physical, cultural, was given a religious explanation - which was also right for those times, that Ausgangspunkt.

Today in Europe (or at least in Germany) there is quite another Ausgangspunkt. Logic and natural science have failed to answer every question. Man is thought to be primarily moved by Ergriffenheit, that Begriffenheit or conscious thinking comes later. Culture is believed to have a gestalt of its own. It is thought to have a life, form and growth of its own independent of human influence, that it influences man rather than being influenced by him - an idea which would not have been tenable in Tyler's time and which will not be easily accepted everywhere now. So we have the als Ausgangspunkt idea of Kulturmorphologie and from that the culturemorphological method.

Following this line it is hard to see how one can apply the ideographic method to literature or anything else when the Ausgangspunkt in most English speaking countries is still the naturwissenschaftliche on logical one. Seems to me the Ausgangspunkt re. culture, literature, life and every other dam thing will have to undergo an alteration before a new, comprehensible method can be introduced.

And while the logical method may not be adapted to the
academic needs of the age of Marconi I fail to see why, as a me-
thod, it should be so utterly false. The horse and Wagon may not
be adapted for use on an express highway. But they were damn useful
in the past and, in a certain province, remain equally useful to-
day. Just because we now have an instrument of wider range
is no reason why the old instrument should be condemned. Its
limitations are recognized, of course, but it has its good points,
too.

There are a few other things ... but I think I've been
enough of a niusance for the time being. wish I had your work on
the Ideographic Method to hand. Cannot define exactly what said
method is. Do you mean, perhaps, suggesting the idea of a thing
rather than the thing itself? There are several of us, including
the Professor (the article has been widely read) who would like
to know. ...... If you have to jump on me hard for all this,
please don't wear your Bergstefel.

Regards,

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February 26, 1934.

Dear Mr. Pound:

A good way to introduce you here would be
through an article about your work and ideas etc., your
position as poet, critic, economist, musician, Gelehrter etc.,
in a magazine like the Europäische Revue. Once you were talk-
ed about, once your name was known to the comparatively small
group interested in the things in which you are interested,
something more definite could be done.

Atzkaheizmemax It is almost impossible for me
to attempt such an article without data. My library, books,
magazines and whatnot, is boxed up in an attic on Long Island.
And I do not trust my memory. I have asked a publisher here
to send to England for anything of yours that could be found
-poetry
without result to date. Doubtless someone's inefficiency.

From what I can recall and guess about you,
Gavalcanti the the ABC of E represent but single facets of
your thought....so, I wonder if you'll be kind enough to ask
your publisher in the States (or wherever) to send along
something that you would care to hang your future German rep.,
on and some poetry as well. - Or would it be wiser to wait
for the collected crit and ABC of R? And biographical stuff?
I know you were one of the Little Review gang and that some years
ago you told the faculty (or someone) of some U.S. institution
to go to hell when they raised Cain about your view of the
then current economic credo and that, like all men with some-
thing to say, you have your enemies, and that you have been
responsible for some first rate poetry, and also for the re-
moval of a lot of literary bunk.

2.

(By the way did you write those two lines about faces in the metro like "petals on a wet, black bough"? They've stuck with me for years. Nothing much to them, but they're damn good who wrote 'em.) So you see I don't know a hell of a lot about you. I visualize you as the yeast in the U.S educational loaf of tomorrow and the day after and that is about all. A working sketch to have in mind but not much to draw on for the Europäische Revue. I suppose there have been hundreds of articles about you in a number of languages. If they're in this file, you might send me an English one.

Frobenius blossomed out the other day with a two part popular article in the Berliner Illustrierte which I am sending along. I think you will be interested in the illustrations.

Will the magazine of the good woman who "ain't no lady" appear? If so it does I can help out, as you suggested, with some facts on the positive side of Germany. Recently a friend who is putting out a book on the subject wanted a confidential report on the status quo. I gave him the positive side, partly because I didn't want to land in a concert lage and partly because I think it far more important than the other. If it does'nt conflict with whatever he's trying to do (he writes in stage whispers and sounds important but vague) I can revamp the letter into a compact 2,500 word article for your people. It is awfully hard to get a clear idea of the European situation as a whole, but it seems to me now that matters will eventually come to a head in Austria and that the master of your No. 1 guinea pig will lead the opposition. But one guess is almost another. The only thing one can be sure of is trouble. Notice Hemingway is shocked at the casual way the French accept it. I think he'd find the enthusiasm here even more shocking.

3

I hope to ship the rest of Schicksalskunde off to England in about ten days and will then get to work on the second article in the Frobenius series. You should get it, if you want it, in about 3 weeks from today.

By the way, if Allan and Unwin decide for the irrational and accept Schicksalskunde would you care to write a foreword or introduction to the thing. It would please Frobenius and help the <u>thing</u> a damn sight more than anything I could <u>exist</u> do. Just a suggestion. The chances are that A and U won't and that you have more pressing matters to take care of.

If, as an economist, you want something to make your hair stand up on end, take a squint at the enclosed which I snipped from a last month's copy of *Time*.... but I suppose you get U.S. dailies, which I don't, and knew about it long ago. On the other hand Johnson's plans for a four day week as reported in today's General Anzeiger are encouraging. Which reminds me that it is not in the German character to take your logical view of the <u>existentialism</u> reallocation of working hours, insofar as it <u>gives</u> the workman increased time to whittle, collect stamps or sit on his fanny and smoke. Outside of patriotism, <u>has always been</u> the aim and end imperialism or anything else work <u>on</u> the <u> Nazism</u> and <u>communism</u> of existence, the regulation and supervision of non working hours <u>recently</u> have become a heilige dogma reminiscent of the conditioning of the classes in <u>the</u> Brave New World, except here it is hoped that almost all will be <u>Deltas</u>. The completely regimented <u>Arbeitsdienst</u>, while it has done splendid work in some ways and in other done much to relieve unemployment among the <u>younger</u> generation <u>or</u> spreading <u>increasing</u> purchasing power. They are well fed and get a few cents pocket money every week. They work for the fatherland and not for dough, cannot support a family, for instance. <u>which</u> is not the point.

What I mean to say is that the Germans have no use for or un-
derstanding of pleasure. The French, British or American idea
of happiness (a rationalistic irrationalism or, rather, vice-
versa, based, as F. would say, on a fundamentally materialistic
Weltanschauung) means absolutely nothing to them. Don't give
me happiness, cried Nietzsche, striking an impressive but doubt-
less sincere attitude - give me work! And nothing could be more
new but
German. That attitude, plus a deeply rooted patriotism and the
idea of the new Einheit struggling desperately against terrific
outside odds, plus acute need and the unwillingness to accept
charity has, in a large measure, made the success of the Arbeitsdienst possible. Assuming that the authorities would have
to feed these people anyway, they now get a vast army of work-
men for practically nothing. Which is good for the govt., as
an employer but which tends to lower rather than raise the gen-
eral standard of living. In other words the effect is the
opposite of the one you would have govts. strive for. .....
Perhaps it is not possible to do anything else in these critical
times. I do not know. At first sight, the way in which the
majority of the people have most responded is magnificent. At
second one is inclined to reflect on how many of them have already been successfully "conditioned."

Hve just talked with an austrian of the hook-nosed per-
suasion who left Wien two days before the unpleasantness and re-
turns tomorrow and learned that the fundamental feeling is real
Nazi, particularly among the peasants and the little burghers,
that Dollfuss would maintain his power only by the skin of his
teeth and the support of Benito. Thought really that the Ansch-
luss was bound to come and, curiously, with the thick skinned
objectiveness of the race, that a Nazi rule would be good be-
cause it would restore order almost at once, bad because it
would cause international trouble in the end, unless the stand

of Italy, France and England underwent a remarkable change. And then the Balkan people would not like it either. To say nothing of the Tchek govt. ..... Yes, it seems to me that there will be a great deal of unpleasantness afzwhatzxaxzwhatzxzx But as to saying what and how, exactly - that is another question. A month ago I would not have believed the awful mess in Wien to have been possible.

YYou, probably, have a better perspective and I would be interested in your ideas. And incoming mail is not, I think, tampered with. At least I have seen no indication of it. And there is no real reason why it should be.

May I hear from you re the E. R. article - which I cannot guarantee - say within the next ten days. When I'm shed of Schicksalskunde (and it has been a long session) I hope to visit for a while in Berlin - and people are sometimes careless about forwarding things.

Alles gut..etc.

Absender:

Wohnort: .................................................... (auch Zustell- oder Leitpostamt)

Straße, Hausnummer, Gebäudeteil,
Geburt od. Postschließfachnummer

Postkarte
 nationale
 Solidarität !
 Gebt ! Helft !

Mr. Egra Pound
Via Marsala 12/5

Straße, Hausnummer,
Gebäudeteil, Gtonwert

Dear Mr. Pound:

your card came this P. M.
Unfortunately I'd already sent carbon off
yesterday to Arnold Haskell, 31 Conduit st,
who is supposed to look after my things but
has never done so yet. Have told him to send
the thing to Criterion at once and have no-
tified Mr. Eliot that it is coming. Added
your suggestion re Cap, for which thanks.
Got ABC of Economics this morning and find
it swell. It should be published in the U.S.
Or is it? Cannot say Germany offhand. Need time
to digest it. Cheered when I read last sen-
tence on page 61. genau nach meine Meinung.
Will finish it tonight and then reread it at
leisure before passing it on. Congrats 31/41
Roman. Ambrosiano sounds exotic. Flattered
you find the piece worth bothering with. Aus-
stellung probably opens 3rd and am thinking
of British article on it, but its rather spot
news and doubt if U.S. story would be worth
while.

January 23, 1934.

Dear Mr. Pound:

thanks. Bin sehr gespannt
to see your ABC's etc., which have not yet
arrived. Good work with Routledge. English
often more business like when it comes to the
test. Good news for me yesterday which may
interest you. Frobenius is taking me along
on next expedition. Slated for October, to
last one year, possibly two. His twelfth
and last, hoffentlich the most important.
Tickled a nice, bright pink. Africa may be
Frobenius' guinea pig - it's fox's goose.
As point in dynamic problem it should carry.
Must polish French, photography, drawing,
archeology etc. Plenty to do. Next article
will be ready on or before 15th deadline.

Bei Baron von Pechmann
Berlin W
Wegelystrasse 1.

April 7th, 1934.

Dear Mr. Pound:

I've had an awfully decent letter from Mrs. B, who, thanks to you, has been working hard to dispose of the piece on rock paintings and, on the side, seems to have made some sort of an arrangement about a Fortune article, although I've not heard from McLeish yet. Darn nice of her and of you, too.

Seems that the Modern Museum is arranging a show of African Art and that the Fortune piece will more or less hang on that. I hate unsettled. I've asked Frobenius for original copies of Felsbilder. Naturally he doesn't want to part with them, even for a short time. But what he has done is to set a bunch of artists to work copying the things and, as they are the same people who made the original copies, the second should be as good as the first. If Fortune does not crash through I see no reason why these pictures could not be used in the New York exhibition, although, of course, I would like to make a small offset to have Fortune reproduce them in color and then lend them for the exhibit and thus kill two birds with one stone.

It looks as though I may get another break. Although it is not certain, it is hoped that a small group will go to copy the fairly well known paintings in the caves of Southern France and Eastern Spain, to leaving around the beginning of May and be gone six or seven weeks. I've been asked to come along. As there are not sufficient funds for such a trip the others are giving up their salaries to make it possible and I (who have none) am at least expected to provide my own keep. Which, though it is not much, will not be too easy as I have concerned myself only with Kultúmorphologie for the past year. But I hope to wangle it somehow.

The article for the Europäische Revue has not yet been written for lack of material and I have not felt like talking about it to Frau von Schnitzler (who owns it) until in a position to speak about you with more authority and knowledge than I now possess. I owe you an apology. On my last card stamps covered the "Mr." and I did not have a pen with me to add "Esquire." Some people do not notice these things. Others do. Frobenius feels insulted if one leaves out the "Geheimrat" (at Doorn he is known as Excellenz) as I once did when new to the ways of the country.

Lovely weather. Spring flowers everywhere. Ziergazze
Tiergarten taking on its first fresh yellow-green. Most of Berlin,
though, outside of the horrible dying heroes in the public places,
is too much like sixth avenue or Fourteenth street. A quieter edition
of these unlovely fixates thoroughfares, And buildings like the Reich-
stag and the Dom are horribly depressing. And the Seiges Allee. But
the people are not quite so musty as they are in Frankfurt and, as
usual, in a quiet way, I'm enjoying myself. Be here another ten days,
maybe longer. If there is anything I can do for you let me know. Allan
and Unwin turned Schicksalskunde down. Too bad.

Hotel Vallisoletano
Punto Viesgo
Santander, Espagna.

April 26, 1935.

Dear Mr. Pound:

Enclosed is a carbon copy of Dr. Jensen's letter
to Müller-Blatow, the lively bird I mentioned. Since there is no
chance of my seeing the man himself for a couple of months at the
least it might be a good idea to follow up Jensen's letter in
with one of your own - more or less, as the Germans say, um Fühlung
zu nehmen.

At the moment we are working in the caverns of
Castillo and La Pasiega (paintings and engravings) and will prob-
ably be here a good three weeks before moving on to the south.
On our way here we stopped again at Les Eyzies where a new cavern
(so to speak another wing of Les Combarelles) has been found. The
engravings are suspiciously new looking and the flints - which could
in the main have come from anywhere, don't amount to much, but I
do not think there is any doubt about the fossilizations. I want to
take another look at them on the way back. Met an American called
Kidder who had his own dig there. His standing with the French must
be a damn sight better than ours. They don't like us at the moment,
but whether it is merely jealousy or not I cannot say.

Here we are copying for our own archives stuff that is al-
ready known. If we find anything new it will only be by chance.

With all good wishes,

Dear Mr. Pound:

Many thanks for your kindness
and hospitality in Salzburg - an occasion which
I very much enjoyed.

Young Laughlin turned up last
Wednesday. I showed them quite a bit and they
seemed to evidence interest. L. found my ar-
ticle too heavy, so I rewrote Cultures in the
Rock and sent him that together with a lot of
first class black and whites. Next issue Marchen.
Hope your daughter likes hers. I did not know
her name, so F. inscribed Miss Ezra P. He sends
his best. . . . . . Note in Times, Aug 24., that
Alberta has elected Social Credit. But apparent-
ly not strictly Douglas. Regards,

FRANKFURT, Aug., August 26, 1935.

FRANKFURT A. M., DEN February 27, 1936.

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Ezra Pound, Esq.
RAPALLO
Via Marsala 12 - 5

Dear Mr. Pound:

Returned from Königsberg (where our Felsbilderausstellung has just closed) to find your two postcards which were promptly followed by a letter and the Fenollosa.

This last is like a mint julep in a heat wave:fresh and cool and stimulating. A permanent truth as valid today as on the day it was written. What amazes me is that the man schon 1908 so ein Überblick gehabt hat.

"It is one thing to write catchy magazine articles, and another to get the pointed edge of the wedge into 32 pages. " Richtig. For that reason I want about ten days to think the thing out before sending you an outline. Am tied down momentarily by stuff that has piled up in my absence. Otherwise I'd get it to you sooner. The outline approved, I can probably send you the manuscript by the end of March. Leaving for Madrid first week in April to continue work we began in northern Spain two years ago. That is, if the Spanish revolution permits. A Communist government would hardly welcome a German expedition.

Thanks for your suggestions. They fit in with and clarify the form of what I had in mind. Will take lessons in coherence from your ABC's. Regret that your work on the drum-telegraph is not in our files. Probably been borrowed by some enthusiast and not returned. Could you send me a copy? Will return it with the Fenollosa when the MS is finished. If that is agreeable,

Thanks for your interest and your trouble which I hope to be able to repay with a decent piece of work. The Geheimrat sends his best.
With all good wishes,

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Dear Mr. Pound:

I have written the thirty pages on Frobenius - and
torn them up. Made the mistake of trying to cover too much ground.

As you I am starting in again and limiting myself to Paideuma
which is more or less the basis of all his kulturlehre. Even then
there will have to be some pretty stiff condensing. That means that
the reader will have no sinecure.

OUTLINE: Frobenius idea of culture per se, in a people and in an
individual. 2) The dominants, time and space. A. Biological. B. Psy-
chological. 3) How they (the dominants) express themselves in the
Mystic (time-emphasised, masculine) and Magic (space emphasised, fem-
ine) cultures. 4) The meaning behind history. A. Sun and moon als
Pädagogen des Irrationalen (how would you translate that?) B. Origin
of state and religion. 5) Theoretical summary A. materializations of
culture. B. Proportion in the paideumatic succession.

Then, if there is still space, an appraisal: Paideuma and
free will etc. If I can, and again it is a question of space, I'd
like to say a little about the cartographic method, the method by which
one gathered a fair amount of the material the examination of which
resulted in the theory and theories given. ....... Trying to squeeze
so much into so little space makes me feel, conversely, like the
flea which tried to scratch a pimple on his balls with a boxing glove.
Its awkward, but it probably can be done. Delivery date is extended to
around the seventh of April. We don't leave till the 15th.

With all good wishes,

FRANKFURT A. M., DEN ... Ma. April. 7th, 1936.

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Dear Mr. Pound:

Thank you for your letter. From 1000 B. C. onwards
is the period in which the high religions came into being. If one
wants to be exact one can put Laotse in the 6th century B.C and
the others into those date niches where they belong. The birth of
the state took place many thousands of years B. C., just when is
not definite. Recent discoveries (last month) at Mohenjo-daro in
Sind indicate that the pre- Aryan Indus civilization was one of the
oldest in Asia and might well have been the father of the Sumerian,
Chinese and Japanese cultures. Among the finds are seals supplying
astronomical data on the Zodiac, now thought by the English to be
of Dravidian origin. Where the Zodiac appears one must assume - or
at least I do - that the combination of the solar and lunar cultures
must have preceded it, the zodiac being a fairly late materializa-
tion of this culture combination. Therefore I'd put the origin of the
state into the sixth or seventh millenium, if not earlier. Definite
information about the latest finds is lacking, but Frobenius hopes
to send an expedition to India in the fall to see what can be found.

Meanwhile, I'm very pleased that you found the essay good
am
and/sorry that it is above the heads - or at least the interest -
des englischen Publikums.

If the New English weekly print it, it is, as you say, a
start. And perhaps they will be good enough to make a few reprints
which, bound, might be used as publisher's bait. And if that does'nt

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go I'm ready to make a longer and perhaps more elementary effort
when I get back from Spain. (Start now set for the 18th).

Frobenius still in Madrid. Will tackle him on usury when he
returns.

The head of the department of music here is supposed to be
an up and lively bird with, naturally, good connections in Berlin.
I can get an introduction to him, ask him what he thinks about your
Kulturbund, something which I, personally, find a psychological hit.
It would be better, however, to work out some rough plan or program
first: what sort of people are to make up the Kulturbund, how is
it going to work and what it is going to work at. And if there are
signs of cooperation, signs that the state is interested, then one
could pop the Mozart question.

With all good wishes,

Herrn Fox z. Kt.

22.4.36.

Herrn
Professor Müller-Blato
Frankfurt a.M.
Viktoria Allee 30

Sehr geehrter Herr Professor!

Ein junger Amerikaner, der bei uns im Institut arbeitet, ist Herr Douglas C. Fox. Er steht in ständiger Korrespondenz mit dem-wie er wir sagt-sehr bekannten amerikanischen Schriftsteller Ezra Pound. Pound ist ein glühender Verkehrer der deutschen Kultur, insbesondere der deutschen Musik. Er lebt in Rapallo (Adresse auf beiliegendem Umschlag) und veranstaltet dort unter anderem auch Konzerte, die wir er selbst schreibt, grössere Bedeutung auch über die Grenzen von Rapallo hinaus haben. Er sucht nun eine engere Verbindung mit der deutschen Musikwissenschaft, anscheinend auch weil er bestimmte musikhistorische Fragen aufgeklärt haben möchte.

Ich sende Ihnen einliegend einige Programme der von ihm veranstalteten Konzerte.

Herr Fox sagte mir, dass er Herrn Pound Ihren Namen als den des Vertreters für Musikwissenschaft an der hiesigen Universität genannte habe, und ich halte es für möglich, dass Herr Pound sich an Sie wenden wird.

Heil Hitler!

Hotel Vallisoletano
Puente Viesgo
Santander, España.
15 de Mayo de 1936.

Dear Mr. Pound:

I have just received your letter of May 7th to Jensen with the rather bewildered comment that he does not quite know what to do with it. He fears that if he passes it on to Müller-Blatow it will only create a bad impression and for this reason he would like to let the matter drop - anxious though he is to forward it - till I get back and can get in touch with Blatow myself. This hesitancy, well meant though it is, will probably annoy you. But it cannot be helped and, in modern Germany, there are pretty good reasons for it.

I do not know how it is in Italy, but in Deutschland one walks on eggshells in anything to do with the Government. One remark that could be misconstrued and not only you but your sponsor, too, are done for. Once well established, you can allow yourself some freedom, but until then ideas or the suggestion of an expression of opinion are verboten. And if there is one word it is dangerous to breathe at the moment it is economics. I could not write you this were I not in Spain, for I know for a fact that all my letters are opened.

One thing in our favor is that relations with Italy are good, and there is no reason to doubt that, once established, a great deal can be accomplished.

Now as to Münch. If he is listed an an "emigrant" there is nothing, absolutely nothing that can be done. The mere fact of your association with him would be enough to put you on the blacklist. But if, on the other hand, he is still a member of the party in good standing, if there is nothing political against him at home, then he is the given man to write to Müller-Blatow, telling him exactly what you want and how you plan to accomplish it. The fact that you have the Italian Government behind you is a telling point in your favor. Keep your foot down on the loud pedal of the German-Italian Kulturbund.

2.

As soon as I get back I'll show Blatow your "Cavalcanti"
which should be enough to keep his enthusiasm, already fired by your
programs, at high pitch. As economics are tabu, it would be better not
to mention your work in that connection until you're position is definite-
ly established. It doesn't matter whether it is in line with current
policy or not - the subject is too dangerous to be broached.

Once your connection with Blatow is established, I do not think
there'll be the slightest trouble with photostats etc. He is an ener-
getic and enterprising man and, for the time being, one of the dar-
lings of the Kultusministerium - which is why I picked him out. Then
the job will be to get the Ministerium to grant a stipendium for the
particular job in hand. From this money Münch and Miss Rudge - or
whomever whomever you chose as Mitarbeiter - can be paid. Blatow is
the man to arrange that. The people, however, must, in appearance if
not in fact, be regarded as secondary. First is the job. If you have
the people to do it, too, then fine. But that is secondary. Don't
lay too much stress on it at first, particularly in the case of Miss
Rudge - or you'll be turned down. And when you recommend them it will
be assumed that you would not propose anyone not politically reliable
and thus references will be a mere formality. But don't bring for-
ward references until asked for them. And I wouldnt ask about rail-
road expenses till the thing is on a firm footing. Once your Bund or
Archiv or whatever you like to call it has state support, traveling
expenses will be paid as a matter of course. By the Ministerium, not
by the Reichsbahn. The business of supplying writers and journalists
with inexpensive carfare was cancelled a couple of years ago. In time
the international aspect of your work will elect the support of the
Propagandaministerium, too, but, as Rust is constantly sick and as the
two Ministeria are not on the best of terms, I'd put no stress on
that for the time being.

3.

I hope this letter will not make you see the situation in
too negative a light. A lot can be accomplished and a lot will be
accomplished. What we need are patience and tact-qualities which, in
as
themselves, are/hard to recommend to you as to Frobenius.

These lines are to be regarded as showing the way the wind
blows. I may be cockeyed. But I do not think so at the moment. If
you think it better, you can let things slide till I get back to
Frankfurt. But if there is nothing against Münch I would suggest that
he get in touch with Blatow immediately.

Will write to Jensen saying that I have suggested this and
advising him to hold off until he hears from you or me again.

With all good wishes - and apologies for what may seem like
overcaution -, sincerely,

P; S; Has the New English Weekly accepted the Paideuma essay?

From tomorrow on my address will be:

Parador de Gil Blas

Santillana del Mar

Provincia Sántander.

Parador de Gil Blas
Santillana del Mar
Provincia Santander
22 de Mayo de 1936.

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

Dear Mr. Pound:

Many thanks for your of the 18th. Guess I got all het
up over nothing. At any rate, have written Jensen per your intructions .
Which will soothe him, I hope.

Delighted that Münch stands so well and that he has
a chance of being assisted by Frank. Every little bit will count. I
imagine that you have by now had a reply from Blatow and are proceeding
further on your own steam. Jensen won't be able to do much in the
immediate future as he is leaving for England in a few days. And I
am up to my eyes in work writing his lecture for him. That is, he
sent me the proof sheets of his new book "Im Lande des Gada" as source
material for a lecture in English on the Djila system of the Kunsos
(Southwestern Abyssinia) - the whole thing to be finished in a week.
(Jensen was in Abyssinia while we were in Arabia and the Lybian Desert.)
If he had sent it a month ago, I could have made a decent job of it.
But in a week. Oh, well.

That's fine news from the New English Weekly.

If anything new turns up in the next few days, I'm at
your disposal. Same address till further notice. Work proceeding well.
But to get back to the subject, I cannot do a hell of a lot at long
range. With all good wishes - and many thanks for keeping me informed,

Yours,
LEx

310 San Gregorio

Venezia

Dear FuchZZ

As per p/c am glad to see the N.E.W. was not
dead but sleeping. Much more effective to start yr/ Frob. with
the Opening of the Autumn , that to have it trail in
before the summer closure.

Omission last week, possibly due to Rushworth incursion.
( probably last minute excitement. and no STRONG hand to
prevent folly. The Soames they cd. finish.

ANYhow it is started.

This note is Re/ Rapallo music. The Listener has asked me to
write about music. so have attended VVenice Biennial.
I wanto Hind-mith in Rapallo, Here they put him with a
lot of trype. ( it may just have happned . the only concert
of the series that had small orchestra on the spot .. at least
the only conc. of modern mus.

I want a WHOLE Hind-mith conc. in Rapallo. we had some two
years ago. we also gave w full Stravinsky Concert.
Last winter they had a full Strav. conc. with Strav.
in Milan.

Hind-mith is the TOP of German music, but he dont
yet get whole concerts in Italy. I mean that is the only
posssib e reason for our being any possible use to him.

OF COURSE we cant pay him decently. At the
moment the only assets for the Rapallo Musical winter are
the cheques I haven't yet earned for unsold and unwritten
stuff.

If the Kukturministeriul wont putt Munch onto research
( YET ), I wonder cd. M/Bl wangle a fee for Hind-mith.

The money need never leave Germany. I'll see
to his railway ticket and hotel bill in Rap.

IHR ZEICHEN:

FRANKFURT A. M., DEN July 22nd, 1936,

UNSER ZEICHEN:

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Dear Mr. Pound:

Got back from Spain a few days ago and saw Prof. Müller-Blatow the day after I returned. He was very pleased with the Cavalcanti and wanted to know more about you.

I did not talk with him long because I was afraid of putting my foot in the soup and by some chance observation spoiling what you may or may not have built up with him since I heard from you last.

Therefore, if I can be of any assistance to you, I'd like to know how the land lies first.

And if you should be thinking of coming to Germany this summer we are having a swell exhibition of a great part of our Felsbilder, not only from Africa, but from Spain, southern France, northern Italy, Transjordan and Scandinavia as well. It opened last week and will last till August 30th.

Frobenius thanks you for the postcard and sends you his regards. Looking forward to hearing from you soon,

P. S. Have the New English Weekly published the essay on Frobenius? If so, what is their address? I'd like to send for a few copies.

IHR ZEICHEN:

UNSER ZEICHEN:

Ezra Pound, Esq.,
310 San Gregorio
Venezia.

Dear Mr. Pound:

Thank you for the postcard and the letter.
Müller-Blattau will be back on Monday (21st). Will see him in
the first free minute he has and press the Hindemith matter,
letting you know immediately how the land lies.

Been having some fun with N. E. W. When the first
Paideuma piece appeared I wrote asking if it were not possible
to arrange for reprints of the whole series, the cost of the
same to be deducted from my honorarium. I knew jolly well that
there wasnt a chance of it, but I wanted to see the sort of
answer I'd get. And it was lovely, the gist of it being that
the paper had never been known to pay anyone for anything and
"that we have always existed on amateurs, beginners and the work
of professional writers which is such that they cannot publish
it elsewhere." Really too good to be true. That's why they skip-
ped a week. Thought I'd be houiding 'em for a check. But I reliev-
ed them on that score and ordered the reprints on a regular basis.
Part II appeared this week and I've corrected proofs on Part III,
so everything seems to be in order. And, as you say, it is a
start...... Porteus' review wants makes me want to see "Moon,
Myths and Man," which, with all its nonsense, ghastly nonsense,
seems to have the germ of an idea behind it. Great stuff, moon
myths. Sun Myths, too - Frobenius' "Zeitalter des Sonnengottes.""uk.
Regards,

FRANKFURT A. M., DEN September 18, 1936.
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IHR ZEICHEN:

UNSER ZEICHEN:

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

FRANKFURT A. M., DEN October 21, 1936.

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Dear Mr. Pound:

Today I received a letter from J. W. G. Dunn, of
Globe, asking for archaeological stuff on Africa. I have asked
my agent in New York to send him folk tales and informal artic-
les about the expedition and plan to write him a special piece
in the near future. Dunn mentioned your letter. May I thank
you very much indeed.

The N. E. W. series has made a very good impression
here and I am grateful to you for that, too, as well as a number
of other things. Meanwhile, what was Weber's reaction to the
Hindemith concert?

There is the possibility that I may go to Florence
the end of next week (Oct. 30. - Nov. 10.). If I do I would like
to stop off and see you either on the way there or, better, on
the way back. If I did I'd have to order my ticket from Milan -
or wherever one changes - to Rapallo here in Germany, since I can
only take 60 marks with me for the ten days. Therefore I would
like to know whether you are going to be in Rappallo in the near
future and, if so, whether you have the time and inclination to
answer a lot of questions. If your reply is in the affirmative
kím please refer to the necessity of a wissenschaftlichem Be-
sprechung or its English, frog or Latin equivalent. .... With
all good wishes, sincerely yours,
Douglas S. Fox.

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IHR ZEICHEN:

UNSER ZEICHEN:

FRANKFURT A. M., DEN November 19th, 1936.

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Dear Mr. Pound:

Thank you for your kindness and hospitality in Rapallo, a visit I very much enjoyed. I found the material you lent me interesting and would like to hang on to it for another two weeks or so before returning it.

Attached are the letter and translation which I sent to M. B. and on which I have not yet had an answer. Will inform you as soon as I hear anything. The chap who knows Hindemith's publisher has just gone to England and won't be back for a couple of weeks.

Meanwhile Frobenius has fairly definitely decided to go to America. My plans for London have fallen through for the time being, but I think the Institute would send me anyway if accomplishing there was a possibility of achieving something which could not be done through the Foreign Office. Perhaps a private path to the White House would have a better effect than an official one. If you could drop a line to the lady in question and get her angle on it, I'd be very grateful.

With all good wishes to you and Mrs. Pound,

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16. November 1936

Herrn Universitätsprofessor
Dr. Müller-Blattau
Musik und wissenschaftliches Institut
Frankfurt (Main)
Viktoria-Allee 23

Sehr geehrter Herr Professor,

als ich neulich in Rapallo war,
überreichte mir Herr Pound das beiliegende gelbe Blatt
worauf einige für die deutsche Musikwelt bestimmte Vorschläge
stehen. Meine Übersetzung derselben füge ich hinzu. Wenn Sie
die Güte haben werden, sich zu diesen Vorschlägen zu äussern,
wäre ich Ihnen sehr verpflichtet.

Um Sie über die politische Stellungnahme des Herrn Pound ins
Bild zu setzen, brauche ich nur zu erwähnen, dass er auf
gutem Fusse mit Mussolini steht, und dass er ständiger Mit-
arbeiter ist des amtlichen British-Italian Bulletin, des von
Signor Farinacci herausgegebenen "la Vita Italiana", wie auch
des englischen Fascist Quarterly. Er ist gleichzeitig, wie
Sie vielleicht wissen, Musiker, Dichter und Nationalökonom.

Mit Deutschem Gruss
Ihr sehr ergebener

2 Anlagen.

1. Grosse Fortschritte können in der photographischen Wiedergabe der Musikmanuskripte in deutschen Bibliotheken gemacht werden. Insbesondere wird man dafür die neuen und wesentlich billigeren mikrophotographische Methode in Anspruch nehmen. Es wäre für Deutschland ein Leichtes, die Führung der Systematisierung dieser Arbeit an sich zu nehmen und sich dadurch u.a. im Ausland eine gute Presse zu gewinnen.

Reichweite.

a) Arbeiten die noch zu veröffentlichen sind: Das Feststellen der Wechselbeziehung der Texte.

b) Schon veröffentlichte Arbeiten: Nachprüfung seitens der ernsten Musiker. (Heute kann man nicht feststellen wieviel dem Komponisten zuzurechnen ist und wieviel man der Fähigkeit - bezw. Unfähigkeit des Redakteurs verdanken muss).

2. Arbeitssystem:

a) Das Durchlesen von einem sensiblen und aufmerksamen Musiker der noch nicht bearbeiteten Manuskripte.

b) Das Redigieren und Reduzieren von einem zuständigen Komponisten und Gelehrten der ausgewählten Manuskripten.

c) Die Beaufsichtigung dieser Arbeit von einem zuständigen Kritiker.

3. Es ist wünschenswert, dass man diejenigen deutschen Musiker, die im Auslande eine grosse Anerkennung für Deutschland erreichen können subventioniert, wie auch, dass man ausländische Konzerte, die sich nur der Ausführung der besten deutschen Musik widmen, unterstützt.

ÜBERSICHT ÜBER DIE
WICHTIGSTEN SCHRIFTEN VON LEO FROBENIUS

Der Kameruner Schiffsschnabel und seine Motive. Nova Acta, Abh. der Kaiserl. Leop.-Carol. Deutschen Akademie der Naturforscher, Bd. LXX, Nr. 1, Halle 1897.

Der westafrikanische Kulturkreis. Dr. A. Petermann's Geogr. Mitteilungen, Heft X u. XI. Gotha, 1897.

Die Geheimbünde und Masken Afrikas. Abhandlg. der K. Leop.-Carol. Dt. Akad. d. Naturforscher LXXIV, Nr. 1, Halle 1898.

Der Ursprung der afrikanischen Kulturen. Gebr. Bornträger, Berlin 1898.

Die Weltanschauung der Naturvölker. Emil Felber, Weimar, Beiträge z. Volksu. Völkerkunde, VI Bd. XV, 1898.

Die naturwissenschaftl. Kulturlehre. Naturw. Wochenschrift, Heft 20, Ferdinand Dümmler, Berlin 1899.

Die Schilde der Ozeanier. Sonderabdruck aus der naturwissensch. Wochenschr. Heft 24, Ferd. Dümmler, Berlin 1900.

Die Mathematik der Ozeanier. Ebenda, Heft 23, 1900.

Die Bogen der Ozeanier. Ebenda, Heft 28, 1902.

Aus den Flegeljahren der Menschheit. Bilder des Lebens, Treibens u. Denkens der Wilden, Gebr. Jänicke, Hannover 1901.

Die reifere Menschheit. Bilder des Lebens, Treibens u. Denkens der Halbkulturvölker. Gebr. Jänicke, Hannover 1902.

Weltgeschichte des Krieges. Gebr. Jänicke, Hannover 1903.

Das Zeitalter des Sonnengottes. Georg Reimer, Berlin 1904.

Geogr. Kulturkunde. Fr. Brandstätter, Berlin 1904.

Im Schatten des Kongostaates. Bericht über d. Verlauf d. 1. Reise der DIAFE v. 1904—06 über Forschungen und Beobachtungen auf geogr. u. kolonialwirtschaftl. Gebiet. Georg Reimer, Berlin 1907.

Kulturtypen aus dem Westsudan. Auszug aus den Ergebnissen der 2. DIAFE nebst einem Anhang über Kulturforschung in Afrika und Kulturzonen. Erg.-Heft Nr. 166 zu Petermann's Geogr. Mttlg. Julius Perthes, Gotha 1910.

Der schwarze Dekameron. Liebe, Witz u. Heldentum in Innerafrika. Vita, Deutsch. Verlagshaus, Berlin-Charlottenburg 1910.

Auf dem Wege nach Atlantis. Vita, Dt. Verlagshaus, Berlin-Charlottenburg 1911.

Und Afrika sprach. Volksausgabe, Ebenda 1912.

Und Afrika sprach, Bd. 1. Auf den Trümmern des klassischen Atlantis. Ebenda 1912.

— Bd. 2. An der Schwelle des verehrungswürdigen Byzanz. Ebenda 1912.

— Bd. 3. Unter den unsträflichen Äthiopen. Ebenda 1913.

Schwarze Seelen, Afrikanisches Tag- u. Nachtleben. Ebenda 1913.

The Voice of Africa. Hutchinson, London 1913.

Der Kleinafrikanische Grabbau. Einzelbericht a. d. Arbeiten. Ergebnisse d. IV. Reiseperiode der DIAFE. Prähistorische Zeitschrift. 1916.

Paideuma, Umrisse einer Kultur- und Seelenlehre. C. H. Beck, München 1921.

Atlantis. I. Bd. Volksmärchen der Kabylen: Weisheit. Eugen Diederichs, Jena 1921.

— II. Bd. Volksmärchen der Kabylen: Das Ungeheuerliche. Ebenda 1922.

— III. Bd. Volksmärchen der Kabylen: Das Fabelhafte. Ebenda 1921.

— IV. Bd. Märchen aus Kordofan. Ebenda 1923.

Atlantis. V. Bd. Dichten u. Denken im Sudan. Ebenda 1925.

— VI. Bd. Spielmannsgeschichten der Sahel. Ebenda 1921.

— VII. Bd. Dämonen des Sudans. Ebenda 1924.

— VIII. Bd. Erzählungen aus dem Westsudan. Ebenda 1922.

— IX. Bd. Volkserzählungen u. Volksdichtungen aus dem Zentralsudan. Ebenda 1926.

— X. Bd. Die Atlantische Götterlehre. Ebenda 1926.

— XI. Bd. Volksdichtungen aus Oberguinea. Ebenda 1924.

— XII. Bd. Dichtkunst der Kassaiden. Ebenda 1928.

Vom Kulturreich des Festlandes. Wegweiser-Verlag, Berlin 1923.

Erlebte Erdteile. I. Bd. Ausfahrt. Societätsdruckerei, Frankfurt a. M. 1925.

— II. Bd. Erschlossene Räume. Ebenda 1925.

— III. Bd. Vom Schreibtisch zum Äquator. Ebenda 1925.

— IV. Bd. Paideuma. Ebenda 1928.

— V. Bd. Sterbendes Afrika. Ebenda 1928.

— VI. Bd. Monumenta Africana. Ebenda 1929.

— VII. Bd. Monumenta terrarum. Ebenda 1929.

Karten als Sinnbilder der Kulturbewegung. Einführung in den Atlas Afri-
canus. C. H. Beck, München 1921.

Atlas Africanus. I. Lieferung. Ebenda 1921.

— II. Lieferung. Ebenda 1922.

— III. Lieferung. Ebenda 1922.

— IV.—VII. Lieferung. Walter de Gruyter & Co., Berlin 1929.

— VIII. Lieferung. Ebenda 1930.

Das sterbende Afrika. O. C. Recht, München 1923.

Der Kopf als Schicksal. Kurt Wolff, München 1923.

Das unbekannte Afrika. Aufhellung des Schicksals eines Erdteils. C. H. Beck, München 1923.

Hadschra Maktuba. L. F. u. H. Obermaier. Wolff, München 1925.

El decameron negro (Übersetzung des schwarzen Dekamerone). Madrid 1925.
Revista del Occidente.

Indische Reise. Reimar Hobsing, Berlin 1930.

Erythräa, Länder u. Zeiten des heiligen Königsmordes. Atlantis-Verlag, Berlin 1930.

Madsimu Dsangara, Bd. I u. II. Ebenda 1932.

Schicksalskunde im Sinne des Kulturwerdens. Voigtländer, Leipzig 1932.

Morphology of the African Bow-Weapon. Berlin, de Gruyter, 1932.

La Porta dei Garamanti. „Gerarchia“, Jahrgang XII. Rom 1932.

Kulturgeschichte Afrikas. Prolegomena zu einer historischen Gestaltlehre. Mit 400 Abbildungen. Wien-Zürich, Phaidon-Verlag, 1933.

Unveröffentlichte Manuskripte

Völkerkunde der Kassaiden,

Volksüberlieferungen der Nubier und Bedja,

Volksüberlieferungen der Südafrikanischen Völker,

Die westafrikanischen Völker zwischen Senegal und Dahome. Staatsethnische Studie.

Reisetagebuch der 8. Expedition von 1926,

Reisetagebuch der 9. Expedition von 1928/30,

Reisetagebuch der 10. Expedition von 1932,

Ägyptische Studien. 2 Bd.

Eine Übersicht über das Gesamtwerk von Leo Frobenius gibt:

Leo Frobenius, Ein Lebenswerk aus der Zeit der Kulturwende. Koehler & Amerlang, Leipzig 1933.

IHR ZEICHEN:

FRANKFURT A. M., DEN ... January... 15th, 1937.

UNSER ZEICHEN:

GR. ESCHENHEIMERSTR. 26

Ezra Pound, Esq.,
Rapallo

Via Marsala 12 - 5

Dear Mr. Pound:

Enclosed are a copy of a letter which came from
Germany and You this morning and a carbon copy of my answer.
Will you be good enough to drop me a line saying exactly what
you want in the way of books - with a carbon copy which I can
forward to Germany and You - and whom you want to send them.
Since G and Y are in Berlin, have connections with other pub-
lishers and can acquire the material you want as more easily
than I could, I suggest you leave the matter up to them. Attached
is a list of some of Frobenius' works, in case you should wish
to round off your choice with some of them. Kulturgeschichte
Afrikas, though not one of his best books, is to be recommended
as a darn good source of reference, since it contains dope on
almost everything he has done.

Before sending it on to Berlin I showed "Totalitarian Scholarship and the New Paideuma" to Dr. Jensen who was very much interested and agreed with me that it would have to be published in our magazine - if and when that gets started. I hope to get support for it in America when I go (in March).

Meanwhile, with all good wishes, I am

Copy

13th January, 1937.

Dear Mr. Fox:

We thank you very much indeed for your letter and
Mr. Pound's article enclosed. We quite agree that the article is
exceptionally fine and we are certain that it will arouse a good
deal of interest. We note that Mr. Pound wishes to receive his
honorar in the form of books, which naturally we shall be happy
to arrange.

We are looking forward to your article dealing with
the coming exhibition in America of the pictures which Mr. Ford
and Mr. Chrysler came from America to choose under your guidance.
I hope you will let us know how this is getting on.

Shall we forward the books mentioned to you or direct
to Mr. Pound? Perhaps you will let us know your wishes.

Yours sincerely,

(Signed) Fred C. Stangen

Germany and You
Wiking Verlag GMBH
Berlin W 9
Eichhornstrasse 10

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January 15, 1937.

Fred C. Stangen, Esq.,
Germany and You
Wiking Verlag
Berlin W 9

Eichhornstrasse 10

Dear Mr. Stangen:

Thank you for your letter of January 13th. I will send a copy of it to Mr. Pound and await his answer as to what is to be done about the books. I imagine he will want quite a few and not merely the ones mentioned in passing in the letter attached to mine of December 21, a letter (Mr. Pound's) which, by the way, I would like to have returned.

Sincerely yours,

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15. Januar, 1937.

An Herrn
Prof. Dr. Müller-Blattau
Musikwissenschatliches Institut
Viktoria Allee 30

Sehr geehrter Herr Professor:

Am etwa den 20. November habe ich Ihnen **einen** einige von Ezra Pound verfasste und für die deutsche Musikwelt bestimmte Vorschläge vorgelegt, und zwar mit der Bitte dass Sie die Güte haben würden, sich dazu zu äussern. Ich weiss dass, wie Frobenius, Sie sehr viel zu tun haben und unentwegt um Europa herumreisen müssen, und verstehe gut wie so eine Sache Ihnen entgangen sein könnte. Darf ich Sie nun aber daran errinnern und nochmals **nach** um eine Antwort bitten.

Es wird Sie vielleicht interessieren dass Herr Pound neulich einen Artikel verfasst hat der **nach** gerade auf diesen Sachen eingeht. Dieser Artikel heisst "Totalitarian Scholarship and the New Paideuma." Er wird bald erscheinen in dem Monatshefte "Germany and You", eine Zeitschrift die durch den Wiking Verlag vom Propagandaministerium herausgegeben wird. Sobald der betreffende Nummer erschient, werde ich Ihnen einen Exemplar schicken.

Heil Hitler!

Ihr sehr ergebener,

MUSIKWISSENSCHAFTLICHES INSTITUT
DER JOHANN WOLFGANG GOETHE-UNIVERSITÄT

FRANKFURT AM MAIN
VIKTORIA-ALLEE 30

FERNRUF 75952

8. Februar 37

Sehr geehrter Herr Pound,

Ich muss Ihnen zunächst sehr
danken für die Uebersendung Ihrer wunderbaren Cavalcanti -
Ausgabe sowie für manche gute Nachricht, die Sie mir sändern. Erst jetzt, als ich Ihren Vivaldi-Katalog in die Hände bekam, konnte ich helfen. Sie haben inzwischen wohl Nachricht von Prof. Besseler, dem Sekretär unseres Staatlichen For - schungsinstitutes für Musikwissenschaft bekommen, dass die deutsche Musikwissenschaft Sie gerne in jeder Weise unter

stützt.

Darüber hinaus bin ich persönlich zu jeder Hilfe und Mitarbeit bereit. Ich bitte Sie mir zu sagen, wie das geschehen soll. Denn sowohl musikalisch wie weltanschaulich haben wir, wie ich sehe, die gleiche Grundlage. Bitte lassen Sie mich wissen, wie ich mithelfen kann und was Sie sich als Gegengabe für die Cavalcanti - Ausgabe wünschen.

Mit hochachtungsvoller Begrüssung
Ihr

Müller-Blattari.

13. Februar 1937.

Fox/P

Herrn

Professor Dr. Müller-Blattau
Musikwissenschaftliches Institut
Frankfurt am Main
Viktoria Allee 30

Sehr geehrter Herr Professor!

Mr. Pound schrieb, er habe einen sehr entgegenkommenden Brief
von Ihnen erhalten und bittet mich - seines manuelhaften Deutsches
wegen traut er sich nicht Ihnen selbst zu schreiben - Ihnen seinen
herzlichsten Dank dafür auszusprechen. Er freue sich sehr, dass
das "Cavalcanti" Ihnen gefiel und möchte auf keinen Fall eine
Gegengabe dafür haben. Er wäre Ihnen sehr dankbar, wenn Sie ihm
weiterhin behilflich sein wollten und macht dazu folgende Vor-
schläge:

1) Dass ein Durchschlag oder Abschrift Ihres Briefes an das Min-
istero Stampa e Propaganda, Roma, geschickt wird um zu zeigen,
dass auch in Deutschland seine Unternehmungen von massgebender
Stelle anerkannt werden.

2) Dass man ein Stipendium für seinen Mitarbeiter Gerhard Münch
(Deutscher) beantragt, um es zu ermöglichen, dass dieser die in
Turin begonnenen Arbeiten in Dresden weiter durchführen kann.

3) Sei Punkt 2 nicht möglich, dann wäre er dankbar, wenn man ihm
eine ermässigte Fahrkarte von der deutschen Grenze nach Dresden und
zurück besorgen könnte, da er dann selbst nach Dresden fahren will,
um die Manuskripte einzusehen und einen zuständigen Kopisten aus-
suchen will.

IHR ZEICHEN:

FRANKFURT A. M., DEN

February 16, 1937.

UNSER ZEICHEN:

GR. ESCHENHEIMERSTR. 26

Dear Mr. Pound:

Enclosed is a copy of my letter to Müller-Blattau.
I saw him again on Saturday night and he seemed to think that
something could be done through the association or Gesellschaft or
whatever it is called for Deutsche Musikforschung which has its
H. Q. in Heidelberg, and which he will sound out on the suggestions
listed.

He quite understood your reluctance to write in a
and
language over which your command was not perfect *kmk* suggested
that you communicate with him in English, a language which, though
he does not write it well, he can read. He hinted that direct com-
munication was better than working through a third person and I
quite see his point. I imagine that by now you have heard from
Heidelberg or, perhaps, from him again and, seconding his hint,
suggest you reply direct and, if you think it necessary, send me
a carbon copy. Have heard nothing more from Germany and You. Imag-
ine they are peeled because I have not delivered an article I prom-
ised them. Have been too tied up with other stuff to write it.
Which is all for the time being.

Regards,

IHR ZEICHEN:

UNSER ZEICHEN:

FRANKFURT A. M., DEN

GR. ESCHENHEIMERSTR. 26

March 2, 1937.

Rapallo

Dear Mr. Pound:

Many thanks for your letters of Feb. 28th and 30th.
With regard to the first, who is "old Bib" and is he likely to turn
up again?

Makute, apparently originally the name of a material
which functioned as a token of value became a general expression for
a means of exchange or, shall we say, for the several tokens which
functioned as means of exchange. But as far as I can gather, it had
no abstract connotation. More or less in this connection I am sending
you, under spp. ... cover, the work of my friend and colleague, Dr.
Petrit, on primitive money forms in the South Seas. You will find much
of interest in it - even inflation when the whites imitated the native
tokens with a factory product - but, as far as I remember, no usury.
Nor, re Mohammed, does usury exist among nomadic peoples - not even to-
day. The Bedawin gives, accepts or takes (steals) a thing he wants. To
borrow would be beneath his dignity and "interest" is a conception mor-
ally far too low for him to be able to understand. When Mahout banned
usury that was for the benefit of the despised agriculturist and dweller
in towns, artesan, tradesman etc.,

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Mahommed was not a traveled man and knew nothing about Africa. The
moslemization of North Africa did not take place till after his death,
lasted for centuries and is not yet finished. Lots of tribes in the Sudan
are still unaffected by it and it never reached the Congo territory of
the makute.

"Are the Makute tribes better or worse than cannibals? That is a difficult question to answer. It is hard to call one people better or worse than another. We have cannibalism among the high cultures (ie. Chinese:Read "Die Räuber von Kixing Liang Shan Moor"), among the finely integrated megalithic cultures of the New Hebrides and the Moluccas and in various parts of Africa. As a general rule the West African cannibals are not creative, have little mythology and are more or less what Frob. designates as "stumpfsinnig." On the other hand the makute people have a well articulated mythology, and a fairly high level of material culture (magnificent carving, fine weaving, a fairly well developed political organization etc. etc.) Next week, if I have a little spare time I'll try to dig up what I can about them.

Re your questions of the 30th, I am sending you the excellent
study of my former colleague Dr. Hans Wieschoff, "Die Afrikanischen
Trommeln." Read the foreword, introduction and chapters 4 and 5 and
take a look at the maps and the bibliography. It will not answer your
question about codes or drum languages. If there are as many of these
as there are spoken languages in Africa, then there must be about 3000,
but as far as I know no white man has come behind them. With regard to
time and pitch consult Dr. Kutz (Müller-Blattau's assistant) Musik-
wissenschaftlichesinstitut, Viktoriaallee 30. Ditto flute. Niggermeyer,
among other things our Fanflöte expert, left a few days ago with Jensen
and a couple of others for the Moluccas and won't be back for a year.
Kutz and M-B. will be able to tell you where various drum and flute
phonograph records are to be found and John Layard (Küsnacht-Zurich,

1HR ZEICHEN:
UNSER ZEICHEN:

FRANKFURT A. M., DEN

GR. ESCHENHEIMERSTR. 26

March 8, 1937.

Ezra Pound, Esq.,
Rapallo

Via Marsala 12 - 5

Dear Mr. Pound:

I've just had a line from Layard saying he is looking forward to hearing from you and will help you if he can. His address, I repeat, is Küsnacht-Zurich, Hotel Sonne.

Meanwhile I'll be leaving in about two weeks for America. Before I go I'll send you back the book or books and magazines you were kind enough to lend me in Rapallo. Pretty scaly of me not to have returned them before.

I do not know whether I'll be able to serve the cause of totalitarian scholarship and the new paideuma or not while I am away, but on the chance that I could in some way be useful you might give me a few addresses in New York.

Meanwhile, here is a bit of dope about the Makute. Speaking of a Congo tribe, Degranpré writes: "Ihre Pagnen bestanden ehedem aus Macuten, welches in ihrer Sprache ein Zeug von Strooh bedeutet." Pagnen are loin cloths. The man goes on to remark in a footnote: "Diese Macutas sind die oben erwähnten Pagnen oder die ursprünglichen Bedeckungen der Neger des Unterleibes aus Palmenfasern und andern Gewächsen, von denen Herodot schon gehört hatte. Die ersten Schriftsteller der portuguesischen Entdeckungen erwähnen derselben immer, ohne jedoch ihren Namen zu bemerken; so sagt Ruy de Pyna in seiner Chronik König Johann

Pound 2

II. S. 148. (Er lebte gegen Ende des 15. Jahrhunderts) Der König von Congo habe nach Portugal unter andern Geschenken Panhos de Palma gesandt, die schön gewebt und mit bunten Farben verziert waren. Noch 1666 wurden sie in Congo getragen, und zehn dieser Macuten galten damals 100 Rees. Da diese Palmen-Macuten her-nach Pagnen genannt, oder in Macuten von Sattun, Leinwand oder Seide veredelt, im afrikanischen Handel der Maasstab wurden, den Werth aller verkäuflichen Artikel zu bestimmen, wie man in andern Gegenden dieses Welttheils die Waren-Preise nach Barren oder Eisenstangen, nach Kupferringen, oder gar Negerköpfen berechnet, so fingen zuletzt die Portuguesen an, die blosse Rechnungs-Macuten in Macutengeld zu verwandeln. Lezteres bestand anfänglich aus Kupfermünzen von ganzen, halben und viertel Macuten, und eine solche Macute hat noch den Werth von 50 Rees oder ungefähr zwei gute groschen. (In Germany a Groschen is 10 Pfg.) Jetzt roulliren aber auch in Angola Macuten von Silber, und nach dem portugues-ischen Staatskalender, der eine Nachricht von allen Münzen in Portugal und dessen Kolonieen enthält, hat man in Angola Silber-geld von 2 (eine solche hat der verstorbene Busch in seinen Schriften über die Handlung beschrieben), 4, 6, 8, 10, and 12 Macuten. Die erstere ist 100, und die letzte 600 Rees gleich."

Taken from Degranpre" Journey to the West Coast of Africa in the years 1786, 1787." Translated from the French and published in Weimar in 1801 by M. E. Sprengel.

The other references which I have found only relate to
the Macute's (a square of woven palm mat originally, later linen
and even silk) being used as a means of exchange. Meanwhile I
hope that the above will be of some use to you.

Regards,

IHR ZEICHEN:
UNSER ZEICHEN:

FRANKFURT A. M., DEN ...March. 15, ...1937.
GR. ESCHENHEIMERSTR. 26

Dear Mr. Pound:

Glad you could use the information on the
macute. And thank you for the list of people. I'll look up as
many as I can and, as far as is in my power, will see that they
get invited to the opening of the exhibition.

Meanwhile Germany and You write that your article
has been published, that they are distributing copies as per
your list (they forgot to send me one) and state that you have a
credit with them of 55 marks, which I think is damn little.
They sent me the catalogues you requested and I am forwarding
them under separate cover. The also write: "Publishers of
Troubadour texts are Messrs. Philipp Reclam, Jr., Leipzig C 1,
Nürnbergerstrasse 36 Inselstrasse 22/24 (RM -.35) and Breitkopf
& Härtel, Leipzig C 1, Nürnbergerstrasse 36 (RM - .30)." For
seventy pfennigs, apparently, you can get all the texts you
want. They are sorry not to have been able to obtain any in-
formation about Canello's "Arnaut Daniel". Since I'll be leav-
ing in a few days further negotiations with G & Y will have to
be direct. Tell 'em the books you want and they'll get them for
you. I'd lay off our books for the time being. If there is a
particular one you want I can always get it for you wholesale,
which is usually two thirds and sometimes half the nett price.

In haste,

Sincerely,

IHR ZEICHEN:

UNSER ZEICHEN:

Ezra Pound, Esq.,
Rapallo

Via Marsala 12 - 5

Dear Mr. Pound:

FRANKFURT A. M., DEN June 28, 1937.

STIFTSTRASSE 30

Thank you for your letters fx of the 2nd and 4th
which were forwarded to me here. I am writing to the Museum to have
them send catalogues to the Messrs. Veneto, Guiliano and Battai. As
you doubtless know, the Geheimrat had an interview with Il Duce a
few weeks ago. But I have not seen him yet and do not know if there
was anything said about an exhibition.

I met and liked Cumming, saw quite a bit of Iris and
Dick who were very nice to the Boss and to me and sent the rest of
the people you wrote me about invitations to the opening but heard
nothing further from them. The show was a success and we had an ex-
cellent press. Got rid of a book of Folksmärchen: "African Genesis"
by Frobenius and Fox, Stackpole, September publication. Stackpole
have also asked me to do a sort of travel book on the last expedition.
General stuff, but it will help in putting Frobenius' name across.
Saw Laughlin only once as he was passing through. Hope to do a general
piece for him on the Boss for the next volume of New Directions and
will pass on your microphoto request. Hope you got what you wanted
from Germany and You. They've just sent me a couple of copies of your
Paideuma article. It looks all right, I think.

All good wishes,

TELEGRAMM-ADRESSE: AFRIKAARCHIV FRANKFURTMAIN / SAMMELNUMMER 22427

IHR ZEICHEN:
UNSER ZEICHEN:

FRANKFURT A. M., DEN
STIFTSTRASSE 30

July 13, 1937.

Ezra Pound, Esq.
Rapallo

Via Marsala 12 - 5.

Dear Mr. Pound:

Thank you for your letters. I have been away again
or I would have answered them sooner. And since I shall be leaving
again next week for a trip of a month and a half it would be like-
ly only to confuse matters if I wrote to Dr. Jaennerts - or what-
ever it is - and Germany and You.

With regard to a reading machine I suggest that you
have the Reader's Digest Association, Inc., Pleasantville, N. Y.,
put you in touch with the gent who wrote the microfoto article.
He must know the specifications and your handy man in Rapallo can
build the thing for you.

As regards Frobenius he was in Italy only 24 hours,
saw Sig. Mussolini an hour before or an hour after Blomberg did
and then flew on to Lisbon. He is now at his summer place on the
Lago Maggiore. Left here Saturday last.

I have asked the Museum of Modern Art to send cata-
alogues to the people you recommended. We are out of them here and
have no Devijen for new ones. Who is the person to get in touch with
regarding an exhibition of our stuff in 1941? Enclosing your en-
closure and a note to J. on the lines of what you might like to
write him.

[19377]

Original in mss. file,
European Paideuma

7 Aug

Dear Fox

As you may know, I have been in America, etc/ hence mist
Rhotert. etc/ Is there anywhere in Germany you can usefully
print the following, where it will get serious attention
better translated into German, I think.

//

EUROPEAN PAIDEUMA

To hell with Spengler. What we believe is EUROPEAN.
In this essay I distinguish between "intelligence" and
("intellect" using the latter term to indicate the
mental scaffolding men erect to deal with what they don't
understand. Belief is from intelligence.

From the crying" Ligo" in Lithuania; down to the
Greek archipelago, certain things are believed. Book instruction
obscures them. The people in Rapallo rushing down MHHHtHE
into the sea on "aster morning or bringing their gardens of
Adonis to church on the Thursday before, have not learned it
in school. Neither have the peasant women read anything telling
them about bringing silk-cuocons to church carefully concealed
in their hands or under their aprons.

The Xtian church was of very mixed elements. The valid
elements European. That church went out of business about
a.d. 1500 semitized from two forces, one usury, and the
other the revival of Jewish texts (old testament). The
only vigorous feasts of the Church are grafted onto,

Forschungsinstitut für Kulturmorphologie
an der Universität Frankfurt a. M.

FROBENIUS-EXPEDITION: AUSTRALIEN

Leiter: Dr. Petri

Ihr Zeichen:

Unser Zeichen:

FRANKFURT A. M., den 11. Dez. 1937
Stiftstraße 30

Ezra Pound
ViaMarsala 12 - 5
Rapallo

Dear Mr. Pound:

Not having any myself, I have asked Stackpole & Sons to send you a copy of African Genesis (by Frobenius and Fox) which appeared in New York recently and is due to be published by Faber, too, at some time or other. That will give you material to damn or prise for at least one issue of your Italien Magazine and would also be good for American and, later, English reviews.

In the face of our departure soon for Australia I'm so snowed under with work that I've scarcely time for eat or sleep. And so I regret that, unless I get an unexpected breathing spell before we leave, there is nothing doing on a Paideuma note for the time being. I may be able to send you something en route or perhaps have a chat with you before we sail (on the Romolo, Lloyd Triestino, leaving Genoa January 29.).

I expect to get some new German literature for Christmas and if I have time to read it I'll give you a careful report on anything worthwhile. To date I have encountered nothing.

We don't use photostats. It strains the eyes to read white letters on black paper. Though cheap, I'd advise against it.

Telegramm-Adresse: Afrikaarchiv Frankfurtmain · Telefon 22427

IHR ZEICHEN:

UNSER ZEICHEN: Dr.Hissink

FRANKFURT A. M., DEN 14.4.38

STIFTSTRASSE 30

Herrn Ezra Pound
Via Marsala 12 -5
Rapallo /Italien
========

Sehr geehrter Herr Pound!

Versehentlich ist Ihr Brief vom 28.2. in meinen
Eingangskorb gekommen. Da ich kürzlich von einer längeren Reise
zurückgekehrt bin, kann er leider erst heute beantwortet werden.
Anbei erhalten Sie die gewünschten Fotounterlagen. Ich hoffe,
dass Sie so in der Art verwendbar sind.

Selbstverständlich ist Herr Geheimrat Frobenius gern
bereit, zur Bekanntwerdung der hiesigen Institutionen mitbei-
zutragen. Ich habe Ihren Brief an Dr. Volhard weitergeleitet,
der anstelle von Herrn Fox mit Ihnen weiterkorrespondieren wird.

Mit verbindlicher Empfehlung von Geheimrat Frobenius
der Ihnen für Ihren Brief und Ihr reges Interesse an seiner
Arbeit danken lässt

mit vorzüglicher Hochachtung

TELEGRAMM-ADRESSE: AFRIKAARCHIV FRANKFURTMAIN / SAMMELNUMMER 224 27

IHR ZEICHEN:
UNSER ZEICHEN: Dr. Re/Bz

FRANKFURT A. M., DEN

STIFTSTRASSE 30

10.Juni 1938

Sehr geehrter Herr Pound!

Herr Dr. Jensen, der für einige Tage verreist, hat mich mit der Beantwortung Ihrer Briefe beauftragt. Leider sehen wir vom Institut aus keine Möglichkeit Ihr Material zu veröffentlichen. Ich habe mich deswegen aber mit dem Assistenten des hiesigen musikwissenschaftlichen Instituts, Dr. Kurz, in Verbindung gesetzt, der mir etwaige Publikationsmöglichkeiten in Aussicht stellte, wenn er erstmal eine genaue Übersicht über Ihr gesamtes Material in Händen hätte. Wir bitten Sie darum, uns folgende Fragen zu beantworten:

1. Was für Filmmaterial liegt vor, Schmalfilm oder Tonfilm?

2. Ist es ein Unterrichtsfilm?

3. Wer ist die aufnehmende Stelle?

4. Inhalt des Filmes?

5. In welcher Form liegt das Publikationsmaterial vor? Sind es Ausschnitte aus einem Film - Bildmaterial - oder ist es ein Film als Ganzes.

Bei Musikpublikation: Sind es Noten oder graphische Darstellungen?

Für die Annahme eines ganzen Filmes käme die Reichsstelle für Unterrichtsfilme in Frage. Natürlich wäre die Publikationsmöglichkeit durch einen Zuschuss Ihrerseits wesentlich erleichtert.

In Erwartung Ihrer baldigen Stellungnahme verbleibe ich mit den bestan Empfehlungen

Herrn
E. Pound

Rapallo
Via Marsalla 12/5

Das Forschungsinstitut für Kulturmorphologie
an der Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt a. M.

erlaubt sich, Sie zu seiner 40-Jahr-Feier, die am 29. Juni 1938 zugleich mit
dem 65. Geburtstag des Begründers Kulturmorphologischer Forschung Geheim-
rat Professor Leo Frobenius im Kreise der Freunde begangen wird, ergebenst
einzuladen.

Der Vorstende des Kuratoriums des
Forschungsinstituts für Kulturmorphologie

Wisser
Universitätskurator

Am baldmöglichste Anmeldung auf beliegender Karte an das Forschungsinstitut für Kultur-
morphologie, Frankfurt a. M., Stiftstraße 30, wird gebeten, damit Ihnen genauere Mitteilungen
über die einzelnen Veranstaltungen sofort zugesandt werden können.

Festfolge

Dienstag, den 28. Juni 1938

ab 20 Uhr zwangloses Zusammensein und Begrüßung der auswärtigen Gäste im „Schwarzen Stern“ (Römerberg).

Mittwoch, den 29. Juni 1938

11 Uhr im Festsaal des Völkermuseums: Eröffnung einer Ausstellung „Ergebnisse der Frobenius-Expedition 1937/38 nach Niederländisch-Indien“ durch den Herrn Oberbürgermeister Staatsrat Dr. Krebs.

13 Uhr Imbiss bei Geheimrat Professor Leo Frobenius, Hermann Göring-Über 4.

18 1/2 Uhr s.t. Festvortrag in der Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität: Prof. Dr. Oswald Menghin, Wien, „Geist und Boden“.

20 Uhr Abendessen, gegeben von dem Oberbürgermeister der Stadt des
Deutschen Handwerks, Staatsrat Dr. Krebs.

Uniform
oder
kleiner
Abend-
Anzug

Donnerstag, den 30. Juni

11 Uhr Gründungsstiftung der „Deutschen Kultursprechenden Gesellschaft“
Vortrag von Geheimrat Prof. Leo Frobenius. — Bef sprechung und Beschlusssaffung.

16 Uhr gemeinsame Ausfahrt in die Umgebung Frankfurto.

Freitag, den 1. Juli

10 bis 13 Uhr Kurzvorträge und wissenschaftliche Bef sprechungen.

15 bis 17 Uhr Forsetzung der Vorträge und Bef sprechungen.

20 Uhr geselliges Zusammensein in den Räumen des Forschungsinstituts, Stiftstraße 30.

Frankfurt am Main, die Stadt des deutschen Handwerks

Der Oberbürgermeister

Kulturamt / Völkermuseum

Sammlungen: Bundespalais, Gr. Eschenheimerstr. 26

Verwaltung: Stiftstr. 30 Fernsprechanschluß: 224 27

Kulturamt / Völkermuseum, Verwaltung: Stiftstraße 30

Herrn
E. POUND
Rapallo/Italien
Via Marsala 12-5

Jhrer Zeichen

Jhrer Nachricht vom

Unser Zeichen

Dr. Reschke/S

Tag

29.8.38.

Betrifft:

Sehr geehrter Herr Pound !

Auf Ihren letzten Brief vom 12.6. können wir Ihnen nun
die Auskunft über eine Verwendungsmöglichkeit für Ihr
Material geben. Herr Dr. Kutz vom hiesigen musikwissen-
schaftlichen Institut gab mir die Adresse eines Herrn, der
schon ähnliche Sachen publiziert hat, und zwar handelt
es sich um Herrn Prof. Schünemann, Berlin, Preuss.Staats-
bibliothek, Direktor der musikwissenschaftlichen Abteilung.

Wir wollen hoffen, dass Sie nun endlich an der richtigen
Adresse sind und Ihr Vorhaben von Erfolg begleitet wird.

Mit vorzüglicher Hochachtung

im Auftrag:

IHR ZEICHEN:

UNSER ZEICHEN: Dr.Hissink/K

FRANKFURT A. M., DEN 1.April 1939

STIFTSTRASSE 30

Herrn
Ezra Pound
Rapallo/Italien
Via Marsala 12 - 5

Sehr geehrter Herr Pound,

leider sind wir erst jetzt dazu gekommen, die seinerzeit Geheimrat Frobenius zu seinem 65.Geburtstag übersandten Geschenke durchzusehen. Bei dieser Gelegenheit fan den wir unter anderem Ihr Buch "Guide to Kulchur" An ihm war ein Zettel angebracht mit dem Vermerk: Bitte noch zu danken. Da ich nicht weiss, ob dieses geschehen ist, möchte ich, falls es nicht der Fall ist, hiermit vielmais um Entscnuldigung bitten. Seinezeit wurden aile Geburtstagsgeschenke sofort in eine Vitrine getan und im Völkermuseum aufgestellt, wo sie bis heute verblieben. Es konnte dadurch leicht geschehen, dass versehentlich eine Dank- sagung nicht ordnungsgemäss ausgeführt worden ist. Auf jeden Fall dürfen Sie überzeugt sein, dass Ihr Buch, wenn es auch Geheimrat Frobenius selbst nicht mehr studieren konnte, für die hiesige Bibliothek von grösstem Interesse ist.

Desgleichen ernielten wir mit vielem Dank durch Mr.Fox das freundlicherweise der hiesigen Bibliothek von Ihnen überlassene Buch "Gaudier-Brzeska". Auch dieses Buch ist eine wertvolle Bereicherung unserer Bibliothek, und ich möchte nicht verfehlen, Ihnen für dasselbe ebenfalls den verbindlichsten Dank auszusprechen.

Mit den ergebensten Empfehlungen auch von Mr.Fox bin ich mit vorzüglicher Hochachtung!

IHR ZEICHEN:

FRANKFURT A. M., DEN ... April 12th, 1939.

UNSER ZEICHEN:

STIFTSTRASSE 30

Ezra Pound Esq.,
Rapallo

Via Marsala 5 - 12

Dear Mr. Pound:

I was in Berlin when Münch wrote but got back here in
time for the concert, and was also able to interest a number of friends
Unfortunately, however, he forgot to say where he was playing. We
went to the agency for tickets, but they had no tickets and knew of
no recital. And by that time it was too late to wire you for details.

I've heard from Duncan and have sent him something
which I hope he'll be able to use. Meanwhile Petri and I expect to
go to London on the 15th or 20th of May. I'm taking lantern slides
and am prepared to talk about the recent expedition to any who are
interested. All I need is a projector and a room. Aside from Duncan,
do you know of anyone who might be interested? And is there anyone
on whom I can call for you?

Recently I attended in Kassel the premiere of Klenau's
new opera, Elizabeth of England, the text of which I translated into
English verse inn1937. Arrangements for the London premiere have fal-
len through and negotiations won't be renewed till conditions improve.
Though it had a great success and was supposed to be first rate tech-
nically the music did not stir me. Scenically it was splendid and the
individual performances were competent enough. Sending you the program
under separate cover. The Zeitschrift für Musik dedicated its whole
current issue to Klenau. If you are interested, I'll send you my copy.

Dr. Hissink thanks you for your letter and has asked me to answer it. Thank you for the Giovanetti clipping, which is interesting. Regarding the excellent suggestion for trilingual editions of the 100 best ideogrammic books, it has been pointed out that this is the province of Messrs. Rosenberg and Goebbels and that what may be world literature may not be, from their point of view, suitable material for public enlightenment and propaganda.

What do the Italians think of it? And the British? If the latter are against it, that might be something in the its favor. Anything American is definitely out for the time being.

Congratulations on Albania.

Meanwhile, if you care to do an article on the ideogrammic idea I'll translate it for you without the guarantee that it will be printed.

Please remember me to your friend and to Mrs. Pound. Trust they are well. I-m suffering from the new European complaint: cold feet.

With all good wishes,

IHR ZEICHEN:

UNSER ZEICHEN:

FRANKFURT A. M., DEN April 13th, 1939.

STIFTSTRASSE 30

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

Dear Mr. Pound:

I have talked with my colleague, Dr. Hans Rhotert, about the hundred best ideogrammic books etc., He would like to discuss the matter further with you. He will be leaving tomorrow for Bordighera where he will attend a prehistoric congress which is scheduled to end on the 20th. On that day or the next he hopes to be able to call on you in Rapallo.

Dr. Rhotert is an authority on prehistoric rock pictures, was the leader of our expedition to Transjordan and the Libyan Desert, is the author of "Transjordanien" and the head of our prehistoric department. Incidentally, he is a very good fellow. And a practical man. So something should come of your discussion - provided that you are still in Rapallo. Please let me know about that.

With all good wishes,

WALTER P. CHRYSLER, JR.

CHRYSLER BUILDING
NEW YORK CITY

February 16, 1940

Dear Ez:

Your letter of February 1st came this morning. I have called Cummings and will get together with him and will also consult with Laughlin before I write to Eliot who, I suppose, is still with Faber and Faber.

I'll have to go to a library to get Kulch. My copy, with the rest of my books, is in Europe. I tried to get another from Jay and couldn't. It is out of print. He sent me your alphabet of dough, W.C.W's "In the American Grain" and the latest volume of New Directions. Have heard nothing from him since.

When you say that the revision will have to be done by a pupil, I suppose that you are pointing a suddenly pedagogic finger at me. I'm willing if I can have a free hand and no kick coming later. My first suggestion is "An ABC of Ezra Pound." I cannot start immediately because I have to meet a deadline on a novel. It is not much good, but the advance should enable me to move out of a furnished room. Incidentally, my curating, so-called, keeps me pretty damn busy, too.

I took soundings on the Gaudier drawings and the Lewises and found myself on a reef. Nothing doing. Have not seen the sun man yet, nor Serly, nor the senator. Have seen Lewis who has done or is doing someone's portrait. ... Will write again as soon as I can tell you something concrete.

October 30th, 1939

Dear Mr. Pound:

Enclosing a clipping, part of which may
be of interest to you. I've had no news from Europe and
no word from you since August. In view of that article
I worked on and in view of what you said about art deal-
ers, etc., it is rather amusing that I am now curator of
the Collection of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr., of which you've
probably heard through Iris who is as bouncing and energetic
as ever.

Laughlin, who is now on a business tour of
the Bible Belt, stopped in the other day and suggested that
I do a piece for "Twice a Year" something put out by some-
one called Dorothy Norman whom I'll be seeing this week.
I'll be going up to Norfolk for a weekend when he gets back,
which will be about a month from now.

He gave me a catalogue and asked me what I
wanted, so I listed all your things (my books are in Europe),
whereupon he told me that they were all O.P. Which must be
pleasant for an author.

I have started an a novel about archae-
logists in Africa. The only thing that can be said for or
against it at the moment is that it will not be the great
American novel. Job keeps me so busy that I don't have much
time for it. Have had to drop anthropology till the European
mess is over. Regards to you and Mrs. Pound,

P. S. My home address is: 890 Park avenue, New York City.

Frankfurt/Main Fallerslebenstr. 29
den 10. Nov. 55

Liebe Frau Pound! Ich lese in unserer Frankfurter Zeitung, dass Ihr Mann am 30. Okt. 70 Jahr geworden ist, wobei aller Fhrungen für ihn gedacht wird. Und so möchte auch ich an Ezra Pound denken mit vielen guten Wünschen und in Erinnerung seiner Beziehungen und Verehrung für meinen verstorbenen Mann. Leider sind alle Briefe, die damals hin und hergingen durch die Bomben hier vernichtet. Ich hätte Ihrem Mann gern eine Gabe zu diesem Festtag zugedacht, aber ich habe so wenig, was in seine geistige Athmosphäre passen könnte. Vor kurzem ist die "Kulturgeschichte Afrikas", ein dickes Werk mit vielen Felsbilder-Fotos, neu herausgekommen, ausser in deutsch, auch in französisch und italienisch. Ob das in einer der angeführten Sprachen Ihrem Mann Freude machen würde? dann würde ich es zu schicken verguchen. Ihr Schwiegersohn Prince Boris de Rachewietz in Rom schrieb mal an mich und besitzt dieses Werk auch. So besitzen Sie es vielleicht schon in italienischer Sprache. Sonst wüsste ich nichts, was ich Ihrem Mann verehren könnte. - Und darf ich Sie fragen, wie es ihm geht und was er arbeitet? So sehr würde mich freuen, ein paar handgeschriebene Zeilen von ihm zu erhalten, wenn das möglich ist.

Das "Frobenius-Institut" hat viele Expeditionen in fremden Landen, eine kam nach 2 Jahren aus Bolivien, eine andere eben von noch ganz unbekannten Völkern vom Orinoko. 2 Expeditionen waren und sind noch in Saamen, die er in sie gelegt hat, zur Frucht bringen.

Mein Enkel, der auch den Namen Frobenius trägt und nun das Abitur (humanistisch) bestanden hat, interessiert sich vor allem für den Osten, treibt seit Jahren chinesisch und japanisch und wird Sinologie studieren. Er sieht sich oft das Gedichtwerk Ihres Mannes an, in dem so viele Sprachen verwendet werden, und er ist es eben, der so gern eine kleine handschriftliche Notiz von Ihrem Mann hätte.

Wenn Ihr Mann die "Kulturgeschichte Afrikas" in einer der angeführten Sprachen gebrauchen und lesen möchte, sende ich sie ihm als Geburtstagsgabe. Wollen Sie ihm das alles bitte weiter vermitteln, da ich seine Adresse nicht kenne und ihm meine herzliche Verbündenheit saugen an Zeiten, als wir uns früher hier begegnet sind.

Aus alter Bekanntschaft

Ihre

Frankfurt/Main Fallerslönenstr. 29
den 13. Dez. 55

Lieber Ezra Pound! Sie haben mir zweimal so schnell und intensiv geschrieben, immer bedenkend, was meinen Enkel interessieren und belehren möchte. Er besonders hat Ihre Briefe studiert und mit anderen Interessierten gelesen und besprochen und wird Ihnen selbst auf Ihre Ängungen antworten. So beschränke ich mich nur kurz auf meinen Dank für Ihre beiden Briefe, bis Sie die ausführlichere Antwort von meinem Enkel erhalten. Nur wollte ich Ihnen sagen, dass ich vor einigen Tagen die französische Ausgabe der Kulturgeschichte Afrikas an Sie ab Drucksache absandte, von der ich hoffte, dass sie zu Weihnachten für Sie ankommen möge. Es ist bei Gallemard in Paris herausgekommen, keine besonders schöne Ausgabe und Druckart. Aber ich denke, das Französische wird Ihnen geläufig genug sein, dass Sie trotz des schmutzigen Druckes (was besonders die sonst so herrlichen Bilder beeinträchtigt) es in Ihrer Kenntnis des Französischen gut lesen können und dadurch etwas von seinem Inhalt haben.

Vielleicht ist es etwas aufdringlich, wenn ich Ihnen ein kleines Foto von meinem Enkel Sebastian Frobenius mitsende. Aber er gerade ist so sehr an Ihren Briefen und Aufmerksamkeiten interessiert. Wie würde mein Mann seine gute Begabung fördern und leiten, er aber nun - ohne seinen bedeutenden Grossvater - allein seinen Weg gehen und finden muss. Da er die Sinologie auf seine Flagge geschrieben hat, muss er sich tastend diesen Weg erobern. Hier in Frankfurt kann man nicht Sinologie studieren, nur in München, Hamburg und vor allem in Paris. Das ist nun sehr eine Geldfrage, zu Stipendien zu kommen etc. Entschieden spukt mein Mann in diesem seinem und meinem Enkel, aber er ist kein Frühreifer, sondern ein Spätentwickelter, aber innerlich intensiver Typ. Ich schreibe Ihnen das so etwas vertraulich, weil seine Entwicklung mein Herz bewegt, da mein Mann in einer gewissen Weise in ihm enthalten ist. Nun - bald wird er Ihnen selbst ein Briefchen schreiben, und Sie ihn ein wenig kennen lernen.

Heute grüsse ich Ihre Frau und Sie sehr herzlich zu Weihnachten und habe die grösste Freude, wenn Sie sich an der "Kulturgeschichte Afrikas" im französischen Gewande freuen könnten.

Ihre
Editha Trobening

Frankfurt am Main

30. November

den 1. Dezember 1958

vor dem Anf. ein. lin. x

Hochverehrter Herr Pound,

naechsten Freitag

d. 5. Dezember werde ich mit dem Zug aus Innsbruck
in Meran eintreffen und zu Ihnen heraufwandern.

Meine Grossmutter laesst Ihre Gruesse ebenso
erwidern. Sehr hoefliche Gruesse an Sie und Ihre

Fallerslebenstr. 29 den 31. Juli

Liebe Frau Pound!

So freundlich begrüssen Sie mich mit handschriftlicher
Unterschrift. Hiermit danke ich Ihrem Mann für seinem
schnellen Rückgruss und dass er meinem Enkel erlaubt, il
ihn für einige Tage in Meran besuchen zu dürfen mit
einer Schlafstelle unterm Dach oder im Keller - das
ist ganz gleich. Aber dass es ihm vergönnt ist, ein-
mal in Ihren Athmosphäre sein zu können.

Wenn ich das herrliche Schloss sehe, wo Sie nun
nach langen düsteren Jahren leben können, so ist das
für alle Ihre Freunde eine Genugtuung.

Nach Frankfurt kommen Sie wohl nie mehr? Sollte
ich gennten fahren und über Bozen kommen, würde

Viele herzliche Gruesse von meiner
Grossmutter / und sehr hoefliche und
ergebene Gruesse von mir an Sie alle

Ihr

Hochverehrter Herr Pound,

je viens de recevoir une invitation de
Heidegger pour le mois de février __________ afin que
je puisse lui remettre votre CONFUCIO. Ne lui
écrivez pas de lettre avant que je lui aie expliqué
la NOUVELLE CONSTELLATION. Je suis sur qu'il sera
enclin à collaborer. Du moment que vous aurez vu
* + Weihnachtswünsche

Frankfurt/M Fallerslebenstr. 29 den 10 Juni

Lieber Mr. Ezra Pound!

Sie liessen mir die italienische Übersetzung von
"Gassires Laute" zugehen in der entzückenden klei-
nen Ausgabe der serie Oltremare. Diese Zusendung
von Ihnen erfreute mich sehr und besonders, dass
Sie auch meinem Enkel Sebastian Frobenius ein
Exemplar beilegten, der jetzt in Freiburg an sei-
ner Doktorarbeit über ein Thema, Aristoteles be-
züglich, arbeitet.

Ich danke Ihnen herzlich und begrüsse Sie als

4 "ec

Dr Jensen

resuming after long interval, and this time
in Schwiegervater/ly manner our correspondence, and thanking
you for remembrance in yrs/ to Boris.

I knew there was an egyptologist in the family, but my
daughter, during the past decade a bit dazzled by my particular
glories had signally failed to notice, or at least to
communicate those of her husband.

I have been coming on his merits a bit
by bit, but until a few days ago I had no idea WHATEVER
how much work he had actually done.

He was also of great service to del Pelo Pardi during the last
years of old " Pelops' " life.

AND I hope you can work out
some real collaboration, which wd/ I believe be of use to
both him and the ForsbhungsInstitut.

I don't know where you can get an
anything better. I have, as you know, associated with as lively
a set of men as I cd/ discover in Europe.

I have also been puzzled by curious silences re/ Frobenius'
work and merits.

ever since 1927 when I began to suggest that
humanity wd/ know a bit more IF it wd/ get out of its filthy
academicism etc.

1927 when some rat who edited the Frankfurter Zeitung
and collected autographs of musicians, told me that Frobenius
was a bit cracked.

Childhood of Man, translated 1910 by MOST
respectable British bloke ( forget name, and what FRSPDXQ etc.
F.R.S. etc.)

and then the LID dropped.

Sitting Bull's gradson was also in the "Washington Bug House."
no signs of insanity.

I showed him some/ pages in Child.hd o. Man
and he told me HOW one's hands would be tided up " under than
blanket".

Mr Eliot who gets told what is proper, had learned back in the
1920 that Frobenius wasn't.

He never emitted any coherent or lucid
explanation of WHY.

Blackstone is now improper. I hope
Horton will find time this month to finish reprint of Coke
on "Magna Charta" etc.

Young F/ is due here tomorrow, but I doubt if he will have been
TOLD enough about the workings of the world post 1939
to have the answers ...e. the WHYS of the silences.

My opinion of the way in which large foundations spend money
for the suppression of knowledge, and the general blackout of
history is, as you may have guessed, fairly strong.

If you or anyone in yr/ little circle have any views which
you think it would be TIMELY to " release "

I am glad to say that
AT LAST, after 40 years, there seems to be a chance of
a British monthly publication being able to print what one
thinks, and not merely what the enemies of man consider
useful as brainwash, or as personal source of gain to the
obscurantists.

I don't suppose the Institut has done much more re/ weldformen.
A bloke named carson has emitted a mild protest vs/ the
total decay of education in the U.S. " The American Tragedy,
Our Schools ".

There are half a dozen men in the U.S. who might transmit
news from Frankfurt,
unless you think it better to work in
TOTAL silence.

I, naturally, have no idea where you get whatever fuds you do get.
Or whether any of you have leisure to cooperate with people like
Horton.

He has so little cash that if he extends his list, it
might be more advantageous for him to stick the fHMH
field already delineated.

BUT if there were a 96 page summary
of 'Frobenius' results, it might be useful follow up to the
Agassiz.

AND of course the whole Sq $ series SHOULD be required in
curricula, not only in the U.S. but in Europe. a Paideuma.

some of the stuff printed inside the covers of the new edtn. Analects
could, with advanatge, appear in some german periodical.

and so forth,
ad interim

F. Pound.

Frankfurt den 13. Dezember 1959

Fallerslebenstrasse 29

Lieber Mr. Pound,

eben erfahre ich ueber das Radio, dass
Sie gestern zur Auffuehrung der "Frauen von Trachis" in Darmstadt
waren.

Ich bedaure es sehr, nichts von dieser Auffuehrung gewusst zu haben,
da ich sonst selbstverstaendlich die kleine Muehe, dreissig Km. mit
der Bahn zu fahren, auf mich genommen haette.

Traurig war ich allerdings bei dem Gedanken, dass die seltene Gelegenheit, Sie noch einmal zu sehen, mit dem offensichtlichen Versehen, mir ueber ihre Sekretaerin einen kurzen Hinweis zu schicken, vorbeigegangen ist.

Vor einer Woche ist Sebastian aus London zurueckgekehrt. Er hofft

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