Arsene Lupin and The Light Freights make interesting reading. I am just thru reading Sherlock Holmes but it has lost all the shine and glamor that it had in the tender years og my youth. The famous detective's duction are simply gullible now.

I have four books of Dostoevsky? THE FRIENDS OF THE FAMILY; THE BROTHERS KARAMAZOV; THE POSSESSED; AN HONEST THIEF. Would you like any of them.

I appreciate intensely some funny pictures to be found in RIRE: There are some that are the essence of fun: so much ahead of PUNCH and the Italian humoristic papers.

If you can send me KREYMBORG'S AUTOBIOGRAPHY you will do me big favor. I am curious about it: only cuties:

Your letter is awfully amusing and it makes a

Dear Ezra:

I am labouring at the Rimbaud translation: birth throes rather
than labor.

I don't know what kind of a mess I shall do with it all, but that it
will turn into a mess I am pretty certain.

About Exchange what part of that magazine do you wish me to trans-
late: the one by Zukivsky about you. I am at a loss about it.

It is also very difficult for me to have to hhossx what poems of
Rimbaud I should translate. They are all equally difficult, especially
by being in french, which language I know but rather not too much.

I thank you for the Corbière. Shall I keep it or send it back to
you. Corbière is certainly a first rate poet, or isn't it ?

I am very sorry still, for your not liking my poem. I said a fool-
ish thing and that has spoiled all my work for you.

Or was it many foolish things.

I shall send you the Rimbauds as soon as I am thru with them.

for I want you to see them before they go to the black sun.

I thank you infintely for your modern Divide Comedy, yours splendid
colossal work.

Emanuel.

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Dear Ezra:

I am delaying because I have been sick,
very sick abed. It is easy to say I was sick
but to grow being very sick is not so easy as all that.

The books you sent me have been a great
help for my brain which was on the verge of
complete atrophy.

You must know that besides being a human
human being I am also a welter & diseases,
and a very poor conversationalist and indeed a
fool as bad as thy make them. I think Gold-
smith was the one to be very foolish.

Although he was a clever writer or because
he was a clever writer.

I am suddenly discovering that Canto XLI
is quite a long affair. Please be patient wirg me
and do not dismiss your translator.

Emanuel

Dearest Ezra;

I have been quite sick, in bed day in day
out for the last two weeks. The first thing I have
to do after my recovery is that of writing to you.

Soon I begin working at that tremendous job;
that of translating your cantata.

I don't know that I shall ever be able to do
that: some of the cantareterily difficult, like
must have been to the assyrian sculptor to sculpt
those tremendous bulls. But this time they are diffi-
cult for an appoor translator (I mean poor comiseratin'-
gly not that I think of myself as a bad translator).

I think you might do well to write to the
CORBACCIO: Cotsso Buenos Ayres, 69 Milano
and get their bulletins: they are the most modern
publishers in the whole of Italy. Carlo Liati I
think published one or two of his books by the
CORBACCIO, I know less than nothing a out of the
Italian Literature I haveno money to buy
books: and I go more regularly to Bologna and the theatre
than buy a batch of perforce mediocre books.

I do not know anyone that might function
as a translator: I live in an infamous little town.

Emanuel

F 1930

Dearest Ezra:

Your letters are so sweetly, so deeply funny that I musty laugh in eading them.

I wish I could imitate you but I am heavy while you are light (I don't mean light in the wrong sense I am dark while you are spangling with color. I am sad and you (atleast) seem happy.

When you say that someting of mine is O.K. I feel happy, just happu,not more hor less.

The Z. 's manuscroft will be full of mistakes and badly typed a nd everything.

You must work hard and correscy: you know Italian don't you?

May I hope that you will sed the check soon.

Who is MRS. CROSBY, is sh the new eeditor of trsnition.

I wish I could have a letter ofyou every week.

In fact, I am in lovewith you. and no midtakee

Dear Ezra:

Yes, what puzzled you concerning those
translations is easy said: Those are translations
from the French of some Illuminations by Rimbaud.

No I won't let go that critique by Zykl.
I want to finish the thing.

The pain in the back, fierce as it was, is now
over. So I can retake my little every day work.

I need badly a hat, that's all the problem
And if you have them, I would like some ties,
I mean, I need some ties.

I hope you are going to send me the usual
200. And I pray to God that you'll never stop, until
my death at last which will not be late in coming.

1930

My very dear Estra:

The translation is not coming yet, because
I was laid up again with spadish but yet idfluedza.
I had such a fierce pain in the back that I would
not last it long or I should have died for the
awful pain : You may believe the above because it is
holy truth.

And I am so damned weak that I am laiable
to be the bed to any sickness. This time I had
a terrible pain in the back.

I could not stand nor sit down nor sleep
at all.

But now that too is past and I may return to
my work.

Yours truly,

Emanuel

Dearest of friends:

I thank you above all for the beautifuk
neck ties and their gamma of colors.

Then I thank you for the spledid almost
new overcoat.

And the jacket and everything.

I am here sending you another sheet of
Rimbaud'$.

I hope that the Zk ms will comeprety
soon.

Thank you for the unfailable check too.

This shuld be a great lytany of thanks.

Whereas it is only a foolish letter.

Good bye dear fried, old friend, new fr
friend.

XBoumaix Enmanuel

DEAREST, dear, dear MAN:

I SAY, but the neckties are simply splendid
And TRY to cont contradict ME.

And the fine checj that makes me hope that
that you will lose yoour wallet once a month
regularly.

Well and how is xulitionism coming on?
Only do be careful, it's playing with fire.

THE NECKTIES WERE the last thing in beauty
ONE ia more beautiful than the last.

And your dear half banhring letters, what
darlings!

And your enormous generosity: yoy are posit

to vely the best human being in the widld: YOU ARE

just tremendous. AND this is no adulation at all, it

is sheer gama grs titude.

LOSE YOUR WALLETT ONCE IN A WHILE AND

and let me be rhe devil ( W ho takes the gindmost.)

GOOD BYE DEAR MAN

1930

My dearest Ezra:

I cannot say how extremely flattered I was
reading your last.

So you do really like my work?

I wish you'd read (in Pagany) my other poem:
Italiah Farmer: I think it is my best bit upto date.
I am using your overcoat every time I go out of my
toom. It is the finest thing I ever wore: it's a pity
however that there is no pockets to it.

And the neck ties are a fine rush of colors,
and I am a great lover of color.

I hope I shall soon be able to send you
the Zuk. 's article.

But I cannot say that I like very much the act
ticke myself.

There is a lack of enthusiasts that means not mer
ly coolness of expression, but coldness of heart.

I am still suffering from the fact that you did
not like my poem to you: do you think I could sell it
to some magazine or other?

Your Canti by the way, are superb: but I must
dole it out to myself: I cannot assimilate more than
half a Canto a day.

Good bye, dear man:

Emanuel

Dear Ezra:

No longer than two months ago,
before
af nights I read and reared Rimaud. Well, use now
of your great indulgence, towards me, a blunder
Well, I cannot find Rimbaud in any of the two XX
trunks, and do not know of any other place
where to look.

And another thing: what poems should I tran-
slate of all the rather voluminous bulk of XX poems

If you should happen to have a copy of Rim-
baud I should be much obliged if you would send
it to me. I should keep it with the utmost care,
and send it back to me in due time.

My dear Ezra, I know I am an awful unpar-
dable sort of fellow. I was born that way, I guess
and being my vices contingent they are the hardest
to get rid of.

I am glad to do a little work, in fact it
 tickles my amour prepre, it gives me joy, I swear
it does.

You cannot imagine with what joy I trans-
lated that article of yours. I say this altho-
Ifear
that I didn't do it very well.

I have to ask you again: have you an old hat that
you could send me. I am really without head-gear
This after so many gene rous deeds, might seem
impudent, infact it is impudent. But the great need
pushes me.

Please writeme if you have a copy of Rimbaud
and tell mewhat I s hould translate.

I received the last bundle of papers
perfectly safely.

No, you never sent me MICHAUD's article. And
I was so very eager to see it. So much I am swayed
by one or two kind words.

Good bye, my great poet.

Emanuel

Dear E-ra:

I am glad that you took the whole xxx thing stically.
Tell me who is that lady: Dorothy Pound: your wife or sister or niece, or what. I am glad she did not think it would harm me to get her check: But is that an extra gift or does it mean themonthly allowance?

I am eager to know that.

Yes, I take it for granted that you will continue
sending me the allowance.

Perhaps that's sheer shamelessness.

Did you ever contribute to PAGANY ?

Please thank Dorothy and tell her she is fine
generous lady.

So that my question is not altogether shameless
but a little sagittimate.

I am glad I saw my translation from Bimbaud
into POETRY.

It is said Zukovsky' is a mighty mischief maker.
He gets into everything and everywhere.

He surely is a fine man and powerful.

He retouched my translation very aptly.

Thank him for it, will you?

Emanuel Yours sincerely,

EMANUEL CARNEVALI

Trattoria di Porta Castello

BAZZANO

BOLOGNA

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F 1931

Dear Ezra:

How do you like this writingpaper, my effort
at elegance and Iluxury.

I have rec ived the check and I thanked MRS.
John. She surely must be afine lady.

Your letters are always so fine (exep when the
are too short ) that I am ashamed to be such a poor
letter writer.

Soon I shall sendyou two or more more ILLUMINA&
TIONS.

What MS of Carnevali do you mean: theone to
be in a special Poetry number By Zuk.

What Ms Canthat be seein'g that I never sent
you my manuscripts.

Please, be sure tha I lik e your comment on
my last poems. T'ose are real laurel lewase, your
kind words are.

T'ere areafew words of yor letter that I did
not undrstand they are somewhat like these:: Also feel
like to Mas.

I hope you won't yetestip seding me money.

Emanuel

F 1931

Dear Ezra:

I have at last finished the Zuk.s article.
But I haven't either the patience
to correct it. You must do the correction correcting your self. Please be indulgent towards me as you have always been, and forgive me this too:

Have I thanked you for the last 200 you sent me.
If not I do so now.

But you haveno need f thanks, I am sure.
I give you gratefulness and you give us help: Let
this exchange last a very long time.

You shall receive the mss. as soon as I shall
pack it up.

I have already told you that it's an awful mess
have
mess You shall to wade it.

Do you know the magazine MORADA. Th y ask
for my work: but they must wait since I have absolutely
nothing on hand.

Peg any too has helped me on a little.

Emuel C.

Dear Ezra, very dear Ezra:

I am so flattered so fascinated, so nonplussed that you lured my poor work on Zuk

Received you postal card and your very fine letter.

Re translating your cantos: I have to say that I am presntly busy on a stery and want at least two months to ed it;.. Hope you will forgive me.
If you should not forgivethis that stinks of ungratefulness . I should be in despair indeed.

I ask for a truce merely, and that will not be really atruce
because I shall be working anyway.

I think, besides that it will please you to know that I
make dreadful efforts to write.

Because you are so existingly good. You are so supremely
generous.

Please translate for me in readable english the enclose scap
of a letter o of yours.

I shall (as I am) be much honored to tackle your Cantos.
Believe me for that is so.

I am writing for Titus who pays me well: and you know I am always in need of money.

Who is that fellow MICHAUD? Can you tell me: He was very kind to me.

Do you know a book called Dusty Answer by some woman: I hardly
ever like the stuff a woman writer does generally pull.

I made XXXXX a vow once never to read woman write s.

Yours very affectionately,

Emanuel

EMANUEL CARNEVALI

Trattoria di Porta Castello

BAZZANO

BOLOGNA

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[1931]

D'ar Ezra:

I must humbly apologize for this phrase that I wrote in my last letter to you": That is: Titus pays well, a man you didn't pay well.

You must know that a losuy, clerical, (meaning catholic) newspaper of Bologna dared to tell its readers that Italian literati assume almost humble and servile attitude towards you: I have not read the note but I know it is so: they was also somefilthy allusion to your living luxuriously in the best country town of the Italian riviera.

These losuynewspaper ours ought to be hung. I am sure no one is making a fuss about you that you do not deserve. They are all honored to have you as an inhabitant of this sorrying country of ours.

And so they may well be.

I wonder if I am giving you first news or whether you have heard already about it.

At any rate you should worry.

Emanuel

Dear Ezra:

To call you Ezra'¹
tout short, I feel it is an honour,
I feel it is a privilege, I feel
it is a consideration of your friendship.

In short, thank you for the two hundred,
I can't tell you how useful they turn out to be.

I am very sorry that MRS. JOHN does not respond.
In these days I lost one of the main contributors,
a Chicago Lawyer, who died a short while ago.
He was a fine friend to me, one of the finest I know.

I am sending you the V Canto, soon, it is
one of the best.

Your friendship is a helpful blessing.
Some times it means to be the very food I eat and the
very drink I drink.

THIS Sloppy letter must come to an end.

Emanuel

Dear Ezra:

What does this mysterious phrase in your last letter mean:

Reckon I've sent you the "To" notice before now.

It's a mystery for me.

I am much pleased that you liked my translation of XI. Do forget me if XII delays. It's the eternal reason: my poor health.

Your letters are as always sparkling with humor and pleasantness
it's a joy for me to read them.

Please clarify the mystery and don't let it mean something aw-
!7# ful.

Emanuel

EZRA my very dear old man:

I haven't sent you the lastinstant, because I did not get it ready. The reasonwhy I did not get it ready is that I have always been more or less ill.

I shall start again towards the end of the month. I did not like the photo of your face in AMERICANS Abroad: It reminds one obstruely of a dead mask: But my face is even worse, since the sickness of mine is all too evident. I look a perfect imbecile "But that's as it may be"

I have done some work all by myself, and for myself: anyou once said you would be tantarant about such thing.

Frightfully yours,

Emanuel

I haven't yet told you what I had so much in my soul that I thought I had already given a bodily form to it: & i, e, I haven't thank you for the splendid suit you gave me, and the three shirts you sent me, the former I have adapted to my stature, and the latter (the shirts) I AM WEARING NOW AND SHALL NOT STOP WEARING TILL THEY ARE REDUCED TO TATTERS. SO MUCH (sadistically

I like them.

DEAR EZRA:

F 1933

Here is another canto.

I think it is rather better than several
of the others.

Your check arrived without punctuality :
You are ein wundermensch : and you could write
a book in fifteen days: younear died, but I should
have died seriously honestly: by God I envy you, man.
It is what makes me crazy to think of writers
issuing more than a book a year: and I am such.....
much a feel that I can't write a short story without
spending the time of my life in it.

By God, I envy you man!

Emanuel Carnevali
alias EM

P.S. — I wonder if you have any of sinclair Lewis
Books. I mean Maim Street or Bahbitt or the rest
Elmer Grady I think that's The title?

Dear Ezra:

I thought I had sent you receipts of the American check :
Anyhow I hereby acknowledge that you have sent me the equivalent
of 25 dollars, having added what was necessary to make 500 lire
out of it.

You are the most splendid man alive. I love what delicateness
what beautiful tact: I mean your sending me your usual check even the
you could with the legitimate pretext of sending me theextravagan-
 withdraw your concentration.

You are my best almost my only friend.

I don't know whether that phases you.

William Carlos William has resented this sending of his monthly allowance
the I believed he had stopped for good ....

Have you received my Canto dicassettes now? Write me yes or no.

Emanuel

Ezra mydearest:

Yes, I hearby acnowlesged recept of the
last two instalments

I am vile towards you but Cobider: 8 I
HAVE BEEN TAKEN UP BY INFLENEA for ten full days.
Fever, sick-dimay, sick, sick, sick.

Unable to eat for days, in spite of my
nurse ( my nurse is my doctor.

You have probkysseen my triumph triumph in
Nava Antologia5 The president of Senates has
deigned to consider that the dear oldLINATI
has written a fine book article on me.

S. E. Federzoni is the man.

Probably there shall be a note on the
night RESTD DEL CARLINO.

8 am doing whst you valled my crative
work. Your canto will reallycome forth soon.

EMANUEL

Caro Ezra:

Andiamo vecchio mio, facciamo la pace. È stata questione di vanità da tutte e due le parti, tu sei stato orgoglioso e cattivo, io son stato sanguinosamente offensivo; tu mi hai tolto il vantaggio delle duecento mensili io mi sono voltato ed ho morso. Facciamo la pace vecchio mio. Tutti gli amici m'anno lasciato, sono qui in un qspede= le privo anche di quei piccoli conforti che qualche soldo potrebbe darmi. Io sono un buono amico. Ma sono anche un valido nemico.

Tu sai che se io voglio ti faccio cacciare dall'Italia. Come? per aver voluto essere l'eresiarca di un eresia politica detta volizio=nismo; Per aver propagato stampa sovversiva, e per altre piccole cose. Io non ho che a riprendere il filo della battaglia che avevo cominciato contro di te un giornale Bolognese, senza contare la vergogna di cui ti coprirei se dicessi al mondo come e perché le bellissime cravatte si sfilacchiavano e i nuovi vestiti si rognava no dopo pochi giorni ch'io gli avevo portati. Amico finirei anche= di bradurre i trenta canti. Facciamo la pace, valà mandami di nuovo le duecento lire mensili.

Emanuel Carnevali

Clinica Neurologica Via Rondine 7

BOLOGNA
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