Me dearest Gladys / 10 Ap/

Oi have a vaaague recolectishun that a buzzard named Seaton
thropped in yu some years ago/ oi may be wrong, from the start
of Oireland/ anyhow he says a buzzard named Craig who wanst
wrut a poEM about a KAT is now in London. He sends me
bedad the text of the poEM but no toitle, and not the Craig
character's front name /

I am tinkin of a book of
mixtolanea, and a few oddments, NOT basik educ/ but
various small items that might git mislaid/ like owld
Hulme's poems moight have/

and oi want the Craig character's
laive to include his friVOlous lines.

I spose a letter to the Soupliment wid a line of the poEM
might fish the buzzard out of the wherenot / or the
name of his puBLISer.

***

Oi gather that the idea of gathering 17 Poundistas
in one room SIMultaneous has rather eggsploded. I got
a sample paumphlet, wich indicated what they
thought the London traffik wd/ bear/ but since then nothing
but a notice ( apparently disconnected) of some Polish
archaeology dealing wid the years 1915.

Mr Russel has DIstinctly misbehaved, alas that
hunger shd/ droive a man.

All of which is revealed by the
INDiscretion of a 2nd/ hand bukseller. who is illegal.

La Martinelli, a pocket edtn/ of reprod/ has usciated in
Milano/ one copy arruv by air mail / but Dinnis says the
listENER¹ has faded so no chance of telling the ult/ brits/
of its( the pocket edn/ 's) eggexistence. Z

The italian press, film industry and TV have started
enlivenments, but probably 30 years ahead of the
american capacity for understanding ANYthing whattsodam.

IF anybody in Sodom on Thames does anything notable yu cd/
tell Mr Stock in Melbourne , and he wd/ admire to notice

The porpoise of researching the crAIG is not that I have
the nrGY to do a anthology ( and there aint the to put in
it it ennyhow) but a sort of appendix, as in the Hulme
case. a few *transitions*, mebbe 3 pages / or rather more
if yu count a few LIIIII Rimbaud, plus a few lines of De Angulo,
and Montanari ( morto in guerra) plus the Admiral on Brixton
Jail.

an Damn all wasn't there a poEM by herself Mlle Hynes
where the hell is the that manuscript. The bughousz is no place
fer a filing system / do yu remember it , ???

Oi tink me bubLISHer is docile. Of course if yu know
of any other bits of READING matter, I mean what you CAN
READ. yu can tell me.

ole Mavrogordato seems about the one reaDable proSOdist
left in the valley of Gomorrah. BUT of course I cant be
expected to keep a full information service on their
whichwhats.

Oi tink alzo Miss Martinelli has done a St Anselm fer the prior
/ gard knoze wot the reaction will be. temperamental she
is. How is Sheila ?

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Bearest Gladys, 13 Nov. I don't see that it matters a damn.

ART is what the artist produces / and no critical yatter matters a hoot.

"L. certainly made vorticism. To him alone we owe the existence of BLAST. It is true that he started by wanting a forum for the several ACTIVE varieties of CONTEMPORARY art / cub/ expressionist/ post-imp etc.

BUT in conversation with F.P. there emerged the idea of defining what WE wanted / + having a name for it,

"Ultimately Gaudier for sculpture, F.P. for poetry, and "L., the main mover, set down their personal requirements.

I don't know that the ten signers of the manifesto did more that add signatures to oblige.

I cannot recall that Roberts or anyone else contributed to the ideology.

Bobbie was regarded as a whim of W.L's. Only verbal manifestation recorded in the oral tradition is that Yakob tried to overawe him with question:

"Well, Bobbie, how's vorticism?" and Mr Roberts replied: "It's buddin'".

Apart from Gaudier's two "Vortices", all the stimulating criticism (which is specifically of the PHENOMINAL) visual arts came from "L.

chiefly stating what he found wanting in the continental schools. An individualist and national movement.

As what B.D. termed the "hoppopoetess", Miss Lowell was trying to break down the definition of Imagism by omitting the most vital proposition in the original definition, it was opportune to get another table for vitality in the arts.

BUT W.L. was certainly in charge of the visual arts with Gaudier partly dissenting and partly hunting for something we were agreed on.

Sheriff's trial was what is called "a ball", high point her off the cuff, the the persecution: "You know something? You would have made a good prosecuting attourney."

Attempt to pour dirt on Mr Mullins as character witness, brought out:

I am a member of an organization which advocated certain rights for white citizens."

S/M acquitted.

Cheers from the jury.

Gilbert is about due to be let out on parole.

More recent headline / NONE of the persecuting witnesses against J.K. stood up under cross examination. case has been recessed till the 19 th.

NO connection between the two events, apart from their all being in the family circle.

That you better get hold of is Nation Europa, postfach 670, Coburg. issue for September.

freedom of the press reemerging.

I cant remember who has had what. DID you or NOT receive Yanni's li'l bk/ La Martinelli with illustrations?

2/ nacherly she is eNUFF to drive a impressario NUTTZZ/ tryin to be
Giotto, Bot, Pisanello all 'ternately / la ceramica polichrome,
last effusions two clay masks of grampaw /
SUPER-

JUST, of course, when gramp/ is praying for some MORE colour as in
the booklet. ART is what bloody the artist brings forth / and
no amount of yatter will alter it.
that

I dunno that Nina can put me onto some buzzard who
is interested in philosophy as distinct from philoempistmology.
since the old negating Marano , ( Santayana) died off I dunno
where to get check up , but O.R.A. has come thru with a note on
the sane tradition.

The

the descent from Dante to that damn verkiked
boob johnnie MiLton , shd/ be in the foreground of crizism of
licherchoor. Not the pale fact that after Milt/ there were worse ones.
old Swigget at 89 has just brot out a trans/ of Dant/
haven't yet seen it.
products which she sez she

Still waitin fer fotos of G.H. products which she sez she
cawnt git.
Love to Sheila, and Nina and all the survivors from a
preWeinsteinian era,

preWeinsteinian era,
Love to Sheila, and Nina and all the survivors from a