Dear Mr. Dunn:

Your offer interests me a great deal. Further
than that, your magazine interests me no little extent.

It is not the low wage-scale that holds me back.
I am at present giving writing a weekly piece a trial for
another new magazine, and as you know it would not be easy
to undertake two such chores at one and the same time. If
I could have time to find out how I am going to get along
with the weekly piece, I could then see what the additional
monthly piece would be like. However, I suppose you have
no time for such waits, and I don't blame you at all. If
I had another two weeks in which to find out what the pros-
pects are, I could let you know in very exact words.

If you would be interested in knowing just
where I stand two weeks from now, I would like very much to
hear from you. And one more thing: I did not understand
what length these pieces were to be.

Thanking you for writing, I am

Mount Vernon, Maine
September 21st 1936

Via Marsala 12, int. 5,
Rapallo, Italy.

Dear Mr. Pound:

Hamilton College being our mutual Alma Mater, I'm
taking this liberty of approaching you myself rather than
having my brother write a letter that might be casually
cast into the waste basket.

Late this fall or early in the winter we are pub-
lishing the first issue of GLOBE, a travel magazine. In
all ventures of this sort the public's first impression is
always the most lasting. We want the best kind of magazine
possible, and are well-enough financed to get out 6 issues
of GLOBE in a traveller's size (5 by 8), 64 pages, colored
illustrations and art work. Will you help us make the
magazine a success?

We are under the impression that GLOBE articles
should have: (1) not more than 2,000 words, 1,000 preferred,
meaning a firm practice of concision; (2) intimacy and
lightness of touch, and (3) truth, authenticity and credulity.

As for subject, it is unrestricted - provided only
that your article show relation between people and place. In
other words, the setting (background) should impress as much
local color as possible on the characters.

Would you be kind enough to write for us or find
something that seems to fit our editorial requirements and
send it immediately for us to look over and report on within
2 weeks? The rates are 1¢ a word - payment on acceptance.

August 26, 1936

Mr. Ezra Pound,
310 San Gregorio,
Venice, Italy.

Dear Mr. Pound:

Thank you for your letter of August 13th.

I suppose by this time you have already received
our letter to you concerning rates: "The rates are 1¢ a word
and up...the longer, the higher. This means that the longer
GLOBE, the intimate journal of travel, romance, adventure and
world excitement stays in business, the higher rates it will
be able to pay." Due to the present (unfortunate) exchange
we will make a proportionate alteration in your case.

As we are now at work on GLOBE's first number we
could only give you as an indication of its needs the names
of some of those who have sent material: William Carlos
Williams, Adele de Leeuw, Joseph Vogel, George Schuyler,
Upton Sinclair, Willy Ley, Ozenfant, Micum M. Pavilcevic (in
transalation). Except for the second (an article on a Bali
Cremation) these are informal accounts of; a fight on a
cattle boat, a man and woman in a bedroom, conjugal revenge
in Montenegro, etc. This may sound on the story side, but
others will fill the gap: Cafe songs of Belgrade (with music),
night life in Bucharest, Hollywood monsters, etc.

Anything on travel will be without neck-craning and
all the paraphanaemia of the picturesque. (In re Siena: an
uncle, large and loud, did for me once the "colorful" race in
the Piazza del Campo, miming the horses and riders, to the
alarm of a small crowd of kids. As an article on this pageant
will be in some magazine again it does seem pointless).

Our first interest is authenticity; nothing that
would make the natives laugh, nothing about the place being
O.K. if it weren't for the people. The matter of wearing gloves
is up to you; certainly no roses. We do not suppose any pref-
erence on the part of the reader.

A monthly letter might lead to some space compli-
cation, even if we omitted other sources outside the seasonal
flux of visitors (Tel-Aviv, Tokio, Rio, etc).

Contemporary architecture in Italy (with photos) also sounds good. Perhaps a series of photos with provocative phrase identification (the ornamentation of ideas).

The cumulative meaning of the various economic
reaction in Italy would, I think, receive attention here,
where the water is thin from much filtering. Articles of this
sort (and the definitely political or tendancieux are "out"),
must have punch and be within the word limit.

I hope after this letter you will send something.
Perhaps you can understand the value of your suggestions
while GLOBE is still (after two years contacting some 7,000
people) in a formative stage. We have no general European
Director.

GLOBE

the international magazine

travel • romance • adventure • world-interest • world-excitement

Globe Magazines Incorporated — 1033 Lincoln Avenue

Saint Paul — Minnesota — The United States of America

September 11, 1936

Mr. Ezra Pound,
310 San Gregorio (presso Scarpa),
Venezia, Italy.

Dear Mr. Pound:

Thank you for your letter of August 29. Your condi-
tions are okay, also the suggested introductory article. You
can understand the type of pressure that makes us in a hurry
and the good reasons that may account for a delay in getting
out our first number. We were going to wire you but thought
better of it, so you get the difference. Our usual cheque to
you will be $20.

We are enclosing our original draft for page allotment
of material. You will notice that "Foreign Correspondance"
gets 20 pages (average page content 500 words); a possibility
of half a dozen regular contributors with another half dozen
rotating for two or three places on the list, (countries of
minor importance). Of course this estimate can be cut to three
or four men covering the whole of Europe, maintaining topical
division by countries. The return to the individual would thus
be higher. Do you think some decent men could be obtained under
the same temporary conditions that you are willing to accept?
If not, this section tones down to the quality of Andre de
Fouquieres and Pierre Audiat or the New Yorker (we have contacts
for this type of rubrique).

You will also note that the general attention of the
magazine is directed at the constants in people and place. As
material comes in the angle seems even sharper. Of course in
the "reportages" there is an opportunity to suggest what is
happening to them collectively, but again it is more than likely
the social side would be treated as a condition, with no dir-
ection of opinion.

We assume that monthly letters survey the whole social
side and not present a complete analysis of isolated problems,
unless the actual situation is in itself a preoccupation (Spain

September 16, 1936

Mr. Ezra Pound,
310 San Gregorio,
presso Scarpa,
Venezia, Italy.

Dear Mr. Pound:

This is to report receipt of your manuscript "Europe, 1936". It will go in as is unless we put in foot notes and go completely OBVIOUS. However, the moment isn't very near. As the idea that we aren't trying to get out a literary magazine as an interior decoration for the skulls of our readers is not so easy to get across. Or that we are avant garde privately. Thank you for having understood this from the beginning.

Meanwhile, a question not bearing on your article but on yourself, if you have any special personal comment on what you're doing and how you feel or can we quote from a letter.

310 San Gregorio

VENEZIA . 24 Sept.

Dear Dunn.

NOTE, I find awful slip in carbon of my article.

Page ONE

Europe 1936. Para/ III. line 2. Sallustio BANDINI

not Bandello. ( I may have corrected it in yr/ copy. ) if
not, correct it NOW.

tomb of Sallustio Bandini.

I got shock in looking over it last eve. As I wrote you from
Siena in ink, I have no record of what I said.

I take it you cant afford to have me put time in organizing
European end.

I will, pro bono publico, write to (to save TIME)

Jean Barral,

6 Place Garibaldi, Nice.

Basil Bunting 6 South Hill Park Mansions, Hampstead

London N.W.3.

but you shd. ALSO write on receipt of this. They COULD
do the job if the pay satisfy's em. Barral might even be
able to write direct in English. esp. if you were prepared
to correct small slips of expression. That wd. be qucker than
having him send stuff in French. IF he will take the
trouble for the price.

I shd. suggest Bunting be asked how MUCH of the London
and Eng/ stuff he wants to do,
( Slow bloke ) and whether he
wants Bridson to help. and or Angold.

Butch. is too busy. and wd. only do econ. pure.

Your best card with the people I now name is that I am
doing a monthly letter. as trial. to see if the mag. CAN
rise enough.

You wd. be lucky IF Guy Hickok of Brooklyn Daily Eagle wd.
touch the Pa is news. IF he has gone back to Paris etc.
He never answers letters. and as regular old guard journalist
I doubt if you can pay enough for him. but TRY.

address Brooklyn Eage. Brooklyn. or N.Y.

Harold Franklin, 320 W. 76 th St. New York does just

the kind of travel etc. stuff that t your contents
list looks as if you wanted.

Jas Laughlin present address, Robin Hill, Norfolk, Conn.

D.C.Fox, Forschungs Institut. 26 Gr. Eschenheimer str.

Frankfurt am Main, Germany.

for Frobenius african exploration ( archeological, but
with adventure, and legends collected.

ALL these people could do what you want. It is now up
to you to persuade 'em. and to make CLEAR WHAT you want
them to do.

With low pay, all you can do is to persuade.
you cant expect any GOOD writers to accomodate himself
very much. Certainly no one will go out for 15 or 20
bucks as they do for 150,175 from Esquire, (Hem. gets 450
I hear)

AND most of the stuff you seem to want cd. be
done by college boys, so long as you have some strong
stuff, and dont let crude ideology mess into foreground.

As TIMING is very important. "et me know when first issue is to come out and how far ahead you go to press.

Must be SURE my monthly guide letter goes in, but
want to hold second one as long as possible, so as to catch
events as near printing date as possible. WHEN it happens
to matter.

Most of my items will be necessary, I mean they'd
have to get printed in Globe some time.

Best play wd. be to send BODY of article in ample time,
and a couple of sheets supplementary, to go in IF they
catch the printing, and if not to precede the next article.

Thus.

body for say OCF** NOV

couple pages for Nov, IF they get there

or to start the DEC.

body for DEC.

and so on, in this matter.

I mean when there are pretty details, like Krassin's daughter.

Some times I will or may send the Stop Press, just as items, one
line, and take 'em up as subject matter in following article.

And HELL YES!! You ought to run Joe Gould's Oral History.

e,e, cummings, 4 Patchin' Place. New York

Joe Gould, care cummings, or last known addres, Box 484 Central Islip

N.Y.

you have a chance of getting cummings if he knows I am in and
that you are ASKING Gould. That oral hist. has been waiting for
you for 15 years. other edtrs. too god damn DUMB to see it.

You may have to cut and select the Gould, but it is a FEATURE.

I cited it in Dial artcl. on " Dr Williams position "

this essay in in Polite Essays, which is no in Press
FABER, London.

amusing that Cambridge Press is printing that for Faber,
simultaneous with Collected Poems of Ford Madox Ford, being
pubd. by Oxford Univ. Press.

you can use those items in page of authors' biog. biurbs.

My recent books. Nott and Co. London. new edtn. TA HIO,
of Confucius, done into American Language.

Fenollosa " Chinese Written Character " ( Nott and Co.
with notes by E.P. )

Polite Essays, Faber. in press, will prob. be out when
your first issue appears.

also try

H.W.Hawk, Rancho Kwen Channo, S.Cristobal. N. Mex.

he might do a local skitch. no use sending him
circular.

Am trying to keep off the god damn literary blokes.

I doubt whether Fack, Huho Fack, 309 Madison St. San Antonio, Tex
can do anything but economics.

F.M.Ford, Guarantee Trust. 4 Place de la Concorde. you cant pay
rates of a man in Harpers and Americ. Murk.

Possibly Peter Fanning, 12 York St. Newcastle, England cd.
provide remembrances.

Hilaire Hiler, for ART. Rodin Studios, 300 W. 57th. N.Y.
or Paris local colour.

29 Sept.

310 San 'gregorio Venezia. reply to

via Marsala 12/5 RAPALLO

Dear Dunn

Not my place to comment on what I am doing. Got
enough to do doing it.

If you want comment on what you are doing : Thank
heaven you are NOT trying to start a " literary magazine ".
Literature in the sense implied in the phrase " a literary mag
azine " is having a vacation. All the men with enough
intelligence to write a good story or novel are concentrated
on problem of money and credit issue, the nature of
money ( not the tricks used in getting it out of others ,
but the way it gets into existence at all )

This is to be distinguished vigorously from social
studies as conceived in carrot-fed generation of Shaws,
Webbs, Wellses, Fabians, and their still lower derivatives in
America. The psychological fiction in words went out
when Max Ernst did two books of engravings: Woman with
a Hundred Heads, and Deam of a Young Girl in Convant.

Dear Dunn

Private.

Herewith a note you may quote from if you like. This
page is private.

I THINK yr/ difficulty is that you WANT a kind of work
for which there IS a large market. The best men who have
trad skill in this upper bracket journalism aren't looking
for new mags. they are already being paid elsewhere.

Only an ideal or a sense of mission of some kind causes
men to write for no or low pay.

You don't or shouldn't want foreign news sifted thru
what British secret service or some oil company thinks the
americ/ peepul ought to know. That rules out a number of
snappy well connected correspondents.

You CAN with time get very young men. But unless you
follow system of oyher mags/ of information, either anonymous
writing and/or same bloke writing over two or three
pseudonyms, you don't offer a living full wage to
your European staff. Nor cd/ you pay traveling expenses.

Were I 20 or 25 years younger I might see the fun in
filling the stage with a few new writers. Menken used to
write a good deal of Owen Hatteras in the S.bet. etc.

An office name used by several people prevents identification
of it with any one of the staff. They each try to live up
to the invented character of Josephus Jones / Hildrbrand
Brown or whoever.

Am willing to pinch hit in emergency.

But you ought to get some clerver guy IN St Paul.
I mean it is younger men's job.

Franklin might do a good deal. Laughlin is interested
in his own writing. But also versatile. He and Johnnie Slocum,
might come on.

I have written Cournos, co/ Criterion, as havent his address

I suggest you write to Peter Fanning

12 York St. Newcastle England.

SAY that for your purposes it dont matter about his using
new material. Heaven knows he has seen enough. All you
want is that the adventures or things seen shall not
have been printed in the U.S.A. and not in England
during past few months.

I shd. say GET cummings and keep off ... oh well ...

no use my prejudicing you against anyone. But get
the BEST of the avant guard, in e,e,c, and you keep
the rest in order, and can be as conservative as you like
throughout the other 94 pages.

You prob. know the Northwesterns and other regional mags.

You can invite their dozen best writers.

Ask G.S.Hutchison, Ikford House, Aylesbury Eng.

and

J.Hargrave, Wayside, Kings Langley, Herts. Eng.

for adventure stories, not politics.

I dont see how people like Ion Monro and Fodor cd. write at
yr rates. AND I dont know what the ethics is for
correspondents of particular papers, spilling it elsewhere.

Sir Leo Chaozza L. Money. Old Quarry, Bramley, N.Guildford

Surrey

might reminisce. on the other hand he might lamm in a sonnet
and youd be did.

The Fanning and Cournos are the two bets in this lot.

Let me know WHEN you want my NEXT " Europe ". Is it going to
be 1937 ??

WHEN a particular thing was needed for Little Review, I often
found it easier to invent an author and write it for him
than to get it out of some half baked ass/pyrant.

Am in fact at the moment ( or rather in the fortnight
and STILL ) with a writer who has had an ORDER for an
article. needs an opening paragraph which I cu. do in
eight minutes.

will take a week to get it written. so that
the ed/ can use it.

Of course IF I do it my style will
stick out from the rest.

//

As to pinch hitting, I can if needed in emergency
do an article on a particular topic, more elaborate
than the Europe notes
and explaining the topic , rather than giving it as
item of months news.

BUT demme, I don't want to turn dray
horse. I ought not to do hank. or if so, it ought
to be VERY LITTLE, and so well paid that I wdn't have to
worry about any other income.

I cant be the whole European s
staff for less than DeKruif gets for a single Home Choinul
article.

per year

and you aren't looking for phantom army ANYhow.

B.M.G.Adams 4 Grantchester Rd. Cambridge. Eng. ( hasn't
so far as I know written anything for ten years. )
Try Bridson, 38 Deyne Ave. Prestwyck Manchester.

D.G. D.G.Bridson 59 Mansdowne Rd. E West Didsbury

Hell, wot about Farrel. always the same damn Lonnigan ???
a bit dull by now. cd. he do a different

Now there is a ex member of the ex russian general staff
that might just , or his wife might reminisce.
try. Gen Golijewsky

7 rue Felix Faure, Paris XV.

GLOBE

the international magazine

October 12, 1936

Mr. Ezra Pound,
Via Marsala 12/5,
Rapallo, Italy.

Dear Mr. Pound:

Thanks for the photos, suggestions and names.
I have written, following your indications, to 14 of them
(oct. 5th). Later I realized you meant by "come on" for
Laughlin and Slocum to come out here to St. Paul. There is
room for one at the office (a transformed apartment). I will
have to talk to my brothers.

John Cournos writes (evidently as soon as he
got your letter) he would be willing; wants to know exactly
what our slant is, and also enclosed a piece (about meeting
someone in a pub, England).

We are bringing out our prospectus in another
week. (Copies for advertisers and subscribers and general
follow-up). We have made initial contacts with publishers'
representatives east of here. I will let you know how fast
things move on this line and give you date of release of first
number approximately a month in advance, also regular date of
month when GLOBE will be put to bed. Your scheme of time
delay in sending on material, Stop Press line, ought to keep
things warm.

Your check for October is enclosed. What ex-
change do you get? I referred to your "biog. blurb" when I
wrote for "Comments". So the question was answered anyway.

encl.

Dear Mr. Pound:

Your typescript came two days ago. Sorry this delay about going to press. GLOBE will be on the stands December 1st, or on the outside the 15th, and dated January 1. The prospectus will be sent you by next Wednesday and give you some idea of what we already have.

Is it all right to re-arrange the paragraph order of "That League in Calvin's City"?

We are looking up Krassin's daughter and will probably find out who she is. I suppose Neimeyer is in the same class with de Wendel.

The MID-WEST turned out to be more communist than expected. Nobody seems to know how long it will survive.

Did your publisher who went bankrupt have American rights to your translations of Morand? The unpublished ones sound interesting. We have been doing some contacting on our own with Europeans but this has been more general and specific, with the exception of some East European writers - Eugene Relgis, Zsolt Bela, etc. Many have gone completely political and practically off the market unless they think they are associating themselves with the Cause.

Second rights on things buried in magazines could be used, but this is largely a matter of choice and related to their timeliness.

Morley Callahan was written to on September 2nd but we have had no answer as yet. Naturally a lot of people may come in when they see the magazine printed. We wrote Bulah Patterson about two weeks ago. We heard from Fox and

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he is sending some stuff. Peter Fanning has already sent
in something on Hitler, his idea being to write a series
covering key men in Europe. There seems to be nothing new
in what he wrote and we will try to get back to him on
something closer to his own experiences. Cournos is send-
ing in a monthly Russian letter and relaying material.

We can't take up the matter just now of getting
more people around here. It is too damn confusing as it is.
Our printer is 150 miles away, which will be ice-bound half
the winter.

The second issue should go to press by the 1st to
5th of January, and all material be in by then, still
keeping open a few stop lines.

Laughlin seems to be quite busy editing a new
magazine devoted to American Sur-Realism. I don't know if
his case is going to be that of Erskine Caldwell who is doing
a Mid-weekly story and informed us some time back that his
writing for us depended on whether that went through.

We are getting out a real carte d'identite. If you
want to send us a photo-mat picture we can stamp it with a
seal, etc. However, don't bother if you find the enclosed
letter sufficient.

encl.

17 Dec.

Dear Dunn

I am holding the English stuff in order to put
together as much of puzzle as possible.

The inside stuff just statred arriving yesterday.

Italian correspondents the best and most thorough but not
INSIDE.

I figure your printing date makes it useless for
me to try to catch the number now going to press., so
better say MORE; and be coherent.

Print the vulgar ballad/ the ballad will continue/ and
has the main balance of truth in it.

The manner in which the stunt was to be pulled was known
considerably in advance.

Oh well/ I am, naturally holding back all the other
stuff/ and my next mes/ will be on Edwardus.

Head/ 20 dollars. thanks.

A crime has been committed but the number of suspects
present is so LARGE...

and the roots of it going BACK.....

etc.

yr/

Prospectus has evidently been lost on route.

Sure CUT the Fanning. He wont fuss. Glad the Caico satisfactory.

Not clear re/ yr/ list of names . Do you mean you have 'em.
or want my opinion about getting them ??

Yr/ other question. My opinion of Eden is that
he is nasty piece of work/ and CERTAINLY
anti Edward. HARRISON Beckett Yorkshire
Post was cog in the framing.

But Eden I think merely the pimp not the Pornoboskos
or big shot running the whole house.

Eden's bitch didn't approve of Wallie/
and Wallie NOT exactly a pixchoor pos' card of Victoria's successor
BUT lorr' luvv yew dearie, thet aint th' arf ov it.

HEH? DUMMIES, I DON'T MEAN TO BE A POOR BOY, I MEAN TO BE A
HUGELY FAMOUS DIPHERANT.

yrz

THE INTERNATIONAL MAGAZINE

intimate journal of travel • romance • adventure • world interest

157½ WEST FIFTH STREET
SAINT PAUL, MINNESOTA
THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

November 10, 1936

Dear Mr. Pound:

We have been working out deadlines, etc. and the 18th of the second month preceding the issue is very close. GLOBE will be on the stands simultaneously over the country on the 20th of the month, dated the 1st. With this arrangement it seems unwise to come out with the January 1st issue on the 20th of December, so the first number will be on the stands the 20th of January, dated February 1st - deadline the 18th of December.

If you want to send in something especially timely, either to begin or conclude the main body of "Europe, 1936" you have the above dates to go by. You can wait until the 18th and cable us the additional release. Naturally with the lapse of time between the deadline and appearance on the stands such communications might be inside stuff and news only what you feel sure would not get out (if ever) before GLOBE.

The beginning of "Europe, 1936" is appearing in the prospectus.

December 3, 1936

Dear Mr. Pound:

As far as advertisers go, our competitors are: Town
and Country, Asia, National Geographic, Travel, etc. in the
same field. As a general mag. it would be the American
Mercury, the new Scribners, Reader's Digest and the new
Coronet (see enclosure), which may be discontinued as
Gingrich is now planning another one. In any case the pre-
sent one looks thrown together and does touch on some of our
intentions as expressed in various mailing pieces we have
been sending out for the past months.

We checked our contents for the first issue against
the Atlantic, Reader's Digest, Esquire for duplication of
type material to our own satisfaction. Of all it duplicated
least for "Travel" 24 out of 28 articles would not have been
printed by them.

The big illustrateds, new "Life", "Mid-Week" etc. are
not in our line. We are catching up, by the way, on Erskine
Caldwell as his regular story has not appeared in the last
two issues. The magazine is so nasty now it can't possibly
keep it up.

We will know fairly soon about increasing our rates to
writers. Of those you wrote we report:

W. H. D. Rouse - (excellent).

Leo Chiozza Money - (article en route).

B. M. G. Adams - (ones he sent were not very good;
satire of English woman of 40, but we asked for more).

General Golijewsky's letter was returned (inconnu à
cette addresse).

THE INTERNATIONAL MAGAZINE

February 5, 1937

Dear Mr. Pound:

Received yours of the 15th and 17th of December
and the 10th of January.

Reaction here to prospectus has been more than
favorable; we are still busy getting out the 20,000 of these.
Meanwhile, ad. representatives are being appointed. GLOBE
will be distributed nationally, 55,000 for the first issue.
Publication date had to be set off on acc't. of printer (we
changed). It will be on the stands February 20th. Milwaukee
Cuneo Press is trying to rush the magazine through so as to
meet the agreed-on dates. As it is we will probably be a
day or so late off the press.

Your Edward article is being run in the first
issue in place of "Europe 1936." Perhaps the latter can be
revised a bit for the April issue, on which we are now work-
ing. A caricature of Edward by Walter Molino of Milan will
run with your article.

The $20 check will be sent as soon as my brother
returns from Chicago. Please pardon the delay.

Sisley Huddleston writes a Geneva letter for the
second issue. Guy Hickok is silent in spite of two letters.
I am trying to contact the additional people mentioned by
you (Woodward, Maury, McAlmon (also recommended by Mr.
Williams). The whole staff is still in doubt about Prorok,
though we are running an installment. The copy is lively
and he has a definite following. Ford Madox Ford wrote my
brother and then answered his letter saying the rates were

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too low and that he rarely if ever writes anything under the
8,000 word count. He seemed decidedly interested, however,
though that doesn't help us much, W. E. Woodward regrets,
et cetera.

What should we do about third (May) issue? Deadline on editorial material for that number is the 25th of March. Should we run the League article, or would you care to revise it. Someday soon I hope we will be on schedule - the whole thing is so abnormal now.

First proof for "Abdication" included.

Yours,

James Taylor Dunn

encl.

JTD/dl

THE INTERNATIONAL MAGAZINE

February 20, 1937

Mr. Ezra Pound
Via Marsalla, 12/5
Rapallo, Italy

Dear Mr. Pound:

GLOBE is out at last (on the stands today and selling like hot-cakes in some spots we know of). We will send you a copy as soon as it is possible, but there seems to be some agreement that keeps us from mailing it immediately. Hachette is handling our European distribution.

Your "Abdication" appears in this issue, illustrated by a cartoon done by a young student I met in Milano. He does most of the drawings for "Libro e Moschetto", the weekly paper of GRUPPO UNIVERSITARIA FASCISTI. "Abdication pleases us very much. (No rose carrying with gloved hands).

Now about GLOBE and our distinguished general European correspondent. GLOBE has been late all along the line. A majority of the people who knew about the "vast plans" doubted even up to the moment the first issue went to press that it would ever appear. But now that it has started rolling and must appear once a month, our arrangements with you commence on a more clock-like basis.

We are sending to you "That League in Calvin's Home City" which is too serious for GLOBE. Many of the people and situations dealt with are beyond most of us here. Perhaps a politico-economic piece of this nature would be acceptable elsewhere. We send you carbon copies to do with what you will. The enclosed check pays for the month of April in which we are

Mr. Ezra Pound

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using "Europe 1937". To date we have sent you (including $20 we enclose) $85. We have two of your articles to publish; "Abdication" in March issue, and "Europe 1937" in April issue. Your next letter will go into the May issue. In other words, $40 of the $80 was for articles, and $45 for the delay and your invaluable service in working up our world contacts and in masterful advice to the editors of GLOBE. In April, we will pay you $20 for May. I hope this economical discussion of money straightens us out.

Do you have translations of foreign verse we might look at; poetry showing human character and local color of fascinating spots in the world. Also, we are anxious to get our hands on stories by good Italian authors (living). Anything further you can do along this line will be appreciated.

Several clippings are enclosed which may prove of interest. A letter is on hand from your cousin, Earle Bailey of Chip-pewa Falls, Wisconsin; plus a cordial invitation to visit him.

Via Sweden we received a very nice article on GLOBE and Montague Summer's "London Goes to Satan", written by D. B. Wyndham Lewis. It appeared in THE BYSTANDER for January 13th. Mr. McAlmon answered our letter (and yours). He's sending us some articles.

Cordially,

The Editors of GLOBE

J. W. G. Dunn, Jr., Editor

JWGD/dt

21 Feb [1937]

Dear Dunn

Good. Glad you snapped the Edward into first number.
That wd. have gone out of date.

No use my trying to correct proofs NOW, as it is supposed
to have been on the stands yesterday.

that for those/ pernebeskes, not prone/

and it wasnt Sammy in Dyrham but Swabey/// but it dont matter.
//

could
The Europe &JNJ be labled 1937 . BUT I think you better leave
it 1936.

Put an editorial note to the effect that both the
Europe and the league article are necessary introduc...

Say frankly when I wrote 'em/ and let that carry if possible
the idea that events have lived up to 'em.

People are now reading Arnold Wilson/

I shall keep my Hitler article hanging on the hook here
until the last minute. That is to say YOU should have it on
April 25th. for the June issue ??

Using Eng/ Italy/ league/ then Germany, I shall have
put down the main stakes.

As I remember the articles I need
those two pretty much as they stand as INTRODUCTION
and to make what I shall go on saying clear to the readers.

Anything really out of date you can cut better in office
than I cd. here.

It worry over my saying" Hitler article " it went cut into
anything you are getting direct from "ermany.

I am giving Italian view of "ermany.

Incidentally Bib Ibbotson has just been here for a week/
married a german, and has losts of nephews inside and in the
constructive organizations/

Am afraid he is aiming at N.Y.Times or something' tried to get
him for Globe..

ANYHOW he was full up with Eng/ and U.S. press
misrepresentation,

also a lot of clear data re French IDIOCY in
Metz and Coblenz in 1933..

Permanent address

J.D.Ibbotson, Hamilton College , Clinton N.Y.

Send the LIBRARIAN a Globe circular ;

also sent one to
Prof. Harold W.Thompson

( Library has all my stuff )

State College, Albany, N.Y.

( he might aslo WRITE fer Globe )

Sorry about Woodward/ I doubt if Claude Powers is lively enough.
What about Lloyd Stryker ? was his bk on Andy Johnson lively enough ?
and does he DO anything more ?

I dont suppose the Beards wd. write at Globe rate ?

There is also Sam Adams OUT of reach.. but perhaps worth
higher rate to the paper..

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March 16, 1937

Dear Mr. Pound:

Many thanks for your letter and the many names. Harold Thompson was written to last August and he responded immediately, saying he would like to write for us; but he has been quite ill. I write to him again today. His stories remind me very much of Carl Carmer's books which are still best sellers in this country. I don't quite understand what Bibsie can do; any suggestions on this will be appreciated. Robert McAlmon has sent in many things, only one of which is even possible. The Library subscribed to GLOBE about a month ago.

Was reading your *QUI PAUPER AMAYEK* when Christopher Hollis telephoned two nights ago. Had lunch with him yesterday; agreeable arrangements were made, and he is sending an article from Notre-Dame University in the very near future.

The Europe article will be labeled 1936, and an editorial note has been included. Will try Claude Bowers; and Adams is certainly worth higher rates. Mary Howell has written us and sent in two articles, one of which we think can be used. Is she authentic? Her "Three Sisters" manuscript reads a bit like the atrocities reported during the Great War.

The six copies have been sent to you. Please write us your HONEST criticism; that's what we need if we are going to keep improving.

Your "Abdication" has been mentioned favourably in every review so far received. Enclosed is one of the best, from the St. Louis "Globe-Democrat".

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April 22, 1937

Dear Mr. Pound:

Much can happen in one month (the date of our last letter), GLOBE seems to be going over. We expected 20% sale on first number and got 60% with very little money put out for advertising promotion. Curiosity sale accounts for a good deal of this, of course, but even discounting that, we can't help but feel encouraged.

Referring back to yours of March 17th. The Italian material received direct from the authors has been damn poor. Our translator here has done the best she could with mediocre stuff. Carlo Linati, (the best of the lot), Marcello Gallian, Orio Vergani, Nino Saverese, Filippo Burzio, Ciro Alvi have been the only ones to send things in. This is the way we work with our translators; we send material received to, say, our German man in Omaha. He reads the manuscripts (understanding that we want short stories, reportages showing people against a definite place background, etc., and those he thinks at all possible he reports on, giving us a detailed account of the article and his own reactions to it. We then write back yes or no.

When the translation is received, it is put in an envelope and passed among our readers. If they don't like it, it's out. We, however, have to pay the translator our regular rates for the trouble he has taken, (at the present time, $1.00 per thousand words with bonus if printed). You might ask Bunting to do a sample. We will agree to pay him what you say the first time. If it is good, then further arrangements can be made; if not, then we're out that much. Perhaps, however, you have suggestions as to how this translation business can be systematized.

The excellent music, et cetera, manuscript has been received. It's one of the best and will go in the July issue, on the stands June 15th. The deadline for August will be around the middle of

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June. Perhaps England has been hit on the nose enough.

No word from Duncan. Manuscript from Hollis called "On
Italians" goes in July issue. Excellent stuff. Simons has been
written to. Brother Jack gave him your address, so he will doubt-
less communicate direct with you.

Yes, prejudice is much against Nazi and Fascism. Whatever is
said will have to be simple, direct, fair, emphatic, and not simply
*one* person's viewpoint.

Our saying we sincerely regret the slip-up in your third para-
graph (UNimportant) won't help much. We don't see where errata
can be squeezed in. We'll try, anyway.

Thanks for the O.K. stamp on first issue. The second one is
now on its way to Rapallo. Caico's first article is to appear in
June. Jane Soames sent in an excellent article on the Sultan of
Morocco which is out being read; enjoyed reading her ENGLISH PRESS.
The Mary Howell manuscript was decided AGAINST by the editorial
board. Hope she can send in more things, though. The reprint
question has been decided -- we publish only good, only the best
translations from the least known sources. Will try Gold again.

The article in LIVING AGE was on Hindemith Bartok, et cetera,
called "Mostly Quartets," a radio talk of yours printed in the
Listener. Do you happen to know of any foreign book shop that
might have your earlier books. Sylvia Beach? I have built up
quite a collection of your firsts.

The enclosed check, much delayed, pays for "...And Excursions."
Check covering July issue's "Deflation Benefit" will be sent as
soon as the June issue is out of the way, which will be *very* soon.

The extra six numbers of the first issue were sent long ago;
word from your father says they arrived. One copy of the second
issue went off first-class several weeks ago as did the additional
ones. Hope they reach Rapallo safely.

Bob Brown of Pleasant Plains, Staten Island, sent in several
manuscripts that look promising. Now to see what the editorial
board says. He mentioned both you and Hilaire Hiler. The latter
recently sent in a photo taken a few years back which includes you,
Cocteau, Copeland, Man Ray, and others. We plan to use it in GLOBE
soon.

Concerning the VOU club poetry. It has come up for much dis-
cussion and has been held over for two editorial conferences.
Several of us are very much in favor of publishing the two intro-

ALSO once again/ when I am NOT writing CANTOS
I do not care a hoot how much I am EDITED.

I am not touchy about the elimination
of a phrase.

WHEN I EDIT I CUT OUT what I dont want. when I am am
edited I give the editor similar leeway. That is what EDITIN
is. The write provides the ammunition and the editor shoots
it TOWARD his target.

I agreed to 240 bucks a year/ if the paper cant pay it
thazzatt/ If it is only issued 6 times a year that halves
the remuneration till further notice. But I shd/ like to
work out a system for 120 bucks annual. Then I wd/
not have to think about THAT part of the rent.

NOT charity/ the wyper has got to earn it. You passed over
a proposition I made re/ INTERESTING writers by offering
'em STOCK in small dabs/ to bear interest WHEN the paper
begins to pay.

I still think the plan wd/ AUGMENT yr/ intake
of manuscripts that WOULD make the paper S SELL. It
wd/ temp me to send enough stuff so that you WOULD be abl
to use 20 bucks worth per month. ETC..

+ still have NO idea WHAT yr/ Biz Mgr found INVECTIVE.

jHeeZuss NO ONE know what CLARITY of expression means.
everyone THINK the other guy is GOING to understand him.

F. Dunn

Yaaas/ I think I forget to mention the chq/ came.
My hurried of yester/ Bloke here 8 hours, re/ New English
('not New England')
real lichery mag/ to be started.

Waaal; re yr/ financial arrangements. WE are in this thing
at minimum at LEAST as much for the fun of it as for lucre.
and thazZ O.KAY by EZ.

The Geneva mss/ being OUT, and it now the 8th. You will have
to stand a little seriousness in the enclosed.

I will start the next one on MUSIC, so'z not to be too
specialized and too far from the reader.

IF you hadda sent me proofs of the
WHOLE issue etc/ etc/ Until I see the whole mag/ I can NOT
get a very full idea of the TONE required of yr/ central
and by program heaviest and seeereeyusest component.

As I see it/ the Geneva stuff was MORE out of date and off
the days news, than TOO SERIOUS.

When you have time to be
explicit in this correspondence p

PLEASE do.

It takes a damn sight
longer to be explicit than a busy man usually has when rushing
off letters.

If you mean I am NOT to MENTION America at all

and that for OBvious ( to you ) reasons
I shd/ not even allude to the Western Hemisphere.

6

Eleven Japanese poets are sending me PoEMS sometime, BUT I don't know if they will be LOCAL colour/

One of the blokes was murmuring
about Ford Cars and east african ornament/

reckon they may be HIGH
brows with human interest.

7.

Am glad to hear ANYTHING good of D/B/Wyndham Lewis.

The RIGHT Lewis is P. Wyndham Lewis, but he signs without the P cause he don't like his ma called him PERCY.

Whether he can git
down to Globe level I dunne.

Who selects the EYETALYAN stories. The Lousing Age ordered
a translation of Per and then didn't like the PORticulars

If I tell Buntn/ to r traduce some Marchi an you don't like it?

WOP happens ?

Modus vivendi/ do YOU read the wop originals
and order the translations ??

WHAT is rate of payment for
translations/ what % to author and what to traductor ??

I mean do YOU read Italian and pick the stuff to be done ?

Have I got to buy wop books and send 'em to you ??
or do I tell Bunt to do a sample and you pay him five dollars
whether accepted or not, and more if it suits ??

Only way I see of getting QUICK action. Puts it up to
him to pick snappiest story in a vol/ of shorts/ taken from
author. I choose.

I think Criterion once used a Marine Moretti
GOOD, and not known in St Paul.

Tozzi perhaps too serious ?

To get quick action you od/ send me a set of PROOFS
of whole Globe, not waiting for issue. also I need

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Dear Mr. Pound:

Enclosed is your monthly $20.00. How far do you figure this carries you? On your index card here in front of me, I notice you have been paid including the enclosed for six months. This includes our fourth issue, July, Do you consider that this makes us square to date including the July issue or including the August issue, which? We rely entirely on how you feel about it. I realize that your activity for GLOBE has been more than the letters alone and having you with us is of incalculable value. This is the zero hour for GLOBE; the inertia of summertime must be passed before hoped for autumn advertising.

Has GLOBE been brought to the attention of Mr. Mussolini? I hope so or that it will. Would he write an intimate letter for GLOBE sometime? Mary Howell sent us an article written by Marshal de Bono, but there was nothing new in it so we had to send it back. The idea of getting world notables to write for GLOBE protagonizing certain ideas still holds good. Could you send us reviews on GLOBE published in Italian papers and magazines?

Now I wonder if we can turn southward, eastward, or westward a while in your general European letters. England has come in for more attention than it deserves and people are getting somewhat fed up on the Island's own trials and tribulations. How about Abyssinia, Rodi, Pantellaria, The Heel and Toe, Malta, and the route to the Indies, the Mediterranean basin, Iberian peninsula, and the communistic colossus? We still itch to receive native Italian authors.

Sincerely,
GLOBE MAGAZINES, Inc.

J. W. G. Dunn, Jr., Editor

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Mr. Ezra Pound
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Rapallo, Italy

Dear Mr. Pound:

Have been waiting for the enclosed check to go
through the mill and be signed before writing you. It
pays for the August letter "Deflation Benefit."

You, having seen all the GLOBES, have a good idea
what we are seeking in our photo-reportage section. If
you think Kirstein's and your photographs should fit in,
then send them on. And discussion will move much faster
after we have studied them. Granted the church section
was Iousy, but the August is more our type - Mexican
Market. The Monte Carlo ballet, though the photos weren't
too excellent, is also more our type.

We miss Mangione in GLOBE, too, but hope he will
send on more material, at least for September. We're
hounding him, anyway.

Our letter to Halidé Edib also returned. "Asia"
publishers her, but knows nothing of her whereabouts.

GLOBE'S first issue sold around 19,000 - second
issue very poor, only 13,000 (but May was a bad month for
all magazines, even the steady ones). June promises to
be around 20,000 and July 25,000. We are seeking a
steady 40,000 newsstand sale by the first of the year.

Antheil had a good article in that new super -
"Cinema Arts." We will follow up your letter immediately.
We are exchanging with Katue but as yet have lined up no
Japanese translator in St. Paul. Will write again and
ask that manuscripts be translated there, as was your
poetry.

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The magazines go off immediately to G. H. Tinkham,
in Washington.

The enclosed may interest you and your father.

How about Max Beerbohm. Does he do anything these
days?

James Taylor Dunn
Assistant Editor

JTD/dl

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clipping

P.S. Suggestions were made at our last editorial conference that we would prefer more news, written in the spirit of "Abdication" or "Deflation Benefit" rather than monetary subjects and so forth. How about Mussolini's statement to the press that Russian Dictatorship was nearing an end?

JTD