28 June

E. POUND

RAPALLO

Dear Jim

Cummings's poem will keep No I. on the map.

No. 2 should contain notice of Ford's death announcing No 3
as memorial issue to him.

The English Review was during the year and a half
he had it ( started it ) the greatest little review of our
time I908/10

and much more is due Ford for all that is
alive in our verse than is generally known, all the drive
toward live language as distinct for Hopkins' retrospect.

As I told you, a review shd/ augment and the different issues
be NOTICEABLY different and rememberable one from another.

A memorial issue as No 3/ shd get you over one of the
technical problems in differentiation/ one and two bound to
differ, and the six months between two and 4

wd again provide a natural difference.

No onQ in our time has done more for young writers than poor
old Fordie. + ax over a long
period.

yrz.

ANNO
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VIA MARSALA 12-5