UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
DEPARTMENT OF LATIN AND GREEK
LAWRENCE

1714 Indiana St.
Lawrence, Kansas

June 4, 1953

Dear Mrs. Pound:

Today I received an inquiry from the Yale University Press about your husband's translations of Cavalcanti. The Press wishes to sell the anthology of Italian verse in translation which they are publishing for me in England and the rest of the world outside the U. S. They wish to know whether the permission to reprint which you gave me for seven of these translations (letter dated Jan. 8, 1953) includes permission for publishing rights in England and the rest of the world as well?. I assumed at the time that this permission covered the world but neglected to ask you specifically. You will recall that I sent you $175 as permission payment, sent me as advance royalty from the Yale Press. I shall be most grateful to you if you will confirm my impression about this permission; the Oxford University Press, London, is to handle my book in England; its title is "Lyric Poetry of the Italian Renaissance: an Anthology with Verse Translations".

I hope Omar arrived safely eventually; we had a good deal of fun while he was here and I hope we may see him again. That was a fine manifesto in NINE, No. 9, about EP; it probably won't reach those who have any power to do anything about it, however. With best wishes,