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Pound mss., VI, 1906-1973

Summary Information

Repository
Lilly Library (Indiana University, Bloomington)
Lilly Library
Indiana University
1200 E. Seventh St.
Bloomington, IN 47405-5500
Phone: 812-855-2452
Fax: 812-855-3143
Email: liblilly@indiana.edu

Creator
Pound, Ezra, 1885-1972.

Title
Pound mss., VI, 1906-1973

Collection No.
LMC 1872

Extent
520 items

Language
Materials are in English.

Abstract
The Pound mss., VI consist of papers and documents by or relating to poet Ezra Loomis Pound, 1885-1972.

Access Restrictions

This collection is open for research.

Biographical Note

Ezra Pound was an expatriate American poet and critic and one of the leaders of the early modernist movement. Born in Idaho, he attended the University of Pennsylvania and went on to teach briefly at Wabash College in Crawfordsville, Indiana before traveling overseas and living in London, Paris, and Italy, then returning to the States in 1945. He was charged with treason for activities during the war, yet was found mentally ill and spent 13 years in St. Elizabeths Hospital before released in 1958. Pound went back to Italy that year and died in Venice in 1972.

Arrangement

Collection is in a single series.

Scope and Content Note

Items present include a diary for 1906, two passports dated 1916 and 1919, as well as a passport for Dorothy Shakespear Pound, 1885-1973, for 1916, miscellaneous bills and receipts from Rapallo during the 1930s through early 40s, Italian ration cards from 1941, bank statements and check stubs for various years, carbon typescripts for eight radio broadcasts made by Pound during the war, and twenty folders of "Committee Annual Reports," 1946-1973, (lacking 1951-1958) made by Dorothy Pound as court appointed guardian for Ezra's interests following his commitment to St. Elizabeth Hospital.

Related Material

See Pound mss., Pound mss. II, Pound mss. III, Pound mss. IV, Pound mss. V, Pound mss. VII,, also located at the Lilly Library, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana.

Administrative Information

Acquisition Information
Gift. Omar Pound. 1993
Usage Restrictions
Prior arrangements are not necessary before coming to the Library, however, patrons from out of town are encouraged to communicate with the Library in advance of their visits to ascertain availability of materials.

Photocopying permitted only with permission of the Curator of Manuscripts, Lilly Library.

Preferred Citation
[Item], Pound mss., IV., Lilly Library, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana.
Processing Information
Processed by staff.

Box 1 Ezra Pound passports

(2 folders)


Dorothy Pound passport

Carbon copy of letter of Mr. Quinn. Mailed March 15, 1917 

Ezra Pound's UPenn diary, 1906 

Gas bills, Rapallo, 1929-1945 

Miscellaneous receipts, 1930s and 1940s 

Water bills, Rapallo, 1931-1944 

Electric bills, Rapallo, 1931-1944 

Contract for electricity, 1959 

To Sheri Martinelli

Ezra Pound receipts

Electric bills, Rapallo, 1944-1945 

Italian ration cards, 1944 

Miscellaneous household bills

Bank statements

U.S. Social Security Card

(signed by Ezra Pound)


Ezra Pound, apartment, Rapallo

Bank stubs, 1935 , 1937 , 1939-1940 , 1965 

Montanari mss.

Committee accounts

(3 folders)


Radio broadcasts

"No Hate," mss.

"Jews," mss.

"Demoralization," mss.

"Church Peril," mss.

"Social Creditors," mss.

"E.E. Cummings," mss.

Dorothy Pound, Committee Accounts

(20 folders)


Ezra and Dorothy Pound, Miscellaneous

(3 folders)


Box 2 List of Floral Tributes – Funeral of Dorothy Pound

List of books chosen by Ezra Pound....

Norman, Charles. Copyright Case vs. CBS (Decisions/Citations only)

Gaudier-Brzeska. Correspondence Re: Removal of Marble Head to Rapallo

Mental health record for Ezra Pound, 1967 

Pound, Ezra. Rent Book. 1917 

Train ticket – journalist pass for Ezra Pound

"Citta di Rapallo" materials

Pound, Ezra. Documents: customs, etc.

Dorothy Pound identity card

Solicitors' Law and Other Documents

Publishers' Documents

Pound, Ezra. Early

Miscellaneous carbons

BBC programme by G. Bridson on Rock-Drill

Checks: Ezra Pound to Olga Rudge, 1945 

Pound, Ezra to U.S. Banks

Quittance de Foyer

Canzoni, 1911

Strutt, Hilda [?]

Miscellaneous printed matter

Adams, Aida

Villari

Miscellaneous

Essays in Criticism, galley proofs

Madariaga

Unidentified mss on economics

Translation of Frankfurter Hefte

Dorothy Pound, Rapallo certificate

Guggenheim Foundation

Publishers' Accounts (1914-)

"Richard of St. Victor" mss.

"Defenders Back Release of Ezra Pound"

Le Grand Testament (Villon) – 3rd Programme (BBC), 1962 

"Ballata"(Canzone)

Beatrice [?]

"Greenwich Times"

New York Times

Manning, Fred. "To Pindar"

Pardi, Giulio del Pelo. Typescript

Envelope [1916?]

"Imprimerie Gourmontienne"

Pound, Ezra to Pound, Homer

Pound, Ezra to Pound, Isabel

Pound, Ezra to Welles, Sumner

Pound, Ezra to Munch, Gerhart/Douglas Fox

Pound, Ezra to Frost, Robert

Pound, Ezra to Serly, Tibor

Pound, Ezra to Overholser, Dr. W.

Pound, Ezra to Laughlin, James

Pound, Ezra to Mullins, Eustace

College Grades

To Mrs. Shakespear

From Mrs. Tucker (Mother) to Olivia Shakespear

To Olivia Shakespear

To E. Dulac

Pound, Ezra to Moore, A.V.

(2 folders)


Pound, Ezra to Eliot, T.S.

Pound, Ezra to Duncan, Ronald

Pound, Dorothy. Travel Document (1919 )

Pound, Ezra. Affidavit (by Cornell) in Support of Bail (26, Nov. 1945 )

Pound, Ezra. Court Order re: Finances

Pound, Ezra. Motion to Dismiss Indictment (1958 )

Appointment of Deputy

Galleys

Gallup C-39

New Age

Miscellaneous

(2 folders)


Translations from Ezra Pound: Poems

3 Poems by Ezra Pound, Translated into Spanish

Translations of Ezra Pound into German

Ezra Pound: The Last Rower. Photocopied mss.

(4 folders)


The Selected Letters of Ezra Pound to John Quinn. Typescript.

(2 folders)


Box 3 Hemingway, Ernest to Pound, Dorothy

Pound, Ezra. "Lope da Vega."(early 1913  – by paper/watermark)

Pound, Ezra. Mss. (mostly "Lustra")

Pound, Ezra. "The Social Order"(Part II). Mss. to O.S.

Pound, Ezra. "Tempora."Holograph mss.

Translations of Ezra Pound by Ezra Pound (notes by Dorothy Shakespear)

Pound, Ezra. Manuscript.

"Cantus Planus."Typescript.

Pound, Ezra. "Cyrano de Bergerac"(sample). Mss.

Holograph mss. of poems

Pound, Ezra. Includes notes for Canto IV.

Notes

Pound, Ezra. "A Dream of Realms Beyond Us."Mss. (1902 )

Translation of Arnaud Daniel.

Typescript: "I have shaken with love half the night...."

Typescript: "I gaze upon the velvet shoes...."

"Novembre."Translated from "Adramandoni"by Lubicz-Milosz

Notes

Draft of Canto V.

Mss.

Typescript. "The joke was on America...."

Mss. "Ballad of Edward Windsor"

Mss. "Dirty Dewey..."

Typescript. Limerick.

Mss. "Confucius"(1945 )

Unidentified Chinese translations

(2 folders)


Miscellaneous notes on Chinese

Chinese translations

(4 folders)


"PIH, HWA, The White Flower Decad"

"Text of Confucius"

"Sai-bi Short Translation"

Giovanni Gentile (radio talk?)

"Draft for a Further Bill of Rights"

"Diario Politico"

"What Ezra Pound Believes"

"Del Mar as Historian"

"Summary...or a Few Dates for Grade Schools"

"Notes to the French printer of The Spirit of Romance

Page-Proofs (Canzoni)

Page-Proofs (Cavalcanti – 1912 )

Misc. fragments

3 pages of proofs for Unwobbling Pivot

Page proofs (Canto 86) from Hudson Review

Page proofs (Section Rock-Drill)

Unidentified galley

Proof of Chinese characters

Translated poems by Ezra Pound into Italian

"Annotations – a Poem of Considerable Length"

Pound, Ezra to Parkyn, J.A.

(4 folders)


Pound, Ezra to Moore, Arthur

Inventories

Pound, Ezra to Moore, Arthur

(18 folders)


Moore, Arthur to Pound, Ezra

Parkyn, J.A. to Pound, Dorothy

Moore, Arthur to Pound, Dorothy

(10 folders)


Pound, Dorothy to Moore, Arthur

(4 folders)


Moore, Arthur to Roscoe, William

Moore, Arthur to Schifferli, Peter

Moore, Arthur to Tucker, Florence

Davies, Richard to Moore, Arthur

Moore, Arthur to Shakespear Parkyn

Moore, Arthur re: Ezra Pound

Pound, Dorothy to Hemingway, Ernest

Shakespear, Dorothy

Shakespear, H.H. to Pound, Ezra

Shakespear, H.H. to Pound, Dorothy

Pound, Dorothy to Bedford, Agnes

(3 folders)


Pound, Dorothy to Pound, Isabel Weston

Pound, Dorothy to Pound, Homer Loomis

Pound, Dorothy to Shakespear, Olivia

Pound, Dorothy

Galton, Arthur to Pound, Dorothy

Pound, Dorothy to Cockburn, Frank

Pound, Homer Loomis to Pound, Ida ("cousin Ida")

Pound, Isabel Weston

Pound, Ezra to Rudge, Olga

Rudge, Olga to Pound, Ezra

Box 4 Handwritten notes, notebooks, and manuscript drafts for "Il Cortile,"translation by Dorothy Pound

Box 5 Canto LXXVI translated into Italian

Das Verlorene Gewolbe translations into German

An Introduction to the Economic Nature of the United States translated into English by Carmine Amore

Typescript of two poems by Ezra Pound

Four line holograph poem by Ezra Pound

Cloth notebook of Olivia Shakespear, including Ezra Pound's penciled notes [circa. 1938]

Five page penciled manuscript of Ezra Pound. [Outline for Angel Club in New York?]

Notebook with clippings of Ezra Pound's "Appunti"from "Il Mare"and "L'Indice"

The Just Price of Why Mosley by Ezra Pound

Infamy of Taxes by Ezra Pound

Why Parliaments Gone to Hell by Ezra Pound

Thought Resistance by Ezra Pound

Social Credit Asses by Ezra Pound

A Social Creditor Serves Notice by Ezra Pound

Correspondence, estate of Isabel Pound

Holograph letter [from Isabel to Homer Pound?]

Holograph letter from Dorothy Pound to Miss Napier, 1946 

Three documents and a letter re: Dorothy Pound, 1924-1948

Typed letter from District Court, Hailey, Idaho re: Ezra Pound's birth

Typed letter to Dorothy Pound re: the committee

Death certificate of Isabel Weston Pound

File relating to Dorothy Pound's voyage to U.S., 1946 

Holograph horoscope and related materials on Dorothy Pound

File of income tax returns

Xerox of Ezra Pound's letter to Mrs. Elkin Mathews

Xeroxes of Ezra Pound's letters to Thomas Hardy, 1920-1921 

Copy of chapter of Jane Miller's dissertation re: Olivia Shakespear

Files of miscellaneous printed materials

(2 folders)


Cantos. Typescript.

Box 6 Canto 55

Ezra Pound, probably 1912, trip to France

Passports

Dorothy Pound and Arthur Moore correspondence

Correspondence and military documents re: Ezra Pound, 1945 

Correspondence: Ronald Duncan to Mr. Moore

Correspondence: Olga Rudge to Dorothy Pound

Correspondence: T.S. Eliot to Mr. Moore

Correspondence: Ezra Pound to Charles Norman

Various correspondents

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