Ezra Pound research collection, 1916-1948.

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Ezra Pound research collection, 1916-1948.

Miscellaneous group of letters and materials concerning Ezra Pound. Includes letters from Pound to John Eliot Alden, James T. Farrell, Ford Madox Ford, Arnold Gingrich, Roy F. Nichols, Henry B. Parkes, Felix Emmanuel Schelling, Robert Spiller, C. Seymour Thompson, University of Pennsylvania Press, and Edwin Bucher Williams. Balance of collection comprises four essays by Pound; material and drafts for Charles Norman's "The Case of Ezra Pound," including letters from Conrad Aiken, Julien Cornell, E.E. Cummings, Eugene Delafield, T.S. Eliot, Archibald MacLeish, Macmillan Company, F.O. Matthiessen, Random House, Karl Jay Shapiro, Louis Untermeyer, and William Carlos Williams and 2 transcripts of Pound's 1942 radio broadcasts; photographs; and a copy of the FBI file on Ezra Pound.

4 boxes.

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Matthiessen, F. O. (Francis Otto), 1902-1950

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Aiken, Conrad Potter, 1889-1973

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Schelling, Felix Emmanuel, 1858-1945

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Thompson, C. Seymour (Charles Seymour), 1879-1954

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Spiller, Robert Ernest, 1896-1988

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Farrell, James T. (James Thomas), 1904-1979

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Parkes, Henry Bamford, 1904-

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Alden, John

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University of Pennsylvania. Press

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