Papers, 1926-1979.

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Papers, 1926-1979.

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Collection consists of correspondence, a copy of a reprint, and two programs. Includes correspondence between Espey and Ezra Pound, letters of Pound to others, copies of letters written to Pound, correspondence about Pound from Donald Gallup, autograph letters signed from Pound's wife, Dorothy Shakespear Pound, two autograph letters signed from Pound's daughter, and two typed letters signed by Marianne Moore. Includes a copy of a reprint by Espey, the epigraph to T.S. Eliot's "Burbank with a Baedeker : Bleistein with a cigar." Also includes a printed program for the first performance of Pound's, "Le testament de Villon" in the Salle Pleyel in 1926, and a program from a UC Berkeley production of the same work in 1971.

1 box (0.5 linear ft.)1 oversize box.

University of California, Los Angeles

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University of California, Los Angeles

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University of California, Los Angeles. Dept. of English

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Espey, John Jenkins 1913-

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Espey was born on Jan. 15, 1913 in Shanghai, China; AB, Occidental College, 1935; BA (1937), B. Litt (1938), MA (1941), Oxford Univ.; served from instructor to assoc. professor, Occidental College, 1938-48; taught as asst. professor to professor (1948-73), then became emeritus professor of English, UCLA; published works include Tales out of school (1947), Ezra Pound's Mauberly : a study in composition (1955), The empty box haiku (1980), and Minor heresies, major departures : a China mission boyh...