Dorothy Pound correspondence and papers relating to Ezra Pound, 1925 November 23-1964 October 22.

0.21 linear feet (1 box)

In English and French.

Gift of Olga Rudge and the Ezra Pound Foundation, 1990.

Material arranged as received.

This material is open for research.

Dorothy Shakespear Pound (1886-1973) was the daughter of the literary hostess Olivia Shakespear. She married Ezra Pound in 1914.

Dorothy Pound correspondence and papers, including a letter addressed to Pound from Wootton, Leaf & Pitcairn saying that their client, Herbert Leaf, is leaving her money in his will; a letter from Tomasz Pobóg-Malinowski to Pound discussing Ezra Pound’s book The Chinese Written Character as a Medium for Poetry, with a manuscript annotation by Pound; an autograph manuscript letter, signed, from Pound addressed to Mary, possibly Mary de Rachewiltz, discussing Ezra Pound’s travel schedule in Italy; and a typescript letter, signed, addressed to Pound from Pamela Barker, secretary to T. S. Eliot at Faber and Faber, asking if Ezra Pound could contribute to a series of memoirs on W. B. Yeats. With two envelopes. Also includes a newsletter published by World Federalists, USA, dated August 1, 1946, with manuscript annotations, in an unidentified hand on recto, and typescript annotations on verso made by Ezra Pound; a printed color map showing trade routes in Europe titled “Services De La Compagnie”, with manuscript annotations on verso in various hands; and two checkbooks and one deposit book belonging to Dorothy Pound and the Dorothy Pound Committee for Ezra Pound.

Archives or Manuscripts / Maps & GIS

English; French

October 18, 2022

Dorothy Pound Correspondence and Papers Relating to Ezra Pound. Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.

Dorothy Pound Correspondence and Papers Relating to Ezra Pound. Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.