The University of Texas at Austin, Harry Ransom Humanities
Research Center
Booth, Marcella Spann, 1932-
Marcella Spann Booth Collection of Ezra
Pound
1886-2007 (bulk 1956-1970)
10 boxes, 3 oversize boxes (4.87 linear feet)
The Marcella Spann Booth Collection
of Ezra Pound consists of journal entries, manuscript drafts, poem fragments and
notes, proof materials, correspondence, newspaper clippings, photographs, published
material, a scrapbook, and artifacts related to the poet Ezra Pound and professor
Marcella Spann Booth.
English, Italian, German,
and Russian
Biographical Sketches
Ezra Pound, 1885-1972
Ezra Pound was born on October 30, 1885, in Hailey, Idaho. In 1889, the Pound family
moved to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and in 1891 to Wyncote, Pennsylvania. In 1901,
Pound enrolled at the University of Pennsylvania, but two years later transferred to
Hamilton College where he received a bachelor’s degree in 1905. He returned to the
University of Pennsylvania for graduate studies, which included studying abroad in
Europe. After receiving a master of arts degree in Romance languages in 1907, Pound
was appointed as a language instructor at Wabash College in Crawfordsville, Indiana.
In February 1908, Pound sailed to Europe to continue his study of medieval literature
and to establish himself as a poet. After brief periods in Venice and France, Pound
settled in London and published two collections of poetry,
A
Lume Spento (1908) and A Quinzaine for this
Yule (1908). In London Pound met novelist Olivia Shakespear and was
introduced to her daughter, Dorothy, whom he married on April 20, 1914. Influenced
by Europe’s artistic and cultural rejuvenation, as well as his beginning interest in
Eastern languages and culture, Pound developed a poetical style he termed Imagism,
which was rooted in a broader artistic movement he called Vorticism.
The First World War made a lasting impact on Pound, and the death of friend and
sculptor Henri Gaudier-Brzeska contributed to a strong anti-war sentiment within
him. In 1916, Pound published “Three Cantos” in
Poetry. Between 1921 and 1924, Pound lived in Paris where he immersed
himself in the city’s artistic milieu and continued working on the structure and
style of his most ambitious, epic poem The Cantos,
which he continued to revise and publish additional sequences for in various
intervals for the remainder of his life. His relationship with American violinist
Olga Rudge cultivated Pound’s interest in music, and he began to compose musical
pieces that Rudge performed.
In 1924, Pound and Dorothy moved to Rapallo, Italy, where despite the distance, he
continued his relationship with Rudge. On July 9, 1925, Rudge gave birth to their
daughter, Mary. On September 10, 1926, Dorothy and Pound had a son, Omar. During the
1930s, Pound became an admirer of Mussolini and grew interested in the social and
economic policies of Fascism, often writing about politics and economics. When
Mussolini declared war on Britain and France in June 1940, Pound, believing that he
and Mussolini shared a general anti-war sentiment, broadcast a series of addresses
on Italian radio blaming the war on America, Great Britain, and Jews.
As a result of his broadcasts, the United States government charged Pound with
treason in July 1943. He was arrested on May 2, 1945, and held in austere conditions
at a Disciplinary Training Center near Pisa, Italy. While confined, Pound composed
The Pisan Cantos (New Directions, 1948), which
despite great controversy, won him the Bollingen Prize in 1949. In 1945, he was
returned to the United States where he was indicted for treason. On February 13,
1946, he was declared mentally incompetent to stand trial and was sentenced to
confinement at St. Elizabeth’s Hospital for the Insane in Washington, D.C. Over the
course of Pound’s 12-year confinement, the poet often entertained friends and groups
of poets, writers, and aspiring artists on the grounds of the hospital; one such
visitor to “Ezuversity” was Marcella Spann. While at St. Elizabeth’s Pound continued
writing, including additional sequences of The
Cantos, and published several works.
Many influential supporters, T. S. Eliot, Ernest Hemingway, and Archibald MacLeish
among them, petitioned the government for Pound’s release, and due in large part to
poet Robert Frost’s successful campaign, Pound’s case was dismissed on April 18,
1958. He was released from St. Elizabeth’s on May 7, 1958, and after several days
traveling in New Jersey and Pennsylvania, Ezra and Dorothy Pound, accompanied by
Marcella Spann, departed for Italy. The small entourage sailed from New York on June
30, 1958, aboard the ocean liner Christoforo Colombo
and arrived in Italy amid great publicity. The final destination was his daughter
Mary and son-in-law Prince Boris de Rachewiltz’s Castle Brunnenburg near Merano,
Italy. The climate and living arrangements at the castle proved difficult for Pound
as tension among Dorothy, Rudge, Mary, and Spann grew. Spann returned to her native
Texas in October 1959.
In his later years, Pound experienced declining health but continued writing and
traveling until his death on November 1, 1972, in Venice, Italy.
Marcella Spann Booth, 1932-
Marcella Joyce Spann was born on June 21, 1932, in Aubrey, Texas. Three years after
graduating from Frisco High School in 1949, she enrolled in East Texas State
University in Commerce, Texas, where she received a B. A. in English in 1956 and an
M. Ed. in personnel and guidance in August 1956. While Spann was in graduate school,
Professor Vincent Miller introduced her to Ezra Pound’s poetry. Following graduation
Spann and a friend arranged to live in New York for a year, and Spann wrote to Pound
at St. Elizabeth’s Hospital and requested to meet him while on a stopover in
Washington D.C. The poet, who often received young aspiring artists on the grounds
of St. Elizabeth’s, wrote back granting her access.
While she was living in New York, Spann and Pound continued their correspondence. He
proceeded to enrich her life by imparting his philosophy of life and literature,
often assigning Spann various readings and writing tasks in his letters. Pound
frequently included fragments of poetry in his letters and increasingly asked Spann
to complete various secretarial tasks on his behalf. In 1957, Spann was hired as an
English instructor at Marjorie Webster Junior College located in Washington D.C.,
allowing her to have regular visits with Pound. During one of these visits, Spann
confided to Pound her feelings of self-doubt about teaching, and he conjured the
idea of the “Spannthology,” an introductory poetry textbook for Spann’s students.
Pound selected the poets he thought necessary to include, and Spann selected the
poems. The book was later published as
Confucius to Cummings:
An Anthology of Poetry (New Directions, 1964). During her frequent
visits to St. Elizabeth’s Hospital between 1957 and 1958, Spann often shared her
students’ work with Pound who provided comments and advice for her teaching. After
Pound’s release from St. Elizabeth’s Hospital in 1958, Spann accompanied him and his
wife, Dorothy, to Italy where she acted as Pound’s secretary and continued work on
the “Spannthology.” Pound and Spann continued to correspond briefly after she
returned to Texas in October 1959.
Between 1960 and 1965 Spann taught English at Seagoville Junior High School in
Seagoville, Texas, and was a guidance counselor at Sam Houston Junior High School in
Garland, Texas. She enrolled in the doctoral program at The University of Texas at
Austin in 1965 and received a Ph. D. in English in August 1969. Her dissertation,
entitled “An Analytical and Descriptive Catalogue of the Manuscripts and Letters in
the Louis Zukofsky Collection at The University of Texas at Austin,” brought her
into contact with the poet Louis Zukofsky. In 1969 she received an appointment to
the English department at the University of Connecticut at Storrs, where she taught
literature, including a course on Pound’s
Cantos. She
married a colleague, economics professor E. J. R. (Ted) Booth, in June 1972. A
scholar of modern literature, Spann Booth attended Pound symposia across the world
and published two articles about Pound in Paideuma, a
journal dedicated to the study of Ezra Pound and his works.
Sources:
In addition to material found within the collection, the following sources were used:
Booth, Marcella.
Through the Smoke Hole: Ezra Pound’s
Last Year at St. Elizabeth’s.
Paideuma, Vol. 3, No. 3, Winter 1974.
Booth, Marcella.
Ezrology: The Class of ’57.
Paideuma, Vol. 13, No. 3, Winter 1984.
“Ezra Pound.”
Dictionary of Literary Biography, Volume 45:
American Poets, 1880-1945, First Series, http://galenet.galegroup.com
(accessed 25 February 2009).
“Ezra (Weston Loomis) Pound.”
Contemporary Authors
Online, http://galenet.galegroup.com (accessed 20 February 2009).
Wilhelm, J. J.
Ezra Pound: The Tragic Years,
1925-1972. University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1994.
Material found within the collection.
Index Terms
People
Pound, Ezra, 1885-1972.
Spann, Marcella.
Organizations
New Directions Publishing Corp.
Subjects
Cookson, William, 1939-
Laughlin, James, 1914-1997
MacGregor, Robert M.
Martinelli, Sheri
Miller, Vince
Pound, Dorothy
Rachewiltz, Mary de
Stock, Noel
Zukofsky, Celia Thaew
Zukofsky, Louis, 1904-1978
Poets, American--20th century.
Places
Saint Elizabeths Hospital (Washington,
D.C.)
Document Types
Clippings.
Correspondence.
Manuscripts.
Pamphlets.
Photographs.
Poems.
Postcards.
Publications.
Scrapbooks.
Sound recordings.
Scope and Contents
The Marcella Spann Booth Collection of Ezra Pound, 1886–2007 (bulk 1956-1970)
consists of journal entries, manuscript drafts, poem fragments and notes, proof
materials, correspondence, newspaper clippings, photographs, published material, a
scrapbook, and artifacts related to the poet Ezra Pound and professor Marcella Spann
Booth. The bulk of the material documents the course of Booth’s relationship with
Pound which was active between 1956 and 1960; however, Booth’s life was forever
impacted by these years, as later correspondence and material in the collection
often refers to Pound and this period in her life. This collection also documents
Pound’s last two years confined at St. Elizabeth’s Hospital, as well as his release
and return to Italy, providing insight into Pound during a particularly fascinating
period of the poet’s life. Due to the nature of their relationship and
collaboration, Pound and Spann Booth co-created much of the material. The collection
is arranged into five series: I. Works, II. Correspondence, III. Pound-Personal, IV.
About Pound, and V. Spann Booth-Personal and Professional.
Series I. includes works written by Pound, works written collaboratively by Pound and
Spann Booth, and works written by Spann Booth related to Pound. The series is
arranged alphabetically by the title of the work.
The
Cantos (compiled and published in 1948, 1970, 1972) are arranged by numeric
title and contain typescript and typescript carbon drafts, many annotated and
corrected, including number XLVI, a fragment from The Pisan
Cantos (1948) typed on toilet paper, numbers XCVI-CIX (published as
Thrones 96-109 de los cantares in 1959), and
numbers CX-CXVII (published as Drafts and Fragments of Cantos
CX-CXVII in 1969). Also included are many untitled fragments identified
by particular lines from Cantos segments; however,
not all have been identified. Of particular significance are two slightly differing
incomplete typescripts of Cantos Drafts and
Fragments. The version tied with a yellow string is Pound’s then
‘unpublished’ version of these poems at the time Spann Booth left Italy in 1959.
After Spann Booth returned to Texas, Pound requested that she retype and send him a
clean draft of these poems because his own copies were no longer usable. The second
version is Spann Booth’s carbon copy of this 1960 retyped draft.
Of note is Spann Booth’s personal published copy of
The
Cantos which she annotated based on Pound’s comments during his readings to
her. This volume also contains annotations in Pound’s handwriting. Varying ink color
reflects notes taken during Pound’s different readings. These combined annotations
translate the linguistic, cultural, and private references Pound used in The Cantos.
Also included in this series are manuscript drafts, notes, correspondence, and
newspaper clippings documenting Pound’s and Spann Booth’s collaborative poetry
anthology,
Confucius to Cummings (1964). First
conceived as a junior college introductory textbook, the book had the previous
working titles: A Junior College Anthology and
From Kung to Cummings, in addition to the
informal title Spannthology. These materials
also contain drafts of what appears to be an unpublished second poetry anthology.
The works series also includes front matter page proofs for Pound’s
Pavanne and Divagations (1958), articles written by
Spann Booth for Paideuma, a journal devoted to Pound
scholarship, and drafts of an unpublished manuscript about Pound and George
Santayana written by Spann Booth and corrected by Pound.
Series II. Correspondence is arranged into two subseries: A. Outgoing and B.
Incoming. The vast majority of correspondence is located in the outgoing subseries
and consists of typed and journal-like letters with hand-corrected and occasional
handwritten segments. These letters were sent from Pound to Spann Booth while he was
confined at St. Elizabeth’s Hospital. Pound wrote these letters almost daily and he
frequently wrote several entries on one page indicating different hours throughout
the day. Interspersed are more traditional-in-form letters from Pound to Spann Booth
while she lived in New York and Washington D.C., and a voluminous segment of letters
dating from after she returned to Texas from Italy in 1959. Pound often signed the
letters “E. P.” or with a sketch of his profile. Among other topics, the journal
letters discuss Spann Booth’s career, the Square Dollar Series, Noel Stock and
Edge, David Wang, Vince Miller, the
“Spannthology,” and Pound’s thoughts and observations about his daily existence at
St. Elizabeth’s. The letters often contain poems or translations of poems, including
references to and various fragments of The Cantos.
Two items of note are the first letters Spann Booth and Pound exchanged granting her
access to St. Elizabeth’s and the permission slip he wrote allowing Spann Booth to
enter his “Ezrologie” course. The letters are arranged following Spann Booth’s
filing system with folder title indicating the location where she lived upon receipt
of the letter. Within folders, the letters are in reverse chronological order—though
few letters have complete dates. Also included are several notes written by Pound
and letters written by Spann Booth as Pound’s secretary.
Subseries B. consists of incoming correspondence—largely postcards, with occasional
letters and Christmas cards—sent to Pound in France, Italy, and at St. Elizabeth’s
Hospital by associates including William Cookson, T. S. Eliot, James Laughlin, Sheri
Martinelli, Henry Miller, Homer Pound, and Vanni Scheiwiller. These letters date
from 1925 to 1959. Other correspondence in the collection is listed in Partial Index
of Correspondents located at the end of this finding aid.
Series III. contains items associated with Ezra Pound and includes art by Sheri
Martinelli, artifacts, two diaries containing brief notes and fragments written by
Spann Booth and Pound, Pound-related ephemera including his calling card and several
versions of his personal stationery, photographs of Pound at various ages, of Spann
Booth, and of friends and family, as well as printed material including magazines,
leaflets, and brochures.
The bulk of Series IV. is comprised of Pound-related material collected by Spann
Booth including newspaper clippings, correspondence with Pound scholars and other
professional associates, and literature received at Pound symposia. The most
significant item is a scrapbook Spann Booth created that documents Pound’s 1958
release from St. Elizabeth’s Hospital and his journey to and arrival in Italy. The
scrapbook contains Spann Booth’s passport, photographs, ephemera, the ship’s
passenger list, and numerous newspaper clippings.
Series V. is arranged into two subseries: A. Correspondence and B. Works. The series
documents Spann Booth’s academic career as a doctoral student at the University of
Texas and as faculty at the University of Connecticut at Storrs. The correspondence
is in alphabetical order by last name of the correspondent. The largest and most
significant material in the Works subseries is related to Spann Booth’s dissertation
project, a catalogue of the Louis Zukofsky Collection at the University of Texas
Humanities Research Center, now named the Harry Ransom Center. These materials
include correspondence with the Zukofskys, research, edited drafts, newspaper
clippings, and two unlabeled open-reel audio tapes. Two files document Spann Booth’s
research and drafts for the preface she authored for a reprinting of the book
Poor Little Rich Girl (1976) by Eleanor Gates.
The majority of the material in the collection is in English; however, Pound
frequently used French and Italian phrases or Greek and Chinese characters in his
writing. In addition, the collection contains a small amount of printed material and
correspondence in Italian, German, and Russian. The collection is in good condition.
Acquisition:
Purchase, 2008 (R17145)
Access:
Open for research
Processed by:
Amy E. Armstrong, 2009
The following collections at the Ransom Center contain additional Pound-related
material: James Agee, Richard Aldington, Julian Beck, Carol Bergé, Ronald Bottrall,
William A. Bradley Literary Agency, Christine Brooke-Rose, Alfred Chester, Jean
Cocteau,
Contempo, Helen Corke, Alec Craig, Nancy
Cunard, Edward Dahlberg, R. F. H. Duncan, Thomas Stearns Eliot, J. G. Fletcher,
Frank Stewart Flint, George Sutherland Fraser, J. L. Garvin, Alice Corbin Henderson,
Rayner Heppenstall, Katharine Tynan Hinkson, Robert Guy Howarth, H. Huddleston,
Glenn Arthur Hughes, Mary Hutchinson, Samuel Lynn Hynes, Hugh Kenner, Oliver La
Farge, Carlton Lake, John Lane Company, Wyndham Lewis, Richard LeGalliene, Literary
Files, Robert Lowell, Christopher Darlington Morley, Ottoline Morrell, Edward Nehls,
Charles Norman, Peter Owen Ltd., Derek Patmore, Leonidas Warren Payne, Robert Payne,
Ezra Pound, Grant Richards, William Robert Rodgers, John Rodker, George Santayana,
Dame Edith Sitwell, Sir Osbert Sitwell, Idella Purnell Stone Personal Papers and
Records of Palms Magazine, Parker Tyler, Sir Hugh
Walpole, William Carlos Williams, and Louis Zukofsky.
Other repositories with material related to Ezra Pound include the Beinecke Library,
Yale University; the Berg Collection, New York Public Library; the Houghton Library,
Harvard University; the Newberry Library; Hamilton College; Cornell University; the
University of Pennsylvania; and the Lilly Library, Indiana University.
A small decorative plate, a red clay ornament with Pound’s profile, two chess sets, a
scarf, a letter seal with red sealing wax, a stickpin, a walking stick, and a lock
of Pound’s hair have been separated from the collection and are housed in the Ransom
Center’s Personal Effects Collection. Three books related to Ezra Pound have been
separated from the collection and are housed in the Ransom Center’s Book Collection.
Two unlabeled open-reel audio tapes of a Zukofsky lecture have been separated from
the collection and are housed in the Ransom Center’s Sound Recordings Collection.
Container List
Series I. Pound and Spann Booth Works, 1937-1996, undated
The Cantos
1.1
XVII, typed dictated explanation of Canto, undated
1.2
The Fifth Decad of the Cantos
XLII–LI (1937), XLVI, typescript draft with handwritten
note, 6 sheets, undated
1.3
The Pisan Cantos (1948),
typescript fragment, undated
Thrones 96-109 de los cantares
(1959)
1.4
[XCVII], typescript fragment with handwritten
corrections, 1 sheet, undated
1.4
C, typescript draft with handwritten corrections and
annotations, 6 sheets, 1 January 1958
1.4
C, carbon typescript with handwritten corrections, 6
sheets, 1 January 1958
1.4
105, typescript draft with handwritten corrections, 5
sheets, undated
1.4
[CVI], typescript fragments with handwritten corrections,
3 sheets, August 1957
1.4
[CVI], typescript fragments with handwritten corrections,
5 sheets, 21 and 23 August 1957, undated
1.4
CVI, carbon typescript draft with handwritten
corrections, 3 sheets, undated
1.4
[CVII], typescript fragments, 2 sheets, 5 November,
undated
1.4
[CVII], typescript fragment with handwritten corrections,
1 sheet, 24 November
1.4
107, carbon typescript draft with handwritten
corrections, 1 sheet, undated
1.4
107, carbon typescript draft with handwritten
annotations, 5 sheets, undated
1.4
[CVIII], typescript fragments with handwritten
corrections, 3 sheets, undated, 3 December
1.4
108, carbon typescript draft with handwritten
corrections, 5 sheets, undated
1.4
[CIX], typescript fragments with handwritten corrections,
3 sheets, 6 December, undated
1.4
[CIX], typescript fragment with handwritten corrections,
1 sheet, 2 January 1958
1.5
Page proofs with handwritten corrections, inscribed, 124
sheets, 21 June 1959
Drafts and Fragments of Cantos
CX-CXVII (1969)
1.6
CX, carbon typescript draft with handwritten corrections,
4 sheets, undated
1.6
CXI, carbon typescript draft with handwritten
corrections, 2 sheets, undated
1.6
CXI, composite manuscript fragments, 4 sheets [11-12
January 1958]
‘Unpublished Cantos’
1.7
CX, CXII, CXIII, 114, 115, 116, 117, not cantos,
typescript draft with handwritten annotations and
corrections, 26 sheets, 1959
1.7
CXII, CXIII, 114, 115, 116, 117, carbon typescript
draft with handwritten annotations and corrections, 21
sheets, 30 August 1960
1.7
Unidentified, typescript with handwritten
corrections, 1 sheet, 13 November
1.7
107, carbon typescript draft with handwritten
corrections, 1 sheet, undated
Unidentified
1.8
Typescript fragment, 1 sheet, undated
1.8
Typescript fragment, 1 sheet, 19 August
1.8
Typescript fragments with handwritten annotations, 3
sheets, 13 August, undated
1.8
Typescript fragment, 1 sheet, 14 December
1957
1.8
Typescript fragments with handwritten corrections, 7
sheets, 17-18 December; 4 and 16 January 1958; undated
1.8
Typescript and handwritten fragments with handwritten
annotations and corrections, 21 sheets, undated
1.9
The Cantos of Ezra Pound (New
Directions, 1948), published volume with handwritten annotations
1.10
Confucian Analects, published
leaf, inscribed to Spann Booth, undated
Confucius to Cummings (1964)
2.1-3
Typescript draft with handwritten corrections and loose
handwritten notes, [1958]
2.4
Corrections and notes, undated
2.5
Typescript drafts of front matter with handwritten
corrections, undated
2.6
Typescript drafts of back matter with handwritten
corrections, undated
2.7
Notes, Letters, Unidentified Typescripts, 1937, 1958-1959,
undated
2.8*
Correspondence-New Directions, 1958-1969 (*contract removed
to box 12)
2.9*
Clippings and reviews, 1964 (*oversize clippings removed to
box 13)
Paideuma
2.10
“Through the Smoke Hole: Ezra Pound’s Last Year at St.
Elizabeths [sic],” typescript drafts
with handwritten corrections and copy of published version, 1974
2.10
“Ezrology: the Class of '57,” copy of published article,
1984
2.11
Correspondence, 1974-1996
3.1
Pavannes and Divagations (1958),
page proofs of front matter with handwritten corrections
3.2
Santayana and Pound, unpublished typescript drafts with
handwritten corrections, undated
Series II. Pound Correspondence, 1925-1961, undated
Subseries A. Outgoing
To Marcella Spann Booth
3.3
‘New York’ and Texas, includes essay “Ezra Pound as Joe
Adonis” by Rustichelleo da Pisa, August 1956-July 1957
'Washington, D. C.'
3.4
July-September 1957
3.5
October-December 1957
3.6
December 1957-January 1958
3.7
February-July 1958
3.8
'Marjorie Webster Junior College,' 1957-1958
3.9*
'Some In, Some Out,' includes Canto CI fragments,
April 1958 (*oversize clippings removed to box
13)
'After Return from Italy'
3.10*
1959-1960, includes photograph of Pound and Canto 115
typescript (*oversize clippings removed to box 13)
3.11*
October 1959-January 1960, includes Canto CXIII
typescript (*oversize clippings removed to box 13)
4.1
January-July 1960
4.2
August 1960-July 1961
4.3
Italy, 1959 and Texas, June 1958
4.4
Assorted letters and fragments, [1958-1959]
To Others
4.5
Handwritten notes, 20, 31 March
4.6
Letters written on behalf of Pound and carbon typing
paper, 1957
Subseries B. Incoming
4.7-8
Cards, 1925-1959
Series III. Pound-Personal, 1886-1982, undated
Art
12
“Leda and the Swan,” sketch by Sheri Martinelli
12
Paintings of Chinese deities, 10 sheets
4.9
Photographs of Gaudier-Brzeska sculptures
12
Portrait of Pound drawn on William Carlos Williams envelope
by Sheri Martinelli
Diaries
4.10
‘Diario Daveri di Segretaris’; cover is hand-labeled by Pound
and contains two pages of notes written by Spann Booth, 20 July
1958
4.11
Red diary with handwritten notes by Pound and Spann Booth,
undated
4.12
Ephemera; includes Pound’s stationery and calling card, printed
card, travel tickets, identification card, and advertisements
4.13*
Kasper, John; includes letters, clippings, and printed material
related to Pound admirer and segregationist John Kasper and the New York Herald Tribune’s criticism of
Pound, 1956-1958 (*oversize clippings and poster removed to box 13)
Photographs
4.14
Ezra Pound, 1886-1912
4.15-16*
Ezra Pound, 1932-1939, 1957-1959 (*oversize photographs
removed to box 12)
5.1
Others, 1898-1958
5.2
Marcella Spann Booth, 1958
5.3
Art and scenes
Printed Material
5.4
Newsletters and leaflets, 1956-1958
5.5
Academia Bulletin,
[1956]
5.5
Britons Publishing Co.; catalogs and advertisements
5.5
Current, 1955
5.5
Delta: Poetry and Criticism,
January 1958
5.5
Edge; advertisements
5.5
Laurentian, Vol. 65, No. 2,
February 1958
5.5
The New Times,
1956
5.5
Poetry, Vol. 91, No.3,
December 1957
5.5
RES, 1956
5.5
Square Dollar Series; advertisements and pamphlet, "History
of the Netherlands [sic] Monetary
Systems," 1938, undated
5.5
Strike, 1955-1956
5.6
The Atlantic, January 1970
13
Epoca, August 1959
5.6
The New Journal, Vol. 15, No.
2, 15 October 1982
13
Tempo, November
1955
5.6
Die Ukraine und die Welt,
1959
Series IV. About Pound, 1956-2005
5.7*
Newspaper clippings, 1956-1958, 1968-1992 (*oversize clippings
removed to box 13)
5.8
‘Pound Articles’; photocopies and transcripts of published
articles, 1969-1981
5.9
Pound medallion; letters and designs regarding a Pound centennial
medallion, 1985
5.10
Pound 1908 letter to Viola Baxter, published by Yale University
Library, 1985
5.11
Pound scholars-correspondence, 1973-1985
Pound symposia and conferences
5.12
Hamilton College, 1980, 1986
5.13
Yale University, 1985
6.1
Università degli Studi di Genova, 2005
6.2
University of Maine-Orono, 1975, 1980, 1990
6.3*
Sun Valley, Idaho, 2003 (*oversize poster removed to box 12)
11*
Scrapbook, circa 1958 (*oversize clippings removed to box 13)
6.4
Shakespear’s Pound: Illuminated
Cantos; sales material for limited edition volume edited by Omar
Pound, 1999
Series V. Spann Booth-Personal and Professional, 1964-2007, undated
Subseries A. Correspondence
6.5
‘Agenda-Cookson, William,’
1970-1997
6.6
Ahearn, Barry, 1984-2007
6.7
Baumann, Walter, 1980-1997
6.8
Davenport, Guy, 1972-1985
6.9
Gordon, Dave, 1975-1994
6.10
Kavka, Jerome, 1975-1985
7.1-3*
Martinelli, Sheri, 1964-1993 (*oversize clippings removed to
box 13)
7.4
‘Miscellaneous Pound,’ 1991, 2002
7.5
New Directions, 1964-1990
7.6
Notable Pound Associates, 1957-1974
7.7
Odlin, Reno, 1980-1996
7.8
Pearson, Norman Holmes, 1971
7.9
Reck, Michael, 1976
7.10-12
Taylor, Richard, 1990-2000
8.1
Terrell, Carroll F. (Terry) regarding ‘Companion to Cantos,’
1982-1984
8.2
Tierney, Bill, 1971-1973
8.3
Wallace, Emily, 1990-1995
8.4
Walsh, Pat, 1984-1993
8.5
Ward, Charlotte, 1979, 1986
8.6
Whigham, Peter, 1981-1985
8.7
Williams, Jonathan, 1974-1976
8.8
‘Witemeyer, Hugh regarding David Wang,’ 1985
8.9
Zukofsky, Celia and Louis, 1970-1983
8.10
Empty envelope addressed to Pound, 1934
8.11
Outgoing carbon letter to Pound, 1967
Subseries B. Works
8.12
‘Poets Manuscripts,’ works by others, 1966-1970
Poor Little Rich Girl (1976)
8.13
‘Research,’ 1975
8.14
Preface ‘drafts and letters,’ 1975
Zukofsky, Louis
Articles
8.15
A Cadence of a Life,
Paideuma, 1979
8.16
Zukofsky Papers,
typescript draft with handwritten corrections by Louis and
Celia Zukofsky, Library
Chronicle, 1970
8.17
A Bibliography of Louis
Zukofsky by Celia Zukofsky, 1969
Zukofsky Catalogue
8.18
Research Material, 1969
9.1
Draft and notes, 1968-1969
9.2
Typescript drafts with handwritten corrections,
1965-1969
9.3
An Analytical and
Descriptive Catalogue of the Manuscripts and Letters in
the Louis Zukofsky Collection at the University of Texas
at Austin, bound dissertation, August 1969
9.4
Correspondence and drafts, ‘Humanities Research
Center,’ 1969-1975
9.5-6*
Correspondence and research material, Zukofsky, Louis
and Celia, 1969-1997 (*oversize clippings removed to box 13)
9.7*
Newspaper clippings, 1970-1979 (*oversize clippings
removed to box 13)
9.8
Related Material, 1971
‘Zukofsky Selected Letters project’
Correspondence
10.1
General, 1971-1979
10.2*
‘Search for Copies,’ 1970-1971 (*oversize
clippings removed to box 13)
10.3
Grossman Publishers; correspondence and draft,
1969-1970
11-13
Oversize materials separated from their original location within
the collection
Partial Index of Correspondents
- Ahearn, Barry--6.6, 7.8, 9.5
- American Civil Liberties Union--3.5
- Baciagalupo, Massimo--5.11, 6.9
- Barnard, Mary--4.7
- Black Sparrow Press--9.6
- Brown, Anne--4.6
- Bunting, Basil--10.2
- Camerlato, _____--4.7
- Carpenter, Humphrey--5.11
- Colt, Byron--3.3
- Conover, Anne--7.4
- Cookson, William, 1939- --2.7, 4.7
- Creeley, Robert--10.2
- Davenport, Guy--6.8, 10.2
- Dawson, Fielding--10.2
- del Valle, Pedro--4.7
- Dynes, Wayne--4.3
- Eliot, T. S. (Thomas Sterns), 1888-1965--2.8, 4.8
- Engle, Dr._____--3.11
- Enslin, Theodore--10.2
- Flory, Wendy Stallard--5.11
- Ford, Charles Henri--10.2
- Fowler, Elaine W. (Folger Shakespeare Library)--2.7
- Fyffe, Richard C.--7.4
- Giovannini, Giovanni, 1906- --3.11, 7.6
- Hall, Donald, 1928- --3.11
- Heyman, C. David--5.11
- Hollenberg, Donna Krolik--5.11
- Jonathan Cape Limited--10.2
- Kelly, Robert--10.2
- Kenner, Hugh--10.2
- Laughlin, James, 1914-1997 (“JAS”) (New
Directions Publishing)--2.8, 3.11, 4.8, 7.5, 10.2
- MacGregor, Robert M. (New Directions
Publishing)--2.8-9, 4.4
- The MacMillan Company--2.8
- Martinelli, Sheri--4.4, 4.8, 7.1-3
- Maverick, Lewis--4.7
- Meacham, Harry M. (Harry Monroe), 1901-1975--3.10
- Miller, Henry, 1891-1980--4.8
- Miller, Vince--4.6
- Moore, Marianne, 1887-1972--2.8
- Mullins, E.--3.10
- Neuffer, Hans--3.7
- Norman, Charles, 1904- --2.8
- Pearson, Norman Holmes, 1909-1975--7.6
-
The Poetry Broadside
--3.3
- Pound, Homer--4.8
- Qian, Zhaoming--7.4
- Quartermain, Peter--8.9
- Quinn, Sister Bernetta--5.11
- Read, Forrest--5.11
- Read, Susan--4.7
- Reid, Ralph--3.5, 4.13
- Rexroth, Kenneth, 1905-1982--10.2
- Reznikoff, Charles, 1894-1976--10.2
- Scarpa, Giovannina--4.7
- Scheiwiller, Vanni--3.11, 4.7-8
- Serly, Tibor (“T. S.”)--4.7, 10.2
- Shannon, John--6.8
- Sieber, H. A.--4.8
- Simpson, Dallam--4.2
- Solt, Mary Ellen--10.2
- Sorrentino, Gilbert--10.2
- Stivender, Dave--9.8
- Stock, Noel--7.6
- Taggart, John, 1942- --8.9, 9.5, 10.2
- Taupin, René--10.2
- Terrell, Carrol Franklin (“Terry”) (Paideuma)--2.11, 8.1, 8.15
- Tomas, John--8.9
- Turnbull, Gael--10.2
- Tyler, Parker--10.2
- Versaci, Frank--4.7
- Wightman, George--8.9
- Williams, Jonathan, 1929-2008--8.7, 8.9, 10.2
- Williams, William Carlos, 1883-1963--2.7
- Wittenborn, George--5.11
- The Yale University Literary Magazine--4.4
- Zukofsky, Celia Thaew--8.9, 8.15, 9.1-2, 9.5-6
- Zukofsky, Louis, 1904-1978--8.9, 9.5-6, 9.8
- Zukofsky, Paul--8.9
- Unidentified--3.6, 3.11, 4.7, 4.8
- _____ Charles--3.5
- _____ Daniel and Margot--4.7
- _____ Rosamond--3.3
- _____ S.--3.11
- _____ William--4.8