Pound, Ezra, 1885-1972

Person

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Dates

Existence: 1885-10-30 - 1972-11-01

Ezra Pound (1885-1972), expatriate American poet and critic.

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Found in 82 Collections and/or Records:

Letter : to Fritz René Vanderpyl, 1916 October 5

Part of Collection — Box: 104, Folder: 13

Call Number: YCAL MSS MISC

Scope and Contents: Typescript letter, signed, saying that he would like to translate Vanderpyl's article "Marsden Stanton à Paris" into English.

Dates: 1916 October 5

Found in: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Yale Collection of American Literature manuscript miscellany > P > POUND, EZRA, 1885-1972

Letter : to Gladys Hynes, undated

Part of Collection — Box: 104, Folder: 11

Call Number: YCAL MSS MISC

Scope and Contents: Typescript letter discussing an article Hynes wrote for Imagi magazine.

Dates: undated

Found in: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Yale Collection of American Literature manuscript miscellany > P > POUND, EZRA, 1885-1972

Letter : to Mme. H. Aldington, 1953 July 5

Part of Collection — Box: 30, Folder: GROUP 511, F-17

Call Number: YCAL MSS MISC

Scope and Contents: Typescript letter from Pound to H.D. on air letter, posted from Washington, D.C. with address "Hotel de la Paix, Lausanne," Switzerland, struck out, and "Sanatorium [Brumer?], Küsnacht, Zch" added in an unidentified hand. Letter concerns literary matters.

Dates: 1953 July 5

Found in: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Yale Collection of American Literature manuscript miscellany > P > POUND, EZRA, 1885-1972

Letter : Via Marsala 12-5, Rapallo, to Orioli, n.y. Jul 25

Part of Collection — Box: 30, Folder: GROUP 511, F-2

Call Number: YCAL MSS MISC

Scope and Contents: TLS concerning the distribution of the circular "TO," just printed in Toulon by Oppen; mentions an article about Objectivists.

Dates: n.y. Jul 25

Found in: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Yale Collection of American Literature manuscript miscellany > P > POUND, EZRA, 1885-1972

Letter : Via Marsala, 12 Int. 5, Rapallo, to Francis Picabia, la Maison Rose, le Tremblay s/ Mauldre, S. et O., 1926 Feb 25

Part of Collection — Box: 30, Folder: GROUP 511, F-6

Call Number: YCAL MSS MISC

Scope and Contents: TLS written jointly with Ernest Walsh, including two separate messages in French to Picabia; initialled by Pound and signed by Walsh, with a note in English from Pound to Walsh. Both messages request a contribution to the third number of Walsh's journal This Quarter, and Walsh offers to send a copy of the second number if Picabia doesn't have it.

Dates: 1926 Feb 25

Found in: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Yale Collection of American Literature manuscript miscellany > P > POUND, EZRA, 1885-1972

Letters : 5, Holland Place Chambers, to Lytton Strachey, 1918

Part of Collection — Box: 30, Folder: GROUP 511, F-18

Call Number: YCAL MSS MISC

Scope and Contents: One typescript letter, signed, with envelope, asking Strachey to persuade his publisher to send a copy of his book Eminent Victorians (London: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1918) to Pound for review, and one typescript note, signed, accompanying an unidentified item (no longer present).

Dates: 1918

Found in: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Yale Collection of American Literature manuscript miscellany > P > POUND, EZRA, 1885-1972

Letters : Rapallo via Marsala, 12 Int. 5, to [A. Hyatt] Mayor, [1931?]-1933

Part of Collection — Box: 30, Folder: GROUP 511, F-14

Call Number: YCAL MSS MISC

Scope and Contents: Three typescript letters, signed, discussing literary matters, with one partial envelope.

Dates: [1931?]-1933

Found in: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Yale Collection of American Literature manuscript miscellany > P > POUND, EZRA, 1885-1972

Letters : Rapallo via Marsala, 12 Int. 5, to Paul van Hecke, 1930

Part of Collection — Box: 30, Folder: GROUP 511, F-7

Call Number: YCAL MSS MISC

Scope and Contents: Five TLS discussing ideas for an issue of the Belgian journal Variétés dedicated to American literature and photography. Letters discuss writers, photographers, translators, and how to put the issue together. Accompanied by three TLS from van Hecke to Pound discussing the special Variétés issue.

In French.

Dates: 1930

Found in: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Yale Collection of American Literature manuscript miscellany > P > POUND, EZRA, 1885-1972

Letters : [Saint Elizabeth's Hospital], Washington, D.C., to Peter Russell, 69 Grosvenor Road, Tunbridge Wells, Kent, England, 1954, undated

Part of Collection — Box: 110, Folder: 22

Call Number: YCAL MSS MISC

Scope and Contents: Ten typescript letters written by Ezra Pound while he was hospitalized at Saint Elizabeth’s Hospital in Washington, D.C. Pound discusses personal matters, literature, and authors, including Ford Madox Ford.

Dates: 1954, undated

Found in: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Yale Collection of American Literature manuscript miscellany > P > POUND, EZRA, 1885-1972

Letters : to [David Sinclair] Nixon, [1937]

Part of Collection — Box: 30, Folder: GROUP 511, F-16

Call Number: YCAL MSS MISC

Scope and Contents: Three typescript letters, corrected and annotated, two initialed and two on Pound's personal letterhead, "Rapallo... via Marsala 12-5." Letters discuss work, finances, and other matters.

Dates: [1937]

Found in: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Yale Collection of American Literature manuscript miscellany > P > POUND, EZRA, 1885-1972

Letters : to W. H. Cowley, 1939 April 28-May 5, undated

Part of Collection — Box: 110, Folder: 23

Call Number: YCAL MSS MISC

Scope and Contents: Two autograph letters and one typescript letter, signed, from Pound to Hamilton College President W. H. Cowley. Letters discuss college education, specifically courses in economics and American history.

Dates: 1939 April 28-May 5, undated

Found in: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Yale Collection of American Literature manuscript miscellany > P > POUND, EZRA, 1885-1972

Dwight Macdonald papers

Collection

Call Number: MS 730

Overview: The papers consist of correspondence, manuscripts, notes, printed material, photographs, audiotapes, and memorabilia documenting the personal life and professional career of Dwight Macdonald. Macdonald's literary career, political activities, teaching and speaking engagements, and personal life are detailed. Major subjects represented in the papers include: communism and the Trotskyite movement, journalism and publishing, American social and political life (1920s-1970s), pacifism, and the...

Dates: 1865-1984, bulk 1920-1978

Found in: Manuscripts and Archives > Dwight Macdonald papers

Sheri Martinelli papers

Collection

Call Number: YCAL MSS 868

Overview: Correspondence, writings, artwork and objects, printed material, and sound recordings documenting the life and creative work of Sheri Martinelli and associated figures, including Ezra Pound. The correspondence includes Martinelli's letters with Pound, the poet H. D., and Charles Bukowski, as well as many other literary and artistic figures. The writings include selections of Pound's manuscript material from the Cantos, as well as Martinelli's extensive notes and notebooks. Paintings, sketches,...

Dates: 1905-1999

Found in: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Sheri Martinelli papers

Robert McAlmon papers

Collection

Call Number: YCAL MSS 293

Overview: The Robert McAlmon Papers consist of letters to McAlmon from literary friends, including William Carlos Williams, Ezra Pound, James Joyce, and Gertrude Stein; manuscripts of several of his writings; and a small quantity of photographs and related papers.

Dates: 1916-1980, bulk 1930-1952

Found in: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Robert McAlmon papers

Norman Holmes Pearson Papers

Collection

Call Number: YCAL MSS 899

Overview: The Norman Holmes Pearson papers consist of correspondence, writings, printed material, photographs, and audiovisual material that document a broad range of Pearson's professional and personal activities, including his research on Nathaniel Hawthorne and Ezra Pound, his management of the literary estates of H.D. and Bryher, and his activity as a professor of English and American Studies at Yale University. Documentation relating to Pearson's service in the Office of Strategic Services is...

Dates: 1829-1983, bulk 1930-1975

Found in: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Norman Holmes Pearson Papers

Photographs, 1933

Part of Collection — Box: 30, Folder: GROUP 511, F-19

Call Number: YCAL MSS MISC

Scope and Contents: Two black-and-white photographs, one of Ezra Pound's father, Homer Loomis Pound, and one of his mother, Isabel (Weston) Pound, taken in Rapallo, Italy.

Dates: 1933

Found in: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Yale Collection of American Literature manuscript miscellany > P > POUND, EZRA, 1885-1972

Postcard : [St. Elizabeth's Hospital], Washington, D.C., to N[orman] Macleod, Room 220, Derby Hall, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, 1947 Aug 12

Part of Collection — Box: 30, Folder: GROUP 511, F-5

Call Number: YCAL MSS MISC

Scope and Contents: APcS, initialled. Message reads "Lunatix do not work."

Dates: 1947 Aug 12

Found in: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Yale Collection of American Literature manuscript miscellany > P > POUND, EZRA, 1885-1972