A Guide to the Correspondence of John Cook Wyllie, Ezra Pound and James J. Kilpatrick Wyllie, John Cook, Correspondence with Ezra Pound and James J. Kilpatrick 1078

A Guide to the Correspondence of John Cook Wyllie, Ezra Pound and James J. Kilpatrick

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1078

Title

Correspondence of John Cook Wyllie, Ezra Pound and James J. Kilpatrick 1937, 1958

Language

English

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Correspondence of John Cook Wyllie, Ezra Pound and James J. Kilpatrick, Accession #1078, Special Collections Dept., University of Virginia Library, Charlottesville, Va.

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Gift of John Cook Wyllie

Scope and Content Information

Correspondence between John Cook Wyllie, Ezra Pound and James J. Kilpatrick.

Contents List

John Cook Wyllie to Ezra Pound 1937 Dec.1

Reduced photographic copy

Wyllie writes concerning Pound's article in the North American in which Pound suggests people should read Thomas Jefferson's prose to help them out of their economic difficulties. Wyllie comments that Pound is "selling literature short" and "also supposing that no one will have sense enough to see that Jefferson's prose can be of no possible use to him in his economic difficulties."

Ezra Pound to John Cook Wyllie 1937 Dec.13

TLS, with MS corrections and additions

Pound replies that Wyllie is a "perfect and god damned fool" who should know that Jefferson, Andrew Jackson and Martin Van Buren "were a god damnd [sic] sight better economists than the bankers' pot boy Carter Glass and the buggering kikes who run that inflated gas bag and staller Frankie D. Roosevelt."

Ezra Pound to "The Revere Editor of the Richmond News-Leader" 1958 Nov.12

TLS

Pounds encloses a copy of John Cook Wyllie's 1937 Dec. 1 letter (q.v.) and states "it is difficult for me to see just what good it did Tom Jefferson to found a University and try to bring civilization to the wilderness."

[James J. Kilpatrick] to John Cook Wyllie 1958 Nov.17

TLS, with MS note in Wyllie's hand added

Kilpatrick forwards Pound's letter of 1958 Nov. 12 and comments he is "vastly amused."

John Cook Wyllie to [Jack Dalton] 1958 Nov.18

ALS

Wyllie forwards photostats of his correspondence to Dalton.

James J. Kilpatrick to Ezra Pound 1958 Nov.19

TL, carbon

Kilpatrick thanks Pound for his two recent letters and comments on receiving from John Cook Wyllie a copy of Pound's [1937] Dec. 13 letter. Kilpatrick was unable to make Pound's post-election comments "into something that would be usable on the editorial page" because it was too difficult for the newspaper's readers. Kilpatrick states that the "people who read quarterly reviews and the more urbane monthlies may stick with a difficult piece of prose to the end, but my readers will go watch Gunsmoke on the television."

[John Cook Wyllie] to [James J. Kilpatrick] n.d.

TLS, carbon

Wyllie's reply to Kilpatrick's letter to Pound of 1958 Nov.19: "Right as usual, said the Duchess: what a clear way you have of putting things."