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The Ezra Pound Collection of Marcella Spann Booth
November 2008
Press Release: Collection of Ezra Pound Materials Acquired by Harry Ransom Center
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Due to copyright issues, use of these images is restricted to media coverage of the Harry Ransom Center. Use for commercial or merchandising purposes is prohibited.
Media use of the below images must include the noted caption and copyright information. Click on the thumbnail image below to access the full, downloadable file.
Ezra Pound and his mother in 1898.
Unidentified photographer.
Image courtesy of Harry Ransom Center.
James Joyce, Ezra Pound, Ford Madox Ford and John Quinn.
Unidentified photographer.
Image courtesy of Harry Ransom Center.
Ezra Pound in 1955.
Unidentified photographer.
Image courtesy of Harry Ransom Center.
Pound's 1956 letter to Marcella Spann telling her how to get permission to visit him in St. Elizabeth's.
By Ezra Pound, from previously unpublished material, ©2008 by Mary de Rachewiltz and Omar S. Pound.
Reprinted by permission of New Directions Publishing Corp.
Image courtesy of Harry Ransom Center.
Pound's unpublished 1958 typed poem "Home thoughts d'une americaine." Dated Aug. 25, 1958.
By Ezra Pound, from previously unpublished material, ©2008 by Mary de Rachewiltz and Omar S. Pound.
Reprinted by permission of New Directions Publishing Corp.
Image courtesy of Harry Ransom Center.
First page of Pound's letter in the style of cantos to Marcella Spann dated "Thursday the whicheverth."
By Ezra Pound, from previously unpublished material, ©2008 by Mary de Rachewiltz and Omar S. Pound.
Reprinted by permission of New Directions Publishing Corp.
Image courtesy of Harry Ransom Center.
Second page of Pound's letter in the style of cantos to Marcella Spann dated "Thursday the whicheverth."
By Ezra Pound, from previously unpublished material, ©2008 by Mary de Rachewiltz and Omar S. Pound.
Reprinted by permission of New Directions Publishing Corp.
Image courtesy of Harry Ransom Center.
A handwritten fragment of Ezra Pound's "Canto 113," not dated.
By Ezra Pound, from previously unpublished material, ©2008 by Mary de Rachewiltz and Omar S. Pound.
Reprinted by permission of New Directions Publishing Corp.
Image courtesy of Harry Ransom Center.
A line of poetry written by Ezra Pound on a scrap of toilet paper, not dated.
By Ezra Pound, from previously unpublished material, ©2008 by Mary de Rachewiltz and Omar S. Pound.
Reprinted by permission of New Directions Publishing Corp.
Image courtesy of Harry Ransom Center.
Pound's first typed page of manuscript that concerns the "proper function of the female."
By Ezra Pound, from previously unpublished material, ©2008 by Mary de Rachewiltz and Omar S. Pound.
Reprinted by permission of New Directions Publishing Corp.
Image courtesy of Harry Ransom Center.
Ezra Pound's walking stick.
Photo by Pete Smith.
Image courtesy of Harry Ransom Center.
Ezra Pound's incomplete ivory chess set and board.
Photo by Pete Smith.
Image courtesy of Harry Ransom Center.
Ezra Pound's incomplete ivory chess set and board.
Photo by Pete Smith.
Image courtesy of Harry Ransom Center.
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