Overview
Letters from the American poet Ezra Pound to Harvard University Press director Thomas James Wilson.
Dates
- Creation: 1952-1958
Language of Materials
Collection materials are in English.
Conditions Governing Access
There are no restrictions on physical access to this material. Collection is open for research.
Extent
.2 linear feet (1 folder in 1 box)Letters from Pound to Wilson of the Harvard University Press concerned with the Scholars' Edition of the Confucian Anthology. Also includes trial proofs and letter from Wilson to William A. Jackson of the Houghton Library.
Biographical / Historical
Pound was an American poet and Wilson was director of the Harvard University Press.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
58M-93. Transferred from Harvard University Press, 79 Garden Street Cambridge 38, Massachusetts; received: 1958 November 19.
- Title
- Pound, Ezra, 1885-1972. Ezra Pound letters to Thomas James Wilson, 1952-1958: Guide.
- Author
- Houghton Library, Harvard College Library
- Language of description
- und
- EAD ID
- hou01386
Repository Details
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