Olga Rudge & Ezra Pound: "What Thou Lovest Well..."

xii Acknowledgments
blue pneumatique messages in Paris in the 1920s to the almost daily (sometimes
twice daily) correspondence of half a century. After Pound’s death,
Olga continued to record her memories, thoughts, and activities in daily
notebooks. I was the first scholar to gain access to these treasures. Grateful
acknowledgment is given to the Yale Collection of American Literature,
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, for permission to publish
excerpts from the Olga Rudge–Ezra Pound correspondence and manuscript
materials, and other materials cited as ‘‘1996 addition,’’ the Ezra
Pound Collection, and EPAnnex.
I especially wish to thank Patricia C. Willis, Curator of American
Literature at the Beinecke Library, and her accommodating assistants at
the reference desk, Stephen C. Jones, Al Mueller, Rick Hart, Lori Misura,
Dorothea Reading, and William Hemmig. Diane J. Ducharme, who sorted
and cataloged, guided me through the maze of the Olga Rudge Papers.
Also at Yale, Pound’s bibliographer, the late Donald Gallup, was supportive
of my work, as was Dr. Leonard Doob, professor of anthropology, a
friend of Mary and the de Rachewiltz family. Charles Grench, then editorin-chief
of Yale University Press, recognized the contribution of the Olga
Rudge Papers to the study of Pound and the Modernist poets, encouraged
me to write the biography, and shepherded the manuscript through the
Committee on Publications. Lawrence Rainey of the University of York
reviewed the manuscript for the Press and o√ered many very helpful
suggestions. At the Press, editor Lara Heimert saw the manuscript safely
through submission to hardcover publication; and Philip King edited it
with meticulous care and sensitivity.
Carroll F. Terrell, editor of Paideuma, the journal of Pound scholarship
at the University of Maine in Orono, also shared my enthusiasm for Olga
Rudge—‘‘one of the miracle women of all time’’—and first published
Chapter 2 as ‘‘The Young Olga.’’
Among the many scholars who made pilgrimages to the Pound conferences
as far afield as Beijing (where the Eighteenth International Ezra
Pound Conference met in the summer of 1999) and who o√ered their support
and encouragement were William Pratt, Miami University (Ohio);
Zhaoming Qian, University of New Orleans; William McNaughton, City
Polytechnic University of Hong Kong; Walter Baumann, Londonderry,