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

xvi Acknowledgments
guage and directed my early archival research; to Elizabeth Courtner and
her sta√ at the Palisades Branch Public Library of the District of Columbia
for diligently locating local sources, and to the Washington (D.C.) Biographers,
my loyal support group, and our leader, Marc Pachter, who
unfailingly gave guidance and encouragement; to Cathya Wing Stephenson,
who introduced me to valuable contacts at Yale and Pound’s
‘‘other’’ family at Brunnenburg and assisted with the French translations;
to her mother, the late Mrs. Charlotte Wing, who sponsored me at the
Graduate Club in New Haven, where Sandra Gervais and her sta√ provided
hospitality (and memorable home-baked mu≈ns); to Moira Byrne,
translator of the Chigi–Rudge correspondence and other materials in
Italian; to my good friend Dottore Liborio Lamagna of the University of
Siena, who corrected inaccuracies in the Italian transcriptions; to the late
Alan D. Williams, who edited the first draft with a keen eye for inconsistencies;
to Norman MacAfee, who contributed his great insight into
Pound’s poetry, knowledge of music, editorial skills, and good judgment
in shaping and pruning the final manuscript; to Alexandre Manfull, my
mentor in mastering the mysteries of the computer; to my daughter,
Nathalie Ambrose, for encouragement and assistance in ways I cannot
count. Last but by no means least, I am most grateful to Thomas B.
Carson, my husband and companion on many rewarding voyages of
discovery, without whose loyalty, enthusiasm, and support I could never
have undertaken this work, who has lived for too many years in a literary
ménage à trois with Olga and me but never admitted to being bored with
either of us.