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

312 Notes to Pages 143–150
11 the subject is—wartime (1941–1945)
Principal sources: OR–EP correspondence, ORP1/YCAL; wartime
Sant’Ambrogio, OR’s 1943 diary, Box 106, ORP4/YCAL; OR to GCS,
archives of Accademia Chigiana, Siena.
p. 143 ‘‘made 2 discs yesterday’’: EP to OR, 23 Jan 1941.
p. 143 Composed a poem: EP to Kitasono, 16 Feb 1941, in Kodama, ed., Ezra
Pound in Japan, 110.
p. 144 ‘‘a bit older’’; ‘‘exchanged yarns’’: EP to OR, 21 Feb 1941.
p. 144 ‘‘A bistecca broke a leg’’: OR to EP, 14 Jan 1941.
p. 144 ‘‘glad you are sticking to it’’: Barney to EP, 14 July 1941, ORP2/
YCAL.
p. 144 ‘‘three [broadcasts] in a row’’: EP to OR, 19 July 1941.
p. 144 Permission to return: EP to OR, 29 July 1941.
p. 144 ‘‘I am all right’’: MdR to OR, 9 Oct 1941, ORP2/YCAL.
p. 144 ‘‘considering a flat’’: EP to OR, 4 Dec 1941.
p. 144 ‘‘to seek wisdom’’: Doob, ed., ‘‘Ezra Pound Speaking,’’ 23–27.
p. 145 ‘‘retired to continue his study’’: Time, 26 Jan 1942.
p. 145 ‘‘Because I stopped speaking’’: EP to OR, 7 May 1942. (From EP’s correspondence
with Joyce during the late 1930s: ‘‘’nother note from Joyce
(haw-haw), longer than the other,’’ 15 July 1938, EPC/YCAL.)
p. 145 ‘‘Rome Radio, acting in accordance’’: Stock, Life of Ezra Pound, 393.
p. 145 ‘‘sitting on the floor’’: Recalled in OR to RD, [nd] 1986, ORP2/YCAL.
p. 145 ‘‘Fifty kilos of tomatoes’’: OR to EP, 9 Sept 1942.
p. 145 ‘‘Il tuo nonno’’: MdR, Discretions, 153.
p. 145 The American Hour: EP to OR, 8 May 1942.
p. 146 ‘‘I have not been very well’’: OR to GCS, 9 July 1942.
p. 146 ‘‘They ain’t even a cinema’’: OR to EP, 27 Jan 1943.
p. 146 ‘‘dunno if for convenience’’: OR to EP, 3 Feb 1943.
p. 146 252, calle Querini sequestered: OR to EP, 20 Jan 1943.
p. 146 Her ‘‘priest, the little pig’’: GCS to OR, 9 Jan 1942.
p. 147 ‘‘gettin’ romanized’’: EP to OR, 12 May 1943 (see also 7, 9, 13 May 1943.
p. 147 Mary remembered that Allied bombers: MdR, Discretions, 164.
p. 147 ‘‘There ain’t no zucchini’’: OR to EP, 22 June 1943.
p. 147 Sant’Ambrogio, that wartime summer: OR’s 1943 diary, ORP4/YCAL.
p. 149 EP’s indictment for treason: New York Times, 27 July 1943; see also Redman,
Ezra Pound and Italian Fascism.
p. 149 ‘‘I have not spoken’’: EP to Francis Biddle, 4 Aug 1943, ORP4/YCAL.
p. 150 EP set o√ on foot: Carpenter, A Serious Character, 623–28.
p. 150 EP with Mary at Gais: MdR, Discretions, 186.