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

313 Notes to Pages 150–156
p. 150 ‘‘great folly to have destroyed’’: EP to OR, from Villa Chiara, 13 Jan
1974, copy in Research notebooks, ORP3/YCAL.
p. 150 ‘‘At the end of this . . . year’’: GCS to OR, 5 Sept 1943.
p. 151 ‘‘These terrible days’’; ‘‘the Poet is well’’: OR to GCS, 20 Sept 1943.
p. 151 Brioches at the cafés; ‘‘Beerbohm’s cook’’; ‘‘dry writers’’ in literature:
OR’s 1943 diary, ORP4/YCAL.
p. 151 ‘‘I have had no news’’: GCS to OR, 20 Dec 1943.
p. 152 ‘‘wittiest woman in Europe’’: Maurice Baring, 10 Jan 1944, note in I
Ching notebooks, 1976, ORP3/YCAL.
p. 152 ‘‘It doesn’t seem possible’’: OR to GCS, 11 Jan 1944.
p. 152 ‘‘My Vivaldi mania’’: GCS to OR, 12 Mar 1944.
p. 152 ‘‘How it hurts’’: OR to GCS, 1 Mar 1944.
p. 153 ‘‘the complete absence’’: GCS to OR, 24 Apr 1944.
p. 153 Ezra and Dorothy forced to move: I Ching notebooks, 12–13 Jan 1976,
ORP3/YCAL.
p. 153 Pound himself carried: OR, I Ching notebooks, 1980.
p. 154 ‘‘Baccin will be at the steps’’: OR, note to EP, [nd] May 1944.
p. 154 ‘‘I had made [the room] as comfortable’’: OR, I Ching notebooks, June
1977, ORP3/YCAL.
p. 154 ‘‘We spent a year’’: DP to JL, 9 Aug 1945, EPC/YCAL.
p. 154 ‘‘We were all civilized’’: OR, 1983 interview, in Carpenter, A Serious
Character, 636.
p. 154 ‘‘a somewhat Henry Jamesian attitude’’: MdR, Discretions, 258.
p. 155 ‘‘The impression she gave’’: Aldington, ‘‘Nobody’s Baby,’’ in Soft
Answers, 160. (OR acknowledged that Aldington’s version is close to the
truth.)
p. 155 Ezra’s excess energy: Author interview with James Laughlin, Norfolk,
Conn., Nov 1992.
p. 155 ‘‘One solid year’’: OR, 1945 letterbook (Box 114), ORP4/YCAL.
p. 155 ‘‘Whatever the civilized appearances’’: MdR, Discretions, 258. See also
Kenneth Arnold’s play in three acts, The House of Bedlam, unpublished ms.
(1977), about which OR consulted Covington & Burling, a Washington,
D.C., law firm. A thinly disguised sixty-year-old poet, Simon Moore, and his
wife Catherine (a ‘‘fragile English beauty’’) share a house with Simon’s
American mistress, Vida (‘‘dark and strikingly beautiful’’), and Helen, Simon’s
eighteen-year-old daughter. Arnold wrote that his play ‘‘does not pretend
to biography, though based on similar events in which the poet Ezra
Pound found himself at the conclusion of World War II’’ (f. 2864, Box 117,
ORP4/YCAL).
p. 156 ‘‘one up and two to go’’: New York Times, 6 June 1944.