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

314 Notes to Pages 157–168
12 the road to hell (1945)
Principal sources: OR–EP correspondence, ORP1/YCAL; Research
notebooks, ORP3/YCAL (EP in Pisa [1945], Box 101); OR–DP
correspondence, ORP2/YCAL.
p. 157 ‘‘not in a spirit’’: Pound’s recollection of his arrest and transfer to the detention
camp in Pisa, EP to MdR (from Villa Chiara), 13 Jan 1974, copy in
OR’s Research notebook.
p. 158 ‘‘in haste to give you’’: OR to MdR, 30 Apr 1945. OR’s account of the
events from 27 Apr to 7 May 1945, in Research notebooks, Box 101.
p. 163 ‘‘They thought I was dangerous’’: Torrey, in Carpenter, A Serious Character,
658.
p. 164 ‘‘Due to his age’’: Report of Capt. Walter H. Baer, DTC psychiatrist,
14 June 1945, in Carpenter, A Serious Character, 664.
p. 164 ‘‘He [Amprim] appreciates’’: John Drummond to OR, [nd] July 1945,
ORP2/YCAL.
p. 164 ‘‘Please see that Olga’’: EP to DP, 7 June 1945, ORP2/YCAL.
p. 164 ‘‘I am enclosing’’: DP to OR, 7 June 1945.
p. 164 ‘‘That trip to Genoa’’: OR to DP, 2 June 1945.
p. 165 ‘‘the home-baked loaf ’’: DP to OR, 14 June 1945.
p. 165 ‘‘very upset by your telegram’’: MdR to OR, 21 Aug 1945.
p. 165 ‘‘some nice Hawayan boys’’: MdR to OR, 2 Aug 1945, ORP2/YCAL.
p. 165 ‘‘Mary is safe’’: DP to OR, 4 Aug 1945.
p. 166 ‘‘He looks wonderfully well’’: DP to OR, [nd] Sept 1945.
p. 166 ‘‘I just had a letter’’: OR to John Drummond, [nd] Sept 1945.
p. 166 ‘‘It’s hard writing’’: OR to EP, 9 Oct 1945.
p. 166 ‘‘I felt it the best thing’’: OR to EP, 11 Nov 1945.
p. 166 With no library: EP’s only reference works in the detention center were
Analects of Confucius, tr. James Legg; a Chinese dictionary; Morris Speare’s
anthology, Pocket Book of Verse (‘‘found on the jo-house seat’’); and the
Holy Bible (U.S. Army issue).
p. 167 ‘‘So this was Omar’’: MdR, Discretions, 260.
p. 167 ‘‘I’m very glad’’: OR to John Drummond, 19 Oct 1945, ORP2/YCAL.
p. 167 ‘‘Mary and I saw EP’’: OR to JL, 11 Nov 1945, ORP2/YCAL.
p. 167 ‘‘grizzled and red-eyed’’: MdR, Discretions, 256.
p. 167 ‘‘I wouldn’t have undertaken’’: OR to GCS, 16 Nov 1945, Accademia
Chigiana.
p. 168 ‘‘E’s position is very di√erent’’: OR to B. Somers-Cocks, 16 Oct 1945,
ORP2/YCAL.
p. 168 ‘‘By chance, I had gone’’: OR to EP, 23 Nov 1945.