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

320 Notes to Pages 208–217
p. 208 She invited Clare Boothe Luce: OR to Luce, 12 July 1954.
p. 208 Olga was still waiting to see: OR to EP, 2 Apr 1955.
p. 209 ‘‘a day of great clarity’’: MdR, Discretions, 301.
p. 209 ‘‘a real rumpus is needed’’: B. Somers-Cocks to OR, in OR to EP,
22 May 1955.
p. 209 ‘‘I had not lived in the States’’: OR, I Ching notebooks.
p. 209 ‘‘the beard no longer’’: D. G. Bridson, 1956 interview at St. Elizabeth’s
while recording EP reading his poetry.
p. 210 Sheri Martinelli: author interview, Washington, D.C., Aug 1995; EP to
Sheri Martinelli, 1 May 1957, collage on envelope to JL (31 Mar 1984),
author’s collection; see also McNaughton, ‘‘The Secret of St. Elizabeth’s’’;
David Rattray, ‘‘Weekend with Ezra Pound,’’ Nation, 16 Nov 1957.
p. 211 ‘‘If Dorothy had not told’’: OR, I Ching notebooks, 1978.
p. 211 ‘‘I can’t see how’’; MdR to OR, 21 July 1955.
p. 211 ‘‘Your best weapon’’: MdR to OR, 25 May 1955.
p. 211 ‘‘Sheri acquitted’’: EP to A. MacLeish, 17 Jan 1956, in Carpenter, A Serious
Character, 819–20.
p. 212 ‘‘I wonder what I have done’’: Louise Birt Baynes to EMR, 14 Aug 1936;
ORP2/YCAL.
15 a piece of ginger (1956–1962)
Principal sources: OR–EP correspondence, ORP1/YCAL; OR–RD–EP
correspondence, HRHRC/Tex; Accademia Musicale Chigiana, see Pinzauti,
L’Accademia Musicale Chigiana.
p. 213 ‘‘Bear no grudge’’: OR to EP, 1 Jan 1957.
p. 215 Robert Frost in Washington; petition for Pound’s release: Francis
Sweeney, New York Times, 15 Dec 1972; Carpenter, A Serious Character, 826–
40; McNaughton, ‘‘Secret History of St. Elizabeth’s,’’ 34–37.
p. 215 ‘‘Committee for Ezra Pound’’: Quoted from Thurman Arnold’s motion
for dismissal of the indictment for treason, in O’Conner and Stone, A Casebook
on Ezra Pound, 130.
p. 216 ‘‘hailed his adopted nation’’: Tom Kelly, Washington Star, 30 Apr 1958;
see also New York Times, 10 July 1958.
p. 216 ‘‘For how many years’’: MdR, Discretions, 304.
p. 216 Letter from her brother Teddy: EMR to OR, 18 Jan 1958.
p. 216 ‘‘Cousin Louise’s . . . condition’’: Esther Heacock to OR, 20 June 1958,
ORP2/YCAL.
p. 216 Estate of Louise Birt Baynes: Box 125, ORP5/YCAL.
p. 217 ‘‘Auntie Lou’s legacy’’: OR to E. Heacock, 3 Mar 1959.