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

325 Notes to Pages 254–266
p. 254 Academy of Arts and Sciences, Emerson-Thoreau Medal controversy: see
JL to Stock, 5 Sept 1972.
p. 254 ‘‘Omar has ‘parked’ me’’: DP to OR, 26 Oct 1972.
p. 255 ‘‘a rather undiplomatic thing’’: JL to Stock, 5 Oct 1972.
p. 255 Pound’s dream; Ezra at Pensione Cici: I Ching notebooks, Box 101, 1970–
72.
p. 256 ‘‘He was like Oedipus at Colonnus’’: W. de Rachewiltz (quoted by Caroline
Warren).
p. 256 EP’s last day: ‘‘Ezra Pound Died in His Sleep,’’ by OR, Box 116,
ORP4/YCAL.
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Principal sources: Personal papers, ORP4/YCAL: EP’s funeral (Box 110);
OR’s eyewitness account of EP’s death and the camera ardente (Box 116);
OR–Cyril Connolly, DP–OR correspondence, ORP2/YCAL; JL–Noel
Stock correspondence, WMCC/Toledo. All quotations not cited elsewhere
are (in chronological order) from I Ching notebooks, ORP3/YCAL.
p. 261 Olga had gone ahead with the funeral: JL to Stock, 16 Nov 1972.
p. 261 ‘‘all discussion about family matters’’: JL to Stock, 16 Nov 1972.
p. 261 ‘‘I regret that the funeral’’: DP to OR, 12 Nov 1972.
p. 262 Olga vented her anger: Personal papers, ORP4/YCAL.
p. 262 ‘‘How deeply felt’’: Phillips-Matz to OR, 21 Nov 1972, ORP2/
YCAL.
p. 263 ‘‘deep sympathy . . . and appreciation’’: Bullock to OR, 11 Dec 1972,
ORP2/YCAL.
p. 263 ‘‘petite and white-haired’’: Heymann, The Last Rower.
p. 264 Lester Littlefield’s death: Personal papers, Box 107, ORP4/YCAL; OR
to JL, 17 Feb 1973; OR to Connolly, [nd] Feb 1973.
p. 264 ‘‘I am 60 today’’: Littlefield to OR, 28 Jan 1973, ORP2/YCAL.
p. 264 ‘‘Lester was a thoughtful . . . friend’’: OR to Connolly, 11 Mar 1973.
p. 264 ‘‘Joan lent it to you’’: Elizabeth Gardner to OR, 30 May 1973,
ORP2/YCAL.
p. 265 ‘‘like a gossipy Irish village’’: The Guardian (Manchester), [nd] 1980,
ORP6/YCAL.
p. 266 ‘‘From these earnings’’: JL to Stock, 17 July 1973.
p. 266 ‘‘The Trustees have far too much power’’: (draft), I Ching notebooks,
1973.
p. 266 ‘‘is hedged about with . . . restrictions’’: JL to Stock, 17 July 1973.