[Rarebooks] FS: Magnificent Charles Olson Letter to Ronald Duncan about his first book, Eliot, Pound, etc.

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OLSON, Charles. AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED (ALS) TO RONALD DUNCAN REGARDING 
THE IMPENDING PUBLICATION OF HIS FIRST BOOK. New York, 8 April 1946. 
Exceptional two-page Autograph Letter of @435 words on two separate 
sheets completely in the hand of and SIGNED by Charles Olson to poet, 
editor, and librettist Ronald Duncan, a literary acquaintance of T. S. 
Eliot and Ezra Pound. In part: "I have had [T.S.] Eliot's regrets on 
'our' mss, as you are gracious to call it. His letter crossed me from 
[Ezra] Pound urging him to publish. Eliot said he thought it ought to be 
published, but in America first. It looks now as though it will be. 
Reynal & Hitchcock plan to take it, with changes, and expansions in the 
second half.... The fact is England has always been more hospitable to 
Melville, from his own books on.... It would be luck if Eliot would 
consider.... Pound said: Duncan will help. Will you please--and take my 
thanks? I am asking Eliot, if the new plan doesn't take, to let you have 
the mss. Do with it what you think best. It may well be that Eliot's 
doubts of an English audience may obtain for others as well. I should 
like to think not. But you are boss. I don't think when I wrote you 
last, I had read the Pisan Cantos. They are beautiful,and Pound last 
summer, after the torture of the 'Gorilla Cage,' had more power over his 
line than ever. He is fretting at Laughlin for not getting his Confucius 
out and not pushing the Cantos more, but he is generally in better 
spirits, has now the privilege of games[?] in the prison yard, and reads 
with ease." SIGNED "Charles Olson." Magnificent content. Normal creases 
from folding. Near Fine and a superb letter. (#011607)        $7,500.00

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