148 174
“THE RATE OF PERISHMENT ON REMBRANDTS
IS SLOWERTHANTHAT OFTOMATOES”
203
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POUND, EZRA. Fragment of a Typed Letter Signed,“E.P.,” including the last 2 of
3 pages, to an unknown recipient, criticizing the economics of Silvio Gesell and offering
sources for a biographical sketch of himself. 1
1
/
2
pages, 4to, written on separate sheets;
minor chipping at right edges, folds.
Np, nd
[400/600]
“
. . . [T]he Gesellettes don’t yet seem to see the NEED of calculating a PROPORTION
between their Schwundgeld and a FIXED money.
“
Oh whell, I am now trying to do a nuthr book showing where Honest economists stand in
relatuon to each other, includin MontaguWebb, silver etc.
“
What about showing up the Carnegie Peace fake . . . ? . . .
“
I dunno what is the best sketch `About me’, I don’t scrubscribe to a klippink agency . . . .
“
I was REMOVED from the AmericanWho’sWho in 1917 . . . .
“
. . . [D]ont get caught by Gesell’s PARTIAL statement ‘Money shd rot like anything else.’
This phrase fails to sort out perishable from durable and almost permanent goods.
“
The Venus de Milo don’t rot: the rate of perishment on Rembrandts is slower than that of
tomatos.”
WITH
—
Ezra Pound.
An Autobiographical Outline
. One of 200 numbered copies. Small
square 8vo, printed wrappers. NewYork, 1980.
“
Thank you so much for the time and the
interest you gave to the problem of ‘Gone With
the Wind’ in foreign parts. I came away from
our meeting with a lighter heart. I look up that
pleasant meeting as about the only pleasant
thing since this trouble began. . . . I think you
and Senator Duffy and Senator Pittman were
most kind to give me so much time.”
In her letter to Mr.Van Deene dated December
21, 1937, Mitchell explains her belief that
U.S. authors should enjoy better international
copyright protections and complains that her
book was not sufficiently protected (Christie’s
NewYork, 24 July 2002, lot 277).
CONCERNED ABOUT INTERNATIONAL COPYRIGHT
FOR“GONEWITHTHEWIND”
202
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MITCHELL, MARGARET. Typed Letter Signed, “Margaret Mitchell Marsh,” to
Senator Wallace H. White, Jr., thanking him for his help with the problem concerning
Gone with the Wind
. 2 pages, 12mo, written on a single folded sheet. With the original
envelope.
Atlanta, 1 December 1937
[600/900]