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Senate House Library, University of London

Pound, Dorothy: letters


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0096 AL442

Held at: Senate House Library, University of London

Title: Pound, Dorothy: letters

Date(s): 1965

Level of description: Collection

Extent: 2 leaves

Name of creator(s): Pound | Dorothy | 1886-1973 | nee Shakespear | artist | wife of Ezra Pound

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Dorothy Shakespear was the daughter of the novelist Olivia Shakespear. She married the poet Ezra Pound in 1914.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

2 letters from Dorothy Pound of Albergo Italia and Lido Rapallo, Italy to [J H P] Pafford, Goldsmiths' Librarian of University of London Library. (1) Explaining in a reply to a letter from Pafford to her husband, Ezra Pound, asking him to autograph one of his books for the library, Ezra 'is not here at the moment - I never trouble him for autographs ...', 16 February 1965. (2) Covering note enclosing a photograph of Ezra Pound, endorsed in Dorothy's hand '1958 (in Italy)', 4 Mar 1965. Both letters are autograph, with signatures.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

See hard copy catalogue.

Conditions governing access:

Access to this collection is unrestricted for the purpose of private study and personal research within the supervised environment and restrictions of the Library's Palaeography Room. Access to individual items in Senate House Library archives collections may be restricted under the Data Protection Act or the Freedom of Information Act. Please contact the University Archivist for details. 24 hours notice is required for research visits.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Copies may be made, subject to the condition of the original. Copying must be undertaken by the Palaeography Room staff, who will need a minimum of 24 hours to process requests.

Finding aids:

Typescript catalogue available in the Library's Palaeography Room.

Detailed catalogue

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Accruals:

Archival history:

See archivist

Immediate source of acquisition:

Transferred from the Goldsmiths' Librarian's files (1970).

ALLIED MATERIALS

Existence and location of copies:

Presumably, Miss Treadwell retained the original letters after relinquishing these copies; the current whereabouts of the original letters is unknown.

DESCRIPTION NOTES

Archivist's note: Compiled by Anya Turner.

Rules or conventions: Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions: July 2008


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Poetry | Literary forms and genres | Literature
Poets | Writers | Authors

Personal names
Pound | Dorothy | 1886-1973 | nee Shakespear | artist | wife of Ezra Pound
Pound | Ezra | 1885-1972 | poet and theorist

Corporate names

Places
Italy | Western Europe | Europe