Bill (d’Oiseau) thinks £2 too dear for 200 unsigned. You no doubt persist in the stamp comparison, a damn good one! We’ll do some “grand papiers” all this for summer. You shall, though.ĭo you approve of Cantos and yourself thus placed (on circular)? Circular making make the man (me) mad. I handed over the subject of your letter à qui de droit – but also your letter – and I wanted Aragon to answer it himself for clarity as it was all not very clear to me – but I suppose you have heard nothing. “condom of black beetles” – Nancy is quoting from canto XIV: l.87. I’ll have your letter by me at out-printer’s and we’ll typometer the print-area, and I’ll post immediately.īut, as aforesaid, book can’t be done (out) till June – as it must be singly, specially advertized “to subscribers” – How the deffil can the traveler pilot the “condom full of black beetles” etc.? Will go to my out-printer as soon as you send on sufficient matter for him to make up a complete sample page – as you say, Caps should be designed on sample page. If you don’t like size suggest one in drawing – i.e. Will try and have them started (done on) April-May. I note the special announcement of Cantos to be sent aforehand will be: A Draft of 30 Cantos. Work in Paris under usual (and some unusual) difficulties. (same as Bill Bird’s series of 6) D’s capitals size of HOURS PRESS (that printed other side or larger?) Which justification do you prefer, 25 or 22?Īdvance sales in London going well. How about this size (see over)? it is a format of paper – Proposed size of type: 11-point. Has she any more suggestions while he is getting ready for a noo edtn ?Īnyhow he has got over point he wuz stuck AT. He has he thinks cleared up that line in Viith. Nancy writes that she is definitely going to do the cantos in one vol. is in state of polite wish or definite intention. Nancy was very ambiguous I dunno whether pocket edtn. be puffikly sa’sfakory and probably quicker IF … etc. but (with various ambiguities) seems disposed to publish them in pocket edtn. Note from Nancy that she cant print the cantos on hand press as there is more of em than she cd. Pound and Nancy initially aimed at printing one canto and a prose work, “The Probable Music of Beowulf.” See Gallup 450-2. Answer me on this I take it I can do something of yours, not the poor Beowulf I suppose? Now, DO I GET THE CANTO? I can’t remember if the end of the summer said yes or no to that/ If I do I’d much like to start with it in the NEW Year, maybe before, no, New Year will do. Let us take it up again next year.įor reasons that are none or everything I have decided to print again, and that immediately, and with vigour. No, I don’t think the time has come yet to bring out the Cantos. Printer: François Bernouard, La Belle Edition, Paris. Pocket edition with capitals designed by Dorothy Shakespear Pound. First edition: Paris: Hours Press, August 1930.
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