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Wayne Pounds <[log in to unmask]>
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Ezra Pound discussion list of the University of Maine <[log in to unmask]>
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Fri, 13 Nov 1998 12:11:56 +0900
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Prof. Miyake doesn't have an email address, as far as I know. She writes
letters by hand. I don't think she would mind if I sent you her mailing
address. Let me know if you want it. (Don't have it by me at the present
terminal.)
 
Wayne
 
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>
> Dr. Hatlen:
>                 I am writing in hopes that you may be able to put me in
> touch with Dr. Zhaoming Qian or Dr. Akiko Miyake. My hope is that one or
> both of them is a subscriber to the Pound listserv, which you are
> listed as
> being the monitor for. My current project--tying Pound's depiction(s) of
> Kuanon to Fenollosa's discussions of her in his <Epochs>--hinges in
> part on
> being able to show that Pound read Fenollosa's <Epochs> in its entirety.
> Letters both scholars cite in their work imply to varying degrees that
> this
> is so. Dr. Qian quotes at some length a 5 December 1915 letter from
> Pound
> to his father, which recommends that Homer read <Epochs>,in his 1995
> <Orientalism and Modernism>, page 56. Dr. Miyake has a footnote in her
> 1981
> Paideuma article, regarding a 25 March 1914 letter from Pound to his
> father
> with a similar quote, although she  refers to it only in passing (page
> 544). Dr. Qian thanks Donald Gallup for "bringing the letter to his
> attention," while Dr. Miyake refers to Dudley Paige as the source for
> the
> letter she uses. Unfortunately, I have not been able to trace a readily
> available source for either letter.
>         If you have e-mail addresses for either or both scholars, would you
> be willing either to forward this e-mail note to them, or to pass on
> their
> addresses so that I might be able to get in touch with them? I am
> working
> under a bit of a deadline, and it is sometimes difficult to get
> libraries
> to cooperate in a timely manner...! I feel my article's scholarship
> would
> be strengthened by a copy of the actual letter. Certainly I am willing
> to
> incur any financial expenses either Dr. Qian or Dr. Miyake would incur
> in
> faxing me a copy of their letters, should they be amenable to doing so.
>         Please let me know if this is feasible, or if you would rather I
> post this to the listserv. I'm not currently a member of the list, and
> felt
> it would be presumptuous to join for the purpose of such a minor
> question--however serious it may seem to me!
>         Thank you very much for your efforts. I appreciate your time.
>
> Sincerely,
> Britton Gildersleeve
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> Oklahoma State University
> English Department
> Stillwater, OK
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