Pound's correspondence with Iris Barry may cast some light on this.
Cheers, Louis
 
At 06:47 PM 9/14/99 +0200, you wrote:
>Dear listmembers,
>
>here's another female studying Pound.
>As I noticed by now there seem to be several people on this list who used
>to know Pound personally. What I am extremely interested in is Pound's
>sources for his scientific knowledge. I was up to now unable to find any
>written reference of his about what books he was reading, or with whom he
>was talking. I'm especially concerned with the early years up to about
>1920. He used examples and metaphors out of mathematics and physics in so
>many of his texts, but never gives a hint where he got it from. It must
>have been "in the air" at that time, but I'd still love to know a little
>more about his way of studying and his sources. Probably there's no one on
>this list who knew him then, but did he later read real "hardcore science"
>literature? Or at least popular versions of the up-to-date-theories besides
>Allen Upward who seems to have known less than Pound? What about his
>pseudonym Helmholtz that he used in 1914? Do you suspect he ever read
>Hermann von H.?
>
>Antje Pfannkuchen
>
>
>
>PS: Since Jacob Korg mentioned Mary de Rachewiltz as a prominent
>participant of Pound-scholarship. Is there a possibility to get in contact
>with her? Does anyone know her (e-) mail address?
 
Louis H. Silverstein
Literary Anthropologist (specializing in H.D. and her circle as well as
things mysterious)
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