In response to Richard Caddel's query, Sarah Graham cites a strong 1939
letter from James Laughlin, telling Pound off in the most explicit terms
about his antisemitism. Marianne Moore's letters about the same subject
come later and their language is gentler, but in the context of her
relationship to Pound and the history she shared with him, they're every
bit as firm. Bear in mind, for instance, that as early as 1933 Moore was
trying (and failing) to get _The Criterion_ to notice Hitler's persecution
of what she called at the time "that ancient and valuable race, the Jews"
(letter 305, below). As to Pound:
 
July 31, 1952: "Profanity and the Jews are other quaky quicksands against
which may I warn you? You have seen turtles or armadillos, possibly, when
annoyed and I sometimes have to be one of them."
 
September 10, 1957: "Ezra, you are intolerable, to defy me, about the Jews
who are not mine alone but everybody's benefactor; and foolish."
 
Source: _The Selected Letters of Marianne Moore_, ed. Bonnie Costello,
Celeste Goodridge, and Cristanne Miller (Knopf, 1997).
 
Jonathan Morse