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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
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Stillwater, OK
 
 
 
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