Re Where to Shelve Pound's Letters: Among the best-selling literary works of the 1890s were the "local color" (now more politely known as "regional") writers. We've started to see what we ought to about Pound's relation to Black English (even as mediated by Joel Chandler Harris), but I rarely see any interest out there in Pound's debts to representations of vernacular English from the South (Chopin) or the Northeast (Jewett). That's two female writers, by the way, which might provide another point of entry into discussions of Pound and gender. This is not, I think, simply a matter of eloquence in the vernacular, but a question of the representation of the nation in and through its languages. As for Pound's wonderful Yiddish accent (admittedly a phenomenon of his mature career), newspaper cartoons from turn of the century seem to provide a likelier source. Jonathan Gill Columbia University