I've been out sick for two days (since Tuesday around noon, and it's now Thursday morning), and the EP list has been humming in my absence. So I'm late in responding to your questions. But I have a few suggestions. Could the "French newspaper" called "VU" perhaps be the group of Japanese poets that called themselves the VOU group, centered on Katue Kitasano? Pound was writing to Kitasano in the late 1930s, around the time he was writing to Borah. Also, "The Working Day" is a chapter from Capital, by Karl Marx, volume 1. Pound cites this chapter many times. And Charles Erskine Scott Wood was a popular American writer of the 1920s. A resident of California, I believe. Best known for a book called Heavenly Discourse--a fantasy, I believe, perhaps in a Whitmanic cadenced verse. But you'd want to check that out. Wood also published a book of Indian tales that might have interested EP. Burt Hatlen