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 [log in to unmask] (918)4928721 5826 East 76th Street Tulsa, OK 74136 Oklahoma State University English Department Stillwater, OK X-SMTP-From: [log in to unmask] X-SMTP-To: [log in to unmask] Received: from mail.ionet.net (mail.ionet.net [206.41.128.16]) by voyager.umeres.maine.edu with SMTP id MSGZTUVA; Tue, 10 Nov 1998 21:19:23 GMT Received: from [38.193.57.118] (tulnas8-08.ionet.net [38.193.57.118]) by mail.ionet.net (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id PAA19249 for <[log in to unmask]>; Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:17:11 -0600 (CST) Message-Id: <l03110700b26e59245d2a@[38.193.56.76]> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:13:25 -0600 To: [log in to unmask] From: Britton Gildersleeve <[log in to unmask]> Subject: information request