Author: Lampman, Rex [ Mullins, Eustace (1923-2010) ] [ Pound, Ezra ]
Title: A collection of 4 letters and postcards addressed to Eustace Mullins ca. 1956-1958, all with mention of Ezra Pound
Description: 1956-1958. FOUR ITEMS.. Good ¶ A collection of three original letters [2 single-side, 1 double-side] and one postcard, dated 1956-58, all written by Rex Lampman, all addressed to the right-wing conspiracy publicist Eustace Mullins, each with some mention of efforts to get Ezra Pound released from St. Elizabeth's mental hospital. Provenance: the estate of Eustace Mullins. According to Mullins in a later interview "The official government story regarding Frost and Pound is that Frost, out of gratitude to Ezra for Ezra' s role in Frost's early career, got Ezra out of St. Elizabeth's. Frost had nothing to do with it. Ezra got out of St. Elizabeth's because a Congressman named Usher Burdick, at the behest of a fellow named Rex Lampman (Lampman's father owned a Fargo newspaper that helped to get Burdick elected), got up on the floor of the Congress and asked "Why is this man being held?". Burdick knew nothing of Ezra Pound, but he did some digging and found out that America's greatest living poet had been held in a mental hospital for 13 years with no trial. It was through Burdick's efforts and not Frost's that Ezra was released..." - James Dyer interview titled "A Recent Visit With Eustace Mullins" - rense website.

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