Author: Mullins, Eustace [1923-2010] [Pound, Ezra]
Title: 7 items concerning Ezra Pound, ca. 1956-1974
Description: ¶ This is a collection of 7 pieces ca. 1956-1962 from the estate of the anti-Semitic conspiracy theorist [and Ezra Pound disciple] Eustace Mullins, who lead the committee to free Ezra Pound from confinement in St. Elizabeth's mental hospital. Includes: 1) A typed carbon of a letter from George Thomas Adams to the Editor, Chicago Tribune dated April 21, 1958, concerning their editorial on Pound's incarceration; 2) an invoice from Universal Label Company to Mullins for 500 sheets of Free Ezra Pound letterhead; 3) a typed carbon of a letter from Mullins to the Editor, Daily News dated January 27, 1960 concerning Pound; 4) a 40x30 cm printed sheet apparently printed by the Free Pound committee consisting of a 1- page essay on Pound by Mullins + excerpts from Pound's Cantos. Some frays to edges; 5) A 2-page stencilled (mimeographed) press release from Fleet Publishing announcing publication of Mullins' biography of Pound; 6) A typed original letter from Stephan Chodorov dated July 17 1962 proposing a movie about Pound; 7) photocopy of a 1974 NY Times article about Pound's FBI file.

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