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Meets Hilda Doolittle, William Carlos Williams (then a medical student). 1903-5 Studies at Hamilton College, Clinton, New York. Flint et al (Pound, in the "Prefatory Note" to "The Complete Poetical Works of T. Hulme" in Ripostes, refers to Les Imagistes as "the descendants" of this group). Copies Arnaut Daniel's manuscript with musical notation before librarian Ambrogio Damiano Achille Ratti (later Pius XI) at the Biblioteca Ambrosiana, Milan, July.

He was brought up in Wyncote, Philadelphia, where his father was assistant assayer for the US Mint. He studied the University of Pennsylvania, and befriended the young William Carlos Williams. From 1903 to 1906 Pound studied Anglo-Saxon and Romance languages at Hamilton College. In 1907 his teaching career was cut short at Wabash College in India when he had entertained an actress in his room. In 1908 he travelled widely in Europe, working as a journalist.

Jacobs, Box 24, folder 1059 Includes correspondence with others 1587 Noyes, Pierrepont B. . Catalog record ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION PROVENANCE The papers were purchased from the estate of Ezra Pound and the poet's daughter, Mary de Rachewiltz, in 1973. Literary rights, including copyright, belong to the authors or their legal heirs and assigns. For further information, consult the appropriate curator.

Mainly self-taught in England and Germany, Gaudier showed exceptional precocity in his draftsmanship, animal figures, and abstract works such as The Dancer. Returning to France in 1910, he added the name of his Polish companion Sophie Brzeska to his own. Ezra Pound became his patron some time before Gaudier-Brzeska was killed in World War I at the age of 24. Several of his works are in the South Kensington Museum, London. .

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