Published and Unpublished Letters

I wrote “Objectivists” 1927-1934 between 1975 and 1982. Since those years, previously unpublished letters have been published. Compared to the original edition of this work, copyrighted in 1983, this online edition adds citations, in the endnotes and in the bibliography, to the books that have published the letters to date. This document summarizes and references uses of the unpublished letters, and notes if and where they are now published.

I have ordered these lists by the order of their first citations. For each item, the leading numbers give the section and endnote, separated by a period. These are linked to the endnote itself. The date is linked to the location in the text of the first reference or quotation. The texts and endnotes are also cross-linked; you can click on the superscripted note numbers to jump back and forth.

Williams to Zukofsky

All letters that I referenced and that were previously unpublished are included in The Correspondence of William Carlos Williams and Louis Zukofsky. Ed. Barry Ahearn. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2003, cited below as Correspondence.

Published word counts

The table below counts quoted words in the published letters. References that do not quote the letters have a count of zero.

Wordcount: 1106 Letter Notes
17 28 March 1928, Buffalo, Correspondence, pp.3-4. 4.5
45 17 May 1928, Yale & Buffalo. Correspondence,pp. 8-9. 4.12
26 25 June 1928, Yale & Buffalo. Correspondence, p.10. 4.13
39 25 January 1929, Yale. Correspondence, p. 27. 9.9
27 23 August 1929, Buffalo. Correspondence, p. 34. 9.11
19 14 November 1929, Yale. Correspondence, p. 47 (but not dated). 9.30
6 24 October & 3 November 1929, Yale. Correspondence, p. 45 & p.47. 9.44
50 25 January 1929, Yale. Correspondence, p. 27. 9.47
70 7 February 1929, Yale. Correspondence, pp. 28-29. 9.48
10 27 January 1930, Yale. Correspondence, p. 58. 10.3
18 31 January 1930, Yale. Correspondence, p. 59. 10.4
154 12 July 1928, Buffalo. Correspondence, p.11. 11.8
49 2 February 1931, Austin. Correspondence, p. 79. 21.39
36 8 December 1931, Yale. Correspondence, p. 116. 22.32
43 December 1931, Yale. Correspondence, p. 118. 22.33
24 28 April 1933, Yale. Correspondence, p. 154. 22.53
139 6 May 1933, Austin & Yale. Correspondence, p. 155. 22.54
252 6 May 1933, Yale. Correspondence, pp. 156-157. 22.56
21 24 May 1933, Yale. Correspondence, p. 158. 22.57
61 1 June 1934, Yale. Correspondence, p. 186. 22.77

Order in Dissertation, including unquoted letters

Pound to Zukofsky

Where noted, Pound/Zukofsky means the letter was published in Pound/Zukofsky: Selected Letters of Ezra Pound and Louis Zukofsky. Ed. Barry Ahearn, New York: New Directions, 1987, and “Montemora” means the letter was published in Montemora, 8 (1981).

The published and unpublished tables below count quoted words in the letters. References that do not quote the letters have a count of zero.

Published

Wordcount: 1427 Letter Notes
99 12 August 1928, Montemora, pp. 149-152. Pound/Zukofsky, pp. 11-15, No. 6. 1.10, 4.7
197
(8, 104, 85) 		5 March 1928, Austin. Pound/Zukofsky, pp. 7-8, No. 4. 3.30, 3.32, 4.2
112 26 September 1930, Yale. Pound/Zukofsky, pp. 43-44, No. 23. 13.2
104
(51, 29, 24) 		24 October 1930, Yale. Pound/Zukofsky, pp. 45-47, No. 24. 13.16, 13.18, 13.32
385
(4, 17, 335, 13, 16) 		25 October 1930, Austin. Pound/Zukofsky, pp. 48-54, Nos. 25 and 26. 13.12, 13.21, 13.24, 13.25, 14.38
170
(16, 119, 11, 0, 24, 0) 		28 October 1930, Austin. Montemora, pp. 166-169. Pound/Zukofsky, pp. 54-58, No. 27. 13.26, 13.27, 13.31, 13.33, 18.4, 19.47note
21
(0, 21) 		27 December 1931, Yale. Pound/Zukofsky, p. 125, No. 47. 14.14, 14.15
156 27 November 1930, Austin. Montemora, pp. 175-176. Pound/Zukofsky, pp. 75-77, No. 32. 18.27
82 25 December 1930, Austin. Montemora, 8 (1981), 181-183. Pound/Zukofsky, pp. 84-86, No. 34. 18.37
47 22 November 1931, Yale. Pound/Zukofsky, p. 105, No. 42. 18.38
54 22 December 1931, Austin. Pound/Zukofsky, pp. 123-124, No. 46. 18.41

Unpublished

Wordcount: 1341 Letter Uses
73 31 July 1928, Yale 1.9
48 21 October 1928, Austin. 1.15
35 2 and 3 November 1928, Austin and Yale. 1.25
360 26 November 1928, Yale. 1.27
42 1 July 1928, Austin. 4.26
147
(103, 44) 		31 December 1929, Austin. 9.19, 9.21
61
(61, 0) 		10 January 1930, Yale. 9.22, 10.1
37 3 February 1929, Austin. 9.26
44 31 October 1929, Austin. 9.29
49 12 February 1929, Yale. 9.40
53 14 February 1930, Austin. 11.1
11 14 April 1930, Yale. 11.9
45 27 October 1930, Austin. 13.28
8 30 October 1930, Yale. 14.1
45
(45, 0) 		2 January 1932, Yale. 18.40, 22.21
13 22 January 1931, Austin. 22.17
122 18 February 1931, Yale. 22.18
20 27 November 1931, Yale. 22.27
35 23 December 1931, Copy of letter to George Oppen. Yale. 22.34
12 5 March 1932, Austin. 22.36
24 25 “Lug” 1932, Austin. 22.43
57 6 February 1934, Austin. 22.78

Order in Dissertation, including unquoted letters

Pound to others

The published and unpublished tables below count quoted words in the letters. References that do not quote the letters have a count of zero.

Published

Wordcount: 42 Letter Notes
42 Letter to Williams. 29 November 1912. Yale. Quoted in Bock, Layeh A. “The Birth of Modernism: ‘Des Imagistes’ and the Psychology of William James.” Diss. Stanford 1980, p. 138. 5.16

Unpublished

Wordcount: 139 Letter Notes
0 Letters to Lincoln Kirstein. 3 and 20 February 1930. Yale. Not quoted. 11.2
75 Letter to Monroe. 2 March 1930. Chicago. 13.1
19 Letter to Monroe. 26 September 1930. Chicago. (Referenced Introduction.7.) 13.5
45 Letter to Monroe. 16 November 1930. Chicago. 13.29

Order in Dissertation, including unquoted letters

Zukofsky to Pound

I did not get permission from Paul Zukofsky to quote unpublished letters by Zukofsky, so all letters cited are paraphrased.

Published letters are found in Pound/Zukofsky: Selected Letters of Ezra Pound and Louis Zukofsky, and in The Selected Letters of Louis Zukofsky on z-site.net.