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ELIOT NEGOTIATES WITH US ATTORNEY GENERAL TO HELP EZRA POUND ELIOT, T.S. Two Typed Letters Signed, to Richard Davies [friend of imprisoned Ezra Pound]. The first, promising to respond after discussing the situation with [legal advisor to Ezra Pound's wife] Arthur Valentine Moore. The second, agreeing that his committee should be informed of matters relating to the [U.S.] Attorney General, agreeing that the re-election of Eisenhower would likely indicate a continuation of the same cabinet, and promising to report the result of negotiations with the Attorney General. Each 1 page, square 8vo, "Faber and Faber" stationery, pale yellow paper; pin holes at upper left, folds. London, 18 September; 11 October 1956
In 1945, Ezra Pound was arrested by U.S. authorities and charged with treason. Most of his 12-year imprisonment was spent at St. Elizabeths psychiatric hospital in Washington, DC, during which time Pound's case was never brought to trial. In 1956, St. Elizabeths concluded that Pound's condition made him unfit to stand trial. Friends of Pound, including Archibald MacLeish, Graham Greene, Jean Cocteau, and T.S. Eliot, appealed to the U.S. Attorney General to review the case with an eye toward extraditing him to the U.K., if no trial was forthcoming in the U.S. Pound was discharged in 1958, after a judge's motion to dismiss the 1945 indictment went unopposed by the Attorney General.
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