POUND EZRA Fragment of a Typed Letter Signed EP including th

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"THE RATE OF PERISHMENT ON REMBRANDTS IS SLOWER THAN THAT OF TOMATOES" POUND, EZRA. Fragment of a Typed Letter Signed, "E.P.," including the last 2 of 3 pages, to an unknown recipient, criticizing the economics of Silvio Gesell and offering sources for a biographical sketch of himself. 1 1/2 pages, 4to, written on separate sheets; minor chipping at right edges, folds. Np, nd

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". . . [T]he Gesellettes don't yet seem to see the NEED of calculating a PROPORTION between their Schwundgeld and a FIXED money.
"Oh whell, I am now trying to do a nuthr book showing where Honest economists stand in relatuon to each other, includin Montagu Webb, silver etc.
"What about showing up the Carnegie Peace fake . . . ? . . .
"I dunno what is the best sketch `About me', I don't scrubscribe to a klippink agency . . . .
"I was REMOVED from the American Who's Who in 1917 . . . .
". . . [D]ont get caught by Gesell's PARTIAL statement 'Money shd rot like anything else.' This phrase fails to sort out perishable from durable and almost permanent goods.
"The Venus de Milo don't rot: the rate of perishment on Rembrandts is slower than that of tomatos."
with--Ezra Pound. An Autobiographical Outline. One of 200 numbered copies. Small square 8vo, printed wrappers. New York, 1980.