An original two-page signed typed letter dated 1 December 1960 addressed to Eustace Mullins [1923-2010]

Martinelli, Sheri [1918-1996]

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2 pages. This is a 2-page original typed letter of approx. 450 words from "S.M / PO Box 46 / San Gregorio CA" signed 'Sheri' addressed to the rightwing publicist Eustace Mullins, who was leading a campaign to have Ezra Pound freed from St. Elizabeth' s mental hospital. Martinelli here rejects & critiques an essay on Pound that Mullins had submitted to her little magazine ' Anagogic & Paideumic Review' and discusses Pound, the Jews, the Communist Party, sex, HD, etc [".,.ponder well - yr essay shows me a beautiful aryan mind at work what is clothed in rags from moscow / mul / it is dreadful & makes me question my own essays / to view things thru the spyglass of sex is the party line from 1939 on to 4 5 / it is now unfashionable / one must be serious / there is too much sex imagery in the essay.,."["., .The name Martinelli came by way of a brief early marriage to painter Ezio Martinelli, by whom she had a daughter Shelley (named after the poet) in 1943. Sheri Martinelli was a protégée of Anaïs Nin and is described at length in Nin's infamous Diary; she was the basis for Esme,a major character in William Gaddis s novel The Recognitions, and then became the long-time muse and mistress of Ezra Pound in Washington, D.C. ( she appears in various guises in the later Cantos); Charlie Parker ., hung out at her Greenwich Village apartment; Marlon Brando was an admirer ., Ginsberg was an especially close friend . .,.she was known in San Francisco as ' Queen of the Beats'.,." - wikipedia]. Seller Inventory # 023783

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Title: An original two-page signed typed letter ...
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: Second page is torn. Good.
Signed: Signed by Author(s)