Letter to the Editor [on Ezra Pound]
Mailer's first appearance in Esquire — a letter to the editor in the November 1951 issue offering support for the release of Ezra Pound from St. Elizabeths Hospital, where Pound had been confined since 1945.
Letter to the Editor. Esquire, November 1951.
Mailer offers his support for the release of Ezra Pound from the psychiatric ward where he had been confined since 1945.
Rpt: 14.3.
Esquire context
This letter is Mailer’s first appearance in Esquire — the magazine he will contribute to more than forty times over the subsequent decades, becoming one of its signature voices by the mid-1960s (see “The Language of Men”, 53.2, Mailer’s first story in the magazine).