ABSTRACT
These are the detailed emendations and deletions which Elkin Mathews proposed to Pound for the publication of Lustra. On the verso of the contract there is a note that the printers, Clowes, agree to print a private edition for the author—with the exception of 'The Temperaments', 'Ancient Music' and 'The Lake Isle' 'which they decline to print in any form whatever'. Pound was furious and attempted to enlist Yeats, the literary agent J. B. Pinker, and Augustine Birrell, Liberal M.P. and Irish Secretary, in his fight against Mathews's attempt to censor his work. (An important selection of Pound's letters on this are reprinted in Pound/Joyce.) Lustra eventually appeared in an 'emasculated' edition of 800 copes, and an edition for private circulation of 200.
