Unpublished Ezra Pound Poem for Sale

Next week an "apparently unpublished" letter and poem by Ezra Pound arrive on the auction block at Lyon & Turnbull. Ezra Pound wrote the letter to Mrs. Isabel Konody (later known as Isabel Codrington): a painter in London. Read an excerpt from Pound's letter here:

Autograph letter initialled to Mrs Isabel Konody, letter undated, envelope dated April 21 [19]09, "I can't find an old poem fit to gratify your modest ambition so I have made a new one which I hope you will grace with acceptance. I have made it an Elizabethan Sonnet because in that form alone is the thought governed with sufficient elegance of confection to be in fitting harmony with Mrs Konody whose abject slave I Subscribe my self herewith, E.P."; 2pp [...]

Learn more about Mrs Isabel Konody, via the auction house's website:

Isabel Codrington Pyke Nott (1874-1943) entered the Royal Academy Schools in 1889, aged 15. In the 1890's she met the ambitious young art critic, Paul George Konody (1872- 1933), then editor of The Artist, and later, a regular reviewer for The Observer and The Daily Mail. They were married on 27 October 1901, and during the next five years had two daughters, Pauline and Margaret. In these years Isabel continued to paint miniatures and imaginative watercolours for which she won a medal at the Exposition Internationale d'Arte in Barcelona in 1907. [...]

And read a little bit more about Pound and Konody before placing your bid (ahem, it's expected to garner between 7,000 and 9,000 pounds) at Lyon & Turnbull.