Scope and Content of the Collection From the Collection: Collection relates mainly to the Ezra Pound work Patria Mia, written in 1912-13 but not published as a book until 1950, and consists of the manuscript of the book, Seymour’s draft for a preface, and sixteen letters between Seymour and Ezra and Dorothy Pound and T.S. Eliot.Ezra Pound sent the manuscript to Ralph Fletcher Seymour in 1913, but as Seymour explains in the preface to the eventual publication, the manuscript was mislaid and not recovered...