Add MS 88998/2/11

Letters and cards from Helen Cassidy (Helen Garcia), combining recent news with fond memories. Cassidy, with former husband John Cassidy and with Fred Hunter, created the short-lived spoken-word label Stream Records (1967-71), which featured, amongst the work of other emerging English and American poets of the day, the poetry of Lee Harwood (Landscapes). For background, see Fred Hunter, 'Intersound and Stream Records', PS (prose supplement to Painted, Spoken, ed. Richard Price), Number 2 (2007). Hunter: 'All seemed to be going well for Stream until about 1971 when there was a fire in the Cassidy's home, by then at 10 Bramley Road, W10, where all the work was done, and most of the stock went up in flames but sufficient tapes survived to enable future poetry lovers to hear the seven records on CDs, plus some of the others.' For a related letter from Hunter to Harwood (11 January 2007), see Add MS 88998/2/39.

• (1). Gualala, California, 17 April 1998 (postmark). Greetings card containing the beginning of an autograph letter continued onto 2 sheets. With envelope. 'I have been reading, remembering, exploring anew [...] I was surprised to see mention of Stream Records in Paul's Bibliography - it brought back such memories, and perhaps one of the few indications that Stream Records ever existed. Did Paul's tape get burned in the fire?'
• (2). Gualala, December 2006 (postmark). Christmas card with message. With envelope.
• (3). Gualala, 13 February 2008 (postmark). Autograph letters (4 sheets, 4 January and 12 February), with envelope. Includes in addition 28 colour printed sheets (annotated photographs, largely of house and garden, including images of Cassidy/Garcia). The letter makes reference to a forthcoming BBC radio programme featuring Stream Records (BBC Radio 4, 30 March, according to a note on the back of the envelope).
• (4). Gualala, 10 December 2008 (postmark). Christmas card with message. With envelope.
• (5). Gualala, 27 August 2010 (postmark). Greetings card (news of forthcoming marriage). With envelope.
• (6). Gualala, 1 October 2010 (postmark). Copy of invitation to a gathering to celebrate the wedding of Mel and Helen Clark (1 sheet, incorporating adhered printed colour photograph), with a letter on the verso. Also, 3 colour photographs (each 100 x 150 mm). With envelope.
• (7). Gualala, 16 December 2010 (postmark). Christmas card, and 4 colour photographs (3 of the wedding). With envelope.
• (8). Four postcards (2006-2010?).