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Add MS 88998/2/17
- Record Id:
- 040-002788562
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002354004
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100023464457.0x000001
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 88998/2/17
- Title:
- Lee Harwood: Letters Received (Corcoran, Kelvin)
- Scope & Content:
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37 communications from Kelvin Corcoran.
- (1). Cheltenham, 14 October 1989. Autograph letter (1 sheet), with two typed compositions ('Frans Masereel' and 'Dear H' - 2 sheets). Comments on Caddel and Harwood, Wine Tales.
- (2). Cheltenham, 13 February [1975]. Autograph letter (1 sheet). Recommends Lynette Roberts.
- (3). Cheltenham, 11 March 1995. Autograph letter (2 sheets), with typed poem ('We sat at the truth table' - 1 sheet).
- (4). Cheltenham, 23 November 1996. Autograph letter (1 sheet).
- (5). Cheltenham, 28 May 1997. Typed letter (1 sheet).
- (6). Cheltenham, 27 December 1997. Autograph letter (2 sheets), enclosing a flyer (1 sheet) for Corcoran et al, Danse Macabre: Death & The Printers (West House Books, 1997).
- (7). Cheltenham, 9 June 1998. Autograph letter (1 sheet).
- (8). Cheltenham, 2 June 1999. Autograph letter (1 sheet).
- (9). 4 June 2000. Copy of e-mail letter (1 sheet) from Corcoran to the editor of The Observer regarding article on the dispute over the historical accuracy of Captain Corelli's Mandolin, prompted by its filming. With photocopy of Observer article (1 sheet).
- (10). [Cheltenham], 20 January 2002. Autograph letter (1 sheet).
- (11). [Greece], 28 July 2003 (postmark). Autograph postcard.
- (12). Cheltenham, 11 January 2004. Typed letter (1 sheet).
- (13). [Cheltenham], February 2004 (date added by Harwood). Autograph letter (2 sheets). Refers to Corcoran, Roger Hilton's Sugar (2005).
- (14). [Cheltenham], Thursday (26 April 2005 - postmark). Autograph letter (1 sheet), with envelope. Refers to 'the new introduction for T.T. [Tristan Tzara] - it is a lot stronger'. Also refers to essay by Czeslaw Milosz.
- (15). [Greece], 6 August 2005. Autograph postcard.
- (16). Cheltenham, Wednesday. 12 October 2005 (postmark). Autograph letter (1 sheet), with envelope front, enclosing typed poems (6 sheets). 'I'm trying to write a poem about Dylan Thomas in Tehran in 1951 - he missed [Basil] Bunting by a few months.'
- (17). [Cheltenham]. [?2006]. Letter without date, which includes a proposed 'blurb/comment' from Corcoran regarding the Salt Companion to Lee Harwood (2007), ed. Robert Sheppard.
- (18). Cheltenham, 15 July 2008 (postmark). Typed poems (9 sheets) by Nathan Thompson, forwarded by Corcoran, with envelope. The first sheet includes an undated explanatory note by Corcoran. One poem ('answers on a postcard please') records as its 'source' Harwood's 'Love in the Organ Loft'.
- (19). 21 April 2009. Autograph letter (1 sheet). 'Some diversions for you. The Ralph Hawkins is the first item from the Davidson/Skoulding/Corcoran initiative.'
- (20). 30 June 2009. Autograph letter (1 sheet), enclosing typed poem ('Season Below Ground' - 2 sheets).
- (21). [October 2009 - date added by Harwood]. Autograph letter (1 sheet). 'Well, despite your underselling of "Departures" [The Orchid Boat, 2014] I like it. Having seen some Chinese "versions" by Peter Riley I think it must be that, at a certain age, we become vulnerable to the delicate elegaic mood of Chinese poetry.' On the verso of the letter, 'My [Ivor] Gurney poem'.
- (22). [January 2010 - date added by Harwood]. Autograph postcard, referring to an anthology of five Turkish poets.
- (23). [?2010]. Typed letter (1 sheet). Originally enclosing 'the second and last part' of Corcoran, 'Reading the Cantos' (the first part appeared in Shearsman, 79-80, 2009).
- (24). 7 December 2013 (postmark). Typed poem: 'Glen Gould and Everything' (6 sheets), the first sheet annotated with an autograph letter. With envelope.
- (25). [6 January 2014 - date added by Harwood]. Autograph letter ( 1 sheet). 'I'm pressing on with my Bach / Glenn Gould poem.' Structure described.
- (26-37). Undated communications: 8 postcards; greetings card from Melanie [Corcoran] ('Thank you for the beautiful orchid'); two autograph letters (both 1 sheet); and a typed letter (2 sheets) on the question of 'fossils on Paros' together with photocopied material (3 sheets) from J. H. Lesher, Xenophanes of Colophon.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002354004
036-002787732
040-002788562 - Is part of:
- Add MS 88998 : The Papers of Lee Harwood
Add MS 88998/2 : Lee Harwood: Letters Received
Add MS 88998/2/17 : Lee Harwood: Letters Received (Corcoran, Kelvin) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002354004[0002]/036-002787732[0017]/040-002788562
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Add MS 88998
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 file
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1989
- End Date:
- 2014
- Date Range:
- 1989-2014
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Corcoran, Kelvin, poet, b 1956