Add MS 88998/2/31

40 communications from Harry Guest.

• (1). Exeter, 2 February [1992]. Autograph letter (1 sheet). 'Would you be my referee?' (Hawthornden Fellowship - see items 13 and 24-27 below).
• (2). [Exeter], 4 March [1992]. Autograph letter (2 sheets).
• (3). [Exeter], 2 April 1992. Typed letter (1 sheet). Refers to the poetry of Georg Trakl: 'I've just looked through his poems and cannot find the one you mention.'
• (4). [Exeter], 22 April 1992 (postmark, envelope not retained). Undated autograph letter (1 sheet).
• (5). [Exeter], 14 May 1992 (postmark, envelope not retained). Autograph letter (1 sheet), with newspaper cutting (1 sheet, green wing orchid on cricket pitch). Written on Guest's return from a trip to the U.S.A.
• (6). [Exeter], 22 June 1992. Autograph letter (1 sheet). Refers to Paul Evans.
• (7). Exeter, 25 June [1992?] (postmark). Autograph postcard (Chao Chi).
• (8). [Exeter], 3 August [1992] (faint postmark, envelope not retained). Humorous typed letter (1 sheet) as sent from 'The Moated Grange, Codsworthy' referring to a forthcoming visit to Harwood. Reference to arriving on 'Thursday the 13th' suggests a year date for the letter.
• (9). Paris, 11 September 1992 (postmark). Autograph postcard (Soutine). 'Congratulations on your retirement.'
• (10). Italy, 12 October 1992 (postmark). Autograph postcard (Perugia).
• (11). [Exeter], 26 October 1992 (postmark, envelope not retained). Autograph letter (1 sheet). Italian holiday report. Looking forward to The Empty Hill: Memories and Praises of Paul Evans. Recommends a story by Kipling, 'They' ('a glorious evocation of Sussex').
• (12). [Exeter], November 1992 (postmark, envelope not retained). Undated autograph letter (1 sheet), with typed poems (4 sheets). Guest offers a revision suggestion for an unspecified poem by Harwood ('A wall of cliffs and then the channel')
• (13). [Exeter], 3 January 1993. Autograph letter (1 sheet). 'An enormous thankyou because I've been awarded a Hawthornden Fellowship next November (I gather the castle is rather cold).' Congratulations on The Empty Hill.
• (14). [Exeter], [January] 1993 (postmark, envelope not retained). Undated autograph letter (1 sheet). 'I am hoping against hope to be fit for Friday the 29th'.
• (15). [Exeter], 6 February 1993 (postmark). Autograph letter (1 sheet), with envelope. Comments on Harwood, In the Mists ('The finest poetry of our time, without doubt or question.') The envelope verso contains remarks in pencil.
• (16). [Exeter], 7 February [1993]. Typed letter (1 sheet), with typed poem 'Winter Holiday' dedicated to Harwood (2 sheets).
• (17). [Exeter], 15 February 1993 (postmark, envelope not retained). Undated autograph letter (1 sheet).
• (18). Exeter, March 1993 (postmark). Autograph postcard (Peter Thursby). 'October sounds a good thought re Ms [Anne] Stevenson's generous offer.'
• (19). Granada, 19 April 1993 (postmark). Autograph postcard (Alhambra). 'Guernica is behind bulletproof glass lest Fascists take a pot shot.'
• (20). [Exeter], '6/93' (Harwood's date annotation). Undated autograph letter (2 sheets). Further comments on In the Mists.
• (21). [Exeter], 7 September 1993 (postmark, envelope not retained). Undated autograph letter (1 sheet). Recommends both the film Jurassic Park and the 'magnificent Valesquez on loan to the National Gallery' (The Water-Seller of Seville).
• (22). Greece, [summer] 1993. Autograph postcard.
• (23). [Exeter], 10 October 1993 (postmark, envelope not retained). Undated autograph letter (1 sheet) enclosing publication information (1 sheet) for Peter Gamble, 'The More We Are Together': Memoirs of a Wayward Life. Since Greece, Guest has been busy working on his 'index', and has traced Harwood's Welsh 'excursion' on the map. Unable to hear 'you and Ashbery. How did it go?'
• (24). [Exeter] 28 October [1993]. Autograph letter (1 sheet). Guest starts his Fellowship at Hawthornden on 14 November. 'Ben Jonson c. 1614 walked all the way to the Castle from London because he so admired Drummond. I think I'll drive.'
• (25). [Lasswade], November 1993. Autograph postcard (Hawthornden Castle). Now 'in residence' (Fellowship). Other resident Fellows: Tony Rudolf and Peter Joseph.
• (26). [Lasswade] 3 December 1993 (postmark). Autograph postcard.
• (27). [Exeter], 16 December 1993 (postmark, envelope not retained). Autograph letter (1 sheet). At Hawthornden, Guest wrote: '15 poems, 1 novella, 65 pages of a novel'.
• (28). [Exeter], 30 December [1993]. Autograph letter (1 sheet).
• (29). Exeter, January 1994 (postmark). Autograph postcard (dog).
• (30). Exeter, 18 February 1994 (postmark, envelope not retained). Undated autograph letter (1 sheet).
• (31). Exeter, 11 March 1994 (postmark, envelope not retained). Undated autograph letter (1 sheet). Guest is 'stunned' by Harwood's poem 'Dreams of Armenia' (read in typescript).
• (32). [Exeter], 22 March 1994. Autograph letter (1 sheet). Has received the proofs of Coming to Terms (Anvil, 1994).
• (33). Yonne, 5 April 1994 (postmark). Autograph postcard.
• (34). [Exeter], May 1994 (postmark, envelope not retained). Autograph letter (1 sheet). Has received his advance copy of Guest, Traveller's Literary Companion to Japan, and also Harwood's autobiographical essay. 'I'll be back from the States on June 2nd.'
• (35). Seattle, May 1994 (postmark). Autograph postcard.
• (36). [Exeter], '6/94' (Harwood's date annotation). Autograph letter (1 sheet). Comments on Harwood, 'Days and nights: accidental sightings' (Morning Light).
• (37). Italy, 29 September 1994 (postmark). Autograph postcard. 'I was intensely moved by Keats's grave'.
• (38). [Exeter], 21 October 1994. Typed letter (1 sheet). Comments on Harwood, '"Where's Mr. Perky now?"' (Morning Light).
• (39). [Exeter], November 1994 (postmark, envelope not retained). Autograph letter (1 sheet). 'Thrilled' that Harwood is enjoying Coming to Terms.
• (40). [Exeter], 13 November [1994]. Autograph letter (1 sheet). Snowdonia plans for January. Reading Proust and listening to Palestrina.