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Add MS 88998/2/32
- Record Id:
- 040-002799995
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002354004
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100023512927.0x000001
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 88998/2/32
- Title:
- Lee Harwood: Letters Received (Guest, Harry)
- Scope & Content:
-
29 communications from Harry Guest, and 1 (item 12) from Lynn Guest (February 1995).
- (1). Exeter, 22 January 1995 (postmark), addressed to Intensive Care, Royal Sussex County Hospital. Greetings card, with envelope.
- (2). Exeter, 25 January 1995 (postmark), addressed to Intensive Care, Royal Sussex County Hospital. Greetings card, with envelope.
- (3). Exeter, 25 January 1995 (postmark), addressed to Acute Coronary Building, King's Hospital, Denmark Hill. Greetings card, with envelope.
- (4). Exeter, January 1995 (postmark), addressed to Acute Coronary Building, King's College Hospital. Greetings card, with envelope. 'Lee Harwood, the Bath Chair Years - spinning cheerfully along the front at Harrogate.'
- (5). Exeter, ?January 1995 (indistinct postmark), addressed to Acute Coronary Building, King's College Hospital. Greetings card, with envelope, enclosing 2 colour photographs (Greece and Pentre Ifan).
- (6). Exeter, 26 January 1995 (postmark), addressed to Acute Coronary Ward, King's College Hospital. Greetings card, with envelope.
- (7). Exeter, January 1995 (postmark), addressed to Acute Coronary Ward, King's College Hosptal. Greetings card, with envelope.
- (8). Exeter, January 1995 (postmark), addressed to Acute Coronary Ward (Lonsdale), King's College Hospital. Greetings card, with envelope.
- (9). Exeter, 1 February 1995 (postmark), adddressed to Acute Coronary Ward, King's College Hospital. Greetings card, with envelope.
- (10). Exeter, ?2 February 1995 (postmark indistinct), addressed to Acute Coronary Ward, King's College Hospital. Greetuings card, with envelope. 'I pray you are feeling less and less like a study for Mr. Bacon and beginning to resemble, say, the Hermes of Praxiteles.'
- (11). Exeter, 3 February [1995], addressed to Lonsdale Ward, King's College Hospital. Dated greetings card, with envelope. 'It is, though, so good to learn they have moved you out of intensive care and that you are sitting up [...].'
- (12). Exeter, February 1995 (indistinct postmark), addressed to Hove, from Lynn Guest. Greetings card ('to welcome you home'), with envelope.
- (13). Exeter, [February 1995]. Greetings card. 'How good it is to use your address again on the envelope.'
- (14). Exeter, 24 February 1995 (postmark). Greetings card, with envelope.
- (15). Belgium, 28 March 1995 (postmark). Autograph postcard.
- (16). [Exeter], 2 April [1995]. Autograph letter (2 sheets).
- (17). [Exeter], 29 April [1995]. Autograph letter (1 sheet). Written following Harwood's visit. A walk on the moor.
- (18). Exeter, ?May 1995 (indistinct postmark). Autograph postcard (Klimt).
- (19). Exeter, ?May 1995 (indistinct postmark). Autograph postcard (Etowah River). 'Fine poem.'
- (20). [Exeter], 22 May 1995 (postmark). Autograph letter (1 sheet). Reporting on trip to U.S.
- (21). [Exeter], 17 July [1995]. Autograph letter (1 sheet).
- (22). Exeter, 1995 (postmark indistinct). Autograph postcard (Man Ray / Luis Buñuel). 'The BBC paid for me to go up first class so I managed to see this - so many objects on display I saw in his magical studio when I met him in '63.'
- (23). French Pyrenees, 20 October 1995 (postmark). Autograph postcard.
- (24). [Exeter], 30 October 1995. Autograph letter (1 sheet). 'How marvellous to learn you have been back on the crags!'
- (25). Quebec, 26 March 1996 (postmark). Autograph postcard. Giving a reading and a paper on translation at McGill University.
- (26). [Exeter], 14 April [1996]. Autograph letter (1 sheet), with newspaper cutting (The Times, 13 April 1996, Victorian mountaineers). Letter refers to the death of composer Christopher Headington: 'He and I had a marvellous laughter-filled walk just before I went to Canada and he to his fatal skiing accident.'
- (27). [Exeter], 22 April 1996 (postmark). Autograph letter (1 sheet), with envelope. Refers to Headington's funeral.
- (28). [Exeter], 13 June [1996]. Typed letter (1 sheet).
- (29). Greece, 17 September 1996 (postmark). Autograph postcard, addressed to Harwood's new Hove address.
- (30). [Exeter], 8 October 1996. Autograph letter (1 sheet).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002354004
036-002787732
040-002799995 - Is part of:
- Add MS 88998 : The Papers of Lee Harwood
Add MS 88998/2 : Lee Harwood: Letters Received
Add MS 88998/2/32 : Lee Harwood: Letters Received (Guest, Harry) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002354004[0002]/036-002787732[0032]/040-002799995
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Add MS 88998
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 file
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1995
- End Date:
- 1996
- Date Range:
- 1995-1996
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Guest, Harry, poet, 1932-2021
Headington, Christopher John Magenis, composer and writer, 1930-1996