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Add MS 88998/2/33
- Record Id:
- 040-002800036
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002354004
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100023513737.0x000001
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 88998/2/33
- Title:
- Lee Harwood: Letters Received (Guest, Harry)
- Scope & Content:
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42 communications from Harry Guest.
- (1). [Exeter], 11 May 1997. Autograph letter (1 sheet). Comments on Iain Sinclair (ed.), Conductors of Chaos (1996). Reading in Paris.
- (2). Shropshire & Mid-Wales, 5 June 1997 (postmark). Autograph postcard (Red Kite).
- (3). [Exeter], 16 July [1997]. Autograph letter (1 sheet).
- (4). Exeter, 13 October 1997 (postmark). Autograph postcard (Verona).
- (5). [Exeter], 3 November 1997 (postmark). Autograph postcard (Klimt).
- (6). [Exeter], 9 December [1997?] (postmark obscure). Autograph letter (1 sheet), with envelope. Refers to 'the poems in the latest Oasis' (see the 'Late Journeys' section in Collected Poems).
- (7). Exeter, 2 January 1998 (postmark). Autograph postcard.
- (8). Exeter, 9 January 1998. Autograph letter (1 sheet). 'Good news: Odyssey is bringing out a selection of my translations in the spring [Versions, 1999] and Stride is doing my sixth collection So Far in the autumn.' Visiting Peru at the end of the month.
- (9). Exeter, 19 February 1998 (postmark). Autograph postcard (Alpaca).
- (10). [Exeter], 22 March [1998]. Autograph letter (1 sheet).
- (11). [Exeter], 24 March 1998. Autograph letter (1 sheet), enclosing press release (1 sheet) for Guest, So Far (Stride, 1998, although press release states 1997).
- (12). [Exeter], 'St. George + 1 '98' [24 April 1998]. Autograph letter (1 sheet). Comments on Harwood, Morning Light.
- (13). Oregon, 20 May 1998 (postmark). Autograph postcard.
- (14). Isles of Scilly, 8 September 1998 (postmark). Autograph postcard.
- (15). Isles of Scilly, 15 September 1998 (postmark). Autograph postcard.
- (16). Granada, 29 October 1998 (postmark). Autograph postcard. 'So thrilled you are scheduled to give so many readings of the new book.'
- (17). Exeter, 'Palm Sunday' [28 March 1999]. Autograph letter (1 sheet). 'I decided finally to abandon teaching so after my last class on the 16th L[ynn] and I took off via Eurostar to celebrate in gay Paris.' Visited a Rothko exhibition ('utterly superb') at the Musée d'Art Moderne.
- (18). [Exeter], 13 April [1999]. Autograph letter (1 sheet). Has just completed his 'magnum opus', twenty-five years in the making: 'what artists in paint, word, sound, sculpture have thought about art and other practitioners from the prehistoric to the present day' (i.e. Guest, The Artist on the Artist, 2000). Visiting Peru in May.
- (19). Peru, [May 1999]. Autograph postcard.
- (20). Peru, [May 1999]. Autograph postcard.
- (21). Exeter, 27 June 1999. Autograph letter (1 sheet), enclosing colour photograph (Guest with an alpaca), and poetry reading flyer (1 sheet) for readings at Coleridge Cottage, Nether Stowey (Guest reading on 6 August).
- (22). Exeter, 8 August 1999. Autograph letter (1 sheet). Versions launched. The 'magnum opus' is with the publishers. Spending a week on Orkney later in the month.
- (23). Kirkwall, 1 September 1999 (postmark). Autograph postcard.
- (24). Exeter, 14 September [1999]. Autograph letter (1 sheet).
- (25). [Exeter], 14 October [1999]. Autograph letter (1 sheet). 'Reading with [David] Gascoyne - wonderful! I met him at the Cambridge Festival '79.' Planning a trip to St. Ives with Harwood.
- (26). Exeter, 22 October 1999 (postmark). Autograph postcard (Edward Hopper). 'Congratulations on the Festival Hall'. Proposes 15-21 November for St. Ives.
- (27). Exeter, 'All Souls' Day' [2 November 1999]. Autograph letter (1 sheet). Confirming Cornish trip.
- (28). Exeter, 20 December 1999. Autograph letter (1 sheet), enclosing two colour photographs (Chun Castle and Chun Quoit).
- (29). [Exeter], 16 January 2000. Autograph letter (1 sheet).
- (30). [Exeter], 2 April 2000. Autograph letter (1 sheet).
- (31). Exeter, 11 April 2000 (postmark). Autograph postcard (some water damage).
- (32). Exeter, 4 May 2000. Autograph letter (1 sheet).
- (33). [Exeter], 16 June 2000. Autograph letter (1 sheet).
- (34). [Exeter], 14 July [2000]. Autograph letter (1 sheet). Includes comments on a French translation of Harwood, 'The Artful' (Collected Poems, p. 398). 'Glad you had a fine Welsh convalescence with Anne [Stevenson].'
- (35). [Exeter], 30 July [2000]. Autograph letter (1 sheet). Refers to 'Dr. L's [Tony Lopez] post-modern conference': 'I hadn't realized until Tony mentioned it that his poem was a collage of lines from your poems and those of Mr Ashbery's. I now see in his Devolution [2000] (have you seen that) he explains the system.' (See Lopez, 'The White Room in the New York Schoolhouse', reprinted in The Salt Companion to Lee Harwood.)
- (36). Exeter, 24 August 2000 (postmark). Autograph postcard (Shakespeare).
- (37). [Exeter], 14 September [2000]. Autograph letter (1 sheet). The Artist on the Artist seems to be 'selling quietly'. About to fly to New England.
- (38). Hartford, Connecticut, [September 2000]. Autograph postcard (Vermont). 'What splendid things to see in Boston'.
- (39). Exeter, 16 November 2000 (postmark). Autograph postcard (Vermeer, Astronomer).
- (40). [Exeter], 6 December 2000 (postmark, envelope not retained). Autograph letter (1 sheet). 'These two extracts [not present] from The North show we are not among the forgotten!! And I hope the Harwood-references will cheer.'
- (41). Exeter, 15 December 2000 (postmark). Autograph postcard (Vermeer, Portrait Young Woman). 'Do try The North - Peter Sansom is très sympathique.'
- (42). Exeter, 20 December [2000]. Autograph letter (1 sheet), with printed internet page (1 sheet) - photograph of Harwood by Elsa Dorfman.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002354004
036-002787732
040-002800036 - Is part of:
- Add MS 88998 : The Papers of Lee Harwood
Add MS 88998/2 : Lee Harwood: Letters Received
Add MS 88998/2/33 : Lee Harwood: Letters Received (Guest, Harry) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002354004[0002]/036-002787732[0033]/040-002800036
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Add MS 88998
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 file
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1997
- End Date:
- 2000
- Date Range:
- 1997-2000
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Names:
- Guest, Harry, poet, 1932-2021