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Record Id:

040-002800181

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-002354004

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100023515448.0x000001

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ISAD(G)

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Add MS 88998/2/35

Title:

Lee Harwood: Letters Received (Guest, Harry)

Scope & Content:

38 communications from Harry Guest.

(1). Exeter, 6 February 2006. Autograph letter (1 sheet).
(2). Exeter, 9 March [2006]. Autograph letter (1 sheet), reporting on a trip to Paris, with photocopy (1 sheet) of Guest, 'From Poetry to Verse' (PN Review), reporting on his trip to Chicago, and an off-print (4 sheets) of Guest's review of Symbolism, Decadence and the Fin de Siècle (in Journal of European Studies).
(3). [Exeter], 13 March 2006 (postmark, envelope not retained). Autograph letter (1 sheet). Refers to unspecified Japanese text.
(4). Exeter, 15 March [2006]. Autograph letter (1 sheet). Further remarks on Japanese ideograms.
(5). Greece, 24 March 2006 (postmark). Autograph postcard.
(6). Exeter, 28 April [2006]. Autograph letter (1 sheet). Guest has competed his long poem, and found eight orchids in Crete.
(7). Austria, 8 July 2006 (postmark). Autograph postcard.
(8). Exeter, 11 July [2006]. Autograph letter (1 sheet). New hybrid orchid found (named Leopard Orchid) near Woodbury Common. Contract received for long poem (from Bluechrome, Bristol).
(9). Italy, 30 September 2006 (postmark). Autograph postcard (Elba).
(10). Exeter, 12 November [2006]. Autograph letter (1 sheet). Reporting on trip to U.S.
(11). Exeter, 28 January 2007. Autograph letter (1 sheet). Harwood visiting 3 May. No reviews of Guest's Time after Time (2005), and 'no whisper' from Bluechrome (see letter 8 above).
(12). [Exeter], 'St. Valentine plus one' [2007]. Greetings card. 'Today an invitation to record a poem for the South Bank Poetry Centre - with a photograph!'
(13). Exeter, 'Lent III' [2007]. Autograph letter (1 sheet). 'I've just finished a review of Peter Dent whose work I deeply admire', and has completed a translation.
(14). 21 April 2007 (postmark). Autograph postcard (Ben Nicholson). 'Thinking of you today and wishing I could be at the launch'.
(15). Marrakech, 30 April 2007 (postmark). Autograph postcard.
(16). Exeter, 14 May [2007]. Autograph letter (1 sheet), with envelope (Royal Mirage Hotel, Marrakech). Comments on Harwood's May launch and reading.
(17). Exeter, 9 July [2007]. Autograph letter (1 sheet). Seeking assistance (regarding essay on Richard Burns) with three I Ching hexagrams. Has just heard from Bluechrome, long poem to be published 'first quarter 2008'.
(18). Exeter, 'le quinze juillet' [2007]. Autograph letter (1 sheet). Harwood's 'lucid explanations' have 'illuminated Burns's poems'. Yesterday, Guest came across Charles Olson, Call Me Ishamel in a second-hand bookshop (a writer for whom he has 'no great regard but it looks most interesting').
(19). Exeter, 6 August [2007]. Autograph letter (1 sheet). 'I love A Small Bundle - so quiet, so intimate, so telling. And with that sense of surprise in the perfect, often wry, even deliciously funny "finish". Thankyou.'
(20). [Exeter], 26 August [2007]. Autograph letter (1 sheet). Olson's Call Me Ishmael has spurred Guest to re-read Moby-Dick, 'a lunatic masterpiece'. Flying to Avignon in September.
(21). Avignon, 2 October 2007 (postmark). Autograph postcard, from Harry and Lynn Guest.
(22). Exeter, 21 October 2007. Autograph letter (1 sheet). Recommends the novel Extinction by Thomas Bernhard.
(23). Exeter, 'Advent Sunday' [2007]. Autograph letter (1 sheet). Comments on Harwood, 'Comparative Anatomy' (Selected Poems, 2008, pp. 137-8).
(24). [Exeter], 20 December 2007 (postmark, envelope not retained). Greetings card (Blue Iris).
(25). [Exeter], 14 January 2008. Autograph letter (1 sheet), with folding map/brochure about Snowdonia.
(26). Exeter, 21 June 2008. Autograph letter (1 sheet). Has received Harwood's Selected Poems (Shearsman Books), and Not the Full Story - Six Interviews with Lee Harwood.
(27). [Exeter], 17 July 2008 (postmark, envelope not retained). Autograph postcard (Sherborne Castle), with three typed poems (3 sheets).
(28). [Exeter], 22 August [2008]. Autograph postcard (Malvern Hills). 'Five magical days walking these beloved hills'.
(29). [Exeter], 8 September 2008 (postmark). Two autograph postcards (one from Lynn Guest), with a single envelope.
(30). [Exeter], 15 October 2008 (postmark). Autograph postcard (orchid).
(31). Philadelphia, 15 November 2008 (postmark). Autograph postcard (William Blake).
(32). Exeter, 15 January 2009 (postmark). Autograph postcard (Kurt Jackson). Guest is 'launching' Comparisons & Conversions at Swedenborg House 'next Tuesday 20th'.
(33). Exeter, 28 January 2009 (postmark). Autograph postcard (Turner).
(34). Exeter, 19 March [2009]. Autograph letter (1 sheet).
(35). Exeter, 26 March [2009]. Autograph letter (1 sheet), with postcard (Rosetta Stone).
(36). 10 May 2009 (postmark). Autograph postcard (Pierre et Gilles).
(37). Exeter, 10 July [2009]. Autograph letter (1 sheet). 'I've been reading Beckett's letters from the 30s.' Travelled to Bloomsbury 'to deliver the translation of BoxhagenerPlatz'. Two columns 'of praise' for Comparisons & Conversions in the Times Literary Supplement.
(38). Exeter, 20 November [2009]. Typed letter (4 sheets).

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

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Additional Manuscripts

Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002354004
036-002787732
040-002800181

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Add MS 88998 : The Papers of Lee Harwood
Add MS 88998/2 : Lee Harwood: Letters Received

Add MS 88998/2/35 : Lee Harwood: Letters Received (Guest, Harry)

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032-002354004[0002]/036-002787732[0035]/040-002800181

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Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

1 file

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Languages:

English

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

2006

End Date:

2009

Date Range:

2006-2009

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Names:

Guest, Harry, poet, 1932-2021