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Add MS 88998/2/36
- Record Id:
- 040-002800228
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002354004
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100023516838.0x000001
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 88998/2/36
- Title:
- Lee Harwood: Letters Received (Guest, Harry)
- Scope & Content:
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29 communications from Harry Guest.
- (1). [Exeter], [?February] 2010. Two undated continuous postcards, with envelope (postmark incomplete). Refers in part to a Paul Nash exhibition at the Dulwich Picture Gallery, February-May 2010.
- (2). Exeter, 26 February 2010. Autograph letter (1 sheet).
- (3). Exeter, 'Easter III' (postmark 27 April 2010, envelope not retained). Autograph letter (1 sheet), with folding colour brochure for The Garden Gallery, Stockbridge. Comments on Not the Full Story.
- (4). Exeter, 'Eve of VE Day' (postmark 7 May 2010, envelope not retained). Autograph letter (1 sheet).
- (5). Exeter, 28 June 2010. Autograph letter (1 sheet), with newspaper cutting (Michael Horovitz letter to The Times). Unable to be at Harwood's reading in Exeter at the end of the month. 'Two Tuesdays ago much to my surprise I finished the novel.'
- (6). Tunisia, 1 November 2010. Autograph postcard.
- (7). [Exeter], 12 November 2010. Autograph letter (1 sheet). Guest book launch at Exeter Library.
- (8). Exeter, 19 February [2011]. Autograph letter (1 sheet), with envelope.
- (9). Exeter, 27 February [2011]. Autograph letter (1 sheet), with envelope. 'Treasured friend of more than 40 years (ever since watching the young [Brian] Patten drop all his poems on the stage of the Ben Uri Gallery before [Michael] Horovitz turned all the lights off save for the spot focused on him) I cannot bear to think of you unwell.'
- (10). Exeter, 11 March 2011. Autograph letter (1 sheet). Refers to Harwood's account of meeting Trista Tzara. 'It must be published.' The letter exhibits Harwood's pencil ticks against five 'typos' identified by Guest in Harwood's text (not present).
- (11). [Exeter], 22 March 20011 (postmark). Two typed sheets from a narrative by Guest (pp. 211-212), including an autograph letter on the verso of p. 212. With envelope. 'Could you read this paragraph and tell me (no hurry) if it rings true?'
- (12). Exeter, 9 May 2011 (postmark). Autograph postcard (St. Ives), referring to Guest's reading at St. Ives Literature Festival (7 May).
- (13). [Exeter], 24 June 2011. Typed poem 'The Emerald Circuit' dedicated 'for Lee' (2 sheets including dated autograph note). With envelope.
- (14). Exeter, 29 June 2011. Autograph letter (1 sheet). Has received Harwood, The Books (Longbarrow Press, 2011). Currently reading The Hare with Amber Eyes (by Edmund De Waal), which includes references to 'your great-great-uncle Jules Laforgue!' (cf. Harwood, 'Leah Laforgue', The Orchid Boat).
- (15). Exeter, 28 August [2011]. Autograph letter (1 sheet), with envelope. 'What did you make of The Hare with Amber Eyes?' Guest has ('for some curious reason') 'composed a longish feminist poem' which he has sent to Anne Stevenson and to Penelope Shuttle.
- (16). Exeter, 20 September 2011. Autograph letter (1 sheet), with envelope. Read last weekend at Porlock, as did Libby Houston: 'We reckoned it was over 30 years since we met. Those Poetmeat days.' Harwood reading in Ireland.
- (17). France, 28 September 2011 (postmark). Autograph postcard (Bergerac), addressed to 'Lee and Lindy'.
- (18). [Exeter], 10 October 2011 (postmark). Autograph letter (1 sheet), addressed to 'Lee and Lindy'. Enclosing newspaper cutting (Victorians on Southsea Beach - 'isn't this photo marvellous?'). With envelope. Comments on a Shearsman Books event.
- (19). [Exeter], 1 January 2012. Autograph letter written in greetings card (Sidbury). Comments on an unspecified Harwood poem but evidently 'It All Comes Back To' (The Orchid Boat).
- (20). Exeter, 'St. David's Day' (1 March) [2012]. Autograph letter (1 sheet), enclosing typed poem 'January Dawn' (1 sheet, remarks on the verso), with envelope. Guest notes the duration of their friendship ('Come October 12th this year our 49th Anniversary') and refers to Harwood finding a home for his papers. Guest has been to Cornwall to join a discussion panel in connection with the launch of a biography of Peter Redgrove.
- (21). Exeter, 'Lent IV' (18 March) [2012]. Typed letter (1 sheet), with envelope. Reporting on conference: 'The New Poetry & Penguin Modern Poets 50 Years' (University of Bristol, 16 March).
- (22). Exeter, 18 April 2012 (postmark). Autograph postcard (Stoke-by-Nayland). 'I bought the London Review [of Books]. Lovely to see the superbly controlled poem in print.'
- (23). Exeter, 8 May 2012 (postmark). Autograph postcard (Netscher). 'Hope you had a super time in N.Y. with John [Ashbery]'.
- (24). Exeter, 9 July 2012 (postmark). Autograph postcard (Burra).
- (25). Exeter, 31 July 2012 (postmark). Autograph postcard (St Andrew's Church, Plymouth).
- (26). Exeter, 19 August [2012]. Autograph letter (1 sheet).
- (27). Exeter, 26 August [2012 - year added in pencil by Harwood]. Autograph note (1 sheet).
- (28). Exeter, 24 September [2012]. Greetings card, enclosing colour photograph ('bouncy Stonehenge') with envelope.
- (29). Exeter, 31 December 2012 (postmark). Autograph postcard.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002354004
036-002787732
040-002800228 - Is part of:
- Add MS 88998 : The Papers of Lee Harwood
Add MS 88998/2 : Lee Harwood: Letters Received
Add MS 88998/2/36 : Lee Harwood: Letters Received (Guest, Harry) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002354004[0002]/036-002787732[0036]/040-002800228
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Add MS 88998
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 file
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 2010
- End Date:
- 2012
- Date Range:
- 2010-2012
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Material Type:
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- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Guest, Harry, poet, 1932-2021