Add MS 88998/2/38

45 communications from John Hall.

• (1). Buckfastleigh, 21 November 1999. Typed letter (1 sheet) including brief notes made February 1999 on reading Harwood, Morning Light.
• (2). [Buckfastleigh], 4 November 2001. Autograph postcard. 'I walked to within a couple of miles of [Robert] Herrick's church in the most beautiful light today'.
• (3). Buckfastleigh, 4 December 2001. Autograph note (1 sheet).
• (4). [Buckfastleigh], December 2001. Bespoke seasonal folding card ('enough enough').
• (5). [Buckfastleigh], 20 April 2002. Bespoke card with printed poem ('ternderness') on the verso. Autograph message referring to Harwood's 'Cambridge [reading] experience'.
• (6). [Buckfastleigh], 20 October 2002. Bespoke small folding card ('ardour arbour'). Refers to F.T. Prince tribute in PN Review.
• (7). Buckfastleigh, 15 January 2003. Autograph letter (1 sheet). Responding to Harwood's comments on Hall, Apricot Pages.
• (8). Buckfastleigh, 25 November 2003. Bespoke folding card ('move') with autograph message.
• (9). [Buckfastleigh], 27 January 2004. Bespoke folding card (peacock) with autograph message. Has received with thanks Harwood, Evening Star. 'Meanwhile I've been reading [Lorine] Niedecker - the old Collected - & now I have the new one on the desk in front of me.'
• (10). [Buckfastleigh], 27 February 2004. Autograph postcard (Rachel Nicholson).
• (11). [Buckfastleigh], 26 March 2004. Bespoke folding card (peacock). 'I have the Harwood Collected Poems awaiting a collected read.'
• (12). Buckfastleigh, 19 August [2004]. Typed letter (2 sheets), with envelope. Comments on composition procedures used in Hall, Changing Lines.
• (13). Buckfastleigh, 20 August 2004. Dated bespoke folding card ('balm'); personal compliment slip with message; newspaper cutting ('Village of the damned cocky peacocks'); and 'These lines are to remember John Riley' (4 typed sheets).
• (14). [Buckfastleigh], 27 February 2005. Bespoke folding card ('If you can't say it') with supplementary sheet folded inside.
• (15). Buckfastleigh, 4 August 2005. Autograph letter (1 sheet). Having visited Harwood: 'It was good to go back to Paul Evans's poems & to read that hilarious Harry Mathews piece.'
• (16). Buckfastleigh, 1 December 2005. Typed letter (1 sheet), with typed poem 'a version of a list of giving' (1 sheet). Letter comments on Harwood, 'Gifts Received'.
• (17). [Buckfastleigh], 'Boxing Day, 2005'. Greetings card (St. Raphael's, Huccaby, Dartmoor).
• (18). Buckfastleigh, 7 February 2006. Typed letter (1 sheet). Having received the 'final' part of Harwood's 'recent sequence'. Hall is writing an extended review of Douglas Oliver, Whisper 'Louise' for Jacket. Reading with Allen Fisher at Dartington.
• (19). Buckfastleigh, 30 March 2006. Typed letter (2 sheets). Comments on Harwood, Chanson Dada.
• (20). Buckfastleigh, 15 May 2006. Typed letter (1 sheet).
• (21). Buckfastleigh, 26 May 2006. Typed letter (1 sheet). Harwood visiting in July.
• (22). Buckfastleigh, 14 October 2006. Autograph letter (1 sheet), enclosing 4 colour photographs (3 of Harwood, 1 of Hall and Harwood). Offers to send one of them to Andrea Brady for 'Archive of the Now'.
• (23). Buckfastleigh, 3 November 2006. Folding bespoke card ('o no').
• (24). [Buckfastleigh], 19 January 2007. Autograph letter written on postcard (Barn Owl) and supplementary sheet. With typed commentary (8 sheets) on J. H. Prynne, 'Acquisition of Love' (presented at Birkbeck College, 14 December 2006).
• (25). Buckfastleigh, 27 April 2007. Typed letter (1 sheet). 'Thank you so much for involving me in the launch of Gifts Received [...].' Enclosing three printed images (Roland Kirk, Cuckmere Haven, and tree blossom).
• (26). Buckfastleigh, 7 June 2007. Typed letter (2 sheets), with photograph (peacock on roof). 'I am taken with the paradox that there is a kind of simplicity in art works that can prompt complexity, or unsettledness, of response.'
• (27). Buckfastleigh, 27 September 2007. Typed letter (2 sheets), enclosing article (7 sheets) 'Damn Society! An Introduction to Greek Rembetika' (Musical Traditions, No. 3, Summer 1984). The letter comments on Harwood, '"Cloudy Sunday"' (Selected Poems, Shearsman Books, pp. 135-6). The article includes the lyrics of 'Cloudy Sunday' by Tsitsanis.
• (28). Buckfastleigh, 13 November 2007. Typed letter (1 sheet). Includes comments on Harwood, 'Comparative Anatomy' (Selected Poems, Shearsman Books, pp. 137-8).
• (29). Buckfastleigh, 25 November 2007. Typed letter (2 sheets). 'I am enclosing [not present] a list of poems, in the order that they appear on your Collected Poems, that would be my tentative suggestions for your Selected.'
• (30). Buckfastleigh, 5 April 2008. Autograph compliment slip, with black and white photograph (peacock in tree).
• (31). Buckfastleigh, 14 June 2008. Typed letter (1 sheet). Unable to attend the launch of Harwood's Selected Poems (Shearsman Books). 'Thank you too for the [Philip] Guston references. I had a shock to discover that the Dartington Library catalogue lists no Guston monograph or catalogue'. Karen Mac Cormack and Steve McCaffery 'are here until Monday'.
• (32). [Buckfastleigh], 24 June 2008. Autograph postcard (Franz von Stuck), with printed article (2 sheets, from internet) from New York Times, 6 June 1914 ('Queen Unruffled by Suffrage Plea'), concerning a forebear (Hall).
• (33). [Buckfastleigh], 9 July 2008. Autograph compliment slip (1 sheet), with article (5 sheets) by Bill Berkson, 'Travels with Guston' (taken from blog by Alex Carnevale).
• (34). [Buckfastleigh]. Bespoke greetings card ('Lee & Lindy'): 'with very best wishes on 18th October 2008'.
• (35). [Buckfastleigh, December 2008]. Bespoke Christmas card (poem: 'oh these hard things' from Loose Packed, a collaboration with Lee Harwood'). 'With best wishes for Christmas and for 2009'.
• (36). Buckfastleigh, 25 March 2009. Typed letter (1 sheet), together with printed e-mail exchange (2 sheets) between Hall and Sarah Hopkins (Tears in the Fence) concerning invitation to submit material. Hall proposes 'a chance selection from the collaboration that Lee Harwood and I recently completed' (Loose Packed - see item 35 above).
• (37). Buckfastleigh, 19 September 2009. Typed letter (1 sheet). 'And your letter sent me back to the Milosz poem you sent me some time back [....] I have been thinking that there might be a collection of poems - or writings in general - carrying this sentiment. [Charles] Olson's "simplest things last" comes to mind, as more vaguely do bits of WCW [William Carlos Williams]'.
• (38). Buckfastleigh, 30 December 2009. Autograph letter (2 small sheets), with envelope. 'I have 22nd firmly in the diary'.
• (39). Buckfastleigh, 15 April 2010. Typed letter (1 sheet) and autograph compliment slip ( 1 sheet), with printed e-mail exchange (2 sheets) between Hall and Nicola Kennedy ('an order for six prints from Loose Packed'). Kennedy is a speech therapist.
• (40). Buckfastleigh, 28 April 2010. Autograph compliment slip (1 sheet), with printed article (6 sheets) by Ralph Hawkins, 'Underwhelmed. Ted Berrigan via John Wilkinson'. Hall comments that 'the second half of this might interest you' (refers to Philip Guston). The article comes from Intercapillary Space (http://intercapillaryspace.blogspot.co.uk/2007/10/underwhelmed-ted-berrigan-via-john.html).
• (41). Buckfastleigh, 14 April 2010 [?2011]. Typed letter (1 sheet), with envelope postmarked 18 April 2011. Comments on Robert Sheppard's poetry, particularly Berlin Bursts (not published until 2011), apparently prompted by Harwood's comparison with his own poetry.
• (42). [Buckfastleigh], 28 January 2012. Autograph postcard (George Shaw).
• (43). Buckfastleigh, 17 July 2012. Autograph compliment slip: 'It was good to share scholarly discussion about the niceties of Latin translation. And to freshen up on subtle colonialist attitudes.'
• (44). [Buckfastleigh], 1 June 2013. Greetings card (Sir James Hall).
• (45). [Buckfastleigh]. 26 May 2014. Bespoke folding card ('words are acts speak louder than'). Having received Harwood's The Orchid Boat. 'Lovely thoughtful stuff, beautifully caught between the delight in everyday surfaces & feelings & the familiarly mystifying character of dreams & travellers' tales - the evocative nature of another's remark, leaving the poet listener somwhere between belief & question.'