Add MS 88998/2/40

52 communications from Ric Hool.

• (1). Blaina, Gwent, 25 October 2005. Typed letter ( 1 sheet).
• (2). [Blaina], 18 March 2006. Autograph folding card. Refers to a shared enthusiasm for the American painter Winslow Homer, who spent 1881-2 in the English coastal village of Cullercoats, Tyne and Wear. 'In my poem The Way (Voice from a Correspondent) I use real Cullercoats fishermen [...].'
• (3). Blaina, 13 April 2006. Autograph letter (1 sheet), with a photocopy (1 sheet) of the poem 'Destiny' by Marin Sorescu.
• (4). Blaina, 19 May 2006. Autograph folding card.
• (5). Blaina, 31 July 2006. Autograph folding card.
• (6). [Blaina], 16 August 2006. Autograph postcard (sheep washing), with small photocopy newspaper cutting (on the griffon vulture, cutting annotated by Harwood), and a typed poem '7 Miles High' by Hool (1 sheet). 'Thanks for a great day of conversation and exploration.'
• (7). Blaina, 1 September 2006. Typed letter (1 sheet). 'Thank you for your card and detailed instructions regarding a route to the summit of Snowdon [...] Yes, we're taking the Pyg track and coming down as you suggest.' Reports on a visit to Chris Torrance.
• (8). Blaina, 25 July 2007. Autograph letter (1 sheet incorporating printed landscape photograph, north of Hay-on-Wye). Proposing dates for walks.
• (9). [Blaina], 17 August 2007. Autograph postcard (painting by Kevin Sinnott). Refers to the BBC documentary film Searching for the Wrong-Eyed Jesus.
• (10). [Blaina], 2 September 2007. Autograph letter (1 sheet) with typed poem 'Skomer Island' (1 sheet).
• (11). Blaina, 8 September 2007. Typed letter (1 sheet), with typed lecture notes (7 sheets, 'Do You Think This Place Is On The Map?').
• (12). [Blaina], 30 September 2007. Autograph postcard (Gospel Pass).
• (13). [Blaina], 24 August 2008. Autograph letter (2 sheets). Includes sketch map of South Downs walk with Harwood.
• (14). [Blaina], 20 July 2009. Autograph postcard. 'The date for "Three Lyric Poets" has been set for: Saturday 24th October 7pm -9pm at Hen & Chicks'. The card has been annotated in pencil by Harwood indicating two poems read.
• (15). [Blaina], 3 January 2010. Autograph folding card, with decorated envelope.
• (16). [Blaina], 10 January 2010. Autograph letter (1 sheet), with printed photographs (1 sheet), and a review of Hool, no nothing (1 sheet). With decorated envelope.
• (17). [Blaina], 12-13 January 2010. Typed and autograph letter (1 sheet), with decorated envelope.
• (18). [Blaina], 20 January 2010. Autograph note (1 blue sheet), with decorated envelope.
• (19). Plymouth, 14 February 2010. Autograph postcard (Dartmoor).
• (20). Isle of Wight, 27 March 2010. Autograph postcard (Ventnor).
• (21). [Blaina], 10 May 2010. Autograph letter (1 sheet) enclosing flyer (1 sheet): 'Join poet Ric Hool on a walk in the stunning landscape that inspires his work' (Brecon Beacons). With decorated envelope.
• (22). [Blaina], 17 May 2010 (postmark). Typed letter (2 sheets), with envelope. Hool retiring from school teaching on 31 August.
• (23). [Blaina], 9 June 2010. Autograph letter (1 sheet), with decorated envelope. 'Chepstow only a month away so let me know about time you are arriving.'
• (24). [Blaina], 19 July 2010. Autograph letter preceded by typed anecdote 'God's Golden Phone' (1 sheet). 'I'm looking forward to meeting up with you for a walk later in the year.'
• (25). Blaina, 3 August, 2010. Typed letter (1 sheet), with decorated envelope.
• (26). [Blaina], 31 October 2010. Bespoke folding card (photo image of Hool), enclosing typed poem 'Rhythms in Orange & Blue', with decorated envelope.
• (27). [Blaina], dated 17 January 2010 in error, actually 2011 (postmark). Autograph letter (1 sheet), enclosing typed poem 'Fresh' (1 sheet), with decorated envelope.
• (28). [Blaina], 21 January 2011. Typed letter (1 sheet), with decorated envelope. 'I have emailed a contact in Abertystwyth to see if a reading, with the 3 of us, might be tagged on to the Anglesey gig featuring Maurice [Scully] & me.' Visited Chris Torrance yesterday 'and we had our usual huge haul over Charles Olson and the like....'
• (29). [Blaina], 26 January 2011. Typed letter (1 sheet), with decorated envelope. Having returned 'with aching legs' from walking on Dartmoor.
• (30). [Blaina], 26 February 2011. Autograph postcard, with decorated envelope. 'Wednesday to Cardiff to be audience for Chris [Torrance] & Chris Vine (Heat Poets). It was wonderful! There is nobody doing anything like it.'
• (31). [Blaina], 27 February 2011. Typed letter (1 sheet), with decorated envelope.
• (32). [Blaina], 17 March 2011. Typed letter (1 sheet), with decorated envelope. Reading ('the three of us') deferred to May: 'I can secure a string of dates for us concentrated into 4 days....'
• (33). [Blaina], 26 March 2011. Typed letter (1 sheet), with decorated envelope. Enjoyed Harwood's account of meeting Tristan Tzara, 'The Parable of Tristan Tzara and the Callow Youth' (Poetry Wales, 47.2, Autumn 2011). 'I used Question of Geography [by Harwood] as a study piece/springboard with an adult poetry group last week'.
• (34). [Blaina], 12 April 2011. Autograph letter (1 sheet).
• (35). [Blaina], 18 April 2011. Typed letter (1 sheet), with decorated envelope.
• (36). [Blaina], 11 July 2011. Typed letter (1 sheet), with decorated envelope. Mentions reading Jade Dearling's 'Road' in manuscript: 'in a journal account he writes a letter to you, so I guess you know each other. I think the date is 1968.'
• (37). [Blaina], 4 August 2011. Typed letter (1 sheet), with decorated envelope.
• (38). [Blaina], 27 August 2011. Typed letter (1 sheet), with decorated envelope.
• (39). [Blaina], 19 September 2011. Typed letter in stapled booklet format (5 small sheets), with decorated envelope.
• (40). [Blaina], 27 October 2011. Autograph letter (1 sheet, with small supplementary sheet), with decorated envelope. Includes printed image of painting by Claudia Williams ('Surfers and Rough Sea'). 'The post brings proofs for Tears in the Fence 54 (next one): 3 poems each dedicated, one to daughter Nikka, one to Chris Torrance and one to You!'
• (41). Blaina, 2 November 2011. Autograph letter (1 sheet), with decorated envelope. Refers to Valerie Laws.
• (42). Blaina, 14 November 2011. Typed letter (1 sheet), with decorated envelope.
• (43). Blaina, 30 November 2011. Typed letter (1 sheet).
• (44). [Blaina], 25 January 2012. Typed letter (1 sheet), with decorated envelope. 'Not so much a letter, more an account of yesterday's Chris-visit' [Chris Torrance].
• (45). [Blaina], 13 February 2012. Autograph postcard (Winterbourne Country House, Isle of Wight), with folding leaflet for Winterbourne, and decorated envelope.
• (46). [Blaina], 16 June 2012. Typed letter (1 sheet), with decorated envelope.
• (47). [Blaina], 21 June 2012. Typed postcard, with decorated envelope. Yesterday's 'Ecology & Poetry Walk went very well'. Meeting Harwood 29 June for a walk.
• (48). [Blaina], 4 July 2012. Autograph letter (1 sheet), with decorated envelope. Refers to walk with Harwood to Chanctonbury Ring - letter incoporates printed photographs of Harwood and of Hool.
• (49). [Blaina], 12 July 2012. Autograph letter (1 small sheet) incorporating an image of Hool. With typed poem 'A Blue Day' on image background, and a blank bespoke folding card showing four printed photographs of Chris Torrance. With decorated envelope.
• (50). [Blaina], 9 August 2012. Typed letter, with decorated envelope. Refers to interview of Harwood by Jeremy Reed - 'do you know where it's to be published and when?'
• (51). [Blaina], 25 August 2012. Typed letter (1 sheet), with decorated envelope. Reports on a visit from Jeff Morsman, Roger Yates, Chris Torrance and Jade Dearling, incorporating a group photograph. 'You may remember these guys as spotty teenagers.'
• (52). [Blaina], 19 November 2012. Bespoke folding card incorporating typed letter and, on the front, a group photo image of seven sat around a pub table (including Harwood and Hool).