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Add MS 88998/2/42
- Record Id:
- 040-002837210
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002354004
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100023557458.0x000001
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 88998/2/42
- Title:
- Lee Harwood: Letters Received (Kahn - Kuhn)
- Scope & Content:
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21 communications from Paul Kahn, Ted Kavanagh, Marius Kociejowski, John Koethe, Jemimah Kuhfeld, and Philip Kuhn.
- (1). Kahn, Paul. Arlington, Massachusetts, 16 September 1977. Typed letter (1 sheet), with envelope. '3 more BEZOARS went off in the boatmail recently, & Fred [Buck] just printed up that selection from Elaine Randell's social work journal. Also got some mss from Chris Torrance, which I have yet to see (still at Gloucester). I have not gotten his books yet.' On the verso of the letter, a typed poem ('That first reminder of coolness') dated 19 August 1977.
- (2). Kahn, Paul. 6 and 8 January 1978. Autograph letter (7 sheets). Long letter including comments on various American poets and on Harwood, Boston-Brighton.
- (3). Kahn, Paul. 3 October 1978. Autograph letter (1 sheet). Includes further notes on Boston-Brighton. 'We haven't printed anything since late August, nor mailed the past 3 issues [of Bezoar] to European readers due to lack of funds [....] Fred hopes to do an issue of the stuff you sent him & some new work by Ken Irby next.'
- (4). Kahn, Paul. Boston, Mass., 12 September 1979. Typed letter (1 sheet), with envelope. 'Yes, as Fred must have told you, I guess, I've typed up your "story" in an issue along with a prose improvisation by Joanne Kyger, which she wrote back in 1968, just before moving to Bolinas.'
- (5). Kavanagh, Ted. Adelaide, 14 October 1999 (postmark). Undated typed letter (2 sheets), enclosing business card (The Odd Book Shop), with envelope. Pencil annotation by Harwood to first sheet.
- (6). Kavanagh, Ted. Adelaide, 4 December 2007 (postmark). Undated typed letter (3 sheets, dated 3 December beneath signature) enclosing typed poems (5 sheets), with envelope.
- (7). Kociejowski, Marius. London, 2 July 2007. Autograph letter (1 sheet), with envelope. 'I was sorry to have missed you when you came into the bookshop a couple of weeks ago.'
- (8). Kociejowski, Marius. London, 17 Sepember 2007. Typed letter (1 sheet).
- (9). Kociejowski, Marius. Damascus, 12 November 2007 (postmark). Autograph letter (1 sheet), with envelope.
- (10). Kociejowski, Marius. [London], 16 December 2007. Typed letter (1 sheet), with envelope. Delighted to have received Harwood's poem 'Frames' (Selected Poems, 2008, pp. 133-4): 'It is an absolute beauty which, unless I am mistaken, seems to indicate a move in some fresh direction.' Has returned from Damascus, 'only to discover that the [literary] agent who lured me away from the agent I already had didn't really want me after all.'
- (11). Koethe, John. Princeton, New Jersey, 5 April 2010. Autograph letter (1 sheet), with envelope. Having received Harwood's Selected Poems.
- (12). Kuhfeld, Jemimah. London, 18 September 2008. Autograph letter (1 sheet), with envelope. Pleased that Harwood has used her portrait of him 'on the new editions' (e.g. Selected Poems, 2008). Putting together a book proposal (of poet portraits) which would be enhanced by incorporating poems.
- (13). Kuhfeld, Jemimah. [London], 31 October 2008. Autograph postcard (Kuhfeld). Thanks 'for your favourable response to the poem suggestion'.
- (14). Kuhfeld, Jemimah. [London], 16 December 2008. Autograph folding card (Kuhfeld, Paul Muldoon portrait). Still seeking an unpublished poem from Harwood for the proposed book.
- (15). Kuhfeld, Jemimah. [London], 27 May 2009. Autograph postcard (Kuhfeld). Has received poems and is 'a step closer to a publisher'. National Portrait Gallery has bought six portraits ('only sorry you weren't one').
- (16). Kuhfeld, Jemimah. [London], 21 December 2009. Autograph folding card (Kuhfeld, Don Paterson portrait). 'I've got an interested publisher'.
- (17). Kuhfeld, Jemimah. [London], 13 February 2011. Autograph postcard (Kuhfeld). 'I'll post you proofs soon'.
- (18). Kuhn, Philip. Buckfastleigh, 20 June 2008. Typed letter (1 sheet). 'here is the cd i have made - i trust you are happy to have nathaniel's reading [Nathaniel Tarn] on the same one. all in all a fine evening.'
- (19). Kuhn, Philip. Buckfastleigh, 5 March 2009. Typed letter (1 sheet) enclosing printed e-mail message from Joe Donahue to Kuhn. Letter and e-mail refer to the recording of Harwood and Tarn reading appearing on the Penn Sound website.
- (20). Kuhn, Philip. Buckfastleigh, 25 January 2010. Typed letter (1 sheet). Remarks on Kuhn, 6/22.k Boltzmann's Constant & Black Body Spectrum (2009).
- (21). Kuhn, Philip. [Buckfastleigh], 'Wednesday' [January 2011 - Harwood's pencil date annotation]. Autograph card.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002354004
036-002787732
040-002837210 - Is part of:
- Add MS 88998 : The Papers of Lee Harwood
Add MS 88998/2 : Lee Harwood: Letters Received
Add MS 88998/2/42 : Lee Harwood: Letters Received (Kahn - Kuhn) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002354004[0002]/036-002787732[0042]/040-002837210
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Add MS 88998
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 file
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1977
- End Date:
- 2011
- Date Range:
- 1977-2011
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Names:
- Kahn, Paul, poet, poetry journal editor, b 1949
Kavanagh, Ted, printer and bookseller, b c 1940
Kociejowski, Marius, poet and bookseller, b 1949
Koethe, John, American poet and essayist, b 1945
Kuhfeld, Jemimah, photographer, b 1980
Kuhn, Philip, historian, poet, small press publisher, b c 1955