Add MS 88998/2/47

18 communications from Barry MacSweeney, Phil Maillard, Gerard Malanga, and Sally Mann.

• (1). MacSweeney, Barry. Folkestone, 23 October 1979. Typed letter (1 sheet, South Kent Newspapers), with envelope (annotated by Harwood). 'Grateful too for your kind remarks about the Odes; it is certainly the question of fast movement which is obsessing me these days. We have just got to avoid getting pinned down, and start making some of the play ourselves. The static response is, in fact, utterly traitorous, when you see the alterations imposed at every level every day. You just have to read the newspapers. I must say I'm bloody puked off with reading X's 1979 book - and realising with a nasty horror that it is the same as the 78, 77, 76 book.'
• (2). Maillard, Phil. London, 9 December [1974]. Typed letter (2 sheets), with envelope (supplying year date). Having recently heard Harwood read at Dulwich ('your reference to the "little fox" in Hex. 64 of the I Ching of course (click) "HMS Little Fox"'). Seeking material on behalf of Ian Johnson for the magazine Maya - letter annotated by Harwood in pencil at the head of the first sheet: 'repl 14/1/75 plus mss LBV bk 6' (i.e. 'The Long Black Veil').
• (3). Maillard, Phil. Cardiff, 25 January 1993. Typed letter (3 sheets). Suggesting Welsh magazines for reviews of 'the Paul Evans memorial volume'. Maillard is 'having the devil's own job' finding a publisher for his work since Galloping Dog Press closed.
• (4). Maillard, Phil. Dinas Powys, 14 April 2006. Typed letter (2 sheets). Seeking advice on finding a publisher - Shearsman Books?
• (5). Maillard, Phil. Dinas Powys, 8 July 2006. Typed letter (2 sheets). Comments on lineation and poetic form - refers to having seen unpublished mss of William Rowe, Three Lyric Poets: Harwood, Torrance, MacSweeney (2009). Has received a first reply from Tony Frazer (Shearsman). Letter concludes with autograph note from Val Maillard referring to her photography.
• (6). Maillard, Phil. Dinas Powys, 10 September 2008. Typed letter (1 sheet). 'I'm enclosing a copy of my new book from Shearsman for you. This wouldn't have been published without your help and support at the beginning.'
• (7). Maillard, Phil and Val. Dinas Powys, 21 November 2008. Autograph folding card. 'You gave me some advice about reading at the Swedenborg Hall in London, which turned out to be correct - it's a friendly place to read and the acoustics are good!'
• (8). Malanga, Gerard. C/o Andy Warhol, 231 East 49th Street, New York, 6 March 1965. Autograph letter (2 sheets), enclosing newspaper cutting regarding Malanga ('Wagner Poet Competes for Glascock Prize' - includes photograph of Malanga), and 11 flyers. With envelope. 'Thanks for your very sincere note regarding my poems. I am very pleased that you will be using some of them in the #3 issue of Horde [....] You're the first person to publish my poems in England. I'm as much interested in the "little" mags there as you seem to be with U.S. poetry.' The eleven flyers promote readings (and films) by John Ashbery, Malanga, Harry Fainlight, Andy Warhol, Frank O'Hara, Taylor Mead, Peter Orlovsky, Willard Maas, Ted Berrigan, Ron Padgett, Joe Brainard, and others. The envelope is annotated by Harwood.
• (9). Malanga, Gerard. New York, 17 September 2000. Autograph letter (1 sheet), enclosing typed poem 'October Showers' (1 sheet), with envelope. 'You came to mind when I re-encountered your work in an old beat-up copy of the Children of Albion anthology, having sensed a conspicuous absence of your work of late. So this poem came into being.' The poem begins: 'Last heard Lee Harwood was punching tickets / the rear of a bus somewhere in Brighton'.
• (10). Malanga, Gerard. [New York], 14 October 2000. Typed letter (1 sheet), the verso of which is an enlarged postcard photograph of Brighton Beach (1920). With envelope. 'My girlfriend asked, why didn't I visit you while I was visiting her when she was studying at The London College of Printing ('95-96), and I replied that I didn't have the faintest clue where to find you.'
• (11). Malanga, Gerard. New York, 18 December 2009. Typed letter (1 sheet), with envelope. 'So you know I've moved. I'm living up the street from your favorite & mine, John A[shbery], though I haven't had a sighting in the year-and-a-half I've been here!'
• (12). Malanga, Gerard. [New York], 24 February 2010 (postmark). Postcard-flyer promoting an exhibition of photographs by Malanga: Souls, at the Pierre Menard Gallery, Cambridge, Massachusetts (12 March - 11 April 2010).
• (13). Malanga, Gerard. New York, 14 March 2010. Typed letter (1 sheet), with envelope, enclosing typed poem 'Ruthie' (1 sheet). Has just returned from the opening of his exhibition in Cambridge, Mass. ('an overwhelming success'). Ashbery remains unsighted. 'Awhile back while perusing the shelves of the local bookshop here I picked up a copy of The White Room with that spectacular cover.'
• (14). Malanga, Gerard. [New York], 10 December 2011. Autograph postcard.
• (15). Mann, Sally. Lexington, Virginia. Undated typed letter (1 sheet), enclosing b/w self-portait by Mann, with envelope (postmark indistinct, but annotated by Harwood 'repl 3/4/74'). 'And, finally, my masters program is underway [....]'. James Boatwrite (editor, Shenandoah) 'showed me his copy of The Children of Albion, a book I hadn't seen since Greece. I reread your stuff and once again was filled with the same sense of falling, a spiriling [sic] fall caused by your language and the richness, the shifts....' Mann asks if 'The Long Black Veil' has been published: 'Gosh, I remember how sentimental I got about it'.
• (16). Mann, Sally. [Lexington, Virginia]. Undated typed letter, [1974], enclosing b/w photograph of house with shadow of photographer (Mann?) and tripod in the foreground. Letter has the same physical appearance as previous letter. 'The business in photography is booming, magazine covers and record covers providing me with the most money, portraits and sports pictures serving for bread and butter in the interim. It has been hectic keeping up with school work and the jobs at the same time [...]'.
• (17). Mann, Sally. Lexington, Virginia. Undated autograph postcard (damaged along bottom edge), postmarked 20 September [?1974]: 'plodding through graduate school in my spare moments'. Postcard appears to be bespoke, i.e. a photograph by Mann (American football team).
• (18). Mann, Sally. Lexington, Virginia, [1975]. Undated bespoke postcard (stiff card with a mounted b/w photograph by Mann - summer drinks). Card annotated by Harwood in pencil: 'repl 23/9/75'. 'Not writing much now - sending the mss. out to publishers, teaching at the Ansel Adams workshop in Calif. this spring, working mainly w/ an 8x10 view camera now and a pinhole lens - a show in D.C. soon, a teaching (photo) job in the fall'.