Add MS 88998/2/48

33 communications from Pierre Martory, Harry Mathews, Paul Matthews, Aidan McCardle, Peter Middleton, Stuart Montgomery, Arthur Moyse, John Muckle, Wendy Mulford, Jeff Nuttall, Dennis O'Driscoll, and Neil Oram.

• (1). Martory, Pierre. [Paris], 27 December [1965]. Typed letter (1 sheet), with envelope (annotated by Harwood in pencil with reply date). Refers to 'the three photographs of John [Ashbery] and you'.
• (2). Mathews, Harry. Paris, 30 October 1972. Autograph card (annotated in pencil by Harwood). 'Anyway: could you, from time to time, let me know where you are, so that if I pass through that place on one of my mad forays I won't miss you?'
• (3). Mathews, Harry. Paris, 15 March 1973. Autograph letter (1 sheet), with envelope (stamp cut away), addressed to Harwood in Boston, Mass. With thanks for The Sinking Colony. 'The way you catch (or invent) the intersection of actual adultdom by the intensities of childhood = primal passions, without depriving the latter of any of their depravity, or their desire ... Shit. It's great.'
• (4). Mathews, Harry. Villard-de-Lans, 19 February 1984. Autograph letter (1 sheet), with envelope (annotated by Harwood in pencil), addressed to Harwood in Bolinas, California. 'I'll gladly write a blurb for your Selected Poems'. Mathews asks for details of recent work.
• (5). Mathews, Harry. Villard-de-Lans, 8 April, 1984. Autograph letter (1 sheet), with envelope (annotated with reply date) addressed to Harwood in Bolinas. Blurb completed. 'I'm revising my novel Cigarettes, a slow but not unpleasant task, and writing an essay on The Duplications for a Kenneth Koch festschrift.'
• (6). Mathews, Harry. Paris, 16 December 1984. Autograph postcard. Visiting London for a week in March.
• (7). Mathews, Harry. 1 December 1985. Autograph card, with envelope. Having received Harwood, Dream Quilt. 'The epigraphic invocation of Louis Stevenson brought incidental delight - I read and reread several books by him this summer'.
• (8). Matthews, Paul. No date. Autograph folding card, with envelope.
• (9). McCardle, Aidan. [Donegal, ?2006]. Christmas card with autograph message, enclosing a postcard ('to give you a taste of the scenery') and 2 small colour photographs (family). With envelope.
• (10). Middleton, Peter. Southampton, 30 April 2012. Typed letter (1 sheet), with envelope. Refers to conference on F. T. Prince. 'I had no idea that you had had such a lively correspondence with Prince, nor that you felt he sustained your poetry at that time in New York.'
• (11). Montgomery, Stuart. 4 December [2012]. Autograph letter (1 sheet), with envelope. 'What a pleasure to bump into you at Hastings.' Letter refers to the launch of Ed Dorn, Collected Poems (29 November 2012, London Review Bookshop), supplying this letter's year date.
• (12). Moyse, Arthur. London, 23 September 1971. Typed letter (1 sheet), with envelope addressed to Harwood at Better Books.
• (13). Muckle, John. London, 24 March 1991. Autograph letter (1 sheet). 'I'm editing a small bi-lingual anthology for a French little press and would like to include your poems'.
• (14). Muckle, John. London, 'Wednesday' (postmark 10 September 1997). Typed letter (1 sheet), with envelope. 'I could learn from the openness of your work'.
• (15). Muckle, John. Brightlingsea, 2 December 1999 (postmark). Undated autograph letter (1 sheet) enclosing typed poem 'Return' (1 sheet), with envelope.
• (16). Muckle, John. Dunkeswell, Honiton, 8 July 2002. Autograph letter (1 sheet).
• (17). Muckle, John. London, 30 September 2002. Autograph letter (1 sheet).
• (18). Muckle, John. London, 18 March 2004. Autograph postcard. 'Congratulations on your "Collected" - I saw a preliminary copy at Tony's a few days ago - I was there to check over a book of mine he's doing.'
• (19). Muckle, John. London, 29 May 2004. Autograph letter (1 sheet), enclosing typed poem 'Life being what it is we dreamed of escapes' (1 sheet). Muckle is reviewing Harwood's Collected Poems for P.N. Review.
• (20). Muckle, John. [London], 31 December 2004. Green folding card (Bob Cobbing, 'A Winter Poem #1'), sent with a copy of Muckle's new book ('thanks for your encouragement').
• (21). Muckle, John. [London], 15 March 2005. Autograph postcard.
• (22). Muckle, John. London, 29 January 2007. Autograph letter (1 sheet) enclosing typed poem 'Nadine' (2 sheets). 'I was sifting through some old papers [...] and came across this old poem, which I thought you might like.'
• (23). Muckle, John. London, 18 May 2007. Autograph letter (1 sheet). Having received Harwood, Gifts Received (2007).
• (24). Muckle, John. London, 22 July 2007. Autograph letter (1 sheet). 'Just a note to let you know that there's a version of those 'Cyclomotors' poems I dedicated to you up on Jacket magazine'. (See Jacket, 33, July 2007.)
• (25). Muckle, John. Mount Pleasant, 10 January 2008 (postmark). Autograph postcard.
• (26). Muckle, John. London, 1 January 2009. Autograph letter (1 sheet), with folding card (New Year greetings).
• (27). Mulford, Wendy. 7 January [1997]. Autograph postcard (bespoke) continuing onto A4 continuation sheet, with envelope. Asks if Harwood would be interested in writing collaboratively.
• (28). Mulford, Wendy. 13 May 1999 (postmark). Typed poem(s) 'Haiku for Hard Times' (1 sheet), with envelope. Along the left margin of the poems Harwood has annotated his response in pencil. Envelope annotated (by Mulford) 'Stop the Bombing'.
• (29). Mulford, Wendy. Cambridge, 21 July 2005 (postmark). Autograph postcard, with envelope.
• (30). Nuttall, Jeff. Bradford College of Art, 12 August 1969 (Harwood's date annotation). Undated autograph letter (5 sheets). 'Thanks for your letter & encouragement. Particularly as the idiot intellectuals are slinging the shit at "Pig" [1969] just now.' Refers to himself as 'a kind of anarchist R.C. (like Genet)'. Has little time for 'the psychedelic nirvana-principle attempt to incorporate death into life'. If he were to take heroin 'it wd. be the cold turkey [he] was after'. Interested in 'the sensate collision of people with existence'.
• (31). Nuttall, Jeff. Bradford, [September 1969 - Harwood's date annotation to envelope]. Undated autograph letter (5 sheets), with envelope. 'Well, don't get me wrong about the last chapter of Bomb C[ulture]. Far from demanding propaganda I want pure form. I want literally indestructible art. There's no need for subterfuge and camouflage any more.'
• (32). O'Driscoll, Dennis. Dublin, 21 May 1998. Typed letter (1 sheet), with envelope. Comments on Harwood, 'Salt Water'.
• (33). Oram, Neil. Inverness, 16 July 2008 (postmark). Undated autograph letter (4 sheets), with envelope. Refers to a photograph of 'Sam Widges': 'The photo looks pretty good. Trouble is it wasn't taken in 1964. That photo was taken in 1961. The white blur above the door leading down to the basement reads "TOP TEN" and it was a rock n roll club which I - stupidly - had let to a Greek. It only lasted 4 months.' For the photograph, see Harwood and Corcoran, Not the Full Story (2008), p. 32, where it is wrongly dated as 1964.