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Record Id:

040-002839603

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-002354004

MDARK:

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Add MS 88998/2/51

Title:

Lee Harwood: Letters Received (Padgett - Puddy)

Scope & Content:

39 communications from Ron Padgett, Alasdair Paterson, Roland Pease, Frances Presley, and David Puddy.

(1). Padgett, Ron. Tulsa, Oklahoma, 11 November 1966. Typed aerogramme (1 sheet). Comments on Harwood, The Man with Blue Eyes (New York, 1966).
(2). Padgett, Ron. Tulsa, 12 December 1966. Typed letter (1 sheet), with envelope. Refers to the magazine Tzarad (ed. Harwood), offers his translations.
(3). Padgett, Ron. Tulsa, 20 December 1966. Typed aerogramme (1 sheet). Further comments on his translations. Mentions Daniel Cordier and Michel Couturier.
(4). Padgett, Ron. Tulsa, 9 January 1967. Typed letter (3 sheets), with envelope (annotated: 'will use poems'). Originally enclosing poems for Tzarad. General news, referring to Tom Clark, Ted Berrigan, Joe Brainard, Kenward Elmslie, John Ashbery.
(5). Padgett, Ron. [New York], 4 December 1967. Typed letter (1 sheet), with envelope addressed to Harwood c/o Peter Schjeldahl, New York. 'I don't think any of these, excerpted, would fit in the ministory collection because (1) I really think they're poems and (2) I think they're better as wholes than as separate pieces. Neither of which of course has anything to do with my liking or disliking them - I happen to like them, especially the NINE DEATH SHIPS.' (See Collected Poems, pp. 140-2.)
(6). Padgett, Ron. San Francisco, [1984]. Undated typed postcard (annotated by Harwood with reply date '25/9/84'). Addressed to Harwood at Bolinas. 'Reading tonight (finally) Boston-Brighton bought at your Clarion reading (pun in there somewhere), loving the specificity of detail & exactness of line.'
(7). Paterson, Alasdair. [Exeter, ?December 2009]. Autograph postcard, requests blurb for forthcoming publication from Shearsman Books.
(8). Paterson, Alasdair. [Exeter, January 2010]. Folding card, annotated reply date '11/1/2010'. 'My next Shearsman publication - you're right - is the first since 1987. I just stopped for 20 years!'
(9). Paterson, Alasdair. Exeter, 17 February 2010 (postmark). Typed letter (1 sheet), with envelope. Refers to Harwood's blurb for Paterson, On the governing of empires (Shearsman Books).
(10). Paterson, Alasdair. Exeter, 24 February 2010. Autograph letter (1 sheet). Having visited the Van Gogh exhibition at the Royal Academy, London.
(11). Paterson, Alasdair. [Exeter, summer 2011]. Undated autograph postcard, referring to having missed Sidmouth Folk Festival - 'but there's always 2012'.
(12). Paterson, Alasdair. [Exeter], 20 July 2011 (postmark). Autograph postcard, with envelope.
(13). Paterson, Alasdair. [Exeter], 9 September 2011 (postmark). Autograph postcard, with envelope. 'Porlock Poetry Picnic on Saturday, starring Harry Guest.'
(14). Paterson, Alasdair. [Exeter], 8 November 2011 (postmark). Autograph postcard, with envelope.
(15). Paterson, Alasdair. [Exeter], 16 November 2011 (postmark). Autograph postcard with envelope. 'Hope this finds you safely back in Brighton after the Boston trip.'
(16). Paterson, Alasdair. [Exeter], 9 December [?2011] (postmark). Autograph postcard, with envelope.
(17). Paterson, Alasdair. [Exeter], January 2012 (Harwood's date). Autograph postcard.
(18). Paterson, Alasdair. [Exeter], February 2012 (Harwood's date). Autograph postcard.
(19). Paterson, Alasdair. [Exeter], 3 July 2012 (postmark). Autograph folding birthday card, enclosing typed poem 'Coastal walk around some lines by Lee Harwood' (1 sheet), with envelope.
(20). Paterson, Ann and Alasdair. Taddyforde, Exeter, August 2012. Autograph folding card.
(21). Paterson, Alasdair, 29 August 2012 (postmark). Autograph card, with envelope.
(22). Pease, Roland. 25 June 2008. Autograph letter (1 sheet), with envelope. Enjoying Harwood's Collected Poems, particularly 'Dreams of Armenia' (wife's family Armenian).
(23). Presley, Frances. London, 10 November 2005. Autograph folding card. Requesting blurb for forthcoming book from Shearsman Books.
(24). Presley, Frances. London, 12 December 2005. Autograph letter (1 sheet).
(25). Presley, Frances. London, 30 January 2006. Autograph letter (1 sheet).
(26). Puddy, David. Whitland, Carmarthenshire, 15 December 2010. Autograph folding card (Dylan Thomas), enclosing typed letter (1 sheet) and colour photograph (Salesian School, Chertsey). Refers to his childhood and his education in Chertsey (at the school where Harwood's father taught).
(27). Puddy, David. Whitland, 6 February 2011. Typed letter (2 sheets). 'I am more than happy to receive your "babblings" and I hope you don't mind me sharing similar random memories as indeed you're the only person I am in touch with from Chertsey times.'
(28). Puddy, David. [Whitland], 27 June 2011 (postmark). Autograph postcard.
(29). Puddy, David. [Whitland], 18 December 2012 (postmark). Autograph folding card (Dylan Thomas), enclosing typed story 'The Canal Bank' (3 sheets), with envelope.
(30). Puddy, David. Whitland, 5 January 2013. Typed letter (1 sheet). 'Ever since you told me about your father's war-time experience of having to shoot a fellow soldier in 1940 I have been haunted by this incident and ruminating on writing something which links that unimaginable event with the man who taught me mathematics in Stepgates classroom.'
(31). Puddy, David. Whitland, 17 January 2013. Typed letter (2 sheets). 'It's likely to be a short story based on an incident when your father directly rescued me from a bullying incident'.
(32). Puddy, David. Whitland, 15 May 2013. Typed letter (1 sheet), and typed story 'His Acme Thunderer' (4 sheets). Harwood visiting in September - Puddy arranging reading in Carmarthen.
(33). Puddy, David. Whitland, 21 May 2013. Typed letter (1 sheet).
(34). Puddy, David. Whitland, 29 July 2013. Typed letter (1 sheet). Arrangements for Harwood's visit.
(35). Puddy, David. [Whitland], 9 September [2013]. Autograph folding card.
(36). Puddy, David. Whitland, 24 September 2013. Typed letter (1 sheet).
(37). Puddy, David. Whitland, 9 October 2013. Autograph folding card.
(38). Puddy, David. Whitland, 14 December 2013. Typed letter (2 sheets).
(39). Puddy, David. Whitland, 22 January 2014. Autograph folding card.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

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Add MS 88998 : The Papers of Lee Harwood
Add MS 88998/2 : Lee Harwood: Letters Received

Add MS 88998/2/51 : Lee Harwood: Letters Received (Padgett - Puddy)

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Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

1 file

Digitised Content:

Languages:

English

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1966

End Date:

2014

Date Range:

1966-2014

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Names:

Padgett, Ron, American poet, b 1942
Paterson, Alasdair Talbert, librarian, poet, b c 1945
Pease, Roland, American poetry editor, publisher, b c 1950
Presley, Frances, poet, b 1952