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Add MS 88998/2/59
- Record Id:
- 040-002878596
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002354004
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100023666820.0x000001
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 88998/2/59
- Title:
- Lee Harwood: Letters Received (Reedy, Carlyle)
- Scope & Content:
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25 communications from Carlyle Reedy.
- (1). [London], 27 April 1998. Typed and autograph letter (1 sheet), with envelope. Reedy is 'working out the final of "Orchids", about 3 pages A-4 and organising 30 pages for an Etruscan reader'. Also refers to the forthcoming publication of 'the New York poem' which Harwood commented on by letter 'in '68 or so' and Reedy would now like to incorporate his comments.
- (2). London, 27 and 28 May 1998. Autograph letter (1 sheet), with envelope. Having received Harwood, Morning Light (1998).
- (3). London, 29 July 1998. Autograph letter (1 sheet), with envelope.
- (4). Dagenham, August 1998 (postmark). Autograph postcard.
- (5). London, 16 March 1999. Autograph postcard. Refers to Morning Light.
- (6). Written from San Antonio, 21 March 1999 (postmark). Autograph postcard.
- (7). [? 2000]. Undated loose autograph postcard (spoons). Message refers to '2000 years' (although this may not be an indication of the date of the postcard).
- (8). [London], 28 May 2000. Autograph postcard. 'My dear friend Alaric Sumner [1952-2000] died end of March.'
- (9). [London, 10 November 2000 - postmark]. Autograph postcard. Going to Texas in early December.
- (10). San Antonio, Texas, 5, 11 and 12 December 2000. Autograph letter (1 bifolium), with envelope. 'I sit on a sofa in front of a table my mother loved.' On the verso of the envelope, a typed poem ('A poem can be an animal') attached by clear tape.
- (11). [San Antonio], 25 January 2001. Autograph postcard (Harriet Quimby). 'I return before this reaches Hove.'
- (12). [London], 2 April 2001. Folding card, with envelope. And with a small additional P.S. sheet of paper.
- (13). London, 17 August 2001. Folding card, with envelope.
- (14). [London], 12 April 2002. Autograph postcard. 'I am back from my 2 days in Norfolk, getting on with my visual art project [...]'.
- (15). London, 22 November 2004 - postmark. Small bifolium of paper (blank, no message) enclosing printed slip listing the 'qualities' of the gemstone carnelian. With envelope.
- (16). London, [25 January 2005 - postmark]. Bespoke folding card, with envelope.
- (17). London, 14 June 2005. Autograph letter (2 sheets), with envelope. Letter begins with two I Ching hexagrams (49 and 51), against which Harwood has annotated in pencil.
- (18). Texas, 11 July 2006. Autograph postcard.
- (19). London, 31 August 2006. Autograph letter (1 sheet) enclosing three colour photographs taken in Texas. 'While in Texas I read Tom Raworth's Blue Screen several times.'
- (20). [London], 17 October 2006. Autograph letter (1 sheet).
- (21). London, 9 July 2007. Autograph postcard (Barcelona).
- (22). [London], 7 November 2007. Autograph letter (1 sheet) enclosing 5 part-pages taken from a Rupert the Bear book (retained by small staple in top left corner). Departing for Charleston in December to see her younger sister.
- (23). Postcard dated January 2008, but franked 16 September 2008. Postcard written in Texas.
- (24). Postcard dated May 2008, written in Roubaix, but not posted until 22 October 2008.
- (25). [London], July 2009. Autograph letter (1 sheet), with envelope. 'So what the heck is happening, cowboy? Will I ever write Poetry again? Je ne sais rien (a good place to be!).'
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002354004
036-002787732
040-002878596 - Is part of:
- Add MS 88998 : The Papers of Lee Harwood
Add MS 88998/2 : Lee Harwood: Letters Received
Add MS 88998/2/59 : Lee Harwood: Letters Received (Reedy, Carlyle) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002354004[0002]/036-002787732[0060]/040-002878596
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Add MS 88998
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 file
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1998
- End Date:
- 2009
- Date Range:
- 1998-2009
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Reedy, Carlyle, poet, performance artist, b 1938