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Add MS 88998/2/62
- Record Id:
- 040-002878710
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002354004
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100023677249.0x000001
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- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 88998/2/62
- Title:
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Lee Harwood: Letters Received (Scanlan - Scully)
- Scope & Content:
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46 communications from Patricia Scanlan, Peter Schjeldahl, Barry Schwabsky, and Maurice Scully.
- (1). Scanlan, Patricia. Yapton, W. Sussex, 2 February 2011. Autograph letter (1 bifolium, pencil).
- (2). Schjeldahl, Peter. [New York], 20 August 1967. Typed letter (2 sheets), with envelope. 'My upcoming book, by the way, is called White Country, which is just far enough removed from The White Room for my comfort'.
- (3). Schjeldahl, Peter. [New York], 13 February 1969. Typed letter (1 sheet), with envelope (annotated with reply date, 26 September). Enclosing two typed letters of earlier date not posted (16 August 1967 - 1 sheet; 10 October 1968 - 1 sheet). 'I came across two letters I had begun writing to you but [...] never finished.' Schjeldahl is now 'a free-lance man of letters once more', writing art criticism for the New York Times and for Art International. 'Last week and the week before Ted B[errigan] was back for a visit between semesters at the Iowa Writers Workshop. It was something of a triumphant return, as he is becoming something of a celebrity - his reading at St Mark's was packed.'
- (4). Schjeldahl, Peter. [New York], 7 January 1970. Typed letter (2 sheets), with envelope (bearing Harwood's reply notes in pencil). Sorry to hear of the death of Harwood's father. 'You are apparently not up on the New York gossip, so it will be my ambiguous pleasure to fill you in.'
- (5). Schjeldahl, Peter. [New York],16 March 1970. Typed letter (1 sheet), with envelope. 'Right now I have a new manuscript of about 50 poems, called Pleasure, sitting on a desk at Random House; I've been crossing my fingers so hard I'm getting cramps.'
- (6). Schwabsky, Barry. London, 9 January 2006. Typed letter (1 sheet), with envelope. 'As for [Jack] Spicer, yes, he is certainly one of the poets I return to.'
- (7). Schwabsky, Barry. London, 8 November 2007. Typed letter (1 sheet), enclosing his on-line article (5 sheets) on the poetry of Francis Picabia, 'The Imperfectionist', The Nation (2007), and a set of three haiku-like poems (1 sheet).
- (8). Scully, Maurice. Mafeteng, Lesotho, 4 October 1989. Typed letter (1 sheet) enclosing colour photograph ('a snippet of local colour'), with envelope. 'I write, but miss the time to cogitate. Teaching - while v challenging in this context (it's more accurately Learning, not "teaching") - it preys on creative energies.'
- (9). Scully, Maurice. Dublin, 18 November 1999. Autograph letter (1 sheet). Comments on Harwood, 'Pagham Harbour spring' (Collected Poems, p. 482). Scully moving house to Clontarf, Dublin.
- (10). Scully, Maurice. Clontarf, Dublin, 26 January 2001. Typed letter (1 sheet). Brief comments on poems subsequently published in Harwood, Evening Star (2004). 'So very few poets let the world flow through their poetry'.
- (11). Scully, Maurice. Clontarf, 19 July 2005. Autograph letter (1 sheet). Refers to Harwood reading at the Cork International Poetry Festival. 'I've got down yr Collected again & find myself drawn to the Ikonostasis among other things as a formal idea that really works.'
- (12). Scully, Maurice. Clontarf, 10 August 2005. Autograph letter (1 sheet). Refers again to Ikonostasis. 'A date, Fri 10th March '06, is pencilled in for the London reading.' Scully bought the Tom Clark biography of Charles Olson yesterday.
- (13). Scully, Maurice. Clontarf, 31 August 2005. Autograph letter (1 sheet). Brief comments on Charles Olson and on Ted Berrigan.
- (14). Scully, Maurice. Clontarf, 27 September 2005. Autograph letter (1 sheet).
- (15). Scully, Maurice. Clontarf, 10 January 2006. Autograph letter (2 sheets).
- (16). Scully, Maurice. Clontarf, 9 March 2006. Autograph letter (2 sheets folded). Refers to various readings.
- (17). Scully, Maurice. Clontarf, 30 March 2006. Autograph letter (1 sheet). 'Look forward to seeing you in London in Sept if you can make it.'
- (18). Scully, Maurice. Clontarf, 24 August 2006. Autograph letter (1 sheet). Reading in London, 1 September.
- (19). Scully, Maurice. Clontarf, 4 September 2006. Autograph letter (1 sheet). 'Great to see you last Friday.'
- (20). Scully, Maurice. [Clontarf], 7 January 2007. Autograph postcard. 'Glad you're enjoying Mouthpuller. It's gone to a good home.'
- (21). Scully, Maurice. Clontarf, 30 January 2007 (postmark). Undated autograph letter (1 sheet), with envelope. Listening to Harwood, The Chart Table (2005).
- (22). Scully, Maurice. Clontarf, 29 August 2007. Autograph letter (1 sheet).
- (23). Scully, Maurice. Clontarf, 1 December 2007. Autograph letter (1 sheet). 'Philip Coleman just gave me a beautiful, vast-in-scope, meditative poem by you - FRAMES - yesterday. Wow! This is what it's all about, poetry like this gives me heart. In isolation, trudging on, this lights the way.'
- (24). Scully, Maurice. Clontarf, 19 June 2008. Autograph letter (1 sheet).
- (25). Scully, Maurice. [Clontarf], 1 July 2008. Autograph letter (1 sheet). Congratulates Harwood on Selected Poems (2008) - 'new poems are particularly strong'. 'The photographer at yr reading was Laurie Duggan, an Australian poet, who's been living in the UK for some time now.'
- (26). Scully, Maurice. Clontarf, 22 October 2008. Autograph letter (2 sheets). Has been invited to read in Berlin and in Prague.
- (27). Scully, Maurice. Clontarf, 20 November 2008 (postmark). Undated autograph letter (1 sheet) enclosing promotional postcard for Scully, Doing the Same in English: A Sampler of Work 1987-2008. With envelope. 'I'm doing quite a few readings in the next few months, 2 in Dublin, a few in Prague next spring, & (all going well) a few in California next spring too.'
- (28). Scully, Maurice. Clontarf, 20 December 2008. Autograph letter (1 sheet).
- (29). Scully, Maurice. Clontarf, 28 April 2009. Autograph letter (2 sheets).
- (30). Scully, Maurice. Clontarf, 17 July 2009. Autograph letter (1 sheet). A new literary festival in Dublin 'is set to kick off next December', and Scully is reading again at 'The Lamb in Lamb's Conduit next Oct.'
- (31). Scully, Maurice. 'Dublin in the rain', 8 December 2009. Autograph letter (1 sheet). Noting a reference to Harwood in Section 82 of Peter Philpott, Are We Not Drawn (Shearsman Books, 2009).
- (32). Scully, Maurice. Clontarf, 22 March 2010. Autograph letter (1 sheet). Going to hear Anne Stevenson read in Dublin next week. Reading in Wales next month.
- (33). Scully, Maurice. Clontarf, 11 May 2010. Autograph letter (1 sheet). Didn't get to hear Stevenson read after all (death of brother-in-law), but has purchased her Collected Poems 'and begun to dip, & like.'
- (34). Scully, Maurice. Clontarf, 1 January 2011. Autograph letter (2 sheets).
- (35). Scully, Maurice. Clontarf, 21 January 2011. Autograph letter (2 sheets) enclosing typed poem 'Exposure: Tuesday' (1 sheet).
- (36). Scully, Maurice. Clontarf, 3 April 2011. Autograph letter (1 sheet) enclosing typed poem 'Song Beginning"When"' (1 sheet).
- (37). Scully, Maurice. Clontarf, 16 July 2011. Autograph letter (1 sheet). Having received a copy of Harwood, 'Ben's Photo'.
- (38). Scully, Maurice. [Clontarf], 13 October 2011. Autograph letter (1 sheet) enclosing typed poem 'Second or Two' (1 sheet). 'It seems I'm going to miss yr reading in Ireland, the first I think since Cork 2005?'
- (39). Scully, Maurice. Clontarf, 21 April 2012. Autograph letter (1 sheet).
- (40). Scully, Maurice. Clontarf, 21 May 2012. Autograph letter (1 sheet). Reading (in October) at The Lamb and at Birkbeck, the latter including a roundtable discussion of Scully's work. Harwood attending. (See letter 44 below.)
- (41). Scully, Maurice. Clontarf, 4 June 2012. Autograph letter (1 sheet). Scully's 60th birthday.
- (42). Scully, Maurice. Clontarf, 25 June 2012. Autograph letter (1 sheet).
- (43). Scully, Maurice. Clontarf, 5 September 2012. Autograph letter (2 sheets).
- (44). Scully, Maurice. Clontarf, 22 October 2012. Autograph letter (2 sheets). Refers briefly to Birkbeck event (letter 40 above).
- (45). Scully, Maurice. Clontarf, 11 July 2013. Autograph letter (1 sheet).
- (46). Scully, Maurice. Clontarf, 24 January 2014. Autograph letter (1 sheet). 'Congrats on yr Enitharmon' (The Orchid Boat, 2014). 'Fame came knocking this week in the form of a local radio station that wants an interview.'
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
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- 032-002354004
036-002787732
040-002878710 - Is part of:
- Add MS 88998 : The Papers of Lee Harwood
Add MS 88998/2 : Lee Harwood: Letters Received
Add MS 88998/2/62 : Lee Harwood: Letters Received (Scanlan - Scully) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002354004[0002]/036-002787732[0063]/040-002878710
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- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 file
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1967
- End Date:
- 2014
- Date Range:
- 1967-2014
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Names:
- Schjeldahl, Peter, poet, art critic, b 1942
Schwabsky, Barry, art critic, poet, b c 1960
Scully, Maurice, poet, 1952-2023