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Add MS 88998/2/68
- Record Id:
- 040-002879140
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002354004
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100023733780.0x000001
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 88998/2/68
- Title:
- Lee Harwood: Letters Received (Stevenson, Anne)
- Scope & Content:
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26 communications from Anne Stevenson.
- (1). Durham, 7 January 2004. Autograph postcard. Refers to Harwood's 'Foreword' to Collected Poems.
- (2). Durham, 8 February 2004. Autograph postcard. Giving a lecture at Liverpool University on 25 March: 'Can Poetry Tell the Truth?'
- (3). Durham, 24 February 2004. Autograph postcard. Greatly enjoyed 'the Vieillard show at the RA, on your recommendation'.
- (4). Durham, 29 February 2004. Typed letter (1 sheet). 'I have been reading the Klemperer Diaries all day (Sunday), finding them as fascinating as you do [....] From one of the pages you sent me I have been able to extract that passage on the survival of language for my lecture [....] It seemed to be just the right quote for what I'm trying to say about trusting the poem to find its own words.'
- (5). Durham, 18 March [2004]. Autograph postcard and typed poem 'The Good Wife and the Green Man' (1 sheet).
- (6). [Durham], 23 March 2004 (postmark). Undated autograph postcard, with envelope. Having received Harwood, Collected Poems.
- (7). St. Moritz, 'Tuesday May? 2004'. Autograph postcard.
- (8). Llanbedr, 30 May [2004]. Autograph letter (1 sheet), with envelope. 'Sounds as if you enjoyed California as no one else enjoys.'
- (9). Llanbedr, 18 July 2004. Typed letter (2 sheets). Comments on 'Wild Orchids' by Katha Pollitt.
- (10). Durham, 10 October 2004. Autograph postcard. 'I suppose you saw Carol Rumens's rather sour remarks about Mark Ford's review of your Collected Poems?' (See Rumens, letter to the Guardian, 25 September 2004.)
- (11). Durham, 18 January 2005. Autograph postcard.
- (12). [Durham], 1 March [2005]. Book jacket proof for Anne Stevenson, Poems 1955-2005 (Bloodaxe), with yellow 'post it' note attached.
- (13). Durham, 12 March [2005]. Autograph postcard, with envelope.
- (14). Llanbedr, 10 April 2005. Typed letter (2 sheets). Comments on Harwood's new introduction to his Tzara translations.
- (15). Durham, 20 April 2005. Autograph postcard.
- (16). Durham, 8 May 2005. Autograph postcard.
- (17). Durham, 13 May 2005. Autograph postcard, with typed poem 'Rapunzel' (1 sheet).
- (18). Durham, 4 June 2005. Autograph postcard.
- (19). [Llanbedr], 18 July 2005. Autograph postcard.
- (20). Durham, [August 2005]. Undated autograph postcard, referring to Stevenson's radio interview on 'Woman's Hour' (Radio 4, 28 July 2005).
- (21). Durham, 12 September 2005. Autograph postcard.
- (22). Durham, 26 September 2005. Typed letter (1 sheet). 'In haste to thank you for your Utopia draft, which looks promising. I rather like your Gloom Monster under whose protection you dream so cheerfully [....] I wonder if I dare send you my dream poem, A Lament for the Makers, on which I've been working for about 3 years, adding and subtracting (multiplying and dividing), and finally coming to a FINÉ, or temporary one, anyway, in the past week.'
- (23). Durham, 27 September 2005 (postmark). Typed poem 'Lament for the Makers' (21 sheets), with envelope. A small yellow 'post it' note is attached to first sheet. In the right margins, Stevenson has identified poets alluded to. Annotations in pencil are in Harwood's hand.
- (24). [Durham], 7 October 2005. Typed letter (1 sheet). 'I have sent the Lament to three very different poets, besides yourself, and all agree that the middle section is the weakest. However, I am going to leave it as it is at present and publish it, with a few revisions and cuts, in pamphlet form with Clutag Press in Oxford.'
- (25). Durham, 30 October [2005]. Autograph postcard, with envelope. Comments on Harwood, 'Gifts Received: Six Poems for Friends'.
- (26). [?2005]. Undated autograph letter (1 sheet), with envelope (postmark blurred). Perhaps a fragment. Supplies the quotation from Stevenson used by Harwood to begin 'Gifts Received': 'From the highest window of her cronology' [sic].
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002354004
036-002787732
040-002879140 - Is part of:
- Add MS 88998 : The Papers of Lee Harwood
Add MS 88998/2 : Lee Harwood: Letters Received
Add MS 88998/2/68 : Lee Harwood: Letters Received (Stevenson, Anne) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002354004[0002]/036-002787732[0069]/040-002879140
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Add MS 88998
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 file
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 2004
- End Date:
- 2005
- Date Range:
- 2004-2005
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Legal Status:
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- Names:
- Stevenson, Anne Katherine, poet and writer, 1933-2020