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Add MS 88998/2/69
- Record Id:
- 040-002879314
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002354004
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100023803429.0x000001
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 88998/2/69
- Title:
- Lee Harwood: Letters Received (Stevenson, Anne)
- Scope & Content:
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33 communications from Anne Stevenson.
- (1). [Durham], 9 January 2006. Autograph folding card.
- (2). Durham, 6 February 2006. Autograph letter (1 sheet). Good reviews of Stevenson's Poems 1955-2005 in TLS and Poetry Review: 'both reviewers, however, object to my thematic arrangement - so I'm going to defend it this Thursday in a Newcastle reading'.
- (3). Durham, 18 March 2006. Autograph postcard.
- (4). Llanbedr, 28 April, 2006. Autograph postcard. 'Thanks so much for your Hawksmoor letter.'
- (5). Durham, 8 May 2006. Autograph postcard. 'I am in a quandary myself about a cover picture for a collection to be named "Imaginary Shadows". Can you think of an appropriate painting - from Blake? Dante?'
- (6). St. Moritz, 25 May 2006. Autograph postcard.
- (7). Durham, 10 June [2006]. Typed letter (1 sheet), with envelope, enclosing typed poem 'Stone Milk' (1 sheet), on which Stevenson comments: 'It needs some de-stiffening somehow. But I'm going to let it stew for a while until inspiration strikes.'
- (8). Durham, [5 July 2006] (postmark). Undated autograph letter (1 sheet), with envelope. The letter is written beneath a typed poem, 'Sea & Sky' (with pencil annotation).
- (9). Llanbedr, 20 July 2006. Typed letter (1 sheet) enclosing two further versions (2 sheets) of 'Sea & Sky', with pencil annotation to the second version. In response to a communication from Harwood, the letter refers to Frank O'Hara ('Personism: A Manifesto') and to Czeslaw Milosz in relation to the composition of the poem.
- (10). Llanbedr, 31 July 2006. Autograph postcard. Includes further comments on 'Sea & Sky'.
- (11). Llanbedr, 14 September 2006. Typed letter (2 sheets). Includes comments on Harwood, 'The Long Black Veil' and Carol Ann Duffy, Rapture.
- (12). Liverpool, 21 September 2006 (postmark). Postcard.
- (13). Durham, 10 October 2006. Typed letter (2 sheets).
- (14). Durham, 30 November 2006. Autograph card and typed poem 'City Lights' from 'Notes on London' (1 sheet).
- (15). Durham, 24 February 2007. Typed letter (2 sheets). 'Don't overdo the congratulations. The Poetry Foundation Award doesn't pay off until October.' (Refers to the Poetry Foundation 'Neglected Masters Award', announced October 2007.)
- (16). Llanbedr, 29 March 2007. Autograph postcard.
- (17). Durham, 26 April 2007. Autograph postcard, sent with another postcard (16 April 2007) previously returned ('Wrong address') to Stevenson.
- (18). Durham, 28 April 2007. Autograph letter (1 sheet) and typed poem 'Beach Kites' (1 sheet). Comments on Harwood, 'Frames'. 'I enclose one of my own, completed last week while my sister was here, but begun in March when we spent a night in a Hotel on the Wash in Norfolk.'
- (19). Durham, 23 October 2007. Autograph postcard, with envelope, enclosing typed poem by Harwood, '"Cloudy Sunday"' (2 sheets). The poem (dated by Harwood 16 October 2007) is offered 'for your perusal'. Stevenson has annotated the poem in pencil with several revision suggestions.
- (20). [Durham], 4 December 2007 (postmark). Autograph postcard (Parthenon, Nashville), with envelope. Having received Poetry Foundation Award (see item 15 above), and also having received poem by Harwood, 'Comparative Anatomy'.
- (21). December [?2007]. Bespoke Christmas card addressed to 'Lee and Lindy', incorporating poem by Stevenson, 'Look! Roses in December'.
- (22). Llanbedr, 31 December 2007. Typed letter (3 sheets). The letter takes the form of a 'general bulletin' at the end of year to relatives and friends.
- (23). Durham, 10 February 2008. Autograph postcard.
- (24). Durham, 29 February 2008. Autograph postcard.
- (25). 'About to leave for Pwllymarch, Llanbedr', 4 April 2008. Typed letter (1 sheet) enclosing typed poem 'Tulips' (2 sheets). Comments on the Salt Companion to Lee Harwood. 'After you left I went back to my Melting Metaphor essay and completely rewrote the end.'
- (26). Llanbedr, 16 April 2008. Typed letter (1 sheet). Further comments on Salt Companion. 'I'm glad you like my Tulips - turned down by Poetry in America, I don't know why, but soon to appear in the Welsh magazine, Planet, I think.'
- (27). Durham, 16 June 2008. Typed letter (1 sheet) enclosing three poems (6 sheets). 'Very little writing, and I'm still feeling a long way from poetry, but I'll enclose some little squibs written last April in Wales, probably influenced by Lee Harwood.'
- (28). St Moritz, 3 July 2008. Autograph postcard.
- (29). Durham, 13 July 2008. Typed letter (2 sheets). Has received Harwood's Selected Poems: 'especially powerful to me this time, "Hampton Court Shelter", with those amazing two last lines.'
- (30). Durham, 30 August 2008. Typed letter (1 sheet) with two versions of typed poem 'O Western Wind' on recto and verso (1 sheet).
- (31). Llanbedr, 23 September 2008. Typed letter (1 sheet).
- (32). Llanbedr, 19 October 2008. Typed letter (1 sheet) with typed poem 'Hotel New Year' (1 sheet).
- (33). Durham, 9 November 2008. Autograph postcard.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002354004
036-002787732
040-002879314 - Is part of:
- Add MS 88998 : The Papers of Lee Harwood
Add MS 88998/2 : Lee Harwood: Letters Received
Add MS 88998/2/69 : Lee Harwood: Letters Received (Stevenson, Anne) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002354004[0002]/036-002787732[0070]/040-002879314
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- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 file
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 2006
- End Date:
- 2008
- Date Range:
- 2006-2008
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Names:
- Stevenson, Anne Katherine, poet and writer, 1933-2020