Add MS 88998/2/72

23 communications from Nathaniel Tarn, Patricia Terry, Nathan Thompson, John Tranter, Gael Turnbull, Jill Turnbull, and Tristan Tzara.

• (1). Tarn, Nathaniel. Albuquerque, September 2006 (postmark). Brief autograph note (1 sheet) on headed notepaper (Royal Pacific Motor Inn, San Francisco), with envelope. 'Thought you might like these mementos of a delightful evg.'
• (2). Terry, Patricia. Poway, California, 20 May 2006 (postmark). Undated typed letter (1 sheet), with envelope. 'I greatly admire your Chanson Dada [Harwood's translations of Tristan Tzaza] and rejoice in its success.' Letter refers to her translation of Jules Laforgue, and to Lea Lee (1861-88). See Harwood, 'Leah Laforgue', The Orchid Boat (2014).
• (3). Thompson, Nathan. St Helier, Jersey, 15 January 2009. Autograph letter ( 2 sheets), enclosing his printed internet (Eyewear) review (5 sheets) of Harwood, Selected Poems. Letter originally enclosing Thompson, The Arboretum Towards the Beginning (Shearsman Books, 2008).
• (4). Thompson, Nathan. St Helier, 20 February 2009. Autograph letter (3 sheets).
• (5). Thompson, Nathan. St Helier, 16 April 2009. Autograph letter (4 sheets) enclosing typed poem 'a haunting' (1 sheet).
• (6). Thompson, Nathan. St Helier, October-November [?2009]. Autograph letter (5 sheets), with envelope.
• (7). Thompson, Nathan. St. John, Jersey, 14 July 2010. Autograph letter (1 sheet), with envelope. Letter refers to Thompson, Holes in the Map (Oystercatcher Press, 2010). Moving to Salford to pursue PhD research ('psychogeographical project based on Bodmin Moor') under Scott Thurston.
• (8). Thompson, Nathan. Salford, 17 February 2011. Autograph letter (6 sheets).
• (9). Tranter, John. Balmain, NSW, Australia, 15 July 1999. Typed letter (1 sheet), with envelope. 'I understand your points, and indeed I've heard them before, but always from people who have not used computers or explored the extraordinary riches of the Internet. Let me disabuse you of some of your mistaken notions, please.'
• (10). Tranter, John. Balmain, NSW, Australia. [16 July 1999]. Printed e-mail message (1 sheet, with envelope) from Bob Freedman to Tranter, expressing thanks for an issue of the on-line journal Jacket (ed. Tranter) on Jack Spicer. Copy sent by Tranter to Harwood, incorporating autograph note, in support of Tranter's letter of 15 July.
• (11). Turnbull, Gael. Edinburgh, 6 June 2000. Autograph letter (1 sheet), with envelope. Sorry to hear of Harwood's health problems ('may the technology of the year 2000 perform the desired magic'). Letter refers to an 'enclosed card' (Albert Camus) which is not present.
• (12). Turnbull, Gael. Edinburgh, 12 June 2000. Autograph letter (1 sheet), with envelope. Turnbull has had to cancel his reading at the Basil Bunting centenary event. 'I'm just clambering back after head surgery (a metaphor in that?) - luckily benign problem that should now be in the past'.
• (13). Turnbull, Gael. Edinburgh, 4 December 2000. Autograph letter (1 sheet) written on the verso of a photocopy of Turnbull, 'The Ballad of Rillington Place' (from Etruscan Reader I, 1997).
• (14). Turnbull, Gael. Edinburgh, 3 November 2001. Autograph letter (1 sheet), with envelope. 'Much enjoyed your reading - such pleasure in voice - in "utterance" - also much impressed that you actually met Jean Tinguely [...] - a major influence on my life - source of energy - challenge - must make the effort to get to Basle some day, to see the collection there'.
• (15). Turnbull, Gael. Edinburgh, 14 July 2002. Autograph letter (3 sheets), with envelope. '[...] over past few years, I have been concentrating more & more on what I call "kinetic poems" - various devices & "poème-objets", mostly involving elements of change & variation - mostly visual in presentation [...] an escape from publication and the literary world (which seems to get less and less "real", if it ever was)'.
• (16). Turnbull, Gael. [Edinburgh, December 2002]. Autograph postcard (Turnbull, 'wherever'). '[...] currently have an exhibition of the accumulated assortment of all the kinetics at French Institute here'.
• (17). Turnbull, Gael, Edinburgh, 16 September 2003. Typed letter (1 sheet).
• (18). Turnbull, Gael. Edinburgh, 9 November 2003. Typed letter (1 sheet) with poem-card (Turnbull, 'National Poetry Day'). 'Very generous of you to write so warmly about the "Dusters". I feel more positive about them now than I did but feel I had exhausted the genre and so stopped. There must have been nearly 100 at one time.'
• (19). Turnbull, Gael. Edinburgh, 15 December 2003 (postmark). Autograph card ('National Poetry Day'), with envelope. 'Anne S[tevenson] was through Edinburgh for a reading in November but amid all the bustle (and throng around her) didn't get a chance to chat'.
• (20). Turnbull, Gael. Edinburgh, 19 January 2004. Autograph letter (1 sheet). Has received Harwood's 'new collection [...] I particularly enjoyed/enjoy "Young Woman in Japanese Garden" and then the "Hampton Court Shelter" - or is it the garden connection that beguiles me?'
• (21). Turnbull, Jill. Edinburgh, 7 August 2004. Autograph letter (1 sheet). Following the death of Gael Turnbull (2 July). 'You will not be surprised to learn that "From the Language of The Heart" [1985] is my favourite book of his.'
• (22). Turnbull, Jill. Edinburgh, 2 December 2005. Autograph postcard (Turnbull, 'James Young Simpson: If It Is Our Mission...'), with envelope.
• (23). Tzara, Tristan. Paris, 29 September 1963. Autograph letter in French (1 sheet), with envelope. The first of two letters from Tzara to Harwood, in which Tzara authorises the publication of Harwood's translations of his work in Night Scene (see Add MS 88998/9/2), and comments on them. Tzara's letter is accompanied by a typed note (1 sheet, 15 April 2015) from Harwood to Chris Beckett (British Library) in which Harwood states that the second letter he received from Tzara shortly afterwards (inviting him to visit if he is ever in Paris) may have been passed to Asa Benveniste at the time Trigram Press published his collection of Tzara translations (1975).