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Record Id:

040-002890357

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-002354004

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100023833004.0x000001

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ISAD(G)

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Add MS 88998/2/75

Title:

Lee Harwood: Letters Received (Valentine - Wylie)

Scope & Content:

18 communications from Ruth Valentine, Robert Vas Dias, Michelene Wandor, Geoff Ward, Sam Ward, Lewis Warsh, John Welch, Michael Wolfe, and Andrew Wylie.

(1). [Valentine], Ruth. [London, 2009]. Autograph postcard.
(2). Vas Dias, Robert. London, 19 September 2004. Autograph folding card, with envelope. Congratulations on Collected Poems and Guardian review (Mark Ford).
(3). Vas Dias, Robert. London, 5 March 2011. Typed letter (1 sheet), with envelope. Letter refers to the destruction of Highbury Corner by a V1 flying bomb (27 June 1944), and then recounts a sailing incident near Baltimore Harbour.
(4). Vas Dias, Robert. London, 31 March 2012. Typed letter (1 sheet), with envelope. Comments on Harwood, 'Ben's Photo'.
(5). Wandor, Michelene. London, 12 May 1970. Typed letter (1 sheet), with envelope, enclosing two typed poems (3 sheets). Having just returned from America. 'New York energy still buzzing around - it makes sense that American poets and painters write and paint so personally and monumentally at the same time.' Envelope annotated by Harwood - lunch with Wandor, 23 May.
(6). Wandor, Michelene. London, 17 August 1970 (postmark). Undated typed letter (1 sheet), with envelope.
(7). Wandor, Michelene. London, 21 September 1970 (postmark). Undated typed letter (1 sheet), with envelope.
(8). Wandor, Michelene. London, 2 April 1971. Typed letter (1 sheet), with envelope, enclosing typed poem (1 sheet).
(9). Ward, Geoff. Egham, 20 March 2008. Typed letter (1 sheet), with envelope. Letter refers to Paul Evans.
(10). Ward, Sam. Nottingham, 28 February 2011. Typed letter (1 sheet, Skysill Press). Refers to the poetry of Whit Griffin.
(11). Warsh, Lewis. [New York], 24 November 1968. Typed letter (2 sheets). 'It's almost a year since you were here.'
(12). Warsh, Lewis. [New York], 21 February 1974. Typed letter (1 sheet), with envelope. 'Just finishing off The Eagle; tonight I run off the last of the stencils at the church & collate over the weekend.'
(13). Welch, John. [London], 16 January 2010 (postmark). Two computer-printed b/w photographs (2 sheets) of Welch as a young boy (1945-6) headed 'Hove Days', with brief autograph remarks. With envelope.
(14). Welch, John. London, 29 September [2010]. Brief note (1 sheet) accompanying old found postcard of Brighton (c 1920s, George V stamp). With envelope.
(15). Wolfe, Michael. Bolinas, California, 2 December 1983. Typed letter (1 sheet), with envelope (addressed to Harwood in Bolinas), enclosing typed poem 'One Hundred Years' (2 sheets). 'Please accept the enclosed, in lieu of a prose paragraph.'
(16). Wolfe, Michael. Bolinas, 7 November 1984. Typed letter (2 sheets, fax paper slightly fading), with envelope. 'Things happen which devastate us, and the worst is that most often they serve us, not as subjects, but as footing'.
(17). Wolfe, Michael. [Bolinas], 24 November 1988. Typed letter (2 sheets), with envelope. 'Since July I've been doing endless reading for a projected long book of fiction. It's a story spanning about 40 years, 1828-1866, dealing with the lives and fates of 3 south American Indians brought back to England first as children by Darwin and Fitzroy.' After answering a question about typewriters, the letter closes with an apparent reference to Harwood, 'Dreams of Armenia' (Collected Poems, pp. 439-45): 'Histories of Armenia? Please expand.'
(18). Wylie, Andrew. San Francisco, 12 June 1971. Typed letter incorporating several brief typed poems (2 sheets), with envelope, enclosing 'business card' (poem).

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

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Additional Manuscripts

Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002354004
036-002787732
040-002890357

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Add MS 88998 : The Papers of Lee Harwood
Add MS 88998/2 : Lee Harwood: Letters Received

Add MS 88998/2/75 : Lee Harwood: Letters Received (Valentine - Wylie)

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032-002354004[0002]/036-002787732[0076]/040-002890357

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Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

1 file

Digitised Content:

Languages:

English

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1970

End Date:

2012

Date Range:

1970-2012

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Names:

Dias, Robert Leonard Michael, poet, b 1931
Wandor, Michelene, playwright, poet, b 1940
Ward, Geoffrey, academic, author, b c 1955
Warsh, Lewis, poet, b 1944
Welch, John, poet, founder of The Many Press, b 1942
Wolfe, Michael, poet, author, b 1945
Wylie, Andrew, literary agent, b 1947