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040-002891319

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032-002354004

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Add MS 88998/6/4

Title:

Lee Harwood: Fair Copies ('Poems 215-260')

Scope & Content:

Continuing a numbered chronological sequence of fair copy poems (and other occasional texts). Retained in a springback binder. Nearly all poems are dated, and details of publication are recorded in pencil by Harwood where applicable.

Written on the inside front cover: 'Poems 215-260. Oct. 1968 - Septr. '74'.

Numbered sequence with the following titles (or first lines):

(215). 'Animal Days'. Great Witcombe, 5 October 1968 - Brighton, 16 February 1969.
(216). 'Linen / (for Marian)'. Brighton, 6 February 1968 - 27 February 1969.
(217). 'Death of a Pirate King'. Brighton, 28 March 1968 - 30 May 1969.
(218). 'Pullman'. Brighton, 25 June - 1 July 1969.
Loosely inserted, a photocopy of a photograph captioned: 'André Gide and Marc Allégret in the Congo'.
(219). 'The Sinking Colony'. July-October 1969.
(220). 'Night Ferry'. 16-22 November 1969.
(220A). 'Night Ferry'. Revised text.
(221). 'North'. Durham, 25 November - Brighton, 29 December 1969.
(222). 'The Big Hand'. Brighton, 27-28 January 1970.
(223). 'Today'. Brighton, 13-29 January 1970.
(223A). 'Today'. Revised text.
(224). 'Little Lord Fauntelroy [sic] Meets the Secret Garden'. Brighton, 29 January - 4 February 1970.
(225). 'S...... - Hebrew for "beautiful" / for Shifrah'. Bristol-Brighton, 1-4 February 1970.
(226). 'Grand Denmark / for Peter Riley'. Odense, 10-16 February 1970.
(227). '"inside the harm is a clearing"'. Brighton, 23 February - 6 March 1970.
(228). 'The Long Black Veil: A Notebook'. May 1970 - July 1972. (22 numbered sheets, text as published.)
Also numbered '228'. 'The Long Black Veil'. May 1970 - July 1972. (Earlier drafts, 10 sheets.)
(229). 'Brooklyn / for Andi Wachtel'. New York - Philadelphia, October 1970.
(230). 'Animal Days'. Outline for 'video-film', Harwood reading 'Animal Days', introduction incorporating 'Bob Cobbing's Swedish radio tape using animal & bird calls'. February 1971.
(231). 'Country Diary Continued / for Mrs Elizabeth Prince'. 'Lee Harwood & others', Brighton, 16 March 1971.
(232). 'Red Car / for Michelene Wandor'. Brighton, 5 October 1970 - 24 March 1971.
(233). '11/6/71 / for Sandy'.
(234). 'Qasída (for Sandy)'. Paros, 17-26 July 1971.
(235). 'One, Two, Three'. Paros, 24 July - 5 August 1971.
(236). 'Blue enamel letter J'. Paros, 14-25 August 1971.
(237). 'New Year'. November-December 1971.
(238). 'In Progress)'. Paros, 2 February - 12 March 1972.
(239). 'With a Photo by John Walsh'. Paros, 10 February - 12 March 1972.
(240). '5 Postcards to Alban Berg'. Paros, 15 March - 24 April 1972.
(241). 'Boston Notebook : December 1972'. Boston, 5 December 1972 - 10 February 1973.
(242). 'Triangulation of Points A, B, C.' Boston, 14 December 1972 - 10 February 1973.
(243). 'Massachusetts OR On Visiting Walden Pond, 1st January 1973'. Boston, 4 January - 9 February 1973.
(244). 'Portraits : 1-4'. Boston, 8 January - 20 February 1973.
(245). 'The Destruction of South Station, Boston'. Boston, 7-21 February 1973.
(246). '15 Postcards from the "FREEDOM TRAIL", Boston'. (Undated.)
(247A). Title-page of Captain Harwood's Log of Stern Statements and Stout Sayings (Writers Forum, December 1973), followed by a note (1 sheet) of publication amendments.
(247). [Captain Harwood's Log]. 'from NOTEBOOKS/JOURNALS. January to September 1972 on the island of Paros, Greece; October in England; November 1972 to date (March 20 1973) in Boston, USA.'
(248). 'Nineteenth Century Poem'. Boston, 12 March - 4 April 1973.
(249). 'Nautical Notes'. (Undated.)
(249A). '6 postcards of "SHIPWRECKS" at Cape Cod, Massachusetts'. (Undated.)
Loosely inserted: Colour postcard, 'The Old Salt Along the New England Coast'. (See next poem, section 2.)
(250). 'Kennebunkport, Maine, U.S.A.' August-September 1973.
(251). 'Brighton . October'. 2-31 October 1973.
(252). 'Boston Spring'. April-November 1973.
(253). 'Foreword' to Richard Miller, The ( ) & on Whim (Aloes Books, 1974). Brighton, November 1973.
(254). '"The length of the Sussex coast..."'. Boston, 16 March 1973 - Brighton, 30 July 1974.
[There is no text numbered 255.]
(256). ['Chen', beginning p. 2]: 'sometimes there is'. 11 January - 23 February 1974. (A pencil note by Harwood indicates that the first page of the poem was passed to '[John] Muckle of Paladin [Books]').
(257). 'Notes of a Post Office Clerk / for Harry Guest'. 18 February 1974 - 21 September 1975. (28 numbered sheets, and an additional sheet headed 'alternative to 26 & 27'.)
(257A). 'One page rejected from "Notes of a Post Office Clerk"'. 26 June 1974.
(258). 'A note on Paul Blackburn'. Brighton, 23-24 February 1974. At the head of the text, a pencil note by Harwood: 'To be associated with 256 ['Chen']', and referring to publication in Sixpack.
(259). '"Surrealist Poetry Today". Notes for a lecture given at the Poetry Society, London, 6 May 1974.'
(260). 'Bob Cobbing'. August-September 1974. Pencil note annotation: 'for Ceolfrith (Sunderland), W[riters]F[orum] exhibition catalogue'.

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032-002354004
036-002891196
040-002891319

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Add MS 88998 : The Papers of Lee Harwood
Add MS 88998/6 : Lee Harwood: Poetry and Occasional Prose (Fair Copies)

Add MS 88998/6/4 : Lee Harwood: Fair Copies ('Poems 215-260')

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032-002354004[0007]/036-002891196[0004]/040-002891319

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Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

1 file

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Languages:

English

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1968

End Date:

1974

Date Range:

1968-1974

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Physical Characteristics:

Loose sheets retained in spring back binder (black), 285 x 240 mm. With two items loosely inserted.

Material Type:

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