Add MS 88998/5/4

(1). Notes of readings (1966-67), including in most cases a note of poems read:

• 12 January 1966, Better Books.
• 10 February 1966, Chelsea Road.
• 19 March 1966, Kingston School of Art;
• 16 April 1966, Sutton.
• 29 September 1966, Better Books.
• 29 October 1966, Better Books.
• 2 July 1967, Theatre Royal, Stratford.
• 29 September 1967, Brighton. On the verso, a note weighing up four possible destinations in October 1967: America, Brighton (Unicorn Bookshop), Italy ('Alberto's near Rome'), and 'Bristol, Chertsey, etc.'

(2). Three items:

• Letter (17 January 1967) from J.H.P. Pafford, Librarian, Senate House, University of London Library, with thanks for a copy of The Man With Blue Eyes and congratulating Harwood 'on winning the award of 500 dollars'.
• Publicity information (2 sheets) for readings by Dick Gallup and John Stanton at The Folklore Center, New York, 29 October 1967.
• Publicity information (1 sheet) for Chris Torrance, Green Orange Purple Red (London: The Ferry Press, 1968).

(3). Drafts:

• Draft letter note on a small paper scrap, 14 June [1965] to John Ashbery, reporting his return to England by ferry ('hell on the high seas'). On the verso, a note on Tzara ('Tz was Stalinist').
• 'As your eyes are blue', typed (2 sheets, with revisions by hand). Dated 11-21 October 1965.
• Incomplete draft of 'The Book', typed (1 sheet, with revisions by hand). Parts 1 and 2 only ('This needs a last part'). Dated March-April 1966.
• 'For Robert Motherwell', in autograph draft (1 sheet). Dated 6-18 April 1966.
• 'The Tractors Are Waiting', in autograph draft (1 sheet). Dated 18 April 1966.
• 'Staten Island Ferry / (for Jenny)', typed (1 sheet). Dated 18-22 May 1966.
• 'The Seaside', in autograph draft (2 sheets). Dated 29 September 1966.
• 'The Situation', typed draft (2 sheets, with corrections by hand). Dated 15 May 1967.
• 'Chemical Days', typed draft (1 sheet, with some corrections by hand). Dated 19 June 1967, revised 26-27 October 1972.
• A draft list of poems for inclusion in The White Room (autograph, 1 sheet, no date). Various notes on the verso.
• Draft autograph fragment without date (1 small sheet), beginning: 'No one enters the church across the street from me'.

(4). Correspondence:

• Eric [Mottram] to Harwood, 1 August 1968. Typed letter (1 sheet), with envelope. Refers to 'The Words' and to 'The Doomed Fleet'.
• Two typed copy letters (same typewriter): Lewis Warsh to Jeremy Prynne (8 February 1969, 1 sheet), enquiring 'what you think about Lee Harwood's poetry'; and Prynne to Warsh (18 February 1969, 2 sheets), deferring judgement until The White Room is published ('I liked very much "The Situation" in the second Ant's Forefoot, but am still not easy about The Man With Blue Eyes'). The copy letters come with a covering typed note (same typewriter), with unfranked envelope, from 'Peter' [?Riley].