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Record Id:
040-002899021
Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
032-002354004
MDARK:
ark:/81055/vdc_100024211650.0x000001
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ISAD(G)
Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 88998/8/7
Title:

Lee Harwood: Correspondence (1984-1988) Relating to Translations of Tristan Tzara

Scope & Content:

Correspondence relating to the publication of Harwood, Chanson Dada (Toronto: Coach House Books, 1987).

(1). 1984

  • 4 May 1984. Michael Ondaatje to Harwood. Typed postcard. 'CHP is interested though they have been keeping low last few months cos of mad machines. bp Nichol will see it through the press if it all works out.'
  • 24 May 1984 (franking date). Ondaatje to Harwood. Typed postcard. 'Coach House Press had its meeting and all is set to do the Tzara book.'
  • 18 June 1984. Bolinas, Harwood to Barrie Nichol. Typed carbon copy (1 sheet).
  • 19 August 1984. Toronto, Nichol to Harwood. Typed letter (1 sheet) with envelope.
  • 29 August 1984. Bolinas, Harwood to Nichol. Typed carbon copy (1 sheet), with related autograph 'queries' (1 sheet).
  • 9 September 1984. Nichol to Harwood. Typed letter (2 sheets) with envelope.
  • 30 September 1984. Bolinas, Harwood to Nichol. Typed carbon copy (1 sheet).
  • 26 November 1984. Chertsey, Harwood to Nichol. Typed carbon copy (1 sheet).

(2). 1985

  • 10 February 1985. Nichol to Harwood. Typed letter (1 sheet) with envelope.
  • 18 March 1985. Brighton, Harwood to Nichol. Typed carbon copy (1 sheet).
  • 13 May 1985. Harwood to Nichol. Typed carbon copy (1 sheet).
  • 11 June 1985. Harwood to Nichol. Typed carbon copy (2 sheets).
  • 8 September 1985. Nichol to Harwood. Typed carbon copy (1 sheet).
  • 17 September 1985. San Francisco, August Kleinzahler to Harwood. Typed letter (1 sheet) with envelope.
  • 25 September 1985. Nichol to Harwood. Typed letter (1 sheet).
  • 8 October 1985. Harwood to Nichol. Typed carbon copy (1 sheet).

(3). 1986

  • 26 March 1986. Nichol to Harwood. Typed letter (1 sheet).
  • 18 May 1986. Nichol to Harwood. Autograph postcard.
  • 11 August 1986. Nichol to Harwood. Typed letter (1 sheet). Originally enclosing proofs.
  • 4 September 1986. Harwood to Nichol. Typed carbon copy (2 sheets), with autograph note of corrections (1 sheet).
  • Small sheet of Harwood's autograph notes, dated 26 August, 16 September and 11 November 1986.
  • 24 November 1986. Nichol to Harwood. Typed letter (1 sheet), with autograph note of further corrections (1 sheet).
  • 16 December 1986. Harwood to Nichol. Typed carbon copy (1 sheet).

(4). 1987

  • 1 January 1987. Nichol to Harwood. Autograph postcard.
  • 26 March 1987. Nichol to Harwood. Autograph postcard.
  • 24 April 1987. Edinburgh, James Neiss to Harwood. Typed letter (1 sheet). Compiling LP recording (see 'Futurism & Dada Reviewed', Belgium 1988).
  • 1 May 1987. Neiss to Harwood. Typed letter (1 sheet).
  • 29 June 1987. Diane Martin (Coach House Press) to Harwood. Typed letter (1 sheet).
  • 7 July 1987. Martin to Harwood. Typed letter (1 sheet).
  • 9 July 1987. Harwood to Martin. Typed carbon copy (1 sheet).
  • 21 August 1987. Nichol to Harwood. Two continuous pencil autograph postcards.
  • 1 September 1987. Martin to Harwood. Typed letter (1 sheet). 'Chanson Dada is now a living title, and it looks wonderful, and everyone is talking about it.'
  • 1 September 1987. Delivery note: 60 copies in two boxes (received 9 October).
  • 7 September 1987. Harwood to Martin. Typed carbon copy (1 sheet). 'A giant box of thankyous to you! Chanson Dada is totally handsome and an ecstatic delight for me! [...] I walk around Brighton with the grin of a Cheshire Cat fixed on my face.'
  • 9 October 1987. Harwood to Martin. Typed carbon copy (1 sheet). 'I've just received the two boxes of my Tzara book'.
  • 1 December 1987. Harwood to Poetry Book Reviews Editor, Times Literary Supplement. Typed photocopy letter (1 sheet).
  • Catalogue, Coach House Press (Spring 1987) including Chanson Dada, and Coach House information sheet about the book.

(5). 1988

  • 1 March 1988. Harwood to Martin. Typed carbon copy (1 sheet).
  • 16 March 1988. Delivery note, 20 copies cloth edition (received May 1988 - pencil annotation).
  • 22 April 1988. Harwood to Nichol. Typed carbon copy (1 sheet) originally enclosing photocopy of review of Chanson Dada by George Melly in The Guardian.
  • [22 April 1988]. Cutting of Melly's review.
  • 29 April 1988. Martin to Harwood. Autograph postcard.
  • 6 September 1988. Karen Mac Cormack to Harwood. Typed letter (1 sheet). 'The Coach House Editors have made selections from your Coach House book(s) for inclusion in our 25th Anniversay anthology.'
  • 28 September 1988. Steve McCaffery to Harwood. Typed letter (1 sheet) enclosing photocopy obituary (1 sheet) for B. P. [Barrie] Nichol from The Toronto Star (27 September).
  • Review (photocopy, 2 sheets) of Chanson Dada by O. B. Hardison Jr., published in Horns of Plenty: Malcolm Cowley and his Generation (1988). With Coach House Press envelope.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Additional Manuscripts
Hierarchy Record Ids:
032-002354004
036-002898937
040-002899021
Is part of:
Add MS 88998 : The Papers of Lee Harwood
Add MS 88998/8 : Lee Harwood: Translations of Tristan Tzara

 

Add MS 88998/8/7 : Lee Harwood: Correspondence (1984-1988) Relating to Translations of Tristan Tzara
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032-002354004[0009]/036-002898937[0007]/040-002899021
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Record Type (Level):
File
Extent:
1 file
Digitised Content:
Languages:
English
Scripts:
Latin
Start Date:
1984
End Date:
1988
Date Range:
1984-1988
Era:
CE
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Names:
Kleinzahler, August, American poet, b 1949
Mac Cormack, Karen, poet, b 1956
McCaffery, Steven, poet, b 1947
Nichol, Barrie Phillip, poet, 1944-1988
Ondaatje, Philip Michael, novelist, poet, b 1943