Add MS 89404/4/62

(1). Typed letters from Maurice Scully to Peter Hodgkiss, a letter from Tyneside Frees Press to Hodgkiss regarding the cost of printing, and British Library Legal Deposit Request and Receipt:

• 16 Jan 1986. Enclosing 'a section' from 'Five Freedoms of Movement': 'maybe you'd like to use some of it somehow somewhere. Ireland's a desert, no outlet here.'
• 25 Feb 1986. 'Ric Caddel has suggested I send this to you. I don't know, it's quite a large slab of paper'.
• 21 Apr 1986. 'Yes, by all means let's go ahead & do 'Freedoms'.
• 17 May 1986. 'Parcel of books & mags received intact the other day [....] You know I'm really taken with this Poetry Information & Not Poetry. It's very exciting. I don't think I can open them anywhere & not be stimulated.'
• 11 Jul 1986. 'Delighted the Dog can litho 'Freedoms'! I'll go thru my copy here then send you the um.. "master" copy or whatever.'
• 22 Jul 1986. Enclosing a 'mock copy' of the book.
• 25 Jul 1986. 'Here enclose ts of FREEDOMS as promised.'
• 13 Aug 1986. Letter annotated by Hodgkiss: 'Proofs sent 26/8/86. Scully has been 'photocopying bits & pieces from POETRY INFO (final issue) & sending to poets of my acquaintance to try & budge towards a contemporary outlook. I'll relieve you of as many issues of that mag as you care to part with for cash on yr next visit.'
• 26 Aug 1986. Refers to cover image: 'just discovered this afternoon a dancer figure from the same Saharan caves of more grace & vigour than what I've already sent.'
• 3 Sep 1986. 'Proofs arrived intact.'
• 16 Sep 1986. Cover: 'the original cover I sent is ok. I fiddled around with another thing but I'm not happy enough with it to justify a change.'
• Undated [Sep 1986?]. Hodgkiss visiting. A note 'Confirming tonight [...] I have the proofs ready'.
• 8 Oct 1986. 'I was intrigued by the regional bias against [Basil] Bunting evident in your compilation of reviews where the very same people who dub it Quonk & Groggle just come in their nickers over the Sump & Stump of Heaney et al: picturecard primitiveness from the colonies, how quaint! And lucrative.'
• Undate list of 'typos' - annotated by Hodgkiss: 'Proofs corrected 27/10/86'.
• Undated (annotated by Hodgkiss: reply 3/11/86). Enclosing (none present in file): 'copy of a prose booklet I got together by Yann Lovelock before I left for Italy in '84'; 'copy of FREEDOMS cover'; and the magazine Beau II. 'Looking back, the best thing the BEAU did is not on paper at all - those strange, mixed readings/talks/shows/concerts at the Winding Stair I organised thru '82/3'.
• 11 Nov 1986. Autograph postscript: 'Did I tell you that after much persuasion another shop [The Halfpenny Bridge Bookshop] has inaugurated(?) a little altar to small press poetry?'
• 13 Nov 1986. 'Here's a tentaive programme for the British poets reading series I'm attempting to organise in Dublin. 5 readings: John Freeman/Alan Halsey, Ken Edwards/Allen Fisher, Peter Riley/Roy Fisher, Chris Torrance/Lee Harwood & Wendy Mulford/Tom Raworth. I haven't written to any of these people yet, apart from Freeman & Halsey [....]'
• 18 Nov 1986. Further remarks on 'the projected British poetry reading series'.
• Undated (and perhaps from an earlier place in the letter sequence): Draft 'Notes' for the book.
• 2 Dec 1986. Tyneside Free Press to Hodgkiss, revising the cost of printing.
• Undated (annotated by Hodgkiss: 'reply 20/12/86'). 'Good to get the big parcel. What a beautiful production the new [Chris]Torrance is!'
• 4 Jan 1987. 'To my astonishment the Irish Arts Council have agreed to go some of the way to finance this fairly ambitious reading series, but I'll have to raise a lot more before it becomes a reality.'
• 28 Jan 1987. Placing Five Freedoms in Dublin bookshops.
• 6 Feb 1987. 'Terrific! Congrats. Exccellent job. I'm bruiting the G Dog around here.' The offer of funding by the Irish Arts Council for the series of poetry readings 'has embarrassed the Brit Embassy here into replying to my letters & eventually offering to help too - a bit. This thing looks like snowballing!'
• 12 Feb 1987.
• 24 Feb 1987. 'I think you know we plan to flit the country early May, so I'm endeavouring to organise the reading series round w/ends late March to mid April, all over by Easter [....] We'll be in Dublin again for part of August. En route, all going well, for Zimbabwe. Good to hear Tom Leonard liked Freedoms. I didn't half mind Situations T & C. Thanks for spreading it around, I appreciate it a lot. It really is relieving to break the dark Celtic Shell that can imprison one here.'
• 16 Mar 1987. 'This weekend's the first in the reading series, Geraldine Monk + Irish chap (Philip Casey), Sat.: Lee Harwood + what the hell I've got the poster, I can send you that.'
• 10 Nov and 10 Dec 1987. British Library Legal Deposit Request and Receipt.

(2). There are two photocopy typed manuscripts in the file, exhibiting few differences. Notably, one manuscript (designated, for cataloguing purposes, as the 'earlier' manuscript) includes a poem in the first section of the book that does not appear in the second manuscript nor in the publication:

• 2a. Earlier manuscript, including additional poem on p. 9 ('Item: map and plan').
• 2b. Subsequent manuscript.

(3). Five black and white photographs (postcards) used at the head of each section of the book. Four are attached to a backing sheet.

(4). Publication. Maurice Scully, Five Freedoms of Movement. Galloping Dog Press: Newcastle upon Tyne, 1987.