Scope and Contents Summary: 1)Description of U. Grant Roman - Ian Hamilton Finlay Archive. Chicago, Illinois 1983, manuscript; pages (ink, handwriting). 2). Letter to U. Grant Roman sending copies of P.O.T.H.. c.1963. letter (ink, handwriting), 3). Letter to U. Grant Roman thanking him for purchasing Poor Old Tired Horse and instruction for assembling Standing Poem. Dunsyre Lanark, Scotland c.1963, letter (typed), 4) Letter to U. Grant Roman discussing future of poems on glass panels. c.1963. letter (typed), 5) Letter to U. Grant Roman discussing loss of Cardboard Toy Poem and Proposal To Destroy All Copies of Canal Funnel Save One. Dunsyre Lanark, Scotland 1964. letter (ink, handwriting), 6.). Letter to U. Grant Roman Discussing Destruction of Canal Funnel and Mentions Publication of Concrete Poetry. Dunsyre Lanark, Scotland 1964 letter (typed, ink, handwriting 2p), 7) Letter to U. Grant Roman Listing Works Sent Including One Copy of Canal Funnel Lanark, Scotland 1964. letter (typed), 8) Letter to...

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This is a review of a photographic exhibition of Ian Hamilton Finlay's garden in Little Sparta at the Portrait Gallery. The reviewer describes the garden as arguably one of the great art works of art ever made on Scottish soil. "Certainly, it's the greatest ever made of Scottish soil - the realisation of one man's vision of a classical garden in the midst of an untamed land." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Stephen Bann contributed an essay on Finlay's proposal, "A revolutionary garden in Versailles." In it, he explains Finlay's choice of trees and bushes and their arrangement in terms of metaphors for the French revolution and the rights of man. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This proposal for a revolutionary garden in Versailles was never carried out owing to a political perception in France that Finlay espoused pro-Nazi, anti-semitic views (this opinion is not shared by the Sackners). -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.