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Thorpe, John R.

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Archive for Wooden Sundial / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Harvey, Michael; Thorpe, John R.., 1973

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Identifier: CC-12668-12909
Scope and Contents

Finlay provides instructions to John Thorpe, a woodcarver, for making a wooden sundial at Stonypath. He also explains the poem that he has written after Claudel, the French poet, translated by Edward Lucie-Smith. The poem was supposed to be written on a fan with fan its first word, but in Finlay's version "fan" is eliminated since the dial itself is fanlike. The poem begins, viz., "Poems written upon the breath" (metaphor for breeze). Harvey's letters deal with the drawings. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1973

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