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The one word is "knitters!" and is a slur at Finlay's critics in Paris who were disturbed by his proposed commission for the city of Paris that compared Nazism to the French revolution. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The text was written by Janet F. Murchison, one of Finlay's nieces. The exhibition consisted mainly of Finlay's cards and books. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Janeczko selected the concrete poems in books published by established concrete poets. Chris Raschka illustrated the poems with semirealistic and surrealistic comic-like characters to create picture poems. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This catalogue consists entirely of a critical essay by Stephen Bann on Finlay's works dealing with the French Revolution. The cover is red paper stock, the end papers are blue paper stock, and the text is printed on white paper stock, e.g., the French tricolor flag. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This project is an abbreviated Doric temple with an inscription, "Aeterna Templa Caeli," the everlasting temple in the sky (cited by Varro in his De Lingua Latina). -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This proposal for Bernhard and Marie Starkmann depicts an oar wrapped in a fishing net stuck into a mound of rocks with the caption, "The Wanderings of Ulysses." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Also designated A Morning Star Folio 2/4 December 1991, a series edited by Alec Finlay. Not found in Fnlay's book of prints 1963-1997. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The poem is inscribed on gates to the flower garden in the foreground as "Little Fields, Long Horizons," in the midground as "Little Fields Long, For Horizons" and in the background as "Horizons Long, For Little Fields." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Lilly-cobbled refers to the abundant water-lilies that cover a section of the pool with their floating leaves in garden setting. This garden proposal was made for Alfred Richterich, Laufen, Switzerland. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This card proposes an object "suited to a Situation commanding an extensive Prospect" to be viewed from within William Shenstone's (18th century) The Leasowes garden. It is an obelisk that mocks a commission by Sadam Hussein for the Iraq super-gun from parts inadvertently forged by Walter Somers. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The illustrations were adapted from drawings made by Claude Lorrain. The project was proposed for Dinah Thompson. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This first proposal for an environmental work by Finlay was originally published in 1979 in an edition of five copies and here is reproduced as a section in Mr. Aislabie's Gardens. It is based upon a description by Jean-Jacques Rosseau (1712-1778). It consists of minimalist poems on plaques held by trees along with plans for a nature environment. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents The proposal printed in large red letters on the inside of the card reads, "A Revolution." Roe & Moore WEB 2016 for "A collection of letters and cuttings relating to the cancelled commission for a garden to commemorate the bi-centenary of the French revolution. From the collection of Douglas Maxwell" priced the collection at $836 thst included a single typed, signed letter by Finlay thereby valuing a signed Finlay letter between $400-$500. A typed letter from Ian Hamilton Finlay, signed Ian ink, dated 29.5.88 on his Little Sparta/Raspberry Republic headed paper. Gives an outline of the whole affair and denoujnces his detractors in pungent language; 'One also wonders whether these people have ever encountered an actual anti-Semite or Nazi. Sue and I have worked hard, and endured much; for the last thirty years; to achieve what we have To be denounced by people who are relatively youthful, who have never been hungry, who have incomes and security and whose lives have been-in...

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Three oval stone plaques are added to three trees in a quiet woodland call attention to the peaceful surroundings. The plaques are inscribed with the words SILENCE, SCHWEIGEN and SILENZIO.. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Finlay explains the poem in the print Neoclassical Thaumaturgy as follows. Thaumaturgy means wonder working; an aspect of the old classical religion. the 'gods' which fly faster than sound are present-day warplanes. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The postcard photograph of a mountain pass has a boulder in the center foreground with the name of the Swiss painter, F. Holder, inscribed upon it. The name is a play on words of boulder. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.