The words of the poem are printed on translucent paper that overlies photographs (Audrey Walker) illustrating the poems. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The print depicts a combination of red and black typewriter ribbons unspooled from two spools. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The image on this card is a black and white photograph taken by Gillanders of a flowing stream between grass banks. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

These are preparatory drawings for a plaque to be mounted on a tree. Comments written on these drawings explain the artist's intent. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Finlay comments on the verso of this card that the text moves from the plain (or Doric) tree-bark to the Baoque via the elaborate barque or three-masted sailing ship. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The image is a photocollage by Heartfield depicted the Nazi Swatstika formed by four axes. The caption quotes Catherine Millet, editor of Art Press Paris, who was highly critical of Finlay's work for the city of Paris, "I saw a work, I saw Nazi signs carved on it, basta..." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Bath roundel indicates stopper of drain in bathtub and in this photograph by Oliver a model airplane bomber appears to be dropping this object into the drain. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This depicts the sky with white clouds and trails of white smoke from fighter planes' exhausts. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The bee symbol in this drawing suggests the sea (bee) and hive symbolizing the aircraft carriers. The text is written in old English characters. This drawing served as preparatory drawings for a subsequently realized print that is also held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Finlay writes about the World War II Battle of Midway4 June 1942 in poetic terms, viz., ...the great sea hives/consumed with their choicest swarms by their own flaming honey. The bee symbol is used to suggest the sea (bee) and hive symbolizing the aircraft carriers. The text is hand written and served as preparatory texts for a subsequently realized print that is also held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The card depicts three photographs, two a side view of the a row of houses. One of these views depicts two stripes, the other one stripe painted onto the houses. The middle photograph depicts a lettered wall of Finlay's sculpture "vague wave." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The title and line drawn image of a ship on the front of this card refer to the British naval corvette ships of the Flower class. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The poem, on folded white paper shaped like an arrow, contains the message printed in red, "Beat the Reds with the White Wedge: Correspond!" This slogan has been modified from El Lissitzky's revolutionary poster, "Beat the Whites with the Red Wedge." It refers to an appeal to write in his support regarding his contemporaneous tax dispute. It does not appear to be referenced in the Finlay bibliographies. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The same poem from Virgil, "Georgics iv," is applied to both bees and boats; the poem reads, -- They lightly skim, And gently sip the dimply river's brim. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.