The card depicts a color photograph of a house facade with a window in which two, toy sail boats are placed upon its sill. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Image depicts a row of trees. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The drawings consist of the same phrase appears with slightly different calligraphic styles. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The letter is addressed to chas dear.The first paragraph urges Cameron to get DSH his proper Olivetti because "it is DESPARATE to use this fucking twr i just cant FEEL it...bring me SPARE OLIVETTI to use instead of this GHASTLY olympia that isn't MADE for typestracting ==you must TELL them who i mean how my LIFE is spent glorifying their mechanisms." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Deals with requests to Clarissa? to represent him to shops for sale of his concrete poetic pottery pieces. Comments about what he considered a poor performance of the actors in his Seaweed play. Expresses his displeasure about his daughter's impending marriage to an American sailor. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

DeCampos provides a brief discussion of his first meeting with Gomringer in his first communication with Houedard. He thanks Houedard for sending him typogrammes..."very interesting as studies of form though I personally prefer always to use the semantical element." States that both Gomringer and his group began from the same starting point, i.e., Mallarme's the throw of the dice, "the threshold of new poetry." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Finlay indicated that "I am almost sixteen and I hope to be an artist." He provides information on his current artistic interests. He closes with "If you could write me very shortly telling me whether in your opinion I should drop out of art school do my abstracts and creative work or whether I should do my academic work." This letter was copied from the original in the Tate Archives. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Comments upon adverse review of Lorine Niedicker book, produced by Finlay and Haynes, by Walter Kier in the magazine New Saltire. He asks Haynes to write a letter to the magazine with his response. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Mentions his disappointment that his daughter, Jessie, who married to a sailor now lives in NYC. Suggests that Haynes ought to contact Dom Sylvester Houedard who Finlay believes is an oustanding concrete/kinetic poet. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Notifies Haynes that he is sending a new play to him that has been broadcasted in Scotland and Canada. Includes a minimalist poem in the letter entitled "Landscape in the Barracks." Calls attention to two stains on the first page by encircling them and labeling them "tomato soup." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Letter concerns setting up, transporting and caring for Furnival's work at the first Brighton Festival as well as asking for an indication of the arrangement of Furnival's panels and whether Houedard could associate with the project. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Letter discusses catalogue and guide for the Brighton Festival exhibition; asks whether Furnival is in possession of "Arc/Ark" piece and whether Furnival's "Ajar" piece is "still in an exhibition-worthy state." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Bann thanks Furnival for typographical material and requests use of two designs in the Alan Ross anthology. Bann asks that Furnival consider an outdoor rather than an indoor site for his installation at the Brighton Festival. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This is a request to Martin Fidler, the bookseller who sold the Sackners the Finlay Archive, for out-of-print books by Confucius and by the philosopher J-H. Newman. It gives an indication of the seriousness of Finlay's depth of intellectual reading. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This letter to Charles Cameron includes several names and details for poetry readings that DSH suggests are to be contacted including Bob Cobbing, John Furnival, Ernst Jandl and Aram Soroyan. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Houedard has included two reconstructed abc-rhymes and a new one -" u k rhyming scheme." His letter refers to several early Christian poets writingn in Latin in appoximatley 200 to 600AD. HOuedard writes that Venantius Fortunatus " got there before later people did" in composing and being a foreruner of poster poems. This material deals with his contribution to Cobbing and Mayer's book, 'Concerning Concrete Poetry', with specific respect to chronology. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Mentions receipt of "Bean Train, Night Bean" from Roger & Johnny? and his own mistake with an anonymous Brazilian poem in P.O.T.H. in which he was supposed to print "Gaol" three times at the end but printed "Goal" instead. Notes that two collections of poems are in preparation, "Canal Funnel" and Telegrams De Mon Moulin" (after Daudet). -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Calligraphic examples of names and numbers are provided with comments by Grasby. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.