This is an invitation to Astrid Furnival's 60th birthday party designed by John Furnival. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This sculpture serves as a support for Astrid Furnival's knitted sweater "Un Coup de Des." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This sculpture serves as a support for Astrid Furnival's knitted sweater "Un Coup de Des." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Stored in Odd & Sods. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This print is reproduced on page 6 of John Furnival's book, 'Lost for Words' (2011). Nicole Rabetaud contributed a piece to P.O.T.H. No.13. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Chopin agrees with an August 3rd meeting with Verey and Furnival and wil stay at either one's house. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Houedard writes of the lack of care for his works when lent for exhibitions.This letter contains a typing of an elaborate curving line of letters "godfuckyou" and also a structure of individual letters that he describes as "thats not much of one im in a hurry" -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Furnival writes that he sends Dowden the Plakats that he had requested. Furnival comments about the Destruction In Art Symposium as follows: "Most of the people seemed to be really mixed up and quite wrong about the therapeutic value of destruction in art - but I expect that is my own personal bias!" The recto image is an optical image of Plakat No.6 done by Jiri Valoch. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Photograph depicts a panel of a screen from Furnival's language tower drawings, a work in progress. Furnival writes that Jonathan Williams will be coming to England in May and Dom Sylvester Houedard is in Scotland. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Deals with a visual poetry exhibition with Furnival and Houedard at Arlington One Gallery, Gloucestershire. A printed red colored map attached has a hanwritten message from Cox that reads "Can you spare the time to do it?" -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Furnival writes Dowden of the financial difficulties of publishing and distributing Openings Press material and asks him to take some of the work to bookshops. This card has a geometric drawing done by a machine called a Harmonagraph which Furnival indicates that he is trying to perfect. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The letter is written in a circular pattern starting from the top left corner. The paper is edged with a pinking shears and is folded in Origami fashion. Furnival discusses Chopin's visit in August and describes his various art projects. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Letter concerns John Furnival exhibition at Ikon Gallery Ltd. in Birmingham, England, including specifications for catalog, posters and private viewing. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Text on poster written by Guido Ballo. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Letter mentions future showing of "Aktuel Art International" at Stanford University Art Museum. Excellent photographs of installation at San Francisco Museum of Art. The exhibition consisted of works from Berner's own collection. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Thanks Hayter for his subscription and indicates that Plakats are getting more valuable. Mentions that future issues will include works by Raoul Haussman, Edwin Morgan and D.S. Houedard. Notes that Bernard Stone is charging 5 pounds for Openings Card series and comments, "The best - of luck to him - they must be getting valuable." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

angelBuds might be John and Wendy Sharkey. Houedard's rants on concrete poetry and homosexual thoughts on page one. He writes that John Furnival is making a motorisation of his POND - FROG - PLOP poem and discusses different typewriter companies on page two. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Houedard mentions Jonathan Williams, Ronald Johnson, John and Astrid Furnival and Ken Cox. Houedard writes at the page bottom, "just did poem for polluted lake: dedicated to ernst jandl: vienna circle: WA wa wa - WA wa wa - LLLLL - tz tz" The Polluted Lake Series was edited and published by d.a. levy. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This letter to John Sharkey discusses Houedard's concern for the hospital stay of Wendy Sharkey and others. It also describes financial problems with other poets including Desmond Dunphy, Geddes Irvine, Cavan McCarthy and Kim Cheams. Houedard mentions a poetry book entitled 'openwordrobe' that apparently was never published. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Houedard writes to Wendy and John Sharkey about the problems of delivering Christmas cards lost in the mail. He is hoping for a visit from the Sharkeys and remarks that "TLALOC is very nice to have around i hope it survives a few years." Houedard confirms that they should continue to look for sponsors and publishers for their work. He mentions the editor of Insect Trust Gazette, Robert Basara, who has asked him for material. Houedard signed this letter with a very long, handwritten stylized slash. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.