In this letter to Charles Cameron DSH writes to check up on various poetry projects and asks Cameron "WHAT ABT THIS ARTICLE ON ME IN THE OLIVETTI THING do let me know i ache to see it with it i can approach olivetti himself & get CASH which is so useful." Also, dsh noted that Konrad Bayer died this week. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The letter is addressed to "my dear charles" wherein Charles' name is typed with commas separating the letters.The body of the letter is typed in red.The text mentions that DSH has "so little time to write...we are in R;E;T;R;E;A;T;" He suggests places for Cameron to visit and work. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The letter is addressed to "my dear charles" wherein Charles' name is typed in black '5 over 8s.'The body of the letter is typed in red.The signature, using DSH's French name, is typed in dense black '?s.'. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The letter is addressed to "my dear charles" wherein Charles' name is typed in black dense periods and commas.The body of the letter is typed in red with several black typed comments.The text mentions that John Sharkey is shooting a poetry film including Mike Weaver, Ian Hamilton Finlay and DSH among others and that Cameron should get in touch with Sharkey. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The letter is addressed to "my dear charles" wherein Charles' name is typed large in green, vertically with slashes and dashes. Prinknash is typed in the upper left corner in brown large letters made with slashes, dashes and parenthesis. The body of the letter dealing with philology, early religions and academic publications is typed in brown. DSH invites Charles to visit him at Prinknash.The large signatuare S is typed in brown and is surrounded with a green typed square. Houedard duscusses jeaninine milller's veda book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The letter is addressed to "my dear charles" wherein Charles' name is typed large in brown letters composed of dense periods. Prinknash is typed in the upper left corner in brown large letters made with slashes, dashes and parenthesis. The body of the letter dealing with personal meetings with Cameron and with Peter Snow of the Bodley is typed in green.The signature s is typed in brown. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Houedard's dense text comments and makes suggestions on a paper sent to Houedard by david (medella?) for his review. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Houedard mentions making his transparency poems and describes his travels and visitations. This letter has a large number of ink lettered additions marking the failure of the typewriter keys to make an impression on the blue colored 'madras' tissue paper surface. In the opening statement, Houedard complains, 'crime to type with this ugh "invicta' typewriter -'... The invicta was a pre-WWII downgraded Olivetti portable typewriter. The recipient of this letter, 'explodings' might have been David Medalla. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Houerdard writes," i got this wretched chang-kai-chek 'flu - held things up." He signs this letter "much luv - & affectionate coughs." The address to Hansjorg is typed with red dashes as is the name silvester.The basis for this letter is to ask Hansjorg Mayer to send off Houedard works to Dana Atchley at the University of Victoria in Canada and he provides letterpress works, photographs, typings and credits. These works were subsequently published in Atchley's Notebook 1 (1970), a work also held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The letter is addressed to "my dear hot & cold & loved both." Houedard mentions that he is in the process of moving rooms and includes a typewriter poem (020268).The verso of the letter contains the handwritten phrase "hoppy & the cheese" on the top and repeated on the bottom of the page. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Houedard mentions his time-consuming writing and speaking projects including his work on the bible (Jerusalem Bible). He writes that Jonathan Williams is going to do the concrete anthology and "Kitaj did silk screens for the mahler poems - marlborough publishing 60 copies at jon says 300 pounds each - HE gets a free copy." This "messy" letter is signed pierre formed with typed commas and semi-colons. -- 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 receiving "tlatoc from cav this morning most glad to hear him say you very exceedingly ok bloke (his very own words)." Else where the letter contains several critical references to writers and publishers in scatological language.Two lines at the top left of the page read, "i go for yr/windywetmoor." -- 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.

The name peter is typed in red with dashes and slashes. Houedard writes that " here i am in the middle of 3 years work revising the bible (once more) - but taking time off to see the students at cardiff artcoll under patric ?nolan ?dolan." -- 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.

The large P in the heading to Peter is typed with slashes and dashes. Houedard has requested mention of OULIPO to be included in Peter's Mayer's book with Bob Cobbing, 'Concerning Concrete Poetry.'. He states that his files and things have arrived from the old abbey and he is putting them in order. He also makes suggestions to study the medieval manuscripts for shaped forms and "also the covers of the new encyclopaedia iudaica has a very well done tree with hebrew alphabet leaves...the psychology of inventing pseudo hebrew & pseudo greek might be looked into." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Houedard is concerned about sending his reversals and reflecting poems to Ugo Carrega for an exhibition in Italy "but he prefers something more general - a bit of a retrospective - which puts me [Houedard] in a quandry as my stuff gets so scattered i never know where anything is & having had two retrospectives already (the V-&-A in london: the ceolgrith in newcastle at the laing) i cant start assembling stuff all over again - however i shall suggest he writes to the british council to see if they can help - also to the V-&-A which has a travelling show of some of my work (tho whether their travelling shows go abroad i am not certain." The envelope is addressed to Richard Aaron in Switzerland. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Implores Abrams to write to him and mentions that Albert-Birot will be visiting London. Both steve's at the salutation and houedard's signature are typed after the form of the poster poems composed by Albert-Birot in the 1920s with a sem-circle of s's and r's, respectively. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.