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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.

This letter page might be a seicond of two that cannot be found. In it, Houedard discusses the religious life of monks as seen from the outside world.The remainder of the letter deals with meeting the person to whom it is addressed. Desmond, a prisoner that dsh befriended is also mentioned. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This piece is a tour de force of letter writing that includes several of Houedard's poems, most typed earlier as separate poems. -- 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.

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.

Houedard writes to Wendy and John Sharkey about his publishing problems with scatological pharses in a stream of consciousness style. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This letter is addressed to John Sharkey in which Houedard mentions possibilites for Wendy's work and other publications. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.