In Nov 1972, Finlay writes to Vincent Butler, who built the aircraft carrier sculpture for Stonypath, expressing his displeasure with the quality of the drawing for the Wild Stone project. Finlay indicates that unless Butler can produce a better drawing, their collaboration should cease. No reply from Butler is contained within this Archive and letters from Finlay to Peter Lyle, Michael Harvey, and George Thorpe are sent requesting their assistance with the project along with those of Butler. Finlay writes that the poems to be inscribed upon the Six Wild Stones are one word poems analogous to Japanese Haiku where art is a matter of brevity and suggestion and wild (native) stones in a formal area is equivalent to a Japanese rock Garden. Examples include the poem Curfew "Curlew." Curlew is a bird heard mostly on still, misty days or in the evening with a long, sad cry. Finlay includes a plan on graphite tracing paper, ...a large area mown grass ...stone paving slats...stone poems placed. Harvey submits a drawing for the poem, Air-To-Ground, Air-To-Air, Ground-To-Air in David Jones'-like lettering as Finlay had suggested but comments "...in my version of David Jones lettering - I am puzzled by the fact that it still looks more Harvey than Jones!" The carver, John Thorpe, sends a photograph of the stone, Curlew, to Finlay in Jan 1973. The archive includes a photograph of the six stones on plywood by George Oliver. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.