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Calligraphic text

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

[Letter to David Harris March 28, 1968] / Cobbing, Bob; Beckett S; Sharkey JJ., 1968

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Identifier: CC-19986-20374
Scope and Contents

David Harris aka David UU. Letter discusses sending sound performance tapes for festival. Cobbing states that he "must try to keep better contact between what we are doing and your good selves." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968

Letter to mdj/w [my dear john/wendy sharkey] (241165) / Houedard, Dom Sylvester; Sharkey JJ; Sharkey W ; Edmonds T; Williams J; Lucie-Smith E; Cobbing B., 1965

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Identifier: CC-56660-10000055
Scope and Contents

The letter heading mdj/w is Houedard's abbreviation for my dear john / wendy [Sharkey]. Houedard has used this abbreviation on several of his letters to various poets.This letter contains information about poets, publishers and mutual friends. Houedard mentions closing of betterbooks on December 31. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1965

[Untitled] / Apollinaire, Guillaume ; Phillips T ; Sharkey JJ ; Henri A ; Baruchello GF ; Blake P ; Finlay IH ; Chopin H ; Furnival J ; Cobbing B ; Cox K ; Heidsieck B ; Spacagna J ; Williams E., 1968

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Identifier: CC-26002-26464
Scope and Contents

Contains reproduction of handcolored images of Apollinaire's calligraphic poems from the exhibition catalog of Irene Lagut/Leopold Survage, 1917, a book held by the Sackner Archive. The recording is of Apollinaire's reading of his poem "Le Pont Mirbeau," in 1914. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968