Houedard begins letter with "i always seem to be emptying the commode when you appear on the steamradio - the cuba scene came over well...He also writes "they are doing my ballet sometime - roundhouse? the slab? - called 'the cosmic typewriter - a somantic diversion." In a handwritten note of the margin, Houedard writes, "this is terrible invicta typewritter - not at all cosmic" -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Deals with definitions of typewriterart, machine poetry & poetry machines as a preamble to a letter to Jasia Reichert regarding an introduction for his lecture at the ICA for which the Sacknaer Archive holds the printed announcement. Houedard claims that '...this is the FIRST lecture on typewriterart - you may say i 'invented' typewriterart - is not sure i did i certainly invented (?) FREEROLLER typing - now - if you know ANYONE of the olivettis then do get them along & add to the notesthat a i use an olivetti lettera 22 - & bi doubt if ANY OTHER MACHINE is organised so as to give the right controls' -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Bann reports damage to the screen of Furnival's installation at the Brighton Festival. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Bann discusses Furnival organizing transportation of "Clyne" constructions, vowel screens, three columns, Ed Wright's "Four Sails" glass, "Ajar" wooden construction, "Ark/Arc" in plastic...[and] column with "Wave/Wave" to Nottingham, and the possibility of using Mayer's "Ampersands" for a wall or outdoor display. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Letter concerns setting up, transporting and caring for Furnival's work at the first Brighton Festival as well as asking for an indication of the arrangement of Furnival's panels and whether Houedard could associate with the project. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Letter discusses catalogue and guide for the Brighton Festival exhibition; asks whether Furnival is in possession of "Arc/Ark" piece and whether Furnival's "Ajar" piece is "still in an exhibition-worthy state." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Bann thanks Furnival for typographical material and requests use of two designs in the Alan Ross anthology. Bann asks that Furnival consider an outdoor rather than an indoor site for his installation at the Brighton Festival. -- 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.

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.

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.

Mentions homage to Ronald Firbank at Lisson Art Gallery; letter has a sketched concrete poem. -- 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 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 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.

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.

Letter deals with a Nitsch (Vienna Action Group) performance that resulted in an obscenity charge by the English legal system and the sending of 3 typestracts to the "Bennington." Mentions that galleries usually charge $15.00 each and that he wants transparency of any item sold. States that Watford College wants him to do typestracts - i.e. not semantic poems and wants response if request is for poems "w/oldfashioned words." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

In this letter, Jandl mentions "three visual poems" for publication in Second Aeon, the periodical edited by Finch. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Gomringer expresses admiration for the poetry of Houedard and Finlay in England. He mentions that he is thinking about creating a book "for the hours." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Mentions receipt of "Bean Train, Night Bean" from Roger & Johnny? and his own mistake with an anonymous Brazilian poem in P.O.T.H. in which he was supposed to print "Gaol" three times at the end but printed "Goal" instead. Notes that two collections of poems are in preparation, "Canal Funnel" and Telegrams De Mon Moulin" (after Daudet). -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The text of the nine pages that constitute this work consist of letters with variations of the spacing of the word, "no." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.