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Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 3450 Collections and/or Records:

[Letter to my dear t & t] (181165) / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1965

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Identifier: CC-56648-10000044
Scope and Contents

Houedard typed two optical block images with the lower case letter 't' in the upper page. The identity of t & t is unkown. The letter contains religious information and references to dildoes, e.g., a michievious prank or antic. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1965

[Letter to my dear tom [phillips]] (850713) / Houedard, Dom Sylvester; Dante., 1985

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Identifier: CC-56690-59755
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Houedard writes to Phillips that he "gave two papers not long since to the ibn'arabi society the first was on rainbows in dante & called the rainbow crystal they are thinking of publishing it - probably shortened - but i thought you might care to have a xerox" -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1985

Letter to Patricia Collins / Lumb, Michael., 1996

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Identifier: CC-58379-10001595
Scope and Contents

Lumb discusses hos trip to Tunis and Poland and his master's thesis in mail art. The theme of the artist booklet and the broadsides the "shrine." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996

Letter to Patricia Collins / Lumb, Michael., 1998

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Identifier: CC-58380-10001596
Scope and Contents

Lumb discusses the successful exhibition he curated in Warsaw," bookarts in britaim." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1998

Letter to Patricia Collins / Lumb, Michael; Crozier R., 1994

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Identifier: CC-58375-10001591
Scope and Contents

Lumb thanks Collins for the Robin Crozier book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994

Letter to Patricia Collins / Lumb, Michael; Crozier R., 1994

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Identifier: CC-58377-10001593
Scope and Contents

Lumb thanks Collins for sending him her work and vice-versa. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994

Letter to Patricia Collins / Lumb, Michael; Crozier R., 1997

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Identifier: CC-58378-10001594
Scope and Contents

Lumb discusses hos trip to Tunis and Poland and his master's thesis in mail art. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1997

[Letter to Peter Finch], 1972

 Item — Box 312: [Barcode: 31858072490828]
Identifier: CC-26151-26614
Scope and Contents

This letter provides an explanation of Adler's "Scenario," a prose piece which is an allegorical interpretation of his poem, "Alphabet Music." The manuscript of "Scenario" was attached to the letter. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1972

[Letter To Peter Finch] / Brown, Paul; Finch P; Nations O., 1972

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Identifier: CC-22316-22739
Scope and Contents

Letter concerns aspects of P. Brown's book, "Venus In Ultraviolet Light," a work held by the Sackner Archive. The image on stationery is by Opal Nations. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1972

[Letter to Peter Finch] / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1966

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Identifier: CC-09107-9286
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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.

Dates: 1966

[Letter to Pierre (Dom Sylvester Houedard)] / Gomringer, Eugen; Baljeu J., 1963

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Identifier: CC-10190-10391
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1963

[Letter to Raymond Federman] / Curtay, Jean-Paul; Sackner RK; Sackner MA., 1983

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Identifier: CC-17828-18198
Scope and Contents

Mentions that Sackners are admirers of Federman's book "Double or Nothing." Curtay also discusses the forthcoming Lettisme exhibition at the Univiversity of Iowa. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1983

[Letter to Richard Aaron (March 6, 1977)] / Gibbs, Michael; Gysin B; Carrion U; Burroughs WS; Chopin H; Dufrene F; Heidsieck B; Cobbing B; Mon F; Hanson S; Johnson BE; Nannucci M; Lora-Totino A., 1977

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Identifier: CC-43896-46000
Scope and Contents

Gibbs asks Aaron for books and mentions his working on Kontextsound to accompany the sound poetry festival ar Amsterdam's Stedelijk Museum. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1977

[Letter to Richard Aaron (May 7, 1977)] / Gibbs, Michael; Heidsieck B; Dufrene F; Ruhm G., 1977

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Identifier: CC-43893-45997
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Gibbs mentions his current travel plans and performances. He has favorable comments for a sound poetry festival. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1977

[Letter to Richard Aaron (November 1, 1975)] / Gibbs, Michael; Chopin H; Burroughs WS., 1977

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Identifier: CC-43894-45998
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Gibbs mentions that he wants to publish parts of Burroughs "The Third Mind" in Kontexts and that he is translating a piece from Henri Chopin in "difficult French. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1977

[Letter to Richard Truhlar] / Curtay, Jean-Paul; Heidsieck B; Dufrene F; Chopin H., 1983

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Identifier: CC-17824-18194
Scope and Contents

Proposes a sound poetry performance. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1983

[Letter to Robin Wakefield] / Furnival, Astrid; Houedard DS; Sharkey JJ., 1965

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Identifier: CC-13204-13505
Scope and Contents

Furnival thanks Wakefield, a collector, for subscription to Plakats and describes other publications of the press. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1965

[Letter to Roger? and Johnny?] / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1964

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Identifier: CC-12588-12820
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1964

[Letter to Roland Sabatier] / Curtay, Jean-Paul; Sackner RK; Sackner MA., 1985

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Identifier: CC-17852-18222
Scope and Contents

Discusses loans for the Franklin Furnace exhibition on Lettrisme and mentions works that he will request from the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1985