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Page 40 consists of diary entries stamped 27 Jul 1981 and 5 Aug 1981.There is a large, green stamped seal on the bottom left of the pageas Phillips writies, "The royal seal announces the safe return of cantos since the V&A announce they do not want to subscribe." There are also several conceptual drawings for his "plan for making lg pictures from small ones" by mounting the small paintings on faux gallery walls. The Sackner Archive holkds one of these small gallery paintings. There are also several drawings of of nude figures and two drawings for pages of ideas to illustrate the Dante Inferno work. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Page 41 contains Phillips' handwritten note "IX/LXXXI. Dante died 660 years ago today." Phillips describes his work on the cantos and the sale of several works. The page is collaged with bits of leopard skin printed papers and a page from " A Hument Document" on which Phillips has selected a line of text "dissipation, and the animal curves taken by the plausible" and placed it in a drawn arrow that also appearse in a nearby sketch. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Page 42 is stamped 2 Nov 1981.The page contains several versions of collaged and drawn lions. Phillips writes that he is working with artists from Leicester Polytechnic. He has collaged papers from there on this page that also contains a small text from A Humument that reads, "the restless advance to the devil." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Page 43 is titled "Dante in Venice (Miami) 81". The page consists of three found post cards of a nude woman sitting on a beach. Phillips has cut out the heads of each and changed them on the final figure to the head of Dante.The cards are mounted on turquoise paper that is stamped at the bottom with palm trees alternating with stamped dimes. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Page 44 is titled "Dante in England." A map of England is annotated with Phillips' trips including one near Stroud to visit with Bernie Moxham, a lecture on Dante in Brighton with Pella, Dante shown to children inWigan, to Liverpoool with Pella and to North Yorkshire to visit with Jonathan Williams a supporter of Talfour Press. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Page 49 contains a cut up collage of a lily painting on the right hand side of the page. Phililps writes that Pella seeing this cut up lily thought it would make a good cover design for some of the bindings.The left side of the page is filled witha large black painted spill mark and several brown ones. In the diary writing Tom states that he is back from India and that Nick has shingles so not too much work was done. Phillips finished the collage of Thesias and transparencies of three beasts. He is" trying to work out where the cantos stand. We should have 16 cantos sections ready by May 1st and be 1/2 way by June first. Not too bad. Now about to work on title page and should therefore concoct a name for the 'Press". First thought of Fleur de Lys Press, then Peckham Press. P. suggests Talfourd Press which seems a good neutral name. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Page 45 is stamped 3 Mar 1982 and contains collaged, torn pages of Phillips' street gas line covers on the lower left and upper right of the page. Phillips writes, " Returned from Ivory Coast and Kenya. Dante not much in evidence there except in my head." Diary writings continue to describe his progress with the Dante. There are large geometric, dimentional drawings on the right side of the page and a drawing of a stage safety curtain and collaged horses. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Page 46 is titled Dante in Europe - The First Phase. An irregularly cut map of Europe is collaged on the page with handwritten annotations of Phillips' travels. Some of the notations are as follows: Waddington Graphics plan a show in Stockholm: Dante prints now in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts in Budapset: T&H show Dante at Frank fort Book Fair; Milan - Only Italian subscriber Mazzemo ValSecchi; Les Journees Tom Phillips at Rowan & exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts; Basel Art Fair Book shown summer 83; Basel - Sackners first see my work; Paris - Backers, the Robelin. Pages exhibited Galerie BAMA 81- Previews plates at Centre at Centre Cultural du Maurais; Edinburgh weavers weave Una Selva Oscura. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents Page 47 is titled "Around the World with Dante - The Early Days." Around a collaged map of the world Phillips has written about and noted events related to his Dante publication.The reference to a painted gray square over England and Europe states "cf Dante in Britain and cf. Dante in Europe." Other selected places are as follows: Show video in Bagdad; Visit the site of the Tower of Babel in Iraq; Nick brings back a Russisn edition; Plans of Thames & Hudson to print the paperback version in Japan; I am invited to talk at Adelaide Australia Festival conference; complete set of pre-fire graphics in National Museum in Canberra; Worked on the translation in Delhi Christmas LXXXIII; cf Dante in Ghana drawing No. XX; Council show goes to Peru; Marvin & Ruth Sackner reading of Dante at Sackner soiree 1/84 (Miami Beach); Chicago Video Festiva lsees TV Dante; Chicago Art Fair 1983 book shown for the first time; Library of Congress puchases 1983 via Basilisk Books; -- Source of...

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Page 48 is titled Dante & Schism. The left hand side of the page consists of a collaged map with Northern Island clearly presented and a red line tracing Phillips' travels. A round circlce at the bottom of Ireland containing the city of Florence, also clearly presented. The right hand side of the page has dense lines of Phillips' diary writings and several sketches. Phillips notes that he visited his daughter Ruth in Dusseldorf. He also mentions Pella working on the sewing of the first volume. At the bottom right of this page is rubberstamped Slegs vir Almal. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This fifteenth page from the Dante Diary, which is dated Jan 24, 1980 to March 24, 1980, is titled Dante in London. The text details Phillips' work on illustrations and translations on Canto VIII. He discusses the hiring of new assistants. Midway through the text, he writes,"FINISHED SECOND DRAFT OF TRANSLATION and have worked on penultimate draft of Cantos VII & XIX." The right side of the page contains collaged papers, including a card from Dantes Hairdressing in London, a section from the London telephone book with Dante listings circled, and a cartoon with a cloud floating above a map of Italy imprinted with the word CONFUSION.Three small abstract expressionist gouache paintings complete the right side of the page. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This sixteenth page from Dante Diary which is dated 10 Mar 1980 contains two images of "Why save?" and Why spend". On the right side of the page is the verso of a post card with annotation and notes by Phillips.On the top center is a small map of the world and near by is the following text by Phillips: "A poem written in Italy almost seventy years ago now translated by a British artist and illustrated in London wiith help from various printers etc with backing from NY, Miami, Paris using paper made in Wells Somerset for lithographs made with French inks, etchings using copper from (?) silkscreens..." Phillips is off to Paris "ringing up recalcitrant backers and subscribers. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This seventeenth page from Dante Diary which is dated 5 June 1980 contains six discs of WHY SPEND and six discs of WHY SAVE? several of which are collaged. The page also contains several ink sketches of the same. In his text, Phillips writes "XXIV/V/LXXX. 43 years old!...Temporarily held up wtih Dante work since Hansjorg [Mayer]has brought along thousands of transparencies, proofs, etc, of a humument and I must work on them...Silkscreens seem to be working out very expensive & I'll probably have to do more lithography." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This eighteenth page from Dante Diary which is dated 20 May 1980 is titled "Dante in the Great Rift Valley." Phillips writes,"Short stay in Kenya & hired a small red Japanese car& drove towards the great rift valley...in the Kenya phone book only one Dante a diesel shop.On the way back saw DANTE in large letters on a wall driving to the airport. A wall I saw a moment later was obscuring the BURBA which was the second name of the same Deisel workshop. Off to Ghana on Ethiopian airways." The fragment from the phone book containing the name of Dante Burba is collaged on the top right of this page.One small red car is rubber stamped and painted and three others are unpainted and stamped with the word carro. A card contianing an abstract drawing of "The ferryman on Lake Nawasha" is collaged on the bottom center. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This twentieth page from the Dante Diary was drawn in Botswana. The image contains colored sketches of four lions. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This twenty first page of the Dante Diary is stamped 20 May 1980, Phillips writes that he is in Mochudi, Botswana. The collage elements on this page include a drawing of a lion's head, a rubber stamp of a lion, the seal from the British Council, an announcement of an exhibition of prints and drawings by Phillips, and a large portion from a carton of matches. All contain the image of lions. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This twenty second page of the Dante Diary is stamped 5 Aug 1980 and 22 is written on the lower right side. Phillips writes that he is meeting Hansjorg Mayer in Germany to print "A Humument" in three days time. The background collage material includes printed pages of photographs and biography of Phillips, a section of map from London to Germany and snippets of pages from the German telephone book listiing the names Dante and Hell. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This is the 23rd page from Dante Diary. It contains a printed page of text from Dante's 19th Canto as a base for drawings and diary writings by Phillips.The dates 28 June 1980 and 16 Jul 1980 are rubberstamped. In Phillips' handwritten diary he writes ."The Sackners came to have theri likenesses done & I managed Marvin in 1 1/2 hours (!) & Ruth in two sessions." On this sheet a coffee stain becomes part of the composition along with sketches and drawings.The number 23 is written in the lower right corner. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This twenty fourth page of the Dante Diary is stamped 24 in the upper right corner.This page contains a letter of acknowledgemnet of receipt of Phillips' appplication for an Arts Council Award, a card to The Tate Gallery offering the sale of the stage by stage purchase of the Dante Cantos for a 100 pounds per Canto and other miscellaneous ink drawings and collaged elements and diary texts, -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Page 29 is rubberstamped "Dante in New York" and contains references to meetings with Martin Ackerman and Richard Minsky.This page has a border of miniature painted sketches, dense diary entries and a collage illustration of a drawing of a head by Phillips from the Royal Academy. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.