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 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 3450 Collections and/or Records:

[Letter to John Furnival] / Moineau, Jean-Claude., 1967

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Identifier: CC-60559-10003453
Scope and Contents

Moineau asks Furnival to sponsor performances by Met-Art group in England, -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1967

[Letter to John Furnival] / Spacagna, Jacques., 1968

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Identifier: CC-60556-65880
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This letter is an invitation to particpate in an exhibition in Paris, "Comparisons." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968

[Letter to John Gill] / bissett, bill., 1983

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Identifier: CC-24161-24613
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bissett thanks John Gill, the publisher, for inviting him to read in New York. This letter was in the collection of the actor, Malcolm Carey. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1983

[Letter to John Gill/Th First Snow] / bissett, bill., 1983

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Identifier: CC-24160-24612
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bissett writes that the Canadian Council will pay his fee if John Gill, the publisher, can pay his fare and that he is eager to get to New York. This letter was in the collection of the actor, Malcolm Carey. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1983

[Letter to John M. Bennett] / Curtay, Jean-Paul; Cole D., 1983

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Identifier: CC-17826-18196
Scope and Contents

Proposes that Bennett send some material to Doc(k)s and Tartalacreme for publication and that Curtay perform in Bennett's space. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1983

[Letter To John Pyros] / Arco, Ines., 1984

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Identifier: CC-24774-25227
Scope and Contents

Letter discusses artist's activities; an abstract drawing is present on verso. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1984

[Letter to John Pyros] / Craigie, Peter M.., 1987

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Identifier: CC-16527-16880
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Text relates to Mail Art by exhibition written on verso of exhibition announcement of Craigie's paintings, assemblages & reliefs at McCoy Fine Arts Gallery, Philadelphia. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1987

[Letter to John Pyros] / Craigie, Peter M.., 1987

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Identifier: CC-16506-16859
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Concerns apology for missing deadline of a project. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1987

[Letter to John Pyros] / Petasz, Pawel; Padin C; Caraballo J., 1987

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Identifier: CC-04206-4285
Scope and Contents

Petasz discusses shortcomings of Commonpress issue edited by Pyros and asks him to send issues to several collectors including Marvin Sackner. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1987

[Letter to John Pyros] / Zack, David., 1984

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Identifier: CC-00022-21
Scope and Contents

Zack describes his reaction to the 'Homage to the Mad Diarist' exhibition. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1984

[Letter to Jonathan Williams passed on to Emmett Williams] / Merton, Thomas; Williams E; Williams J., 1967

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Identifier: CC-30778-32224
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Merton requests contributions for his periodical, Monks Pond. Jonathan Williams passes the letter onto Emmett Williams with the notation that the above letter from Thomas Merton explains itself. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1967

[Letter to Karl Kempton] / Blaine, Julien., 1984

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Identifier: CC-22907-23343
Scope and Contents

Cover letter for submission of four pages for Visualog 2. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1984

[Letter to Martin [Fidler]] / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1967

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Identifier: CC-12291-12515
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This is a request to Martin Fidler, the bookseller who sold the Sackners the Finlay Archive, for out-of-print books by Confucius and by the philosopher J-H. Newman. It gives an indication of the seriousness of Finlay's depth of intellectual reading. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1967

Letter to Marvin Sackner, 1976

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Identifier: CC-41145-43126
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This is the first letter written to Marvin Sackner from Tom Phillips. Sackner was moved by Phillips' exhibition in the Basel Kunsthalle. The letter begins, "Thanks for your kind letter & your good wishes re - A Humument - it has been a long haul!" He goes on extending an invitation to visit him in London. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1976

[Letter to Mary Luft] / Curtay, Jean-Paul; Sackner RK; Sackner MA., 1982

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Identifier: CC-17839-18209
Scope and Contents

This is a draft of a letter relating a telephone conversation with the Sackners about visiting them in Miami Beach and giving a performance in their home as well as in the New Music Festival. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1982

Letter to mdc - carlobenito (160865) / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1965

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Identifier: CC-57889-10001139
Scope and Contents

This letter to Charles Cameron asks him many questions about poetic productions and descriptions of publsihed works for example, "edwrights pondplop design for frog just come is ultrafine." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1965