Mentions homage to Ronald Firbank at Lisson Art Gallery; letter has a sketched concrete poem. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This letter to Charles Cameron contains additional notes of DSH's thoughts in handwritten additions. He also writes "u cant tell how noble ive been (hausman wrote 'i am so pleased you see how important i am to history..." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Thanks Hayter for his subscription and indicates that Plakats are getting more valuable. Mentions that future issues will include works by Raoul Haussman, Edwin Morgan and D.S. Houedard. Notes that Bernard Stone is charging 5 pounds for Openings Card series and comments, "The best - of luck to him - they must be getting valuable." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Fahrner promises to send the translation of her book, Die Blumen (The Flowers Are Yellow) that the Sackners purchased at the Frankfurt Book Fair. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

States that he is teaching black students at Hunter College and the Rhode Island School of Design and has published his first article, the Mystic of the Coptic Codex, in the American Coptic Association Journal Vol.5 No.2, 1978. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The first paragraph in this letter to John Sharkey (?) expresses Houedard's dismay at the marital problems of Wendy and John Sharkey. The letter contiues with Houedards future projects including writing on Buddhism and poetry and a review of Naked Lunch. He writes "anyway pornography zen concrete catholic-atheism all seem to fit in smooth with wittgensien where he says old postion was : we all had these private minds & ideas originated in them & they cld learn all abt BODIES & got their information thru the body - but NEVER cld know another human mind..." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

angelBuds might be John and Wendy Sharkey. Houedard's rants on concrete poetry and homosexual thoughts on page one. He writes that John Furnival is making a motorisation of his POND - FROG - PLOP poem and discusses different typewriter companies on page two. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The recipient of this letter is probably David Medalla.The first page contains a red typed phrase "ubi eater" created with lowercase u's and lower case r's. The meaning of 'ubi eater' is unclear. The red typed signature of silvester formed with typed dashes is on the third page. The third page is typed on a different typewriter than the first two pages. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This letter writes that he has just found the text of the hashish poem and "thought it might fit & or something." He requests a copy be sent to Steve Abrams. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Houedard writes that he is sorry to have missed meeting Bob Cobbing in Gloshire. He writes that he "was in london fleetingly to flip thru papers at lisson - noticed several of what looked like sound poems i had collected for kroklok & some i had done myself - not sure how they got there - if you count kroklok as wf [writers Forum] work you wld have a lot of stuff - do you still have the MSS of all the oddments i have had in wf?" -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

In this letter to Charles Cameron DSH writes to check up on various poetry projects and asks Cameron "WHAT ABT THIS ARTICLE ON ME IN THE OLIVETTI THING do let me know i ache to see it with it i can approach olivetti himself & get CASH which is so useful." Also, dsh noted that Konrad Bayer died this week. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The letter is addressed to "my dear charles" wherein Charles' name is typed with commas separating the letters.The body of the letter is typed in red.The text mentions that DSH has "so little time to write...we are in R;E;T;R;E;A;T;" He suggests places for Cameron to visit and work. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The letter is addressed to "my dear charles" wherein Charles' name is typed in black '5 over 8s.'The body of the letter is typed in red.The signature, using DSH's French name, is typed in dense black '?s.'. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The letter is addressed to "my dear charles" wherein Charles' name is typed in black dense periods and commas.The body of the letter is typed in red with several black typed comments.The text mentions that John Sharkey is shooting a poetry film including Mike Weaver, Ian Hamilton Finlay and DSH among others and that Cameron should get in touch with Sharkey. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The letter is addressed to "my dear charles" wherein Charles' name is typed large in green, vertically with slashes and dashes. Prinknash is typed in the upper left corner in brown large letters made with slashes, dashes and parenthesis. The body of the letter dealing with philology, early religions and academic publications is typed in brown. DSH invites Charles to visit him at Prinknash.The large signatuare S is typed in brown and is surrounded with a green typed square. Houedard duscusses jeaninine milller's veda book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The letter is addressed to "my dear charles" wherein Charles' name is typed large in brown letters composed of dense periods. Prinknash is typed in the upper left corner in brown large letters made with slashes, dashes and parenthesis. The body of the letter dealing with personal meetings with Cameron and with Peter Snow of the Bodley is typed in green.The signature s is typed in brown. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Houedard's dense text comments and makes suggestions on a paper sent to Houedard by david (medella?) for his review. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Houedard mentions making his transparency poems and describes his travels and visitations. This letter has a large number of ink lettered additions marking the failure of the typewriter keys to make an impression on the blue colored 'madras' tissue paper surface. In the opening statement, Houedard complains, 'crime to type with this ugh "invicta' typewriter -'... The invicta was a pre-WWII downgraded Olivetti portable typewriter. The recipient of this letter, 'explodings' might have been David Medalla. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Houerdard writes," i got this wretched chang-kai-chek 'flu - held things up." He signs this letter "much luv - & affectionate coughs." The address to Hansjorg is typed with red dashes as is the name silvester.The basis for this letter is to ask Hansjorg Mayer to send off Houedard works to Dana Atchley at the University of Victoria in Canada and he provides letterpress works, photographs, typings and credits. These works were subsequently published in Atchley's Notebook 1 (1970), a work also held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Houedard mentions his time-consuming writing and speaking projects including his work on the bible (Jerusalem Bible). He writes that Jonathan Williams is going to do the concrete anthology and "Kitaj did silk screens for the mahler poems - marlborough publishing 60 copies at jon says 300 pounds each - HE gets a free copy." This "messy" letter is signed pierre formed with typed commas and semi-colons. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.