Scope and Contents In Nov 1972, Finlay writes to Vincent Butler, who built the aircraft carrier sculpture for Stonypath, expressing his displeasure with the quality of the drawing for the Wild Stone project. Finlay indicates that unless Butler can produce a better drawing, their collaboration should cease. No reply from Butler is contained within this Archive and letters from Finlay to Peter Lyle, Michael Harvey, and George Thorpe are sent requesting their assistance with the project along with those of Butler. Finlay writes that the poems to be inscribed upon the Six Wild Stones are one word poems analogous to Japanese Haiku where art is a matter of brevity and suggestion and wild (native) stones in a formal area is equivalent to a Japanese rock Garden. Examples include the poem Curfew "Curlew." Curlew is a bird heard mostly on still, misty days or in the evening with a long, sad cry. Finlay includes a plan on graphite tracing paper, ...a large area mown grass ...stone paving slats...stone poems...

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The drawings consist of architectural sketches for a Student Refectory that was unrealized by the Wild Hawthorn Press. One of the Lyle letters also includes an ink sketch for "Sea Stones" also an unrealozed project. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This depicts plans for a landscaped version of the poem Cythera first published as a booklet in 1965. The Sackner Archive holds the Archive for this work entitled Botanics "Cythera." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The poems were composed by Ian Hamilton Finlay and the drawings were done by Peter Lyle. The pamphlet lists Wild Hawthorne publications (winter '66/'67 list). -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The proposal was done for a private garden in Provence. The image on the cover is a wild boar. The print depicts a circular post cast in bronze, with plain and rusticated bands alternating, the pattern adapted from Sebastiano Serli's Five Books of Architecture. At the top of the post, are the words, 'AGE QUOD AGIS' - 'What you are doing, do thoroughly.' -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.