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The letter includes the words cher poete, eve and silvester created with 'c's,' 'p's,' 'e's' and periods, respectively. The pages have binder holes. Eve is Charles Cameron girlfriend. -- 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.

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 message has been written on the verso of a photograph b&w depicting a visual poem by Furnival done in 1964. Furnival mentions that Mike Weaver was slightly peeved by Edwin Morgan's talk which leaned heavily on his "Image" article without giving Weaver credit for it. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The card depict unreadable poems that might have been produced, according to Morgan's imagination, by bugs in computers' first programs on making translations. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This article (page 9) about Dom Sylvester Houedard deals with the book launch of "Notes from the Cosmic Typewriter" (2012) by Occasional Papers at the South London Gallery in December 2012. The Sackners were present at this event and Marvin Sackner lectured on visual works that Houedard made before his well known typed concrete poems. One of the two illustrations in this article was the property of the Sackner Archive. The newspaper was mailed to the Sackners along with a thank you card by Sara [de Bondt] and Antony Hudek, the owners of Occasional Papers. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The letter on the verso of this photograph indicates that two of Chopin's items can be discounted. Also, Furnival mentions that Mike Weaver was upset with Edwin Morgan for not giving him more credit for his "image" article in a talk that he gave. The photograph depicts a constructivist drawing by Furnival. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.