Letter discusses catalogue and guide for the Brighton Festival exhibition; asks whether Furnival is in possession of "Arc/Ark" piece and whether Furnival's "Ajar" piece is "still in an exhibition-worthy state." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Bann thanks Furnival for typographical material and requests use of two designs in the Alan Ross anthology. Bann asks that Furnival consider an outdoor rather than an indoor site for his installation at the Brighton Festival. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Arias-Misson describes his current activities with ZAJ and explains his music score poem "La Solitude Sonore." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Arias-Misson indicates that he wishes to change dedication of his music score "La Solitude Sonore" to D.S.H. (Dom Sylvester Houedard). -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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.

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.

Thanks Hardiment for his book, Antiphon and describes discharge from teaching position at Adler Country Secondary School. A testimonial by the Headmaster on Cobbing's teaching abilities on Art is appended. This records the enthusiasm of his students but the too radical ideas of instruction in this school. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Apologizes for missing [poetry] meeting with Hardiment because of flu and mentions enclosing copies of "Barnet Poets." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This letter provides an explanation of Adler's "Scenario," a prose piece which is an allegorical interpretation of his poem, "Alphabet Music." The manuscript of "Scenario" was attached to the letter. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Object consists of pant's pocket mounted on cardboard. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The letter has a large watercolor of the plant, Pulmonaria Officinalis - Lungwort dominating the left half recto of the letter. Furnival describes the reason for the name of this plant and also a visit to Russia and the Ukraine. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The drawing includes a Tibetan chant. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

levy requests poems from Inman for Silver Cesspool #5 and Inman sends them to levy. Inman also mentions that Carol Berge is delighted with levy's publication of her book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The note reads "will. i changed my mind tore up letter nothing is urgent -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner. The rest of the message is typed.

This print depicts a photographic portrait of Houedard along with the famous Haiku he translated from Bashu, "frog, pond, plop." It is depicted on page 140 of Furnival's book, "The Locative-Vocative Cases." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This experimental music score is based upon a concrete poem by Decio Pignatari. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This book provides an illustrated tour of Little Sparta. The photographs of the garden were taken by Andrew Lawson. The Sackners purchased this book from Finlay during a visit to the garden in 2004. This is the third impression. Sir Roy Strong calls Little Sparta 'the only really original garden made in this country since 1945'. Ian Hamilton Finlay's unique creation in the Pentland Hills south of Edinburgh is a garden composed as an artwork in itself. It incorporates concrete poetry, moral polemic, philosophical reflection and a sparkling sense of humour. While Finlay's works and installations throughout Europe and North America are well documented and justly famous, this is the first book devoted solely to the garden at Little Sparta, which has been at the heart of his life's work. It offers the reader a sense of the diversity and originality of the garden along with a text that unfolds the layers of meaning it contains. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Cobbing discusses the justifications in using machines to enhance the performance of sound poems. The handwritten text are notes unrelated to the essay. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The book mainly documents the indictment and trial of the author for sending five "indecent" postcards in the mail. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.