This letter provides instructions for a performance piece that was mailed as a solicitation for a contribution to the New York artist bookshop, "Printed Matter." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The card is an invitation to the opening reception. This exhibition announcement was designed by Eileen Boxer. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Describes the collection and the collector, Gil Silverman. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Jon Hendricks, the editor, contributed an essay "Some Notes on Fluxus - Scores and Instructions" in which he writes that "People often see Fluxus performances as limited to a small group of action pieces, and ignore the rich variety of work that Fluxus embraced at different points in time." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Two copies are folded, the third is not. The design on the photomontage on the poster was made by Yoko Ono. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Kevin Concannon contributed a critical essay, "Sometimes a word is worth a thousand pictures; Toko Ono's art as a verb." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This American edition does not contain the three introductory and one afterword facsimile, pen drawings by John Lennon, which appeared in the Sackner copy of the British edition. Ono documents a performance work, "Breath Piece," as follows: "Breathe. First performed at Wesleyan University, Conn., U.S.A., in 1966. A large card with small lettering saying "breathe" was passed three times among the audience." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The Sackner copy of the British edition contains three introductory and one afterword facsimile pen drawings by John Lennon that are not included in the American edition. Ono documents a performance work, "Breath Piece," as follows: "Breathe. First performed at Wesleyan University, Conn., U.S.A., in 1966. A large card with small lettering saying "breathe" was passed three times among the audience." In the introduction to this British first edition, there is a calligraphic text that states "Hi! My name is John Lennon I'd like you to meet Yoko Ono." This is offset printed in the American edition that is also held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.