The text reads "Just take Goothe or Horace Duke - to show poetic life - no example, with music of Sir Walter Wellington - what a trifling locamotive - a butterfly gives meaning to miles of industry --poetry --let mego." The image is three silhouetted figures. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The text reads "you; - loving you was the first right thing - a mystery - written on the night." The image depicts a reclining, mysterious, flesh colored anthropomorphic form on a dark background. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Paolo Veronese (1528 "“ 19 April 1588) was an Italian painter of the Renaissance in Venice. The image reads: Paul Veronese. - he suddenly ejaculated, you know Veronese--- - above the sideboard up in the cupboard - on the wall; On the contrary -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The prints were made from the collages Phillips created using scraps from comic books and texts from A Humument. The lines read, "redeem the dream; and dream the reason - awaken to the mended story." The image is divided in half with the left side depicting broken chairs and a chaotic appearance. The right side reflects a more tranquil domestic scene with pots and lamps. Presumably, this represents Phillips change from bachelorhood to marriage. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The prints were made from the collages Phillips created using scraps from comic books and texts from A Humument. The lines read, "redeem the dream; and dream the reason - awaken to the mended story." The print depicts a dream-like moon on the top portion and seemingly fragmented bodies on the lower half. tthe image is abstract, the relationship between the image and the text is unclear. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The poem reads "to you RUTH & MARVIN a few lines - call it a "Dedication": - o strange begetter of this volume - You have done my best," -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This is the first globe made by Phillips. It contains poetic fragments of "A Humument" texts that create imaginative continents, oceans and star maps. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This unpublished page consists of two sections of text cancelled by ink lines. Several lines of text may be read on the upper part of the page. A multi-line text portion remains at the bottom.The text reads, "to my seeming paradox. I have done with love--true : but - love does, like an unreasonable woman in a railway-carriage, - itself : nor does it ask that others should be crushed together, - to push them out of the windows. Such an affection I can not only understand, but I long to give and to receive it. - pencil. the book - ink them in. - The verses in question were as follows-- doubts chill it: much; a touch can kill it, at a touch." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This unpublished page consists of the entire page collaged in white tissue paper with lines drawn in green and red ink. The poem reads, "'I little I should die on paper in my mind. - magic muting - There in that seriousness, of this or exhibit some little vision of conversations soul to soul. intimate" -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This unpublished page has been collaged on the upper right hand corner with an exact fragment from another page 213. There are two rings probably from the botton of a coffee cup and several markings in graphite and red pencil. These marks give some indication of how Phillips selects and plays with the text he uses for the new poetry.This preparatory drawing does not appear in "A Humument. The poem reads, "213 blushed - left toge a painless memory, turning to renew The plate--" -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This article provides the background for Phillips' "A Humument" and is illustrated with two pages and two fragments from his altered Victorian novel by W.H. Mallock's "A Human Document." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The prints have been removed from the folder and placed in a mat, two to a mat. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This page refers to the 9/11 attack by terrorists on NYC and the twin towers of the World Trade Center. The poem reads, "paster on to the present - see it is nine eleven - the time singular - which broke down the illusion." The image depicts a four part grid, one of which is a fragment from a postcard that is also depicted in Phillips' Postcards of the 20th Century. It shows King Kong the gorilla embracing the twin towers saying "I Love New York!" enclosed by a comic strip bubble. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This page refers to the tragedy of 9/11. Two of the four images are from Phillips' postcard series. The poem reads, "pasted on to the present - see it is nine - eleven - the time singular - which broke down illusion. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The poem reads, "in that narrative passage he sat dejected - the most literal of man alone - the cover man- he had compiled - the story man she had conceived with - rough materials. The man as photograph - the anal man of names - sidera sideri ning - the Journal man of the novel volume - only one half of the toge story - the man's man - time described." An image of the original drawing for this image is depicted in the book 'Art and Text' (2009) on page 250 that is held by the Sackner Archive. Two prints of this image are also held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This page refers to the Toge, the protagonist in A Humument. There are two half portraits of a seated man. The poem reads, "in that narrative passage he sat dejected the most literal man alone - The man as photograph; - the anal man of names. sidera sideri ning - the cover man he had compiled the story man she had conceived wiht rough materials - the Journal man of the novel volume - only one half of the toge story - the man's time described." An image of the original drawing for this image is depicted in the book 'Art and Text' (2009) on page 250 that is held by the Sackner Archive. Two prints of this imageare also held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This page refers to the altering of A Human Document by Phillips to A Humument. The poem reads, "scribe, scribe the once or twice story - the story reveal a sister story - see now the arts connect - a veil thrown over a veil - as changes made the book continue." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The image on the page is of two large roses, one violet and the other one red. The poem reads, "you in mine fused. - our lives lived for perfect love my rose of triumph my authoress my cause - Give me to-morrow." The original of this print is also held in the Sackner Archive that depicts the same image. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This unpublished page has been burnt with fragmented paper and ragged edges. There are no lines of text selected by Phillips on this page. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.