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Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 3464 Collections and/or Records:

[Letter to Charlie Morrow] / Curtay, Jean-Paul., 1981

 Item
Identifier: CC-17823-18193
Scope and Contents

Discusses potential literary contribution to the magazine Ear, and provides a list of performance pieces. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1981

[Letter to chas dear [Cameron]] (190964) / Houedard, Dom Sylvester; Weaver M; Finlay IH; Horovitz M; Raworth T; Sharkey JJ., 1964

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Identifier: CC-57879-10001130
Scope and Contents

The letter is addressed to chas dear.The first paragraph urges Cameron to get DSH his proper Olivetti because "it is DESPARATE to use this fucking twr i just cant FEEL it...bring me SPARE OLIVETTI to use instead of this GHASTLY olympia that isn't MADE for typestracting ==you must TELL them who i mean how my LIFE is spent glorifying their mechanisms." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1964

[Letter to cher poete [Charles Cameron] / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1964

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Identifier: CC-57877-10001128
Scope and Contents

The letter is addressed to "cher poete" typed in black dense periods to Charles Cameron. The signiture is also typed in periods. The body of the letter is typed in red. The text mentions that the post strike is" a bore for us nonpostmen it may be months before i hear from you before this reaches you where will you be?" -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1964

[Letter to Clarissa?] / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1964

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Identifier: CC-12586-12818
Scope and Contents

Deals with requests to Clarissa? to represent him to shops for sale of his concrete poetic pottery pieces. Comments about what he considered a poor performance of the actors in his Seaweed play. Expresses his displeasure about his daughter's impending marriage to an American sailor. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1964

[Letter to Clark (Coolidge?)], 1995

 Item — Box 317: [Barcode: 31858072490844]
Identifier: CC-32000-33529
Scope and Contents

Andrews related a performance that he gave in an art gallery that involved the playing of two 1 1/2 hour simultaneous tapes, various books and sequences on tables, couple dozen, separate, written pieces on wall and a 12' x 7' wall and adjacent 9' x 12' floor taken up by 150 poem cards. He also recommends Victor Ehlich's book "Russian Formalism" for reading as he believes it is relevant to Coolidge's work. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995

[Letter to Cord Coyty] / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1968

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Identifier: CC-09444-9631
Scope and Contents

Asks about a missing poem of his. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968

[Letter to Cornelis Vleeskens] / spence, pete; Dencker KP; thalia; Selenitsch A; Gaze T; Harley; Held Jjr; Hacker K; Groh K., 2004

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Identifier: CC-43449-45512
Scope and Contents

Spence describes meeting several German and American mail artists in Germany. Mentions that the Australian networkers might appear in a book by Klaus Peter Dencker in a German edition and perhaps in an Engish edition published by Thames and Hudson. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2004

[Letter To Curtay] / Amirkhanian, Charles., 1982

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Identifier: CC-25721-26181
Scope and Contents

Amirkhanian reminds Curtay of the time of a John Cage reading. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1982

[Letter to Curtay regarding His Medical Career] / Lemaitre, Maurice., 1981

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Identifier: CC-55579-55981
Scope and Contents

Stored with Curtay matgerial. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1981

[letter to d.a.levy re his bio & concrete poetry] / Leed, Jacob., 1966

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Identifier: CC-07343-7487
Scope and Contents

Leed discusses his ideas for issues of The Polluted Lake Series. Stored in d.a. levy binder. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1966

[letter to david harris (dwh)] {coffee shop arson} / levy, d.a.., 1967

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Identifier: CC-60631-55611
Scope and Contents

This letter deals with arson of a coffe shop in Cleveland and artworks destroyed. levy ruminates abput hIs upcoming pornography trial. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1967

[letter to david harris (dwh)] {stamp collecting} / levy, d.a.., 1966

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Identifier: CC-60629-55613
Scope and Contents

levy discusses stamp collecting and asks for article about concrete poetry. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1966

[letter to david harris (dwh) {urgent} / levy, d.a.., 1966

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Identifier: CC-60630-55614
Scope and Contents

The letter reads urgenT/ poems stolen need copies of BERET...BY may 5th.. when us fleye due.....? -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1966

[Letter to David Harris July 15, 1968] / Cobbing, Bob., 1968

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Identifier: CC-19931-20319
Scope and Contents

Cobbing describes several works of his to Harris and expresses hopes for contacts in Canadian radio. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968

[Letter to David Harris June 26 1968] / Cobbing, Bob; Sharkey JJ., 1968

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Identifier: CC-19966-20354
Scope and Contents

Writes about transcription of sound poetry piece, "Chamber Music" (1966) to tape. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968

[Letter to David Harris March 26, 1968] / Cobbing, Bob., 1988

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Identifier: CC-19967-20355
Scope and Contents

Concerns sending of visual works and tapes for April festival. David Harris aka David UU. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1988

[Letter to David Harris March 28, 1968] / Cobbing, Bob; Beckett S; Sharkey JJ., 1968

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Identifier: CC-19986-20374
Scope and Contents

David Harris aka David UU. Letter discusses sending sound performance tapes for festival. Cobbing states that he "must try to keep better contact between what we are doing and your good selves." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968

[Letter to David Harris] / Nuttall, Jeff., 1972

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Identifier: CC-42797-44837
Scope and Contents

The letter addressed to David Oo rather than David UU states that Nuttall sends two poems for Harris' exhibition, "For Joan" and "There is No Need to Cry on my Labia Leslie." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1972

[Letter to David Harris] / Nuttall, Jeff., 1970

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Identifier: CC-42872-44913
Scope and Contents

Nuttall indicates that he sends a facsimile reproduction of a drawing for publication and this technique will be important. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1970

[Letter to David Harris October 27, 1968] / Cobbing, Bob., 1968

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Identifier: CC-19982-20370
Scope and Contents

Concerns radio broadcasts of sound poetry tapes. In response to Harris' request, Cobbing writes "No I am not in an academic or influential position. I am an out-of-work good-for-nothing poet - so - sorry I can't help get you a grant." David Harris aka David UU. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968