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 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 3466 Collections and/or Records:

[Letter to Jim Haynes] / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1964 - 1965

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Identifier: CC-12584-12816
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Comments upon adverse review of Lorine Niedicker book, produced by Finlay and Haynes, by Walter Kier in the magazine New Saltire. He asks Haynes to write a letter to the magazine with his response. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1964 - 1965

[Letter to Jim Haynes] / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1965

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Identifier: CC-12585-12817
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Mentions his disappointment that his daughter, Jessie, who married to a sailor now lives in NYC. Suggests that Haynes ought to contact Dom Sylvester Houedard who Finlay believes is an oustanding concrete/kinetic poet. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1965

[Letter to Jim Haynes] / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1964 - 1965

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Identifier: CC-12587-12819
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Notifies Haynes that he is sending a new play to him that has been broadcasted in Scotland and Canada. Includes a minimalist poem in the letter entitled "Landscape in the Barracks." Calls attention to two stains on the first page by encircling them and labeling them "tomato soup." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1964 - 1965

[Letter to Jim Pyros] / Horn, Stu (aka The Northwest Mounted Valise)., 1974

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Identifier: CC-08822-8997
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Letter deals with sales of 1974 Correspondents' Calendars. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1974

[Letter to Jim Pyros] / Horn, Stu (aka The Northwest Mounted Valise)., 1974

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Identifier: CC-08823-8998
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Letter deals with an article to be published and mentions "The Exhibition of Degenerate Art." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1974

[Letter to Joan Lyons] / Curtay, Jean-Paul., 1985

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Identifier: CC-17854-18224
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Expresses dismay on receiving a letter from Joan Lyons objecting to the linguistic structure of the manuscript he sent to her on Jan 7, 1985. Writes that she must be responsible for editing alterations. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1985

[Letter to John and Wendy Sharkey: angelic angels & things] / Houedard, Dom Sylvester; Chopin H; Weaver M; Cameron C; Shoumatoff N., 1964

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Identifier: CC-55798-58902
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dsh mentions henri chopin and mlke weaver (whom he does not know). He writes about his first meeting with charles cameron. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1964

[Letter to John Furnival] , 1967

 Item — Box 323: [Barcode: 31858072490893]
Identifier: CC-22313-22736
Scope and Contents

Bann reports damage to the screen of Furnival's installation at the Brighton Festival. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1967

[Letter to John Furnival] , 1967

 Item — Box 323: [Barcode: 31858072490893]
Identifier: CC-22275-22697
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Bann discusses Furnival organizing transportation of "Clyne" constructions, vowel screens, three columns, Ed Wright's "Four Sails" glass, "Ajar" wooden construction, "Ark/Arc" in plastic...[and] column with "Wave/Wave" to Nottingham, and the possibility of using Mayer's "Ampersands" for a wall or outdoor display. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1967

[Letter To John Furnival] , 1967

 Item — Box 323: [Barcode: 31858072490893]
Identifier: CC-22418-22842
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Letter concerns setting up, transporting and caring for Furnival's work at the first Brighton Festival as well as asking for an indication of the arrangement of Furnival's panels and whether Houedard could associate with the project. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1967

[Letter to John Furnival] , 1967

 Item — Box 323: [Barcode: 31858072490893]
Identifier: CC-22314-22737
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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.

Dates: 1967

[Letter to John Furnival], 1967

 Item — Box 323: [Barcode: 31858072490893]
Identifier: CC-23925-24373
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1967

Letter to John Furnival (1), 1971

 Item — Box Arb-Avrin: [Barcode: 31858072490778]
Identifier: CC-25720-26180
Scope and Contents

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

Dates: 1971

[Letter to John Furnival (1)] / Harris, David W., 1968

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Identifier: CC-48437-69464
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This letter was sent to Furnival asking him to send a letter of recommendation to Harris for a renewal of his Canadian council grant. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968

Letter to John Furnival (2), 1971

 Item — Box Arb-Avrin: [Barcode: 31858072490778]
Identifier: CC-25722-26182
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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.

Dates: 1971

[Letter to John Furnival (2)] / Harris, David W., 1968

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Identifier: CC-48438-69466
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This letter from Harris to Furnival was written to request that Furnival send some work for sale in an exhibtion in Vancouver entitled "The Mandan Ghetto" to run April 1 to April 14, 1968. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968

[Letter to John Furnival (3)] / Harris, David W., 1973

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Identifier: CC-48439-69467
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This letter from Harris to Furnival requests material for an exhibition entitled Pandora's Box in Victoria. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1973

[Letter to John Furnival 7 vi 68] / Valoch, Jiri; Novak L., 1968

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Identifier: CC-29894-31281
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Valoch requests loan of Furnival's Pisa/Tower, Eiffel Tower, and two quadrats for an exhibition in Brno, Czeckoslovakia. He furnishes two small ink drawings to indicate the quadrats he wants sent to him. He mentions that he has written an article about Furnival's poster-poems in a Czech periodical, svetova literatura. He encloses new poems and two small prints to Furnival. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968

[Letter to John Furnival] / Anonymous; Jandl E., 1965

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Identifier: CC-27196-27672
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The signature at the bottom of this letter is illegible. The writer discusses a poem submitted for PISA/Opening. He thanks Furnival for sending him the rotating word-disc/pentagon through Ernst Jandl. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1965

[Letter To John Furnival] / Bruton, Jesse; Furnival J., 1967

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Identifier: CC-23932-24380
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Letter concerns John Furnival exhibition at Ikon Gallery Ltd. in Birmingham, England, including specifications for catalog, posters and private viewing. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1967