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Buff folder, untitled. 35mm colour slide showing corner of (unidentified) building, the interest being (?) the advert using the full height of five storys 'LEAL=SEAT SEAT=LEAL', repeated vertically as five lines. Handwritten note on back of cover from 'Rue Montorgeuil': 'A Volume to contain ', followed by the titles of ten poems, (some subsequently assigned to other published collections), only some of which are to be found among the many more poems / manuscripts collected in this folder: windmill daffodil ('alongside windmill chimney') A Family The sands are I prefer the streams, on back design (for card?) in blue and brown: 'navy brown gravy blue' Our trams our trains our tickets, the prototype Schwitters folding card, printed in orange, this copy marked on inside with note for 'Stuart' (Mills): 'Here is one of a first draft of four. Simon our windmills our dandelions our pies avec plaisirs' in style / layout of previous item, lettered in black ink on card. Fleur (three drafts) two poems on 'wheelbarrows' two poems titled 'Autumn painting' and 'Winter painting' The magpie The TV weather (two items, incl. manuscript on scrap of newspaper) The Dutch Fruit Economy is the cloud waiting, on back of piece from front cover of 'The Blue Boat-train' (1969) a vane of dust and loose paper, (design on transparent paper). Spring clothes pegs, with cartoon-style ink drawings of clothes pegs, sheet marked in green ink 'Tarasque Pick of the Spring' treacle sandwich, on back of library reminder, Trent Polytechnic, dated 6. 7. 71. Miscellaneous other poems, five pieces of paper. Two foolscap sheets of cleanly transcribed / copied out poems, in biro: including 'treacle sandwich', "the Dutch Fruit Economy'. Typed manuscript for an ABC poem: 'apple boat canal… …zephyr'

Handwritten notes for essay on Concrete Poetry, mostly on numbered 'a Coracle No.7' cards: 'The difficulties involved in gathering information of the period of arrival… are formidable'. Two typed sheets of texts (using blue ribbon) for Blue Tunnel. Copy of typed quotes on 'A New Kind of Tie'. Typed list of proper subjects for poems and art: (mini manifesto?) 'The list is of course, far from complete, but it may be of some use'. Buff folder marked 'Prose' containing seven small handwritten notes, including a short text on 'Style' and the 'critical mode ' of Tarasque. Buff folder, not titled on cover, containing small typed and handwritten texts on themes that include: Debussy, 'Poetry' (as a subject), 'Advise to Patrick' (a young poet?). irony, photography, 'Poem / Object'. Baudelaire and W. Carlos Williams (this sheet dated June 1966). Rimbaud, 'In the Frame of the Ready-Made'. quotes from Stravinsky on composing, and Ezra Pound on Gaudier-B. (almost thirty items / pieces of paper). Miscellaneous notes, mostly handwritten, on art and aesthetics, about 25 pieces of paper of various sizes and types, some torn/cut up.

2 letters, 6 postcards, 1 folding card

4pp manuscript of poems and serring. 36ppp with sample interiors. Sample cut windows. Setting as for final book. Artwork for endpapers. Layout artwork for book interior. Sample sheets and cut sizes for finished book. Sample blocking for front cover.

2 postcards. 1 letter of recommendation from SC. Monk, Geraldine & Halsey Alan: 6 greetings cards, 5 folding cards, 4 letters, 8 pamphlets and booklets – some personalised, 1 invoice, 1 flyer for new books.

2pp listing of sources of Monet paintings and their whereabouts

Dummy, typed on cover 'MONOTONES', sewn, contents typed also, pages torn out, (poems remaining not used in published version), holographic correction inserted. Page sequence of typed poems, on front page 'Monotones', six sheets, stapled top left hand corner. Dummy/typescript, titled on front 'MONOTONES', added by hand: 'notes in one tone', spine stapled, 210 x 151, corrections/additions and re-numbering of pages by hand (Later) typescript, 'Monotones', roughly torn pages, stapled in top lh corner, page following title now reads 'notes in one tone', then overstapled with 'tones of one note' (as in final version published). Dummy of portfolio style cover, blank label, rounded corners, 167 x 112, loose inside: printed title page and proofs of images with pencil lines, (Final) dummy of 'Monotones', revised contents mostly typed, some printed pages, but still without the images of the final book. Proof copy of texts on single sheet. Drafts/scripts of some poems, eight pieces of paper. Artwork/instructions to printer of the images for Monotones, folded sheet. Miscellaneous papers relating to design and production of book, incl. notes/instructions for typesetters and printers, handwritten and typed pages and proofs, 14 pieces of paper in total. Material relating to images/illustrations for Monotones, including original pen drawing by Martin Fidler used as tailpiece, negative and copy of Skidmore photo, contact prints and other prints of Duncalf piece, photos of Fidler drawing.