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The poem is a metaphor for Finlay's dispute with the Strathclyde region tax collectors on a background of camouflage coloring or cloudy dark sky (?). -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This was Finlay's Christmas card for 1988. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Includes the prices of the works on exhibition. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The conventional poems by Finlay dealing with toy sailing ships are accompanied by photographs of ships taken by Dave Paterson. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Printed by Crispen and Jan Elsted. The exhibition consists of the 11 cards with varied colored and size paper. The printing has been done with different typefaces and colored ink. The theme relates to verbal translations of classical paintings by artists who lived in the 17th and 18th centuries. One booklet lists the content of the cards that constitutes the exhibition; the other, denoted Reflections, notes by Finlay and asides by Crispen Elsted. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This is an adaptation of a quote from a "Parmenides Dialog." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Printed by John Tetley. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This poem on Apollo and Daphne is adapted from Greek mythology. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This poem dealing with Apollo and Daphne has been modified by Finlay to signify that Apollo is the revolutionary and Daphne the French republic. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Also listed as "Ovid: Metamorphoses Book I, Fable XII."

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The poem describes Finlay's impression of a Pissaro landscape painting involving apple trees. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Poem lists words related to the image of a tree. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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These items constitute the working materials for the poem collection, "A Mastful of Hankies." The manuscripts consist of conventionally composed poems, not all of which were used in the final version of the work. Maquettes for the folder and cards and directions for color stock of paper are included. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents Summary: 1)Description of U. Grant Roman - Ian Hamilton Finlay Archive. Chicago, Illinois 1983, manuscript; pages (ink, handwriting). 2). Letter to U. Grant Roman sending copies of P.O.T.H.. c.1963. letter (ink, handwriting), 3). Letter to U. Grant Roman thanking him for purchasing Poor Old Tired Horse and instruction for assembling Standing Poem. Dunsyre Lanark, Scotland c.1963, letter (typed), 4) Letter to U. Grant Roman discussing future of poems on glass panels. c.1963. letter (typed), 5) Letter to U. Grant Roman discussing loss of Cardboard Toy Poem and Proposal To Destroy All Copies of Canal Funnel Save One. Dunsyre Lanark, Scotland 1964. letter (ink, handwriting), 6.). Letter to U. Grant Roman Discussing Destruction of Canal Funnel and Mentions Publication of Concrete Poetry. Dunsyre Lanark, Scotland 1964 letter (typed, ink, handwriting 2p), 7) Letter to U. Grant Roman Listing Works Sent Including One Copy of Canal Funnel Lanark, Scotland 1964. letter (typed), 8) Letter to...

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The poem reads, The woods - milestones, The mountains - signposts. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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In this book of previously published brief essays and interviews, Jonathan Williams describes his publishing in Jargon as follows: "Most of the people we've published despise ninety-five percent of the others we've done - that's probably a very healthy thing. Remember, you're dealing with a hillbilly oligarch, a crank. Whether it's poetry of photography or visionary fold-art or persons themselves, I love things that are 'bright-eyed, non-uppity, autochthonous, wacko, private, isolate, unconventional, unpaved, non-commercial, non-nice, naive, outside, fantastic, sub-aesthetic, home-style and bushy-tailed." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.