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Letters. Correspondence.

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Pieces of correspondence that are somewhat more formal than memoranda or notes, usually on paper and delivered.

Found in 15 Collections and/or Records:

12 letters of Ian Hamilton Finlay to Robert Nye.

 File
Identifier: Acc.6585
Scope and Contents

On literary matters.

Dates: 1969-1971.

130 Letters of Ian Hamilton Finlay to James F Hendry.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10806
Scope and Contents

Includes related copy letters of Hendry.

Dates: 1945-1985

168 letters to George Mackay Brown.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.4847
Scope and Contents

Correspondents include Willa Muir, Iain Crichton Smith and Ian Hamilton Finlay.

Dates: 1947-1969.

Correspondence of Ian Hamilton Finlay and Mark Haworth-Booth.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.13475
Scope and Contents

Letters, forwarded letters and printed ephemera of Ian Hamilton Finlay sent to Mark Haworth-Booth, curator at the Victoria and Albert Museum, 1976-78, 1982. Comprising 22 letters and postcards of Finlay to Haworth-Booth; forwarded copies of 23 letters (21 by Finlay) to Simon Cutts, John Arnott, Andrew Dempsey, Stuart Mills and others; 2 letters of Sue Finlay; 2 draft letters of Haworth-Booth to Finlay. With a selection of printed material and ephemera.

Dates: 1976-1978, 1982.

Letters and artwork proposals, including sketches and drawings, of Ian Hamilton Finlay, with related drawings, designs and papers of Michael Harvey, letter cutter.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.13394
Scope and Contents A substantial archive of letters, papers, drawings, designs and ephemera of Ian Hamilton Finlay, gathered by one of his major collaborators, the lettering artist and typographer Michael Harvey. The collection comprises over 200 letters, notes, proposals and designs of Ian Hamilton Finlay, and a quantity of material including drawings and plans by Michael Harvey created in response to Finlay`s proposals, with some copies of Harvey’s letters. Accompanying papers include a number of letters of...
Dates: 1970-2006

Letters and cards of Ian Hamilton Finlay to Christine Shaw.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.12854
Scope and Contents

Includes copies of Wild Hawthorn Press books, art-works, private view cards and other papers relating to Ian Hamilton Finlay.

Dates: circa 1992-2000.

Letters of Hamish Henderson, Ian Hamilton Finlay and George Mackay Brown to Maurice Fleming.

 File
Identifier: Acc.14018
Scope and Contents

Comprising two letters (1957, 1958) of Hamish Henderson; two letters (1965, ?1966) of Ian Hamilton Finlay; one letter (1966) of George Mackay Brown.

Dates: 1957-1966.

Letters of Ian Hamilton Finlay to Neil Hanson.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.13601
Scope and Contents Letters and copy letters, 1981-1983, of Ian Hamilton Finlay to Neil Hanson; with related papers and publications. Neil Hanson was Exhibitions Officer at Carlisle Museum and Art Gallery at the time, and had approached Finlay about possible involvement in a proposed ‘Cumbrian Landscape Exhibition’ and related book (presumably Presences of nature: words and images of the Lake District, published by the Gallery in 1982). The early correspondence chiefly concerns the possibility of commissioning...
Dates: 1981-1983.

Letters of literary figures to Maurice Fleming.

 File
Identifier: Acc.11616
Scope and Contents

Correspondents include:

Ian Hamilton Finlay

Charles Gairdner

Dorothy K Haynes

Duncan Macrae

Dates: 1961-1973 and undated.

Two letters and four poems of Ian Hamilton Finlay to Heather Scott, with various publications given by Finlay to Scott.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.13441
Scope and Contents

A small collection of papers, publications and artefacts of and relating to Ian Hamilton Finlay. The donor of the collection, Heather Scott (née Fretwell), was a friend of Finlay’s in the 1960s, and much of the material dates from this period.

Dates: ca.1961-1962; with some later items, 1998, 1999.