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 a sundial, for which Finlay supplied a detailed proposal, plan and sketch. From October 1982 the focus of the letters shift to Finlay’s ongoing battle with Strathclyde Regional Council, the “Little Spartan War”. Hanson evidently became one of Finlay’s supporters, the Saint-Just Vigilantes.