The notebooks are written in different inks and pencil and range from student composition books to a marbled hardcover journal embellished with collages and paint. Heliczer worked from both ends in four of the notebooks, using the front mainly for composition, and the back mainly for notes, such as details of the distribution and sales of his publications. The entries range from fully composed poems and prose writings, almost all of them unpublished, to working drafts, fragments, observations and aphorisms. Between them they contain more than 250 pages of holograph text, and span the period Heliczer spent living in London..... More about Five manuscript notebooks kept by Piero Heliczer between 1960 and 1962, together with a spiral...

Correspondence dating from the period just before and immediately after the launch of Michael Horovitz's New Departures magazine, in which Heliczer's poem, "paris a scenario for a silent movie", appeared as the first contribution, marking his first appearance in print in Britain. The letters demonstrate their mutually supportive relationship at the beginning of their writing and publishing careers: Horovitz stayed with Heliczer in Paris in the summer of 1959, and a few months later they travelled together around Britain with the first Live New Departures troupe ("I much look forward to your coming and anna the violinist please do bring..... More about Ten typed letters, nine of them with holograph additions, drawings and other embellishments; one...

Sixteen letters, cards and notes, most of them in holograph ink, using a variety of papers and found scraps, along with Olivia's 2pp. typescript, titled "THE ADDITION leadbelly", possibly a poetic addendum to a play by Piero Heliczer. The majority of the letters are written from Greece following Olivia's road trip through France, Germany, Austria and Yugoslavia with her travelling companions, Angus MacLise and Diane and Bill Barker. In a postcard sent from Titograd en route she describes "the perilous roads through montenegro… already much car trouble… cars are inhuman & i pine for pine cones in the hand."..... More about A collection of autograph letters, postcards, and handwritten notes from Olivia de Haulleville to...

Approx. 138 words. The card is addressed to 18 rue Descartes and requests that Anita send copies of Dead Language publications to La Pacaudière (so that they can be "forwarded cheaper"), including "10 DEERS MOUTH (yellow book of my poems) 50 STRAIGHT FARTHEST BLOOD TOWARDS (folding pamphlet of poems angus maclise)… also send 25 long pink covers for LEMURS BY OM", adding that they "are in evidence in the big wooden case". The intention seemed to be for the publications to be sent subsequently to c/o Michael Horovitz at 15 Manor Road, South Hinksey, near Oxford (given by..... More about Handmade autograph postcard from Piero Heliczer to Anita (Morris), postmarked Oxford, c. January...

2pp., approx 290 words, with original mailing envelope. Hollo's letter concerns a projected volume of Heliczer's work, referred to as "the plan", and in it he writes that "the enclosed is all I've been able to unearth, so far - of copies of Piero's poems in my possession; I'm sure Tom Raworth has a great deal more - in fact, I've passed most of what Piero sent me over the years on to him…. " Heliczer recorded in his notebook that three of the titles included here were sent to Hollo on October 10, 1961. The letter refers..... More about Autograph letter signed from Anselm Hollo to David Sladen, dated July 1, 1965, with nine...