Richard Outram and Barbara Howard collection.
– 1970-2005. – 12.5 cm of textual records and graphic material.
Richard Outram
F.1
Correspondence with Christina Duff Stewart:
Three letters from Outram, n.d. and 1995; one Christmas message, signed,
1991; one card from Hugh and Betty Anne Anson-Cartwright, 2005
F.2
Poems:
Typescripts of poems, signed: “Cenotaph”; “Dr Dolittle”,
2 pages, October 1981; “Dr. Millmoss Recovered”; “Junk
in the Bay of Fundy”; “Riddle”, n.d.
Typescripts of poems, not signed: “In Memory of Northrop Frye:
Photocopies of typescripts of poems, signed: “Afternoon on the
Lake” pasted on board; in the verso is “Whale on China Beach”,
1983; “Bear”, September 1985; “The Photograph”,
September 1981.
Photocopies of typescripts of poems, not signed: “For Richard Wilbur”,
pasted on board, on the verso is a photograph of a board-walk by a lake,
possibly taken on the Toronto Islands.
Photocopies of tear-sheets of two poems, signed.
F.3
Papers read at the Arts and Letters Club, two photocopies, one computer
print, 1991-1992, 1994.
F.4
Various printed materials: invitations to readings, reviews of his poetry,
articles about Outram, tear-sheets and photocopies.
F.5
Obituary tear-sheet from The Globe and Mail; memorial programme
for Howard and Outram, 2005
Gauntlet Press
F.6
“Broadsheets, designed and printed by Barbara Howard and Richard
Outram at The Gaunlet Press”. Title page of the Gaunlet Press collection;
the broadsheets have been arranged in files 7 to 9. Also in this file
is a change of address notice and the periodical DA 44, a special
issue on the Gaunlet Press (Spring/Summer 1999).
F.7
Christmas greetings, 1975-2002; 19 broadsheets
Valentine’s Day, 1976, 1994-2000; 7 broadsheets
Remembrance Day, 2000-2001
F.8
Poems and Prose by Outram:
Poems: “Articles of Faith”; “Aubade”, signed; “Bank
Swallow”; “Beholder”, 1997; “Brief Homily and Homage”;
“Death’s Head”; “Eclipse”; “Evidence in
the Garden”; “Funambulist”, with note on bottom to Christine
from Richard: “of all the poems I wrote to Barbara this, perhaps,
remained her favourite”; “Handicap” with quotations from
others on the verso; “House Plant”; “Jonah as Boy Seaman”;
“Long Shots”; “Presence”, sighed; “Quantum
Does as Quantum Is”, containing the poem “Breakwater”;
“Cost to Millenial Coast”, the last of three poems, the previous
two by others; “Rites”; “Scuts, wha hae fra Wallace fled”;
“Seat of the Buddha”, Outram’s version of poem written
in the Tang Dynasty; “Service”, signed, 2 copies; “Two
Maritime Poems”
Prose: ‘“Careless of where the next bright bolt may fall’”;
“Foreplay for Better for Worse”; “A Letter of Explication
to a Perplexed Friends”.
All but one of these are undated and do not bear an imprint.
F.9
Poems by others:
Various poems by others including Elizabeth Bishop, Peter Bland, David
Campbell, Guy Davenport, Robert Garioch, Gwen Harwood, A.D. Hope, ,
George Johnston, Denise Levertov, Walter de la Mare, J.B. Morton, Boris
Pasternak, Rainer Maria Rilke, Kenneth Slessor, Stevie Smith, Edward
Thomas, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Richard Wilbur; 24 broadsides, most
of these are undated and do not bear an imprint, two dated Gauntlet
Press, 1997, one signed by Richard with the date of February 2003.
Barbara Howard
F.10
Articles about her (tear-sheets):
“The Invisible Woman”, Today Magazine, 8 November 1980
“A Visit with Barbara Howard”, City and Country Home,
April 1984
“A Sacred Trust: The Hidden Worlds of Barbara Howard”, Equniox,
July-August 1987
Art-work:
Poppy, n.d.
Announcement of the publication of Twenty-eight Drawings by Barbara
Howard by the Martlet Press, 1970. The announcement contains a reproduction
of a drawing by Howard.
Invitations and catalogues:
For exhibitions of her art-work: Macdonald Gallery, 1978; Prince Arthur
Galleries, 1980; Wells Gallery, 1984. Also an invitation to her talk
on “Encounters with Whales”, Arts and Letters Club, 1997.
Other:
“—the rest is silence”; broadsheet of prose and poetry
selections with photograph of Howard, printed after her death on 7 December
2002
Two items signed by Richard, one dated Christmas 2003, containing photograph
of Howard, poems and a reproduction of and untitled oil by Howard.
The collection also contains the following publications by Outram which
will be catalogued for Research Collections.
And growes to something of great constancie … being a Syzygy
and some reflections on it, Toronto, Gauntlet Press, 1994.
“Below Zero”, one poem, Toronto, The Aliquando Press, 1974
“Dove Legend”. This is not the book but ten poems from the
book.
“Railway”, one poem, Toronto, The Aliquando Press, 1973
“Scarlatti at Improvisation”, one poem, Toronto, The Aliquando
Press, 1972
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