Finding Aid
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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