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A typed letter from Ian Hamilton Finlay, signed Ian ink, dated 29.5.88 on his Little Sparta/Raspberry Republic headed paper. Gives an outline of the whole affair and denoujnces his detractors in pungent language; 'One also wonders whether these people have ever encountered an actual anti-Semite or Nazi. Sue and I have worked hard, and endured much; for the last thirty years; to achieve what we have To be denounced by people who are relatively youthful, who have never been hungry, who have incomes and security and whose lives have been-in short-peaches and cream, fills us with fury. These people have never been occupied by anything save their own complacency and greed.' . With a photocopy of the Michael Scmidt article in The Time Literary Supplement, May 27-2nd June 1988 on the same sheet is a copy of the question asked in commons by his M.P. Mr. Jimmy Hood on Wednesday 8th June (1988). With a copy of a two page letter from Professeur Francis Edeline to M. Michel Blum Président de la Ligue des Droits de l'homme, defending Finlay. Copy of three page essay by Thomas A. Clark 'Interviewers and Critics, Barbarism and Culture; A Reading of Ian Hamilton Finlay's OSSO. Copy of a two page letter from Ian Hamilton Finlay to Gerald Kaufman , the Secretary of State for the Arts, dated 23.5.88, giving an outline of the affair and defending his position. Copy of a letter from Martin Lev of M.E.Action Campaign to Catherine Millet of Art Press, Paris. A letter typed, signed and annotated in ink, from Sue Finlay to Douglas Maxwell, reporting back on a trip to Paris where she has had interview with her lawyers and with Dominique Bozo of the Ministry of Culture, the letters begs Maxwell to employ all possible means to raise awareness of the situation and reply to the attacks made on her and Ian. A copy of the review of the affair given by Duncan MacMillan , Director of Edinburgh University's Talbot Rice Art Centre 'Enough to make Thomas Paine weep', published in the Scotsman, Monday May 23, 1988. Two copies of the letter written by Ian nad Sue Finlay to The Scotsman, published May 24 1988. Seller Inventory # 020609
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