"Ledger", 1984-1991

This scrapbook is inscribed, "This ledger once owned by a M. Vendles whose name goes back to 1066--given to me by John Bulford, wood worker, artist, husband of a Miss Joy Vendles--the family name was dying out. The pages are, I hope, to contain the notes for "Concerning Making," including "The Prayers" in [unintelligible]." The ledger includes newspaper clippings, reviews, and letters.

Items of note include a newspaper clipping of an editorial written by Bridget Coffey detailing her friendship with Carl Jung, Sunday Times , July 1953; an off-print of Coffey's poem, "Xenia," which appeared in The Irish University Review , Spring 1978; a photocopied essay, "Fragmentation and Wholeness," by David Bohm, professor of Physics at Birbeck College; and several letters from Margaret McAlpine, James Hogan, and Anthony Rudolf, among others