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Letters from Gerrit Hilhorst

Item date(s): 24 III 76

Gerrit Hilhorst - (letters to)
Walter Whall Battiss (1906-1982) - (letters to)

Pages: unpaged and 3pp
Size: 90mm and 280mm
Binding: Old cheque book
Technique: Collage; Handwriting
Language: English; Afrikaans
Edition: Unique

Place publication: New York
Publisher: The author

Exhibition notes:
1. An envelope containing an old 23 page cheque book, collaged, stapled and text written over and on the back of the cheques. Mail Art.

2. An undated (but July 5, 1974 on collage) letter with collage and watercolour salutation: Dear Walter. 3pp.

3. A letter in red cursive on both sides of a single sheet cut from the book "The Anatomy of Revolution", titled "FOR THE RECORD (an invective)", dated New York 23 VII 75 and signed: Gerrit.

4. A letter dated June 9 1976 on pink paper with illustrations of a unicorn and a narwhal together with the envelope addressed to Battiss in Hawaii.

5. A letter dated 7 V 74 from Chicago to Giotto's Hill and then re-addressed to the Chelsea Hotel, 222 West 23rd Street, New York. P.S. on verso: 3 cheers for all Wakkerstroom Strippers!

Ref: GB/30236