Preliminary Guide to the Richard Lannoy Collection on Lewis Thompson, 1939-1997

This collection consists of materials by and about Lewis Thompson as collected by British painter, photographer, and author Richard Lannoy. Materials include poems by Lewis Thompson, Thompson’s annotated and reconstructed copy of the Oeuvres de Arthur Rimbaud, Richard Lannoy’s draft of the Journal of an Integral Poet: Volume One: 1932-1944 about Lewis Thompson, an unpublished draft of Lannoy’s introduction to Richard Stodart’s The Sheer Holdless Precipice: Portrait of Lewis Thompson, and Lannoy’s correspondence and other materials regarding Thompson and his works. Correspondents include Professor Fritz Blackwell of the Washington State University History department, Ella Maillart, Lawrence Durrell, Kathleen Raine, and various publishers and media outlets.