Correspondence: Golgonooza Press., 06/10/1977-06/21/1977

File — Box: 4, Folder: 8

Identifier: 42266

Series-level Scope and Content Note

From the Series:

(Box 3, Folders 12 -58; Box 4, Folders 1-10) This series of correspondence is by many of Jones' friends and admirers. Written primarily to his long-time friend Harman Grisewood, the letters concern Jones' work and welfare. Arrangement is alphabetical by correspondent. Includes correspondence from Faber and Faber publishers, Cambridge University, the National Library of Wales, and the Ulster Museum, concerning the disposition of his estate, the publication of his written works and exhibition of his art.

Dates

06/10/1977-06/21/1977

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Extent

From the Collection: 5.75 Linear Feet (10 Hollinger boxes: 8 Document Cases, 1 Slim Document Case, 1 Drop-front flat case (20x24"))

Language of Materials

From the Collection: English

Additional Description

Container Summary

Contains correspondence to HG concerning unpublished work by DJ that could be published in a forthcoming issue of the journal "Sophia Perennis" for the centenary of Ananda K. Coomaraswamy. @ The association of DJ with Coomaraswamy is described by Thomas R. Whitaker in his essay "Homo Faber, Homo Sapiens" (in "David Jones: Man and Poet" by John Matthias, p.466) - @ "Though modern in its reliance on mediating signs, David Jones' quest for meaning led him toward a Christian orthodoxy that approximates what Ananda K. Coomaraswamy, Eric Gill's most immediate intellectual master, called the philosophia perennis. The result was an apparent tension between epistemology and ontology at the center of his thinking about man-the-maker. He could propose that the thought we discover through our inductive making must be incarnational in mode and transcendental in final reference. No skeptic or agnostic would accept that yoking of the empirical to the theological. Nor would Gill or Coomaraswamy have put the matter in that way: though seekers themselves, they preferred the clarity of axioms and deductive consequences..."

Subjects and Associated Physical Materials

GOLGONOOZA PRESS - CORRES. TO GRISEWOOD, HARMAN 1977: Autographed Letter

GRISEWOOD, HARMAN - CORRES. FROM GOLGONOOZA PRESS 1977: Autographed Letter

JONES, DAVID RE ANANDA K. COOMARASWAMY - REFERENCE: Autographed Letter

COOMARASWAMY, ANANDA K. RE DAVID JONES - REFERENCE: Autographed Letter