Roth, Dieter. Very extensive collection of correspondence. With 53 letters, including 39 manuscripts, 18 typescripts and 3 telegrams, including 7 original photographs, 12 letters, some with several drawings and sketches. Mostly Reykjavik, 1966-1973 and 1976, mostly signed or monogrammed. A total of 80 sheets. Some in 29 mostly handwritten envelopes. Roth writes to his long-time friend and business partner Rudolf Rieser in detail about various joint projects (Wolken, Poetrie, Mundunculum, Portrait of the artist as Vogelfutterbüste, Printenmann, Piccadillies, SNOW, Gesammelte Werke, kleiner Sonnenuntergang etc.) with text drafts, drawings and sketches, suggestions for designs and layout, negotiations with publishers, distribution, sales opportunities, accounts etc., about mutual friends, his health, his family etc.: "if you haven't sent off the 130 white books yet, keep them... (because I don't think I want to paint them all) We can do it this way with the signature, YOU just sign my NAME - or is that not possible?..." (Reykjavik, August 1966 to Poetrie 1). - "i'm sick in bed (an attack of depression) and can't write much..." (Reykjavik, ca. March 1967). - "...i will transplant myself back to iceland...because i want to have the opportunity to see my children more often...although of course i won't get into the old war theater at my old home.... now they're singing wagner here on the radio - the boy knew how to get on with the world, didn't he?" (Providence, ca. January 1967). - "i think i've found a publisher for WOLKEN, it's EDITION ET in berlin, they want to pay me something if they accept it. for our next number poetrie i can bring something really dirty i already have an idea such obscene things are very right in private editions..." (Reykjavik, Jan. 30, 1967). - "i have to say: the leather things are simply the greatest, i see that you can be trusted with a lot, and i congratulate you from the bottom of my heart..." (Reykjavik, 18.4.1967). - "dear RIE, have I already written to you since we came back from the frankfurt book fair?" (Basel, 3.11.1967). - "emmett (Williams) and the rest of us have been partying for a week, it's been thundering, the nerfs are always out of order" (Reykjavik, 5.7.1967). - "SOS IN THE HIGHEST GRADE SEND TWO TAUSES OR MORE - YOUR SOS" (Telegram, January 14, 1970). - "the typesetter doesn't understand a word of the mass he is kneading for me. Part of the manuscript is scribbled down by hand, very quickly and rapidly (in bed, when I can't sleep again at night), and I let the typesetter set it as he sees it - maybe something will come of it. Sometimes I yodel with joy in my sleep!" (Reykjavik 14.1.1971 on "a volume of essays"). - Numerous letters with handwritten additions, deletions, etc. - Some letters and envelopes with small tears or small losses, 1 letter glued several times with Sellotape, 1 letter with 2 losses due to removed photos. - Enclosed: 2 letters from Hanns Sohm to Rieser. Signed typewritten letter dated 5.3.1967 about complicated purchases of Roth's works "I send him money from time to time and then get something..." - Signed typewritten letter dated 17.11.1976 with a list and confirmation of the transfer of documents to the Dieter Roth archive. - Enclosed: 7 undated sheets with handwritten notes, 1 sketch and instructions from Roth for Rieser. - Partly torn and creased. - Enclosed: 2 handwritten powers of attorney in copy. Both Düsseldorf, 10.2.1972. Powers of attorney handwritten by Roth on the letterhead of Eat Art Galerie, for Carlo Schröter for the purchase of the remainder of the "Funktürme" (?) as well as for the receipt of the "Anisuhr", "Selbstturm" and "Bohnenrotkohlbild" on commission. - Copies lightened. - Almost all letters with enclosed handwritten translation into English, these with order numbers, in 9 laid paper envelopes, these also with order numbers. - A detailed list of all documents can be sent on request. - Provenance: Estate of Rudolf Rieser.