Box 1

8 ½ x 11 inches. Mimeograph flyer on green paper advertising Ray Johnson design. Printed text: “If tears are dropped on a dry piece of paper, stained with the juice of the petals of mallows or violets, they will change the paper to a permanently green colour.”

“A very hot day in Jerusalem. (It’s a very old city the place where Jesus was tried and put on the cross) It’s very old and you get a feeling from the stones that a great deal of history has gone by. The Crusaders in the 15th cent. came here and faught [sic] with the Turks. Destroying many old churches – today the Arabs Jews and Christians all share the same holy places – quite a scene.” Recto: photograph of Arab shepherd carrying a sheep.

Franked, postmarked June 4, 1974. “what have you done with lickety split?” Recto: Scene 10 from Taking Tiger Mountain by Strategy: A Modern Revolutionary Peking Opera.

Bunny drawings labelled with names, with several stamps. After copying, Johnson added the stamp: “Please add to and return to Ray Johnson,” and circled the stamp and John Evans’ name in pink marker.

Hempstead Harbor Artists Association press release.

8 ½ x 11 inches. Autograph text, mimeographed: “For Jackson MacLow / AAAAADEEEGH / I IJ / KLLL LLN / KNOO OPR.” Mirror image signature in autograph ink by Johnson.