Harvey Bialy (1945- ) is an American molecular biologist and poet.

Richard Blevins (1950- ) is an American poet and an editor of the Charles Olson-Robert Creeley correspondence.

Michael Boughn (1946- ) is a Canadian poet and fiction writer working at the Univeristy of Toronto since 1993.

Robert Bové is an American poet working at Pace University in Manhattan, N.Y.

Enclosure: A photocopied sheet (page 500 of volume 3) of the Encyclopaedia Britannica (1910, 11th edition) with Ed Dorn's handwritten comment on the bottom margin. Gordon Brotherston is a British scholar specializing in Hispanic, Latin American, and Native American literatures.

Enclosure(s): A broadside of William S. Burroughs's poem, "A Spiritual Exercise."

The letter consists of Richard Caddel's response to Ed Dorn's request, stating: "Dear Rick--I wonder if you remember telling me about a text (?) by or about Torquemada's chef de torture. . ." Richard Caddel (1949-2003) was a British poet, publisher, and editor as well as a key figure in the British Poetry Revival.