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Contains 10 Results:

Terry Southern [J: ]

 File — Box: 2, Item: 1
Scope and Contents 3 TLS from Southern to My dear Benway, with additional holographic notations on one, inquiring about a collaboration with Burroughs for National Lampoon. One holographic page with newspaper photo pasted on. An excerpt ripped from a paperback book is enclosed, as is a tintype photo labelled Dutch Schultz. Also included are 4 pages of the Burroughs typescript for the National...
Dates: 1938-1997; Majority of material found within 1959-1978

Tim Leary Ph.D. [J: ]

 File — Box: 2, Item: 2
Scope and Contents

One copy of Starseed, a prison communique from Dr. Timothy Leary, dated 1973. In the original red folder with Burroughs' handwritten title.

Dates: 1938-1997; Majority of material found within 1959-1978

Biofeedback Materials [J: ], 1970-1973

 File — Box: 2, Item: 3
Scope and Contents

45 pages of information about biofeedback, including a number of issues of Biofeedback Newsletter.

Dates: 1970-1973

Correspondence for which Files Exist [J: ]

 File — Box: 2, Item: 4
Scope and Contents

Approximately 100 pages of correspondence, magazine articles, exhibition notices and book adverts. Some letters, postcards and photographs. In original blue folder with Burroughs' handwritten title. Includes Heathcote Williams mimeographed program, 1970.

Dates: 1938-1997; Majority of material found within 1959-1978

Dada [J: ]

 File — Box: 2, Item: 5
Scope and Contents

Three files, totalling approximately 90 pages of Dada-related or Dada-influenced work, as well as a small number of missives to Burroughs. 1st Folio is labelled Dada, 2nd folio is labelled Modern Dada Communications and Layouts, and the 3rd folio is labelled Canadada, all in Burroughs' hand and in the original folders.

Dates: 1938-1997; Majority of material found within 1959-1978

Minutes to Go and Exterminator Cut-Ups [J: ]

 File — Box: 2, Item: 6:
Scope and Contents

26 pages of photocopies from Minutes to Go and Exterminator, mostly used for cut-ups.

Dates: 1938-1997; Majority of material found within 1959-1978

Letters Answered Misc. [J: ]

 File — Box: 2, Item: 7
Scope and Contents

26 pages of correspondence to Burroughs including letters from David Budd, S. Clay Wilson, Terry Wilson, and Bill Belli. Included are letters from admirers and publishers, as well as 3 carbon responses from Burroughs. In the original blue folder with Burroughs' handwritten title. Burroughs has also written valuable in a different ink on the cover.

Dates: 1938-1997; Majority of material found within 1959-1978

London Miscellaneous Material [J:502], 1960

 File — Box: 2, Item: 8
Scope and Contents This file contains about 40 pp. of typescript and holograph MS of various unpublished drafts of untitled and evidently unfinished pieces, written from 1962 to 1967 in London. Although Burroughs has written on the front cover of the red folder Layouts from original 3rd Mind, Diaries, Last Word of Dutch Schultz, none of the texts present in this folio seem to resemble either the first or last mentioned texts. One single page, legal size, holography MS appears to be a...
Dates: 1960

Column Cut Up Duplicates [J:488]

 File — Box: 2, Item: 9
Scope and Contents This file contains 79 pp., mostly experiments with writing in the cut-up style, in 2 column, 3 column and 4 column layouts. The materials in this file all date from the early 1960's and most appears to be unpublished, certainly in anything resembling the present texts. Some holograph corrections to the texts, and most columns marked off by Burroughs in various colored inks. The multiple column writing style which Burroughs experimented with and them ultimately abandoned is evident in the...
Dates: 1938-1997; Majority of material found within 1959-1978

To Morrow Now Occurs Again [J:556]

 File — Box: 2, Item: 10
Scope and Contents This file contains a typescript to Robert Grover's To Morrow Now Occurs Again, with a cover letter from Grover to Burroughs seeking a blurb. A carbon of Burroughs' response is included. Another typescript is also included, Kubla Khan or A Vision In A Dream by Samuel Taylor Coleridge and continued to completion by Julio Delatorre. A letter from Delatorre and a carbon of Burroughs' response...
Dates: 1938-1997; Majority of material found within 1959-1978