Box 5-6

Scope and Contents This massive group of manuscript drafts of a filmscript for Burroughs' novel, The Naked Lunch, consists of some 11 separate portfolios and notebooks, including approximately 100 pp. of Burroughs' typescript, heavily corrected by both Burroughs and Brion Gysin, as well as literally thousands of pages of MS inn Brion Gysin's holograph and typescript of various drafts for the film project. During the period in the early 70s when...