Box 5

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Hand marked NL 1 in a circle. Green file folder with yellow label marked Naked Lunch. Hand-written notes, typed scenes with written corrections, etc. Varied pagination.

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Hand-marked NL with 2 in circle. Tan file folder with yellow label marked Script - I Woke Last Night. Typed with hand written notes. Varied pagination, pp.1-47.

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Hand-marked NL with 3 in circle. Orange folder with hand-written NL and 3 in circle. Contains typed script of Naked Lunch circa 1972, with corrections, 123 pp. Marked on page 1, top: Return to: Anthony Balch Films.

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Hand-marked with NL & 4 in circle. Maroon colored folder with hand-written NL4 circled. On front cover is hand-written note: material relative to Naked Lunch film script, to films in general. Correspondence with Brion Gysin reference to N.L. film, 1970-71. Includes corrected typescript, The Blue Movies, 29 pp. Also: Bill's notes.

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Hand-marked 8 in circle. Orange colored folder with yellow label marked Naked Lunch film papers. Hand-written N.L. Film Papers. Folder contains: rough draft of Agreement between William W. Burroughs and Brion Gysin; and copy of signed Agreement.

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Envelope addressed to Brion Gysin in Tangier from New York. Contains Naked Lunch Script early version. Scenes 54-367.

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Blue legal-size letter wallet containing Script by Don Sanders for Naked Lunch state production in Chicago, 1970., and letter to Burroughs from Sanders. Varied pagination.

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Found without cover in Box 5. Scene 367 of a script. and a hand-out in French/English, re: Extracts from the Electronic Revolution by William Burroughs.

Scope and Contents Pp. 1-2, 4-9 of a letter dated October 20, 1955 to Allen Ginsberg written by Burroughs from the Hassan hospital, Tangiers, Morocco in 1955 while Burroughs was recovering from heroin addiction. This famous MS contains passages which Ginsberg edited with Burroughs into the final version of the novel The Naked Lunch. Every page bears corrections and additions in Burroughs' holograph. Page 9 contains synopsis of ...