Ms Coll/Miles

Miles, Barry, 1943- Papers, 1958-2000. 15.5 linear ft. (ca. 5,000 items in 33 boxes).

Biography: Editor, biographer, and bookseller. Manager, London's Better Books, 1965; owner/manager, Indica Bookshop, 1966-1970, which specializes in modern literature, especially post-war American and British authors; editor of International Times and of little literary magazines, including Long Hair, and Trees. He has recorded numerous spoken word albums and is the author of Ginsberg; a biography.

Summary: Correspondence, manuscripts, photographs, and printed materials concerned with Miles' literary activities in London, which include a number of small literary magazines which he edited during the mid- sixties. Included are 30 letters and manuscripts from William S. Burroughs and a body of material relevant to Miles' and J. Maynard's William S. Burroughs: a Bibliography, 1953-1973, published in 1978, and many letters and manuscripts from Allen Ginsberg. In addition there are 7 letters and manuscripts from Richard Brautigan, 3 letters from Lawrence Ferlinghetti, 5 letters from Michael McClure, 19 letters and manuscripts from Gerard Malanga, and 13 letters and manuscripts from Brian Patten, and files from numerous authors, including some from other countries. Part 2: Research materials and working files for his biography of Allen Ginsberg, published by Simon & Schuster in 1989, with later revised editions. These files include photocopies of Ginsberg's letters to many associates, photocopies of Ginsberg's journal notebooks from 1953 until 1985, and 166 tape cassettes of interviews of and about Allen Ginsberg.

Organization: Selected items cataloged; remainder arranged. (Box 1: Cataloged correspondence, A-Z; Box 2: Cataloged manuscripts, A-Z; Box 3-5: Arranged correspondence, manuscripts, & printed materials; Box 6/7: Original Allen Ginsberg letters & manuscripts, shelved in the vault; Boxes 8-34: Part 2, Research materials & working files for his biography of Allen Ginsberg, including photocopies of Ginsberg's journals, Boxes 23-26, and audio tapes of interviews, Boxes 33-34). William Burroughs letters are available on microfilm.

Finding aids: Contents list, 91p.

Available for faculty, students, and researchers engaged in scholarly or publication projects. Reader must use microfilm of materials specified above. Permission to publish materials must be obtained in writing from the Librarian for Rare Books & Manuscripts.

1. Brautigan, Richard. 2. Burroughs, William S., 1914- 3. Carr, Lucien, 1924?- 4. Ferlinghetti, Lawrence. 5. Ginsberg, Allen, 1926- 6. McClure, Michael. 7. Malanga, Gerard, 1943- 8. Patten, Brian, 1946- 9. Snyder, Gary, 1930- 10. Whalen, Philip. 11. Booksellers and bookselling 12. Little magazines—London (England). 13. Poetry. 14. Beats. 15. Beat literature. 16. Advertsements. 17. Announcements. 18. Audio cassettes. 19. Bibliographies. 20. Broadsides. 21. Brochures. 22. Catalogs (trade). 23. Collages. 24. Diaries. 25. Drafts (literary). 26. Drawings. 27. Essays. 28. Galley proofs. 29. Genealogies. 30. Handbills. 31. Lists. 32. Indexes. 33. Interviews. 34. Invitations. 35. Invoices. 36. Itineraries. 37. Manuscripts (literary). 38. Notebooks. 39. Notes. 40. Obituaries. 41. Photographs. 42. Photoprints. 43. Poems. 44. Posters. 45. Press releases. 46. Resumes. 47. Reviews. 48. Scripts. 49. Silkscreen prints. 50. Artists. 51. Authors. 52. Biographers. 53. Editors. 54. Poets.

ID: NYCR88-A24

HR - 8/92 HR - 5/02 Barry MILES Papers -1-

Cataloged correspondence:

Berkson, Bill Berrigan, Ted Brautigan. Richard Burroughs, William S. - Or) Charters, Ann Carr, Lucien Clark, Tom di Prima, Diane Fainlight, Harry Ferlinghetti, Lawrence Finlay, Ian Hamilton Ginsberg, Allen Giorno, John Gysin, Brion Box 1 Hollo, Anselm Kelly, Robert Laughlin, James LaVigne, Robert Lucie-Smith, Edward McClure, Michael Malanga, Gerard Olson, Charles Miles, Barry Orlovsky, Peter Owens, Rochelle Padgett, Ron Patchen, Miriam Patten, Brian Plymell, Charles Sanders, Ed Saroyan, Aram Swallow, Alan Snyder, Gary Tambimuttu Wakoski, Diane «- Williams, Jonathan Whalen, Philip

Cataloged manuscripts:

Ashbery, John Berrigan, Ted Brautigan, Richard Burroughs, William S, -- Box 2 di Prima, Diane Corso, Gregory Fainlight, Harry Ginsberg, Allen Hollo, Anselm Kelly, Robert Lamantia, Philip Malanga, Gerard Micheline, Jack Owens, Rochelle Patten, Brian Plymell, Charges Warhol, Andy Barry MILES Papers -2-

Arranged correspondence and manuscripts (and printed materials)

Ableman, Paul Agel, Jerome Aldrich, Michael Andrews, George Ballard, J. G. Barnett, Anthony Belart, Gerard Berner, Jeff Bierkens, Jef Birot, Mme Pierre Albert Bizot, Jean Francois Blazek, Douglas Bly, C. (Mrs. Robert) Bowering, George Brautigan, Richard Breger, Udo Burroughs, William S. Butler, Bill Butterworth, Michael Calder, John Callahan, James Box 3 Carroll, Donald Cassidy, Daniel Patrick, Jr. Christo City Lights Books Clements, Marshall Cobbing, Bob Cohen, Ira Combs, Tram Congden, Kirby Critchley, Julian Crozier, Andrew Cunliffe, Dave (& Tina Morris) De Loach, Allen di Prima, Diane Douglas, Alan Dowden, George Doyle, Kirby Durgnat, Raymond Dyke, Dick Elbert, Joyce Evans, Paul . Fainlight, Barry Fancher, Edwin Fanchette, Jean Fawcett, Anthony Fay, Robert Federman, Raymond Ferlinghetti, Lawrence Finlay, Ian Hamilton Fisher, Allen Fisher, Roy Fowler, John E. Froge, Gait Furnival, John Barry MILES Papers -3-

Gamier, Pierre Gibson, Morgan Ginsberg, Allen Giorno, John Goliard Press Gomringer, Eugen Gordon, Giles Grinberg, Miguel Gyson, Brion Hansen, Al Hartmann, Walter Harwood, Lee Hazard, Geoffrey Heliczer, Piero Henri, Adrian Herman, Jan Box k Hollo, Anselm Holmes, David Horovitz, Frances Horovitz, Michael Houedard, Dom Silvester Houston, Libby Inman, Will Jay, Peter Johnson, B. S. Keen, Jeff Keys, John Kupferberg, Tuli Lawson, Andrew Lebel, Jean-Jacques Levy, D. A. Lewis, Harry Lionni, Paolo Lord, Sterling Lucie-Smith, Edward McBride, Bob & Dick McCarthy, Cavan McClure, Michael McGilvery, Laurence McNamara, Tom Malanga, Gerard Marlowe, Alan Maurer, Monique Maynard, Joe Mikriammos, Philippe Miller, Jeffrey Miller, Peter Montgomery, George Morris, Richard Morris, Tina Mottram, Eric . Murray, David New Yorker Magazine Box 5 Nuttall, Jeff Olson, Charles Parnell, Martin Patchen, Miriam Barry MILES Papers

Patten, Brian Perret, Christopher Pickard, Tom Pivano, Fernanda Sottsas Ploog, Jurgen Plymell, Charles Pociao Randall, Margaret Rattray, David Box 5 Rayworth, Tom Resnick, Marcia Ricard, Albert Rene Richter, Daniel Rutherford, Malcolm Sanders, Ed Saroyan, Aram Shayer, Michael Shepp, Archie Sinclair, John Smith, Alexander Sommerville, Ian Spratley, Joanna Sullivan, Beris Tambimuttu Tarn, Nathaniel Thatcher, Brian Torrance, Chris (& Michael Dyle) Wagnon, Drew Wake, Brian Wall rich, Larry Weissner, Carl Welsh, David Wilentz, Ted Williams, Heathcote Williams, Jonathan Wyatt, Ian

Catalogs & flyers

Box 6 Cataloged Correspondence shelved in Vault

Ginsberg, Allen (Original letters may not be used without the permission of the Librarian for Rare Books and Manuscripts. Reader must use photocopies in Box 1) -5-

An Inventory of the Barry Miles Papers, Aug 15, 1987

Letters from William S. Burroughs to Barry Miles

1. t Is July 17, 1964 [WSB in Tangier to BM in London] [Starting magazine, Reich's Orgone accumulators]

2. t Is Oct 28, 1964 [WSB in Tangier to BM in London] [Discusses the 3-column technique and encloses ms for a new magazine]

+ ts 5p hollograph pagination. "Who Is The Written Third Walks Beside You?" [a cut-up using a line from Eliot's "Waste Land" as a starting point.] Published in "Tzarad Anthology. Copy enclosed.

3. a p/c Nov 20, 1964 [WSB in Tangier "'to BM in London] [Gives NYC address]

4. a p/c n.d.^f Dec ember 1972] [W^B in London to BM in NYC][Xmas card]

5. a Is n.d. [December 1973] [WSB in London to BM in NYC][Xmas card]-.,

6. t Is Nov 30, 1970 2p with lOp enclosure. [WSB in London to BM in NYC][NYC and Hubbard, founder •-.£ Scientology]

+ ts carbon "The Reactive Mind" lOp with hollograph pagination.

7. t Is May 23, 1970 [WSB in London to BM in NYC][Andy Warhol, magazines, C a] 2p

8. "t Is Aug 30, 1970. [WSB in London to BM in Cherry Valley, NY][Corso, Hubbard, His article on Scientology]

9. t Is Dec 13, 1970 [WSB in London to BM in NYC][Scientology]

10. t Is April 10, 1972 [WSB in London to BM in Sedlescombe, Sussex] [re selling his archives.

11. t Is 2p July 20, 1973 [WSB in London to BM in NYC] [Details regarding sale of Burroughs' archives

12. t Is Aug 14, 1973 [WSB in London to BM in NYC][Archives. Dutch Schultz]

13. t Is Dec 16, 1974 [WSB in NYC to BM in London][Decribed reading tour w/John Giorno. Ginsberg]

14. t Is Jan 30, 1975 [WSB in NYC to BM in London][Re disposing of contents his apt]

15. t Is Nov 8, 1975 [WSB in NYC to BM in London] [Archives sale and bibliography] -6-

16. t Is [to Richard Aaron] Feb 25, 1973 [WSB in London to RA in Ollon, Suisse][regarding the Catalogue of the WSB Archive by Miles that Aaron published.]

17. t Is Jan 20, 1976. [WSB in NYC to BM in London][re: WSB intro to BM's

Bibliography of his work.]

+ ts 6p "Introduction for Miles' Bibliography of WSB"

18. t Is March 22, 1976 [WSB in NYC to BM in London][Re; Bibliography] 19. t Is April 20, 1976 [WSB in NYC to BM in London][London flat, Ian Sommerville's death.]

20 t Is June 22, 1976 [WSB in NYC to BM in London][Port of Saints, articles Cravdaddy magazine and financial matters.]

21. ts [carbon] MOB (My Own Business) dated Dec 9, 1969 4p

22. ts [carbon] 8p [1965] [contemporary with the Paris Review interview] -Y- s letters to William Burroughs* [all carbon copies unless stated] TL Nov 17, 1967, Ip TL Teb 12, 1968, lp TL Aug 4, 1970, 2p [from Ginsberg's farm] TL Nov 18, 1970, lp TL April 17, 1972 Cable: Burroughs to Miles, May 31, 1972 Cable: Burroughs to Miles, June 23, 1972 Cable: Burroughs to Miles, July 12, 1972 TL July 27, 1972, lp TL Aug 22, 1972, 2 sides Cable: Burroughs to Miles, Aug 23, 1972 [Photocopy] Deed of Partnership between W. S.Burroughs and Brion Gysin, Oct 30, 1972, regarding the description and sale of their joint-archives. Invoice: Miles Associates', for the description of ¥5B archives, ilov 14, 1972. Document: [by Miles] "The William 5. Burroughs Archive" [short form description of contents, lOp TL Jan 26, 1973, lp TL March 22, 1973, 2 sides TL Aug 3, 1973, lp TL Aug 8, 1973, lp TL July 9, 1973, 3p TL Sept 1, 1973 plu3 enci: carbon of "Addenda Number One To The Description of the ¥illiam 5. Burroughs Archives." 32p [continues from my published description of the archives and includes..material discovered in New Torx City after the original description wa3 with the printers. Namely folios 200 through 246 and 11 groups of letters. TL Oct 13, 1973, lp TL Dec 12, 1973, lp TL March 21, 1974, lp TL Aug 21, 1974, lp TL Oct 26, 1974, 2 sides TL Jan 7, 1975, 2 sides TL March 9, 1975, 2 sides TL April 5, 1975, 2p TLs James Grauerholz to Miles, March 12, 1976, lp + enc: JG to Walker Cowen, [carbon] lp + env TL3 James Grauerholz to Miles, April 19, 1976, 2p + env TL Sept 9, 1976, lp AL3, James Grauerholz to Miles, Sept 25, 1976, lp TL May 10, 1977, lp TLs, James Grauerholz to Miles, July 5, 1977, lp TL Aug 5, .1977, lp TL [carbon] James Grsurholz to Mrs Edith Sommerville [Ian Soauaerrille's mother and executor of his estate] Feb 9, 1.97G with ALs JG to Miles at foot. 2p TLs, James Gtrauerholz to Miles, April 19, 1973, ip TLs, James Grauerholz to Miles, Sept 28, 1978, lp' TLs, James Grauerholz to Miles, Nov 6, 1979, lp TL [carbon] James Grauerholz to David Daw3on, Sept 22, 1933 + env [The correspondence is mostly to do with the bibliography of Burroughs which I wrote for the University of Virginia Press. Bibliographical Society, and the description of Burroughs arid Gysin1s archives. The description of them was published by Covent Garden Press, London and Aia Here Books, Ollon, Switzerland. Further material later came to light and an unpublished description of it is included here. ] -8-

Letters from Allen Ginsberg to Barry Miles: 1973 - 1983

[Continuing from the collection of letters already in the Columbia Library dated 1965 - 1973 > "which are not included on this list.]

1. a p/c July 20, 1973 [AG in London to BM in NYC][Burroughs, Auden, Trocchi]

2. a p/c Sept 24, 1973 [AG in Teton Village, Wyoming, to BM in NYC][AG at month long intensive meditation session, gives details of sitting.]

3. a p/c Nov 28, 1973 [AG in Teton Village, Wyoming, to BM in NYC][discussion of role of CIA in Tibet and discusses Chogyam Trungpa, his teacher.]

4. a Is [aerogramme] Jan 15, 1974 [AG in Cherry Valley, NY to BM in London] [New CIA station chief in London, John Lennon Yoko Ono]

5. a Is [aerogramme] Feb 14, 1974 [AG in NYC to BM in London][Burroughs, meditation in Cherry Valley, Yoko Ono, Bob Dylan, Leary.]

6. a Is lp + 4p enclosures. March 4, 1974 [AG in NYC to BM in London][Will Burroughs move to Cherry Valley? Plymell, Leary, Furry Lewis visit...]

+ tearsheet Liberation Feb 1974. Essay by AG: "Thoughts & Recurrent Musings on Israeli Arguments." [annotated]

+ ts "Psalm On My Illness" Xerox copy w/annotations. 3p Signed, dated titled and dedicated in hollograph.

7. a Is [aerogramme] Sept 14, 1974 [AG in Nevada City, Ca to BM in London] [AG building a cabin in woods w/Orlovsky, Naropa Institute, tapes...]

8. Mimeo letter "To Whom It May Concern" re: Abbie Hoffman's arrest. Signed, dated and w/3 line hollograph note. ,3vp Sept 14, 1973 9. a Is Dec 17, 1975 [AG in NY to BM in London] + 3p enclosures. [Remembers USSR trip of 1965, tapes, gossip re Tibetans. ] + ts "Gospel Nobel Truths" [heavily annotated] signed. Oct 17, 1975

+ ts 2p "Dope Fiend Blues" Xerox copy, signed. Dec 31, 1973.

[notes on envelope from both AG and Peter Orlovsky] 10. t Is n.d. [1976] [AG in -tf¥e to BM in London][Recording "First Blues", father's health, long talk with John Lennon described.] 2p

11. a Is 2 sides Nov 21, 1977 [AG in NYC to BM in London][Tapes, punk rock] -9-

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12. a Is 2p April 4, 1979 [AG in NYC to BM in London][Gives details of readings and upcoming European tour, Blake,,]

13. a Is [aerogramme] Oct 8, 197£ [AG in NYC to BM in London][describes events on tour of Italy, big reading in Rome w/Burroughs, etc.] :

14. a Is n.d. [late Set 1978][AG in NY to BM in London]

15. a Is Nov 17, 1978 [AG flying over Utah with Bob Dylan on tour][describes tour] 3p [envelope has note- by AG on back]

16. a p/c Dec 4, 1979 [AG in Turin, Italy, to BM in London] [Describes Italian tour, Beck & Malina, Corso...]

17. a p/c Dec 12, 1980 [AG in Aaachen, Germany, to BM in London][describes events on tour]

-18. a Is Jan 20, 1981. [AG in NYC to BM in London][described Inauguration. Working on Colleted Poems, John Lennon assassination.]

19. a p/c Sept 17, 1981 [AG in Rome to BM in London][walking around Rome]

20. a Is + enclosure lp n.d. [Sept 11, 1981] [discussed enclosed poem]

+ ts Xerox copy lp "Capitol Air" Annotated, signed, dedicated, dated in hollograph,

21. a p/c Jan 29, 1983 [AG in Stockholm to BM in London][describes tour of Scandinavia.]

22. ts 3p Photocopy: "Do The Meditation Rock Rag" dedicated, dated Mar 13, 1982

ts 2p Photocopy: "Airplane Blues" signed, dedicated, dates March 11, 1982.

Collection consists of:

7 postcards; 11 autograph letters; 3 typed signed letters plus a number of enclosures consisting of 6 ms of poems and a tearsheet.[llp of ms]

All envelopes enclosed.

a Is from Peter Orlovsky May 20, 1972 2 sides [gossip about AG & friends] -10- LES ABCHIV5:

fis: "Written Under The Influence of Hashish" 2 drafts. annotated and signed, each of 16p. Dated April 1966 [Ableroan is the author of I Hear Voices. Olyrapia Press, Psris Jerome Aqel: [ed Books magazine, NYC] TL3, nd [1966]

ael Aldrich: [ed. iiarijuana Newsletter] TL3 Jan 1, 1970

George Andrews: ALs June 17 [1967] from Prouvy, France. 2 3ides + env. ALs June 13 [1967] from Prouvy. France. 3 3ide3 + env + TTl.? 3 Flyer for "The Book of Gra33" [The author he.d recently completed work editing The Book of Gr which was published in the UK by Peter Owen arid in the U3A by Grove. ] John Ashberv Ts "Evening Quatrains" lp [signed but not typed by the author] Tft "Vocalise" 2p [signed but not typed by the author] T3 "The liinstrel Boy" 2p [signed but not typed by the author] [Us are C1964-5]

J G.Ballard: TLs April 1. 1973, lp August 17, 1974, lp Anthony Barnett: [ed. Nothing Doing In London] TLs May 12, 1966 T3 3 poems. 3p 2 photocopies of a translation from Supervielle, one with annotations. Gerard Belart: [ed. Cold Turkey Press, Botterdaa] 1L3 Nov 13, 1974, lp TLs Jan 1, 1975, lp

Bill Berk3on: 1L3 Sept 10, 1969, lp Jeff Berner: [ed. Stolen Paper Review editions, San Franci3co] TL3 Cay 5, 1965, lp TLs May 14, 1965 TLs Dec 20, 1966 Poster for Experimental College, 1967 Flat of cover of Stolen Pe.per Seview 3 Flyer for tne magazine. [Stolen Paper editions published Lenore Kandel'3 "The Love Book" which became a best seller after the police seized copies.] T«d Be.rrigan: TL nd {HTC*19651 ip TL3 Jan 13, 1966 from WYC lp TLs Feb 2, 1966 from NTC. 2p T3 "5elriessne33" ip [considerable annotation] Ts "American Express" 2p [signed] -11- Ts "A Dream" lp T3 "Joy of Shipwrecks" ip Ts "In Place of EverythingB lp Ts "Noh" ip [written with Ron Padgett] 73 "Tooting My Horn On Duty" lp Ts "A Dream" lp [Berrigan was the HY correspondent for Long Hair magazine and many oli the ms in this collection were 3ent over by him for j.t ] Jet Bierkens [ed. Labris, Belgium] ALs May 18, 1965, lp Tls Sept 16, 1965, lp ALs Sept 28, 1965, 2 sides TL3 Kov 1, 1965, 2 side3 Madame P. Albert Birnt: -• AL3 April 12, 1965, 2 sides. Jean Francois Bizot: [ed. Actuel magazine, Paris] TL3 Dec 11, 1970, lp ALs nd [1970] ip TLs Dec 23, 1970, lp Douglas Blazek: [ed. Ole magazine] Tp/C3 June 16, 1965 TLs July 15, 1965, ip TLs Oct 3, 1965, lp TLs Nov 28, 1965, 2 sides TLs Jan 1, 1966, lp TLs Jan 10, 1966 ip TLs nd [1966] lp Ts poems, 3p Flyers: sheets advertizing the publications of the Open Skull Press, Blazek'3 poetry and Ole magazine, 9p [Blazek was the first publisher of Charles Bukowski and did a number of small press titles of his before he became well known.The correspondence chronicles the trials of a small press in Chicago,] Mrs Robert Bly: [the Sixties Press] TLs July 28, 1966 G*orcre Bwrerirser: [ed. Imago magazine] TLs March 24, 1965 Richard Brautiqan fthe late]: TL [carbon] Miles to RB Oct "3, 1968 2p TL3 from San Francisco, Oct 14, 1968 lp TL [carbon] from Sarah Fenwick [Miles secty] Oct 22, 1963 ip 1L [carbon] liiies to RB Dec 13, 1963 TL [carbon] Miles to RB Jan 2, 1968 TLs Jan 3, 1969 + env TL [carbon] Miles to RB Jan 7, 1969 TL3 Jan 20, 1969 + env TLs March 11, 1969 + env TLs April 26, 1969 + env TLs May 5, 1969 + env T3 Two poems by SB: "Discovery- and "Widow1 3 Lament" lp Alls [list of names of people reading on RB's album] Tms Hile3 [press biography of RB for Apple Records] Zexnz copy of tracks on RB album One Digger Dollar -12- [Correspondence relates to the planning and recording of the spoken word albiia Listening to Bichard Brauticran which Mile? producer! in San Francisco in 1969. The album was released by Harvest Records in 1970 but Has originally scheduled for Apple Records. ] TJdo Breger: [ed. Expanded Media Editions] TL [carbon] Miles to UB Sept 27, 1974 lp TLs Jan 15, 1975 2p TL [carbon] Miles to UB Jan 7, 1975 TLs Feb 19, 1975 lp TL [carbon] Miles to UB Feb 24, 1975 lp Tp/cs Mar 19, 1975 Ap/c April 4, 1975 TLs Har 11, 1976 [Udo Breger is publisher of Ginsberg, Burroughs, etc., in Germany. Correspondence covers Bripn Gy3in's illness and publishing information. ] Bill Butler fthe latel: TLs Jan 28, 1970 from Brighton, Sussex Tp/c Sept 10 [1970?] TLs June 9, 1972 TMs: funtitled] signed lp TMs: [untitledj signed ip Ills: "Caresses of Atlantic And Caribbean Love" signed lp [The late Bill Butler was an American poet, ptiblisher of the Unicorn Press books in the late 60s, early 703 and author of a number of books including The Myth of the Hero, published an the UI by Hutchinson. ] Michael Buttervorth: [ed. Savoy Editions and fordworksj TLs Oct 1, 1974, lp TLs Oct 14, 1974, 2p TLs May 15, 1978, ip TLs June i, 1978, lp Xerox, Miles to MB, June 26, 1978, lp ILs Aug 14, 1978 lp John Calder: TLs Jan 19, 1965, lp James Callahan: [ed. Kor3 Commerce Press.] TL3 April 16, 1965, lp ALs, April 30, 1965, 2 3ides, ALs, May 16, 1965, lp TL3, July 13, 1965, ip TL3, Aug 1, 1965, lp ALs, Aug 24, 1965, lp TLa, Sept 3, 1965, 2p AL3, NOT 5, 1965, lp TLa. Nov 27, 1965, lp [The Hors Commerce Press 7*as based in Torrence, California and very prolific as a small nan publishing house. ] Donald Carroll: TLs, March 12, 1966, lp Patrick Cassidy Jr: Tils lOp oi poemi3. [Member of Warhol's factory in the sixties, these poems were 3ent to lilies by Gerard Halanga for possible inclusion in Longjfery: magazine in 1965. ] -13-

Charters: AL3, Dec 16, 1974, Ip [sae also Charles Olson folder] Chri3to: ALs, fto John Dunbar] Sept 19, 1966, lp [the artist] City Light? Pooka: Catalogs for 1960, 1961, Fall 1961, 1964-5, 1966, 1967, 1966 + printed copy of Gleason' 3 5>F>Chronicle column of Sept 6, 1962 on the 3tore. Toia Clark: TL3, nd [June 1965J lp TL3, Sept 9, 1965, lp ALs, nd, ip AL3, April 18, [1966], lp ALs, nd, [1966], lp ALs, nd [1966] [Clark was the poetry editor of "Paris Bevies" at this time and also editing one-3hot magazines called "once" "TVice" "Thrice" etc. ] Marshall Clements: TLs, May 13, 1965, lp Bob Cobbing: 8x10" glossy photograph of the British "sound poet" reading his work. Holograph poem, as Saas card. Ira Cohen: [ed. Gnaoua magazine] TLs, from Morocco, May 14 [1965], lp TL3, from Morocco, Aug 17 [1965], lp TLs, from Morocco, Sept 11, [1965] lp [published Burroughs, Ginsberg et al.]

TL3, May 20, 1965, lp TLs, April 10, 1970, lp Kirby Congdon: [ed. Crank Book3 & Magazine, HTCj TL3, Feb 11, 1965, lp TL3, March 9, 1965, lp ALs, nd [1965], lp TLs, June 7, 1965, lp 2 catalogs for Interim/Crank books 2 small photographs of Congdon, 1965 and 1966, one in color. Broadsheet: "Dialogue ¥ith God" Broadside : untitled from Dialogue Pres3, Lawrence, Kansas, 1964 T3, 2 poems Hewsclipping: "The Key ¥est Citizen" Feb 10, 1966. Julian Crltchley: [ed Town magazine] TLs, Feb 21, 1967. lp TL3, March 28, 1967, ip Ferry Pre33] Tl.s7 Jan22, 1969, lp 12, 1969, 2 sides ALs, Oct 1, 1969, lp four different catalogues of .Ferry Press publications. [Crazier published book3 by Tom Clark, Stephen Jonas arid others, j Dave Cunliffe & Tina Morris: [eds Poetmeat magazine] TLs, Dec 17, 1965, lp five TL3, all nd [1965-6] 5p 3 copies of the Screeches Publications catalog and a flyer for a reading by Dave Cunliffe and Tina Morris. [Breakthru magazine published important work by Ginsberg and others in the UK and Cunliffe and Morri3 were put on trial for a poetry anthology deemed obscene by the authorities in a celebrated sixties trial. Much of the correspondence concerns this and other gossip. ] Allen De Loach: [ed.Intrepid magazine] Ts: poems, lOp TLs, Sept 4, 1965, lp TLs, nd [1965], lp TLs, liar eh 16, 1966, lp Ts: "An Improvisation on Excursions", ip Diane di Prime: Tp/c nd [1965] from Poughkeepsie, NY TLs nd [March 22, 1966] lp + env AL3 September 9, 1966. 2 3ide3 + env Xuas card, 2nas 1966 [hand printed on 'psychedelic paper* at. the Poets' Press.] TLs Feb iO, 1966 from Kerhonkson, NY. lp TLs nd [Jan 1967] lp A list of bookstores in UK [1966] lp Ap/c nd [1966?] Als nd [May 1967] 2 sides TL3 April 19, 1963 lp TLs June 8, 1968 ip AL3 May 19, 1969 lp AL3 nd [1969] lp TLs Sept 12, 1969 lp Flyer for a benefit reading for Poets Press, Rbt Creeley 4 Poets' Press catalogs. 4p [one in the form of a letter, signed] Mimeo letter to people on Floating Bear mailing list. nd. T Ms: "Ode To Keat3a 3p + copy made in UK for the magazine, 3p Its: Communication Company edition of Diane di Prime's Revolutionary Letters, i5 sides [3ome annotation] plus the cover letter, dated June i, 1968, which accompanied them. [Diane di Prima was running the Poets' Press in the mid sixties and much of this correspondence concerns her various moves from one address to another and her publishing plans, discussion of Tim Leary, Allen Ginsberg and other mutual friends.] Alan Douglas: [pub Douglas Book3, Douglas Records] TL [ carbon j Miles to Alan Douglas, April 7, 1970, lp TLs, April 17, 1970, lp Cabla, April 10, 1970 George Dowden: TLs Aug 17, 1964 from Brighton, Sussex lp TL3 Sept 2, 1964 ip AL3 Oct 1. 1964 lp TLs Jan 29, 1966 lp TL3 Feb 25, 1966 lp TL3 Mar 21, 1966 lp -15- 12p of poems. [I'owden is an American poet, best known for his bibliography of Alien Ginsberg published by City Lights Books, 3an Francisco iiuch of this correspondence concerns Ginsberg and his bibliography ] K.irby flpyle' "Angre.1 Faint" by Eirby Doyle. In gailies, 20pp. Villiar* Press, printers. Baymond Purroat: TL July 9 ri965] + 7p oi poem3 [Durgnat is a well-known British film critic, author of a number of film books.] Dick Dyle: [ed. Origins/Diversions] AL3 Jan 6 [1965] Ip Joyce Elbert: TLs Dec 9, 1971, Ip TLs, July 30, 1976, ip [author ox "The Crazy Ladies", etc.] Paul Evans: [ed. Aquarius magazine] Us, Oct 5, 1965, ip Harr; Fainliqht fthe latel: ALs nd (late 1965] H3: "Grail" signed Ip - lls: "Spider IIM Ip Us: "The Gates of Albion" signed ip Us: Two poeas on New York, signed Ip Ms: "Trans" signed 2p fcfe: "Pastorale" and on verso: "Sussicran" A Note listing poems. [The late Harry Fainlight was a British poet, laewber or the Lower East Side poetry scene in Hew York City in the mid Sixties, highly regarded oy Ginsberg, Sanders, Berrigan, etc. His work3 were published in limited editions but a collected edition is being planned now [early 1986j hj Allen Ginsberg. ] Edwin Fancher: [publisher, Village Yoice] TLs, June 6, 1966, Ip Jean Fanchette: [ed. Two Cities] ILs, Feb 21, 1965, Ip ALs, nd [1965], Ip Ap/cs nd. [1965] TLs, April 13, 1965, Ip ALs, April 21, 1965, 2 side3. TLs, April 30, 1965, ip ALs, June 30, [1965] Ip [Fanchette was the publisher of Burroughs' "Minutes To Go"] Anthony Fawcett: ALs, April 24, 1966, 2 side3 [aE: [ed. Du3t magazine, El Cerrito, Calif.] TLi>, Aug V'K 1965, Ip Raymond Fedgrraan: [ed. Mica magazine, Santa Barbara, Calif TL3", Aua 1, .1961, ip -16- Lawrence Ferlinghetti: Tp/cs nd [1970] TL [Carbon] lilies to LF May 22, 1970 lp AL3, LF to William Burroughs, Dec 13, 1973, 2 sides + env TL [carbon] Mile3 to LF nd [June 1974], lp Flyer advertising a reading by Andrei Voznesensky w/LF translating. [Correspondence regarding George Dowden'3 bibliography of Allen Ginsberg which Ferlinghetti wa3 about to publish. ]

Ian Hamilton Finlay [poet S, ed ¥ild Hawthorn Press] ALs, [from Sue Finlay] Feb 5, [1965], lp ALs. [from Sue Finlay] Karen 31,[1965], 2 sides TLd, [from Sue Finlay] April 9, [1965], 2 3ide3 ALs, [from Sue Finlay] April 29, [1965], 2 3ides ALs, May 1, [1965], 2p TL?, nd [May 1965], ip ; TLs, [from Sue Finlay] May 13, [1965], 2p TL3, [from Sue Finlay] June 3 [1965] ip Ap/cs Aug 13 [1965], 2 sides ALs, [from Sue Finlay] Aug 30, [1965], lp ALa, [rrom Sue Finlay] Sept 10 [1965], lp ALs, [from Sue Finlay] Sept 17, [1965], lp ALs, Nov 22, 1965, 2p AL3, [from Sue Finlay] Nov 23, [1965], 2p Copie3 Spring & Fall and other Ii3ts from ¥ild Hawthorn Press + 2 env Fish Sheet 1 [1963] poem3 by IHF, Ansela Hollo, etc. [?ild Hawthorn Press published Jonathan Williams, Ted Enslin, Louis Zukovsky as well as most of the British and European concrete poet3. He is the only concrete poet still active in Britain. ]

Allen Fisher: [ed: Aloes Books] Ap/cs nd [July 1974] TLs, Oct 8, 1974, 2 sides TLs, Nov 19, 1974, 2p [Leading publisher and promoter of the Cut-Up school in the TJK. ]

POT Fisher: ALs, Oct 20, 1965, lp

John E Fowler: [ed. Gri3t magazine, Lawrence, Kansas] TLs, April 24, 1965, 2 sides. Fora letter from Gri3t, nd fi%!L7.£Qgc> [owner Librairie Anglaise, Paris] Us, F^b 15, 1965, ip TLs, Feb 16, 1966, lp • 2 Ii3t3 of books [Us Frogs published the recording of Burroughs reading "Call He Burroughs"] John Furnival : [ed. Opening3/Unfolding3] ALs, Hay 17, 1964, 2 sides Ap/C3 Bee 20, 1964 AL3, March 5, 1965, lp ALs, ilarch 27. 1965, ip ALs, April 9, 1965, 2 sides AL3, nd [1965-6], IP AL3, nd [1965-6], 2 3ides ALs, nd [1965-6], 2 3ide3 Flyer for his press, ip Poster, in blue, as an Xaas card [Furnival TOS a leading publisher and exponant of the Concrete Poetry movement in Britain. ] -17-

PI AL3, March 30, 1963, 2 5ida3 [in French] [The concrete poet] Morgan. Gibson: fed: Art 3 In Society] TLs, Sept 5, 1965, lp TLs, Sept 29, 1965, lp TLa, nd [1965], ip John Giorno: TLs July 14, 1970 [to Allen Ginsberg] lp TL [carbon] Hiles to JG June 5, 1974 lp TLs July 3, 1974 lp TL [carbon] Miles to JG July 16, 1974 lp TLs Sept 6, 1974 lp TL [carbon] Miles to JG Hoy 19, 1974 TLs Dec 1, 1974 TL3 Hoy 2, 1982+3 encl. of press clips Dial-a-Poem p/c 6 different Dial-a-Poem. catalogs Flyer for a 1974 reading w/¥illiam Burroughs Go Hard Press: Xaas card on special handmade paper, Dec 20, 1966 + env four cat.logs Poster: Poem by Elaine Fein3tein in an edition of 150 copies on special handmade paper to promote her new book of poems. if 66. Giles Gordon: ALs Aug 1961 + lop of poea3 TLs, May 26, 1966, [to Michael Katcliffe], lp [Giles Gordon is a British literary critic.] Eugen Gomringer : TLs, April 4, 1965, lp [The concrete poet] Miguel Grinbercr: [ed: El Corno Emplumado] ALs, March 4, 1965, lp Brion Gysin: AL3, Dec 16, 1972, lp + env ALs, Jan 29, 1973, lp + env AL3, Feb 13, 1973, lp + env ALs.. April 13, 1973, [also signed by ¥illiam Burroughs], lp + env Press release: United States Infonaation Service, dated Feb 3, 1958, "Brion, American Painter of the Sahara, to Hold First Show In London." [brief biography], ip Ts: on Hamri the painter, dated April 1, 1970 Photocopy "Cut-Ups" by Brion Gysin, 6p Photocopy labelled in Gy3in's holograph: "Photocopy of Original CUT UP Statement by BG a3 published in Evergreen and TEE TIIISD HU-ID" 15p facsimile of original ms. Photocopy of holograph ms, probably of filmscript with Burroi«jh3,3p Printed p/c: "In The Beginning ¥as The Word", in gold ink, 2 sides. Invihe to exhibition of paintings at the October Gallery, London, March 1961. Invite to exhibition of painting3 at the Tower Galierv, N7C, June 1985. -18- Al Hansen: ALs nd [1966] from NYC 4p Ap/c Hov 6, 1966 from NYC [Hansen was very involved in the "Happenings" movement in NYC in the mid-sixtie3. Hi3 long letter contains a detailed description of his work and plans.] ffalter Hartaaim: A group or nine letters accoiapanied by various illustrated materials. Ho dates but C1974-1976. [Hartmann was the editor of the Darmstadt based G*3olin magazine which featured work by "cut-up" writers such as Burroughs, Oy?in, Plong, Pelieu, etc. The letters are long and chatty about the scene ] Harwood: nd, [1964?], 2 sides: ALs, Aug 11, 1964, lp ALs, Aug 27, 1964, lp ALs, Jan 14, 1965, lp AL3, March 26 [1965], 2 sides ALs, July 6, 1965 A p/c s July 25, 1965 ALs, May 16, 1966, 4p + env Ms: "The Journal" lp Ms: "The Maturity" 2p [Barwood is the author of many books of poems] D.R.Hazelton: [ed. Synapse magazine] r TL3, June 8, 1965, lp Geoffrey Hazard: ALs, Sept 16, 1961, ip Piero Heliczer: TLs, nd [1961], ip TL3, nd [1965], lp 2 copies of the Dead Language Press catalog, Paris 1963. Adrian Henri: ALs, nd [1965?] Flyer, "New Liverpool Sound for Nottingham" with ALs, nd. ALs nd [1965] ip + encl: 10 pages of plays and poems, heavily annotated, some signed, + photograph of a collage. Photograph, 8x10" of AH reading at a "Liverpool Scene11 promotion. [Adrian Henri was the central figure in the "Liverpool Scene" poetry movement of the mid-sixties which Allen Ginsberg praised very highly when he visited there in 1965 (and stayed at Henri'.3 house). He lias been widely published in the UK. ] Herman:, fed. San Francisco Earthquake] 1L3 May 31, 1972 from NYC. lp TL, Oct 29, 1973, lp 2 copies Nova Broadcast Pres3 catalog [see al30 Burroughs correspondence files re: Bibliography S. archives for further letters.] Anselm Hollo: Ap/C3, Nov 3, 1961 Ts: "Froa: A Season Without Reason", 6p Ts: "Dugong Elegy", lp [both c!965] Three 8xlG" glossy .photographs of the poet ci96o, 2 are duplicates. [The Finnish-American poet new resident in Boulder, Colorado st the U of Colorado.] David Holae3: [ed. Link magazine] ALs, nd [1964], ip TLs, Oct 1, 1964, lp Frances Horovitz, [the late] Ts. Poem "For IT [cl965]. lp Michael Horowitz:Fed. New Departures magazine] A group oi 31 letters and postcards, mostly undated C1961-1932. 47p of flyers and press clips including 15p document on the "Poetry Olympics" organised by Horowitz at the Royal Albert Hall, London. 53p poems, mostly early sixties, mostly heavily annotated. Photograph, 8x10" of the author, from mid-sixties. [Horovitz is the publisher and editor of New Departures magazine, founded in 1959. He has organised more poetry readings in the UK than anyone else and vas primarily responsible for introducing the "Beat" poets to Britain, most of whom he published for the first time in the UE. He is the author of several book3 of poetry. ] Dcm 511 veata.r,, Houedard: TLs, Hay 20, 1964, lp ["with drawing] TLs, Feb 3, 1965, 2 sides [w/elaborate name] Tp/cs, June 14, 1965 tp/cs, Feb 22, 1966 1 TLs, Sept 21, 1967, lp : Tp/cs, Hoy 27, 1967 TLs, April 24, 1968, 2p TL3, iferch 22, 1972, lp Poetry card: "South Street Handout Number One", lp copy of "Main Calm Line" poetry card [1972] signed, dedicated. {Houedard was the principle of the concrete poetry movement in Britain in the mid sixties and his elaborate typography is present on all these letters. Libby Houston: 4p poems, signed and dated June 1965. [Us Houston is a part of the group of poets surrounding Harwood, Pickard and Patten. She has several books out in the UK.] Vill Inman: [ed Kauri magazine, St Harks Church, UTIC] TL3, June 16, 1965, lp TL3, July 17, 1965 Peter Jay: [ed New Measure magazine] ALs, June 13, 1965, lp ALs, July 8, 1965, lp, TLs, nd [1965], ip John?on,fl. S. :fthe late] Us, nd" [1967?], lp Jeff Keen: [ed: Future City Press] ALs, April 1, 1965, lp Robert Kelly: TL3 Aug 3, 1961 2 3ides ALs Sept 25, i96i ip -20- 5p ox poems, one 3igned. John Keys: TLs nd [Aug 17, 1967] + 8p poems .Us: "The Divided Self" 4p 3igned on each page. [Keys is an American poet who lived in London in mid-sixtis-s. He several book3 published in the USA froa that period. ] Bill ALs~Feb 1966 fp TLs, ilarch 1, 1966, Ip [plus Xerox copies of. ten other letters from the sixties] Andrew Laws on: [ed Isis magazine] ALs, Oct 5, 1965, Ip Philip Lamantia: - Us: "BevelatNevsPort" 4p [written under name of Raphael Kohler] James TL3, April 12, 1965, 2 sides ILs, Sept 21, 1965, Ip Jean-Jacques Lebel: ALs nd [1969?] Photocopy collage, signed and dedicated, 1966, Ip Three "naked" dollars. Printed collage as a flyer for "Les Cahiers Noirs Du Soleil 1", Ip [organiser of festivals and readings in Europe] ~ d.a. levy: [the late] Ts: "The 5uburhan Prophets (for R.D.)", Ip Ap/cs, nd [1966-7] TLs, M [1965] on 7 Flowers Press catalog list, Ip Press release Cleveland Nov 24, 1968 announcing his 3uicide. Original silk screen signed by T.L.Kyrss MOn The Death of Levy", Ip Seven Flo*;er3 Press catalogs, 2p [ed. Pogamoggan] TLs, nd [1965], Ip Tp/cs, nd [July 1, 1965J Paolo Lionni: ALs, Dec 31, 1965, Ip Edward Lucie-Smlth: ALs, June 8 [1965], Ip TLs, nd [1965], Ip TLs Dec 3, 1965 + 4p poems Poster for a reading at ICA, April 4, 1967 with "The Well Wishers" printed on it along with photograph of the author. [Edward Lueie-Smith is a leading British literary critic and the author of many hook3 on the history of art.] Sterling Lord: TL3, Aug 3, 1960, Ip Alan Tlarlower [The Poets Press] TL3, JUne 24, 1965, Ip Gerard Malantra: "21" TL3 5ept 6, 1965 Ip TLs Jan 15, 1966 [dated 1965] 2p TL.3 Jan 15, 1966, Ip TLs Feb 25, 1966 [with drawing], Ip ALs Aug 15, 1966 2p ALs Sept 26, 1966 3p AL3 Dec 15, 1966 2p TLs July 21, 1974 Ip TL3 Aug 3, 1933 Ip TL [Xerox] Miles to GM Aug 10, 1933 Ip TLs Sept 20, 1933 Ip TLs Hov 23, 1983 Ip TL3 Jan 11, 1984, Ip TLs [copy] Oct 11, 1984 to Valerie Boyd, cc Miles., Ip Ms: "Some View3 on Contemporary American Poetry" 1965 6p 3igned. 11s: Transcript of the conversation while Andy Warhol and Henry Geldzahler made the film "Empire11 of the Empire State Building. Signed. ip Us: Transcribed interview with Charles Henri Ford [1965] 6p 2 catalogs of Malanga's photographs 7 flyers for 60s readings. Invite to photography show, NYC, March 1985. Xerox copy article "Pop Art Poetry & Fashion" from the Hew York Herald Tribune. Jan 3, 65, including a poem by GM. 2p Us: "Clockwork", Xerox copy a3 of book of poems, many unpublished. 1965, in brown folder. 83p [Much of the 1960s correspondence discusses the Velvet Underground and the Andy Warhol factory scene. ][See also Olson folder],. Monirrue Ifaurer:fed: Vietnam Primer] TLs, April 5, 1966, Ip TLs, April 20, 1966, Ip TLs, nd, [1966?], Ip ALs, nd, [1966] Ip TLs, nd, [1966?] Ip [Literary scholar in Munich, worked with Julian Beck, Living Theatre, Ginsberg, etc. ] Peter Maxwell-Davies: ALs, nd [1961] Ip ALs, May 23, 1961, Ip [Maxwell-Davies is a composer of modern music. His work has been very well received in the United States and Europe.] Bob HcBrJ.de: [City Lights Books, San Francisco] TLs, Feb 12, 1965, 2p TLs, March 24, 1965, Ip TL3, April 9, 1965, Ip Dick McBrlde: [City Light3 Books, San Francisco] TLs, July 15, 1965, 2p TLs, Oct 7, 1965, Ip McCarthy: [ed. Tlaloc] TL3, April 10," 1965, 3p TLa, May 2, 1965, Ip TLs, June 14, 1965, Ip TLs, Aug 29, 1965, Ip TL3, nd [1965], ip 2 copies each of 2 Location Press and Tlaloc catalogs, 4p -22- tlcClure: TL [ carbonff Miles to MM Oct 1, 1968 2p 7L.i> rod [Oct 1S68] ip + env p/c for ticClure'3 band Freewhellin' McClure Montana TLs Oct 12, 1963 2p TLs nd [Key 13, 1968] + env. TL [cartoon] Miles to 121 nd [Dec 1963] lp TL [carbon] Miles to MW Jan 3, 1969 A p/c 3 Jan 1969 TL [carbon] Ron Kass to H21 March 7, 1969 TL fcarbon] Ron Ka3S to MM March 18, 1969 TL [carbon] Pat Slattery to MM March 19, 1969 TL [carbon] Miles to MM March 20, 1969 ALs April 1, 1969 copy oi "tfar Is Decor In My Carvern Cave" by McClure, Communications Company c!967 3 copies of bibliography of McClure, two on Apple headed paper. Draft press release 8x10 glossy promotional photograph of McClure [All thi3 correspondence relates to a spoken word album by McClure that Ilile3 recorded in San Francisco in Feb 1969. The album was very involved and included music and speak-overs. The Apple Records spoken word division was closed down before the album could be edited into shape and it was never released.] Laurence McOilverv: ALs, June 3, 1974," lp TL [carbon] Miles to Lh\ 2p TLs, July 14, 1974, 2p TL [carbon] Miles to LM, 7p TL3, Sept 19, 1974, lp TL [carbon] Miles to LM, Oct 1, 1974, 2p TLs, Oct 11, 1974, ip TL [carbon] Miles to LM, Hov 7, 1974, ip TL [carbon] Miles to Lit Feb 5, 1974, lp ALs, March 7, 1975, 2 sides TL [carbon], April 14, 1975, lp TLs, Aug 18, 1975, lp TL, nd [1974], lp Document: "Indices To The Proposed 200 Hour Program of Tape Copies Made From The Recorded Poetry Archive in the Allen Ginsberg Collection", 25p. Plus two other copies, one a carbon of the original and the other a photocopy. [Thi3 set of correspondence covers the plan to sell duplicate copies of the recorded tape archives housed in the Allen Ginsberg Collection, now at Columbia in the deposit there. The document is a guide to the tapes presently 3tored there up to 1973 cut-off date. The project ultimately fell through and the copies were not made. llcGilvery' 3 other connection with Ginsberg was to provide the Much needed index to the George Dowden bibliography of Ginsberg1 s work published by City Light3 Book3. ] Tom HcNamara: [literary ed, Ea3t Village Other, NYC] TLs, Dec 1965, lp Jack .Hichelinff: 11s "The Bullfighter11 2p 3igned and dated June 26 1964. Fhi'.iyipc! Tilki:ia TL [carbon] Miles to PM July 9. 1974 lp TLs July 11, 1974 lp from Eaubonne, France TLs Aug 2i\ 1974 2p -23- TL [carbon] Miles to Pit Aug 29, 1974 2p TL [carbon] Miles to PM Sept 4, 1974 lp TLs Oct 4, 1974 2p TL [carbon] Miles to Pll Oct 8, 1974 2p TLs Dec 6, 1974 2p TL3 Jan 12, 1975 2p TL [carbon] Miles to PM Jan 20, 1975 2 sides. TLs leb 17, 1975 2p TLs March 4, 1975 TLs April 19, 1975 lp TLs April 29, 1975 TLs June 30, 1975 2p + program for "Le Colloque de Tanger", a conference organised by Mikriammos to study the work of William Burroughs and Brion Gysin. 3p TL3 nd [1975] TLs Aug 30, 1976 lp TLs Jan 6, 1977 lp TLs Mar 12, 1978 ip TLs Sept 10, 1978 lp TL [Xerox] Miles to PM Sept 22, 1973 ALs Oct 10, 1979 lp [Mikriammos has translated a number of Burroughs' books into French and is the author of William S. Burroughs: La 71 e et 1'Oeirnre Pari3l] Jeffrey Miller [Cadmus Editions] TLs, Aug 6, 1979, lp [re: "Early Routines11 by William Burroughs which he published later that year. ] Peter Miller: [ed. Contact Press, Canada] TLs, May 15, 1965, lp George Montgomery: Ts, "three poems, signed. 3p Richard Morris: [ed Camels Coming] TL3, Jan 12, 1966, lp Tina Morris: [ed: Poetmeat] TLs, nd [1965?], lp Eric Mottram: TLs April 26, 1963 lp TLs May 31, 1968 lp TL3 Aug 11, 1972 lp T p/c s Mar 22, 1974 ALs Oct 3, 1974 TL3, Dec 4, 1974, lp [Profe33or Mottram is head of American studies at Kings College, London and the author of many books of literary criticism including studies of Burroughs and Ginsberg.] Dayid Murray: Ts: "Selections from David Murray's Journal" [edited by Gerard Malanga]5p [mentions Warhol, Fainlight and other Lover East Side and Warhol Factory personalities.] S.M.Campbell & Mr. Perl: [New Yorker magazine] IT,s. May 15, 1968, lp + proof pull of article by Jane Kramer on Alien Ginsberg in which Miles is quoted. Jqff TLs, lid [June 1965], Ip Ts, no title, signed & dated May 1965, ip Three collage/cut-ups: text and drawing combined, similar to those in Huttall's magazine "My Own Mag" [1965]: "Rak Me With Tour Best Pain"; "Scratch The Dust Out Of Your Be3t Pain - Saiai Ants In Tour Grima Ces"; MFuk Me With Your Best Grimaces" + cover note, signed nd. Two drawings with note, mailed Dec 13, 1970. [Huttall is the author of "Bomb Culture", "Performance Art" etc and was the editor of "My Own Mag", the cut-up magazine which featured William Burroughs a3 a regular contributor in the mid-sixties. ] Charles Olson: TL [carbon] Miles to CO, Oct 1, 1968, ip ALs, Oct 24, 1968, Ip + env. TL [carbon] Miles to CO, Hov 5, 1968, ip TL [carbon] Miles to CO, Dec 13, 1968, ip ALs, Dec 26, 1969 + env TL [carbon] Ililes to Co, nd [Jan 1969], Ip ALs, nd, [Feb 1, 1969], ip TL [carbon] March 3, 1969, Ip TL3, Pat Slsttery to Miles, March 11, 1969, ip TL [carbon] Eon Kass to CO, March 18, 1969, Ip TL [carbon] Miles to CO, March 19, 1969, Ip TL [carbon] Miles to Barry Hall at Cape Goliard, March 19, 1969, Ip AL3, March 25, 1969, 2 sides + env TLs, Gaye Poulton to M, March 26, 1969, Ip Jt [carbon] Miles to CO, April 2, 1969, Ip TL [carbon] Miles to Gaye Poulton, April 2, 1969, 2p TL [carbon] Miles to CO, April 2, 1969, Ip AL3, April 10, 1969, 2 sides + env TLs, Geye Poulton to M, April 11, 1969, Ip TL3, Gaye Poulton to M, April 16, 1969, Ip TL [carbon] Miles to Eon Kass, April 16, 1969, ip TL [carbon] Miles to Gaye Poulton, April 17, 1969, Ip TL [carbon] Miles to CO, May 7, 1969, Ip TLs, Gerard Malanga to Miles, Oct 22, 1969, Ip TL [carbon] Miles to GM, Oct 28, 1969, Ip TL3, Gerard Malanga to Miles, Oct 31, 1969, Ip TL [carbon] Miles to GM, Jan 3, 1970, ip TL3, Gerard Malanga to Miles, Jan 11, 1970, Ip TL [carbon] Miles to John Cassidy of Stream Records, March 22, 1970, Ip TLs, Charles Boer to Miles, April 12, 1970, Ip ALs, Ann Charters to Miles, Sept 9, 1970, Ip TL [carbon] Miles to Moe Asch of Folkways Records, Feb i7, 1972, 2 sides TL3, Mose3 Asch to Miles, April 24, 1972, Ip TL [carbon] Mile3 to Mo3es A3ch, May 3, 1972, 2 3ides. TL [carbon] Miles to Arm Charters, June 18, 1973, Ip AL3, July 5, 1973, 2 sides TL [carbon] Miles to Moses Asch, July 29, 1973, ip TL [carbon] Miles to Mo3es A3ch, Oct 19, 1973, Ip + brier biography of Olson, Ip and "Some Motes On The Recording", 4p by Miles which was used as the sleeve note3 of the album. TLs, Michael Kohler to Miles, Jan 1, 1975, Ip [3 press editions. Germany] + flyer for S Pre33. TL [carbon] Miles to Michael Kohler, Feb 25, 1975 TL [carbon] Miles to Moe Asch, Dec 19, 1975, ip TLs Woe Asch to Miles, Dec 31, 1975, Ip -25- TL [carbon] Miles to lloe Asch, Jan 7, 1976, lp TLs, George Butterick to Miles, Dec 3, 1976, lp TL [carbon] Miles to George Butterick, Dec 26, 1976 TL [carbon] lliles to Moe A3ch, Dec 27, 1976, lp Ts [carbon] Label copy for Apple album, tracking order, 3p Ms, holograph tape index made while recording the album, 3p T3: Bibliography of work3 by Olson [on Apple headed paper} + carbon Ts, another, revised copy of bibliography on Apple headed paper, lp [Xerox copy) Tracking information for album, 3p annotated. T3, tracking information for album, top copy £< 2 carbons, 3p Tearsheet: Ann Charters photograph of Olson from "Olson/Melville" Flyer: "Olson/MeIvi11?" by Ann Charters. Seven 3nxl0" glossy photographs taken by Miles of Olson while recording the album, Feb 1969. [This folder contains the-complete documentation of a spoken word album recorded by Miles of Charles Olson. The album mz originally done for Apple Secord3, the Beatles company but eventually came out, 5 years later, on Folkways in New York. This proved to be the only recording that Olson ever made except for live recordings wade at readings.] Rochelle Ovens TLs, Oct 9, 1961, lp TLs, Nov 15, [1961], lp TLs, Nov 13, 1961, lp Ts: six poems, 6p Ron Padgett: Ap/cs Jan 31, 1966 ALs, Feb 7, 1966 Ap/cs Dec 6, 1968 liar tin Parnell: [Trent Bookshop] TLs, Jan 6, 1965 TLs, Jan 26, 1965 ALs, nd [1%7?], lp Mir .lam Patchen: AL3, March 26, [1969] lp + flyer "Kenneth Patchen 5ead3 With the Chamber Jazz Sextet" + env Ap/cs, March 30, 1969 [on a "Patchen Picture Poem" card.] Brian Patten: ALs, nd [1964-5], lp ALs, nd [June 1965], lp TL, nd [1965], lp TL3, nd [1966], lp Ts, 11 poems, lip [mostly signed &/or annotated] Flyer for "Little Johnny's Confession" Allen & Unwin, London. [Brian Patten was one of the "Liverpool Scene" poets of 1965 and al30 the ed of Underdog magazine which published Ginsberg, Yoznesensky, etc. He is the author of a number of books in the UK] Christopher Perret: Tp/C3 Aug 26, 1965 T3: 2 poems, 2p Holograph bibliography of publications in book3 and magazines, lp Tom. Pickard: .26- Tp/cs, Nov 1, 1963 TLs, nd [1968] 2 sides + T3 untitled poem ALs, nd [1979] + flyer for a reading TLs, nd [1979], lp Ts, poems, [1965], lp Fernanda 5ott3a3 Pivano: TL*[carbon], Miles to FP, Jan 11, 1968, 4p TL3, Feb 24, 1968, lp TL [carbon], Miles to FP, Mar 5, 1963, lp TL [carbon], Miles to FP, Oct 28, 1963, 2p TL [carbon], Miles to FP, Oct 31, 1968,lp TL3, Hov 8, 1963, 3 3ide3 TL [carbon]. Miles to FP, Hov 14, 1968, 3p TLs, Hov 16, 1968, lp TL3, Jan 2, 1969, lp TLs, Jan 23, 1969, 2p TL [carbon]. May 5, 1969/2p TLz, May 3, 1969, ip 1Ls, Mar 15, 1971, ip TL3, June 24, 1971, ip TLs, Sept 23, 1972 HL [carbon], Miles to FP, Sept 1, 1974, 2 sides Ap/cs nd Invite to "Experiences in Designing Tantra" by Ettore Sottsass" 2p Booklet: "East 128 Milano 1967 (16)" by Ettore Sottsass, 16p [Fernanda Pivano is the Italian translator or Allen Ginsberg, Jack Ksrouac and others. In the sixties she and her husband, designer Ettore Sottsass edited "Pianeta Fresca" magazine and vere very involved with the underground press. The correspondence also mentions Ezra Pound who ^as a friend of theirs.] Jura en PI ooa: TLs, Dec 10, 1968, ip TLs, Dec 10, 1974, lp TLs, Jan 1, 1975, lp [Ploog was the publisher of the Nova Press in Wiesbaden in the sixties and is a cut-up poet.] Charles Plvmell: TL, nd, [1965?], ip TL, nd, [1966?], lp TL, nd, [1966-7?], lp AL3, nd [1970] as subscript to TL3 from Pobert Head of Mo la Express to CP, lp TLs, Bob Branaaan to CP, May 3, 1966, 2 sides TLs, Bob Branaman to CP, Dec 1969, 2 sides -TL3, Rosy Powell to CP, Jan 17, nd [1969?], 3p TLs, Claude Pelieu to Pam Plymell, March 1966, [in French], lp Ts, 2 poems, 2p Photograph; Plyaell, signed on back.+ note dating picture 1966. Pociao: [pub Expanded Media Editions, Geriaany] TL3, Oct 1976. Margaret Sandal1: [ed. El Corno Emplumado] TLs, May 26, 1966, lp Two flyers for the magazine. David Pattray: AL3, ilay 21, "[1970?], 2 3ide3 TL3, nd [1970?], lp -27- Tom aayworth: Ap/cs, Aug 9, 1961 U3, nd [1961?], ip Hard a 13 e snick: ALs*, Jan 3? 1979 + Ts: "The Nova Convention" by Adele Bertei, 3p [Seyarding the ¥illiaa Burroughs convention in NYC, 1979] Albert 5erie__gicard : Ts: 8 poems, 8p [1965] [poem3 concern life in Warhol'3 factory] Daniel Richter; [ed. Se3idu magazine] Ts: "Sun Morning, March, Athens, '65", 2p Two poster flyer3 for the-magazine. Malcolm Rutherford: [ed: Satis] AL3, March 23, 1965, lp Ed Sanders: 1L [carbon] Miles to ES, Nov 19, 1974, lp TLs, Nov 29, 1974, 3p + env [plu3 Xerox copies of 7 other letters from Sander3 from the Sixties] Tvo of Sanders1 distinctive flyers: for LeMar & The Fugs. Aram Saroyan: TLs, July 1965, lp TLs, July 26, 1965, lp TLs, Sept 28, 1965, ip Copies of three different Lines catalogs of publications, 3p [Author Aram Saroyan ^as then the editor of Lines magazine] Michael Shaver [pub Migrant Press] ALs, Feb 3, 1965, lp ALs, Feb 14, 1965, lp AL3, Feb 23, 1965, 3p 11,3, June 3, 1965, lp ALs, June 12, 1965, lp ALs, Sept 17, 1965, lp ALs, Oct 7, 1965, lp •Hiree different Migrant Press catalogs + flyer for a Shayer reading Archie Shepp: T3: "Scag11,"!? [July 1965 poem by the jazz musician] John Sinclair: [ed Artists Workshop Pres3, Detroit] ALs, Oct 23, 1965, lp Catalog for Arti3ts Workshop Press + 2 flyer3 for Guerrilla magazine Alexander Smith: TLs, to Allen Ginsberg, Oct 27, 1977, lp 1L3, Nov 1, 1977 TL [Xerox copy] Miles to AS, Dec 8, 1977, 2p [Smith was the biblioarasher of Frank O'llara and the query concerned ?, 3iaall booklet of poems by O'Hara that Mil«? in 1969.] -28- lan Sommeryjlle: ALs, July 4, 1968, lp Ms: "Buffet Bar Gentlemen Only14, lp Offset copy of poem [unpublished] [Sommerville was Burroughs collaborator on a number of projects.] Joanna Spratley: [Topolski's Chronicle] TLs, June 26, 1965, lp Beris Sullivan: [Project Sigma] TLs, July 28, 1965, ip [Sigma was Alexander Trocchi's organisation.] Alan Swallow: [publisher] TL3, Hay 29, 1965 Tambimtttn AL3, Nov 5, 1979, lp + flyer for Poetry London.

TLs, April 25 T 1968, lp TL3, Oct 10, 1968, ip TLs, June 1, 1969, lp [Tarn was then an editor at Jonathan Cape and teaching at SUFfAS] Brian Thatcher: [Covent Garden Press] TLs, May 30, 1973, lp TLs, June 14, 1973, lp [Regarding proofs of Burroughs Archives book] Chris Torrance S» Michael Drle [eds Origins/Diversions] TLs, Dec 1, 1964, lp Drew ffaqnon [ed Vild Dog] TLs, Aprils, 1965, ip Tp/cs, May 25, 1965 Tp/cs, Aug 6, 1965 Brian Wake: [ed: Driftwood Quarterly] Tp/c, July 30, 1963 TLs, Aug 1, 1968, lp TL3, Aug 30, 1963,lp Diane Wakow3ki: TLs, Dec 29, 1968, lp TL [carbon] Miles to Dtf, Jan 3, 1968, lp TLs, May 22, 1967, ip Larry Wellrich: [bookdealer] ALs, June 9, 1970, lp TLs, April 16, 1971, lp Andy Warhol: Ts: "The Supremes—Latest Sock & Roll Classic" by Philip Fagan as told to Andy Warhol, lp T3: "Shut Down, Volumes i 8. II, The Beach Boy3" by Gerard Maianga and John Palmer as told to Andy Warhol, lp T3: "Leader of the Pack - The Shangri-la3" by David Bourdon as told to Andy Warhol, 2p T3: "Kink3 and Inflexions" by Billy Linich as told to Andy Warhol, ip -29- Ts: "The Dixie Cups" by Kenward Elm3lie as told to Andy Warhol, ip fRecord reviews done by Warhol for Long Kair magazine in London, 1965 ]

Carl weiesner: Ap/cs nd TL [carbon] Miles to CW, Oct 7, 1974, 2p TLs, Oct 19, 1974, 2p TL [carbon] Hov 7, 1974, 2p TLs, Hov 9, 1974, IP TL [carbonJ Miles to CW, Nov 19, 1974, ip TL3, Nov 27, i974, IP TLs, Dec 29, i974, IP TL3, Jan 16, i974, IP TLs, Jan 28, i975, ip TL3, Feb 23, i975, Ip TLs, Aug 28, i976. IP TLs, Jan 29, 1977, lp TL3, March 4, 1978. lp TLs, April 2, 1973, lp ALs, Oct 23. 1979, lp TL3, Aug 31, 1973, lp [Weissner is the German translator of Allen Ginsberg, William Burroughs, Bob Dylan, etc. See al30 the William Burroughs Bibliography files for further correspondence from him. ] David Welsh, [ed Eamparts magazine] TL3, Sept 25, 1967, 4p anti-war form letter. - Ted Wilentz: TLs, April 6, 1965, lp Xaas card, [1973?] Heathcote Williams: TLs, nd [1980], lp {Xerox copy] ALs David Solomon to Heathcote Williams from Bristol jail, May 16, 1977, 2p w ALs from HW to Miles, nd [1980] [Williams is the playright, author of "The Speakers" and "AC/DC" Jonathan Williams: TLs, May 30, 1966 + env A note, 1967 TLs, April 28, 1967, 2p Jargon catalog for Feb 5, 1966 , lp Jargon newsletter, nd [1966] Ian Wyatt: [ed Isis] ALs, Aug 5, 1965, 2 3ides ALs, Oct 19, 1965, lp Catalogs and flyers: Large folder of publication announcements from Oyez, Kayak, Auerhahn, Fulcrum, Coach House, Turret, Unicorn, Black Sparrow, Writing, Gnomon, Origin, Hawk3 Well, 4 Seasons, Anan3i, Citidei, Something Else, Pari3 Review and many others covering the period 1965-9. Also included are varies announcement3 for readings such as those by Basil Bunting or Robert Duncan in Britain, Le Metro jn HfiTC, etc. -30- 1992 Addition

) y Letters from Allen Ginsberg ito bring Columbia collection up to date with my correspondence.) f) ^TLs from Peter Orlovsky to Miles, Sept 6, 1965. 2 sides. 2p

v/A.n.nd. lp

^/A.n. nd. lp

v autograph envelope, Sept 1973. (letter itself probably already in Columbia collection).

/ Naropa Instutute Summer program catalogue. SIGNED, dedicated and dated April. 22. 1979.

^Photocopy of review in Rolling Stone of AG's Blake album, produced by Miles. Autograph note and source in AG hand. 1 p

c Christmas card. 1973. signed Alien Ginsberg. Peter Oriovsky. Denise Felieu and Penny. lp

/ Postcard of Ginsberg inscribed on back: "Proof of Johanna Voit's photo Spring 1981," plus a message. 1 p

*J AL. nd (1979) On Cheltenham Festival of Literature headed paper. 3p

'ALs.nd (1979) (w/note from Steven Taylor] lp

>/ TL headed "Note to Miles from Peggy Biderman delivered by hand of AG, w/autograph note from AG. nd. lp

ALs. nd. 1979 [w/ note from Peter Orlvsky) 1 p

A.nnd. lp

A.nnd. lp

C/ A.n nd [w/note from Peter Orlovsky 1 1 p

1/ A.n nd (two sides] 2p

' Airway bill from Miles to AG, rec'd AG.

/ TLs Miles to AG. July 30, 1983 proposing biography. 2p -31- \J A.n nd 1992 Addition ]p yj- A.n nd 1 p

/ A.n Feb 24, 1980. Notes on Ed Sanders conversation ' lp v/ A.n nd 1 p

ALs w/autograph envelope. Sept 27, 1983. lp plus five pages photostat of lecture tape index, First page has six line autograph annotation and SIGNED w/dedication. Says has decided to join Andrew Wylie's literary agency.

ALs Letter of authorization to interview people for the biography. TLs w/19 words in autograph. May 10, 1984 lp

k p/c s Oct 30, 1984 [from Chinal Close written text 1 p

ALs March 3, 1985 w/autograph mailing envelope, [on verso of flyer for AG poetry reading! lp

/ ALs Oct 26, 1986. w/autograph mailing envelope. On"White Shroud", V Harry Smith, Peter Orlovsky, Blake, etc. 2p

1/ Envelope March 3, 1987 [from AG office] contents filed elsewhere.

/ ALs Feb 20, 1987. w/autograph mailing envelope. Gives details of owner of apartment spent night in before writing Kaddish. 1 p

ALs April 2,1987 nine lines on back of mailing envelope. 1 p

JALs Jan 5,19871etter of authorization for "Selected Letters1 1 p

^/ A.n iNov 1987] on back mailing envelope containing seven page detailed description of lectures given at Brooklyn College. 7p

Envelope from AG office. •' / Documents from Allen Ginsberg: four family trees as follows: 1 - photostat of Miles original Levy tree annotated by Edie Leegant. (on verso, in pencil, "Xerox for Miles" 2 - photostat of Miles original Levy tree very heavily annotated by Allen Ginsberg, [on verso, in pencil, "For Miles, corrected with Edie Leegant, March 26, 86" also half page graffiti by Gregory Corso. also dedicated by AG. 3 - photostat of Miles original Levy tree. -32- 1992 Addition

J 4 - photostat oi Miles original Ginsberg tree, heavily annotated by Allen Ginsberg. In mailing envelope. Ail on oversize legal paper 4p

ALs Get \4. 1988. On Vision Gallery card advertizing AG reading. Also y encloses photostat of text from Dialectics of Liberation Congress 1967. on Greenhouse effect. Annotated and SIGNED, dedicated. In autograph mailing envelope. 2p

J envelope from AG office

/ ALs Sept 22, 1988. lp

ALs of 19 lines on photocopy of TLs from Andy Davis to AG, Sept 1, 1988. Also annotated in pencil by AG. lp

/ ALs Feb 15, 1989. Re. biography. 2p

J ALs to Andrew Wylie, Jan 5. 1989. On legal size paper, w/ note to Miles at head. Outlines AG's criticisms of biography. lp

J TLs from Andy Davis to AG. Oct 31,1988 [photocopy] w/ note to Miles from AG. 3p

v Galley pages from biography in mailing envelope. 2p

* Fax Mar 11, 1989. re AG criticisms of biography. 3p

y [photocopy of fax] 2p

/ Ms. photocopy Thorn Gunn: "Allen Ginsberg - A Record" from the European Gav Review, w/note from Jacqueline Gens, AG sec'ty. w/envelope. 6p

' ALs Joe Brainard to AG [photocopy] w/ yellowpad ALs stuck on from AG. w/envelope. 1 p

/ TLs from Jacqueline Gens [ AG secty] Dec 26,1989. 1 p v ALs Jan 24, 1989. lp

/fax of ALs March 5, 1989. Objections to text of biography w/input from Tibetan Buddhists and stat of Tibet Review article. lip j photostat of above to preserve it. lip

/ A p/c s Robert LaVigne. Aug 8, 1989. -33- 1992 Addition

ALs from Jacqueline Gens [AG secty] Aug 15, 1989. encloses a photocopy of an early resume of AG from 1951. w/envelope. 2p

another copy of resume from AG office, nd. w/envelope 2p envelope from AG office.

c/ ALs Sept 24, 1989. Mostly Allen's disagreements with biography, two sides of air letter, closely written. 2p

i ALs Dec 9, 1989 [w/annotation from Edith Ginsberg, AG's stepmother] 2 \J sides close written, with sii enclosures: invite cards to AG readings, plus NY Times "Notable Books of the Year" clipping listing biography, w/unused autograph envelope and larger, mailing envelope. 2p + 7p

ALs Oct 13,1989, gossip about Shig, McQure, Whalen, Gregory Corso, etc. 2 sides, w/autograph envelope. 2p

* ALs Hannah Litzky, Feb 25,1990.2 sides w/envelope. 2p

J Ap/cs April 24, 1990 lp

envelope from AG office.

flyer for AG reading Royal Festival Hall

Vajradhatu Sun. w/review of biography. Buddhist response to bk.

JLs-Bob tlojcnthal April 19, 109():[W^V?pfTy]

/ Programs for AG series of readings at Brooklyn College, 1989.Photocopies ^ of the flyers and posters, stapled. 15p

A.n.s June 14.1990 lp

A.n s. 7/ 1 p

A.n two signed notes on note from Steven Taylor, nd [June 1990] 2p

J Two Naropa flyers.

/ Allen Ginsberg Itinerary, 1990. photocopy. Dated and annotated by AG. u May 22,1990. 5p J two autograph notes -3k- 1992 Addition

Ginsberg interview schedule June 12-14, 1990, London w/cover letter from Serious Productions. 5p

Serious Productions fax to Bob Rosenthal w/interview schedule. 2p

envelope from AG office

PRESS RELEASE: American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, New York. April 19.1990. "American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters Issues Statement on Congressional Law Banning 'Indecent' Broadcast Speech." 3p from Academy. AG statement on FCC Censorship April 18, 1990, 3p. Pius 22p of photocopies articles and statements, PEN Club etc. 28p

ALs April 19,1990 Bob Rosenthal. w/envelope. 1 p

A p/cs. May 5,1990 Prague lp

A p/cs.July 1, 1990,Rome lp

[/ A p/c s. Sept 2, 1990. [in air Seoul-NYC]. • 1 p

Postcards from the Shigspeare Press, San Francisco, featuring Shig and Ginsberg. 3 different cards.

Total 21 letters. 14 notes, 5 postcards from Ginsberg plus a mass of related materials: clippings and photostats sent by Ginsberg and letters from Ginsberg's staff and relatives, much of it signed by Ginsberg [195 pages of material in all.] PART 2: BARRY MILES ARCHIVE FOR ALLEN GINSBERG BIOGRAPHY

MILES, BARRY. Ginsberg: A Biography . New York: Simon & Schuster, 1989; London: Viking Penguin, 1989. Paperback versions by Harper & Row, NY, &Penguin Books, London. Revised and updated version by Virgin Books, London, 2000.

SECTION ONE: SUMMARY OF THE COLLECTION

Barry Miles personal archive assembled for the writing of his biography of Allen Ginsberg. With annotations of thousands of words by Ginsberg; plus tapes, transcripts, letters, etc. The complete archive for the book.

I: ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT MATERIAL.

CONTAINS: 50 folders, plus box of mss. Approx. 10,000 pages of manuscript, including the first drafts and the ms. for the revised, updated edition, published after Ginsberg's death.

The 1st draft: over a million words containing a huge amount of material cut from the final edition. An invaluable source of information about Ginsberg, most of it never published.

The 6th draft, copy edited ms with approximately 1000 annotations by Ginsberg, amounting to several thousand words.

This 6th draft consists of typescript numbered 1-664 [numbering jumps nine pages by accident, no text missing]; Insert for page 261 8p; Galley sheets 265-6. Insert for page 266 numbered 556, 562- 581 plus three pages notes.

This copy was read by Ginsberg who made 1,281 annotations, ranging from one word to long notes, discussing details of fact, tone, approach, etc. Also includes 3 pages of notes and lists of changes in Ginsberg's hand. Some pages have no changes, others a dozen or more. Total of 739pp. With several thousand words in Ginsberg's hand. ALs Edith Leehgant lp photocopy regarding Ginsberg family tree, with Ginsberg annotations.

II. ANNOTATED FIRST EDITION.

First edition of Ginsberg: A Biography, with hundreds of annotations throughout by Ginsberg, amounting to thousands of words, some changes incorporated into the revised edition, but many not.

III. ANNOTATED TRAVEL ITINERARIES.

12pp. of Ginsberg's travel itineraries with hundreds of annotations in Ginsberg's hand.

IV: TAPES, CASSETTES, INTERVIEW TRANSCRIPTIONS.

CONTAINS: 175 pages of interview transcriptions with Ginsberg (SEE SECTION TWO); 168 cassette recordings, including a complete set of Ginsberg's "Literary History of the Beat Generation" lectures, 1977-87. Folders containing transcripts of some of the Ginsberg interviews, but not all.

NOTE: DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF CONTENTS IS IN SECTION TWO.

V: DUPLICATES OF GINSBERG'S JOURNALS.

CONTAINS: 36 folders containing photocopied duplicates from Ginsberg's private collection made by Ginsberg and not photocopies made by Miles of all of Allen Ginsberg's journals which had been typed up by 1985. [i.e 1953 to 1985] and given to Miles by Ginsberg in 1984-5.

Includes a large folder of selected transcripts from his journals since then, made by Miles, plus a further folder of photocopies from more recent journals.

NOTE: Ginsberg wrote out his journals by hand, and these were transcribed by a various individuals: initially by employees at Grove Press, and later by students and friends of Ginsberg. The typescript was kept by Ginsberg and one duplicate made. It was this unique duplicate that was given by Ginsberg to Miles. Later, other scholars working on Ginsberg were allowed to make photocopies of some sections of the journals but this is the only known duplicate copy (attested to by Miles) of all of the journals up to 1985.

Approx. 4,250 pages of photocopies of typed journals. VI: CHRONOLOGY FILES

CONTAINS: 8 folders with the ms for the biographer's Chronology of Ginsberg's life, including three "Kaddish" folders; TOTAL OF: 513 pp; (236 pp in "Kaddish" file).

VII: PHOTOCOPIED ADDENDA OF RESEARCH MATERIAL

CORRESPONDENCE (WITH SOME ORIGINAL MATERIAL).

CONTAINS: 63 folders with letters relating to the actual writing of the biography. With some photocopies of all the most important correspondence relating to Ginsberg's life taken from Ginsberg's private collection and various institute collections.

300 letters directly to do with the book from publishers, libraries, Ginsberg's friends, etc; approx. 340 pages.

Approx 1,000 photocopies of letters from Allen Ginsberg to various friends, family and associates, many of which are very long, approx. 1,400 pages total.

225 pages of photocopies of Jack Kerouac's letters to Allen Ginsberg

400 pages of photocopies of William Burroughs' letters to Allen Ginsberg c. 2,325 pages of photocopies of letters, of which more than 1,000 are by Ginsberg. (These are gathered from Ginsberg's brother and step-mother, family and friends, as well as from scattered university libraries. Many came as a result of an appeal in the New York Times Book Review. Many are still in private hands.) TOTAL PAGES OF CORRESPONDENCE ARCHIVE: Approximately 23,000 pages organized in 228 folders plus manuscript boxes and tape boxes. The archive presently occupies eight file drawers, approx. 16 linear feet of folders, plus a large box of tapes.

ANNOTATED HOWL. A photocopy of all the working papers connected with the editing of the annotated edition of Ginsberg's Howl. 450 pages housed in eight folders. Includes early drafts of Ginsberg's comments, letters from Ginsberg to Barry Miles about the project, letters from Ginsberg to Carl Solomon and many others requesting comments for the book.

RESEARCH ARCHIVE PHOTOCOPIES

CONTAINS: 64 folders containing the research documents for the biography, organized with a folder for each year of Ginsberg's life from High School onwards. Approx. 5,000 pages of photocopies, clippings, typed notes, etc. comprising virtually every available source of information on Ginsberg outside printed books and the material below.

SECTION TWO: DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF CONTENTS.

I. MANUSCRIPTS OF THE BIOGRAPHY, SOME WITH ANNOTATIONS IN VARIOUS HANDS.

(NOTE: Annotations are by Miles unless otherwise noted.)

% Folder 1: Handwritten notes made at Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, Austin, Texas, from their collection of Ginsberg and Kerouacmaterial. 82 pp.

Folder 2: Misc. documents including photocopy original ms heavily annotated table of contents of Ginsberg's Collected Poems, 13p. A working chronology of Ginsberg's life, 14p. Photocopies of material in the Yale University Library, 5p. Photocopies of the ms. of the annotated footnotes to Collected Poems, 47p, Photocopy from Garrets and Pretenders by Parry, 5pp. 92 pp. total.

First draft version. Folders 3-27. Approx. half million words, with most sources noted at the head of each page or as an annotation, with innumerable annotations by Miles. This is the original draft of the book before any of the subsequent interviews were done and the information gained added in.

Folder 3: Ts 1-3; Ts numbered 1-66, heavily annotated; 69p Folder 4: Ts 1-2 [Chronology]. Ts numbered 67-129. heavily annotated; 64p Folder 5: Ts numbered 130-188. heavily annotated; 58p Folder 6: Ts numbered 189-260. heavily annotated; 70p Folder 7: Ts numbered 261-337. heavily annotated; 76p Folder 8: Ts numbered 338-402. heavily annotated; 64p Folder 9: Ts numbered 403-462. heavily annotated; 59p Folder 10: Ts numbered 463-522. heavily annotated; 59p Folder 11: Ts numbered 523-583. heavily annotated; 60p Folder 12: Ts numbered 584-651. heavily annotated; 67p Folder 13: Ts numbered 652-711. heavily annotated; 58p Folder 14: Ts numbered 712-779. heavily annotated; 67p Folder 15: Ts numbered 780-869. heavily annotated; 89p Folder 16: Ts numbered 870-918. heavily annotated; 48p Folder 17: Ts numbered 919-981. heavily annotated; 60p Folder 18: Ts numbered 982-1037. heavily annotated; 55p Folder 19: Ts numbered 1038-1116. heavily annotated; 78p Folder 20: Ts numbered 1117-1174. heavily annotated; 57p Folder 21: Ts numbered 1175-1231. heavily annotated; 56p Folder 22: Ts numbered 1232-1258. heavily annotated 26p Folder 23: Ts numbered 1259-1292. heavily annotated 3 lp Folder 24: Ts numbered 1293-1310. heavily annotated 17p Folder 25: Ts numbered 1311-1342. heavily annotated 3 lp Folder 26: Ts numbered 1343-1385. heavily annotated 42p Folder 27: Ts numbered 1386-1515. heavily annotated 129p [Above represents First draft 1,699 pages total.]

Second Draft version: Folders 28-30. A condensation of the childhood material only.

Folder 28: Chapter 1. Ts numbered 1-4; 1-35. single spaced @ 500 words per page. 39p Folder 29: Chapter 2. Ts numbered 36-61. 25p Folder 30: Chapter 3. Ts numbered 62-125. 63p [Second draft 129 pages total]

Third Draft version: Folders 31-50. The manuscript containing the most annotations, inserts, changes and suggestions by other people. The book essentially came out of this draft.

Folder 31: Chapter One. Ts numbered 2-3; 1-50. A second copy of pages 1-50, this time with annotations by Andrew Wylie and Victor Bockris. 102p

Folder 32: Chapter Two. Ts numbered 50-91. A second copy of the same text heavily annotated. 80p

' ^ Folder 33: Chapter Three. As 2p; Ts numbered 92-180. Some sections heavily annotated by Andrew Wylie. 88p

Folder 34: Chapter Three. Ts numbered 92-165 [incorporates cuts suggested in folder 33]. Annotations by Rosemary Bailey. 73p

Folder 35: Chapter Four. Ts numbered 184-222, many corrections. Ts numbered 1-33; 16 unnumbered pages; Ts numbered 137-151 with heavy corrections. 98p

Folder 36: Chapter Five. Ts numbered 224-328; 4 unnumbered pages; Ts numbered 153-157 heavily corrected; Ts numbered 142-152, some corrections; As notes lp; Ts numbered 152-211, corrected. 183p

Folder 37: Chapter Six. Ts numbered 329-395. Ts numbered 1-8, Ts numbered 1-22 with many corrections; Ts numbered 1-24, [continuation of 1-22 on new computer document] 108p

Folder 38: Chapter Seven. Ts numbered 396-472, corrected with many cuts suggested. Ts numbered 396-446 [numbering jumps, no text missing] 450-472, revised text. Ts heavily corrected 164p Folder 39: Chapter Eight. Ts numbered 473-514, heavily corrected. Ts numbered 473-489 [text continues, despite different numbering] 308-320. 69p

Folder 40: Chapter Nine. Ts numbered 515-538, many corrections. Ts, different version, numbered 321-335. 37p

Folder 41: Chapter Ten. Ts numbered 539-561, heavily annotated. Ts revised version chapter nine incorporating cuts numbered 539-559. 42p

Folder 42: Chapter Eleven. Ts numbered 563-588 [text continues with different numbering] 368- 376, heavily annotated for cuts. 33p

Folder 43: Chapter Twelve. Ts single-spaced numbered 377-420, heavily annotated. 43p

Folder 44: Chapter Thirteen. Ts numbered 421-446. 25p

Folder 45: Chapter Fourteen. Ts numbered 447-463 [text continues with new numbering] 733-748, plus 10 unnumbered pages. 41p

Folder 46: Chapter Fifteen. Ts numbered 491-498, As 1-3, 499-540, all very heavily annotated for cuts. 52p

Folder 47: Chapter Sixteen. As 2p. Ts numbered 541-590, with very large cuts indicated. 52p

f| Folder 48: Chapter Seventeen. As lp. Ts unnumbered 18p. Ts numbered 590-595. Ts numbered 850-892. 66p

Folder 49: Chapter Seventeen. Ts numbered 858-947. Revised draft of folder 48. 89p

Folder 50: Chapter Eighteen. Ts unnumbered 57 pages. 57p

[Third draft 1,494 pages total, This draft was approx. 300,000 words.]

Third Draft version: chapters 1-3 revised, manuscript pages 1-183, with editor Bobbie Bristol's revisions and suggestions for moving and cuts. In Andrew Wylie Agency folder. 183p.

Third draft 1-3, 183 pages total.

Third Draft version: chapter 3 revised, manuscript pages 90-179,185,189,197,286: 94p. annotated, chapter 8 revised, annotated, manuscript pages 442-460: 18p; 112p

Third draft 3 and 8, 112 pages total.

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Fourth Draft version: manuscript, pages numbered 1-989 with Simon and Schuster editor Laurie fLpy. 13 Lister's suggestions for cuts amounting to approx. 110,000 words. 989p

Fifth Draft version: incorporates most of the cuts suggested in fourth draft version; and includes draft version, another copy of the manuscript, with Simon & Schuster editor Fred Hills' corrections y and suggestions, Ts numbered 1-296. Plus 1 lp Simon & Schuster front matter. 568pp

Sixth Draft version: Final copy edited manuscript, Ts numbered 1-615; 1-31, 1-4, 1-14 plus prelims. Allen Ginsberg's annotations to Sixth Draft version. Copy edited manuscript, photocopied on oversize editing paper. Ts numbered 1-664 [numbering jumps nine pages by accident, no text missing]; Insert for page 261 8p; Galley sheets 265-6. Insert for page 266 numbered 556, 562-581 plus three pages notes. This copy was read and annotated by Allen Ginsberg who made 1,281 annotations to the text ranging from one word to long notes to the author discussing details of fact, tone, approach, etc. Also includes three pages of notes and lists of changes in Ginsberg's hand. Some pages have no changes, others a dozen or more. Several thousand words in Ginsberg's hand. 739pp

Sixth Draft version includes, Chapters One, 16 and 17. Photocopy of above on oversize editing paper. Ch 1: 33p; Ch 16: 61p with original pencil annotations by Miles to virtually every line+ another copy of Ch 16; 61p regular size. Ch 17: 13p oversize, continues regular size for 59 pp

Seventh draft version: Galleys of typeset version of book [book had been set before editing was completed and this setting was scrapped. It was used as basis for all further corrections.] lp galley copyright page. Galleys numbered 1-279, with dozens of pages of inserts and thousands of annotated changes to text, many of them very extensive. Photocopy manuscript pages 562-636. Ts unnumbered lOp. Ts Afterward numbered 1-15. Chapter notes Ts unnumbered 25p with many annotations. Plus, photocopy of galleys of first typeset version as above. 393p. Plus As. 2p of notes of corrections and cover sheet from copy editor. 3pp. 396pp TOTAL

Afterward draft 1, Manuscript 15pp, annotated. 15pp

Afterward draft 2, Manuscript 14pp annotated. 15pp

Index. Ms. 65pp

8,154 TOTAL NUMBER MANUSCRIPT PAGES.

II. WORKING PAPERS

Transcriptions of Interviews.

Folder 51: Interviews with friends and family. Philip Whalen Interview. Single spaced. Annotated showing which sections incorporated in ms. 15pp

Lucien Carr Interview. Single spaced. Annotated showing sections used. 16pp

Michael McClure Interview. Single spaced. With annotations. 13pp

Lawrence Ferlinghetti Interview. Single spaced. 12pp

Shig Mureo Interview. Single spaced. 7pp

Hannah Litzky Interview. Single spaced. [NOTE: SEE childhood files] [Ginsberg's aunt] 4pp

Eugene Brooks. Single spaced. Annotated. [Ginsberg's brother] 15pp

Bob Rosenthal Interview. Single-spaced. [Ginsberg's secretary] 13pp

Steven Taylor Interview. Single spaced. [Ginsberg's guitarist] 12pp

Gordon Ball Interview, handwritten, very small script on legal yellow pad. [manager of Ginsberg's farm, editor journals]. 3pp

Larry Fagin Interview. Handwritten in small script on legal yellow pad [teacher at Naropa, neighbor]. 3pp

Tsultrim AUioni Interview. Handwritten on legal yellow pad. [fellow follower of Trungpa]. 5pp

118p total in this folder.

Folder 52: Interviews with Allen Ginsberg

[Tapes are coded according to Ginsberg's own tape retrieval system.]

83D2/001 and 83D2/002 single spaced. Covers years 1944-1949. 4pp

85D2/001 single spaced. Covers years 1950-1964. 17pp

85D2/003 single spaced. Covers years 1945-1947. 15pp

85D2/004 single spaced. Covers year 1943-1945. 29pp

[another copy, more complete transcript]. 22pp 86D1/001 single-spaced. Covers years 1965-1967. 11 pp

86D3/002 single spaced. Covers years 1968-1972. 14pp

86D3/003 single spaced. Covers years 1972-1973 [plus some 1970]. 14pp

86D3/ 004 single spaced. Covers years 1974-1977. 8pp

86D3/006 single spaced. Covers year 1978 [Naropa Poetry Wars]. 9pp

86D3/007 single spaced Covers years 1979-1986. 13pp

88D1/002 single spaced, fill-in questions covering all periods. Mostly about father and mother. lOpp

166 pages total transcripts.

Questions: year-by-year questions to Ginsberg. 7pp

7pp total this folder, [inserted in folder 52]

Original tape recordings:

All cassettes are C90.

Interviews for the biography:

Bob Rosenthal. NYC April 3, 1986 - Tape One

Bob Rosenthal. NYC April 3, 1986 - Tape Two

Eugene Brooks. Plainview LI. Feb 11, 1986 - tape One

Eugene Brooks. Plainview LI. Feb 11, 1986 - tape Two

Gordon Ball. NYC Nov 26, 1984 - tape One

Gordon Ball. NYC Nov 26, 1984 - Tape Two [side two - Tsultrim Allione. March 5, 1986]

Lucien Carr. NYC. March 9, 1986 - tape One

Lucien Carr. NYC. March 9, 1986 - tape Two 10

Larry Fagin. NYC. Jan 23, 1986

Lawrence Ferlinghetti. San Francisco. March 20, 1986 - Tape One

Lawrence Ferlinghetti. San Francisco. March 20, 1986 - Tape Two [side two - start Shig Mureo interview. March 22, 1986]

Michael McClure. San Francisco. March 19, 1986 - Tape One

Michael McClure. San Francisco. March 19, 1986 - Tape Two [side two - end Shig Mureo interview]

Philip Whalen. March 16, 1986. Santa Fe - Tape One

Philip Whalen. March 16, 1986. Santa Fe - Tape Two

Hannah Litzky. Jan 29, 1986. East Orange, NJ.

Josef Skvorecky. NYC Sept 20, 1984

Steven Taylor. April 21, 1986

Interviews with Allen Ginsberg:

January 28, 1971 [71D2/001] - Tape One

January 28, 1971 [71D2/002] - Tape Two

August 15, 1983 [83D2/001] - Tape One

August 15, 1983 [83D2/002] - Tape Two

March 28, 1985 [85D2/001] - Tape One

March 28, 1985 [85D2/002] - Tape Two

June 6, 1985 [85D2/003] - Tape One

June 6, 1985 [85D2/004] - Tape Two

February 17, 1986 [86D1/001]

February 18, 1986 [86D3/002] - Tape One 11

February 18, 1986 [86D3/003] - Tape Two

February 18, 1986 [86D3/004] - Tape Three

April 20, 1986 [86D3/005] - Tape One

April 20, 1986 [86D3/006] - Tape Two

April 20, 1986 [86D3/007] - Tape Three

January 5, 1988 [88D1/001]

September 23, 1988 [88D1/002]

September 24, 1988 [88D1/003] [on side two of above tape]

September 30, 1988 [88D1/004]

October 2, 1988 [88D2/005] - Tape One

October 2, 1988 [88D2/006] - Tape Two

October 4, 1988 [88D1/007] [on side two of above tape]

[39 cassettes in this group]

Reference tapes for biography:

Ginsberg with Louis and Edith. San Francisco Holiday Inn. May 16, 1974 [74D2/012]

Ginsberg and Corso Big Table Reading, Chicago, 1959. [59A1/013]

Ginsberg reads Howl, Big Table Reading, Chicago Jan 1959.

Ginsberg and Voznesensky talking, Hotel Chelsea, Dec 28, 1978 [AG78D3/034] - Tape One

Ginsberg and Voznesensky talking, Hotel Chelsea, Dec 28, 1978 [AG78D3/035] - Tape Two

Ginsberg and Voznesensky talking, Hotel Chelsea, Dec 28, 1978 [AG78D3/036] - Tape Three

Ginsberg on WBAI, NYC, Spring 1979

Ginsberg and Ken Kesey on WBAI, July 25, 1979

Ginsberg at the ICA, London, Aug 22, 1967 12

Ginsberg talking to Ed Sanders, NYC, Feb 24, 1980 [Naropa Poetry Wars][AG80D1/026]

Ginsberg talking to Tom Clark. March 24, 1980. [Naropa Poetry Wars][AG80Dl/033]

Ginsberg talking to Ed Sanders, April 13, 1980 [AG8OD1/O35]/ talking to Gary Snyder, April 19, 1980 [AG80D1036]/ talking to Tom Clark, May 20, 1980 [AG80D1/038][Naropa Poetry Wars] - on one cassette.

Ginsberg telephone conv. with Al Santoni, July 3, 1980 / Tom Clark July 3, 1980 [AG80D2/048] [Naropa Poetry Wars] - on one tape

Ginsberg talking to Glen Dorskind, July 5, 1980 / Jeff Miller nd / SaraYoung, July 6, 1980 / Beth Gaeddart, July 6, 1980. [AG80D1/052] [Naropa Poetry Wars] - on one tape

Ginsberg talking to Beth Gaeddart [AG80D/052 continued 2nd tape]

Ginsberg, William Burroughs, Ken Kesey, Nanda Pivano, Peter Orlovsky, Philip Whalen, Harold Norse talking in Boulder, Colorado, August 15, 1980. [AG80D4/060] - Tape One

Ginsberg, William Burroughs, Ken Kesey, Nanda Pivano, Peter Orlovsky, Philip Whalen, Harold Norse talking in Boulder, Colorado, August 15, 1980. [AG80D4/061] - Tape Two

Ginsberg, William Burroughs, Ken Kesey, Nanda Pivano, Peter Orlovsky, Philip Whalen, Harold Norse talking in Boulder, Colorado, August 15, 1980. [AG80D4/062] - Tape Three

Ginsberg, William Burroughs, Ken Kesey, Nanda Pivano, Peter Orlovsky, Philip Whalen, Harold Norse talking in Boulder, Colorado, August 15, 1980. [AG80D4/063] - Tape Four

Ginsberg talking w/Andy Clausen, Rocky Flats, Aug 9, 1980 / Ginsberg Graduation Day speech, Naropa, August 17,1980 / Ginsberg talking to William Burroughs about his books [dub of AGA1/064] -all on one tape

Ginsberg and Peter Orlovsky. NYC. 1985 [AG85D1/026].

Ginsberg and Peter Orlovsky talking at Bellevue, Ward 19 N. Dec 7, 1986. [no code]

Ginsberg - 1976 John Hammond Columbia recordings.

Ginsberg - The Holy Soul Jelly Roll recordings.

Ginsberg - Blake Songs Volume II

Ginsberg - Capitol Raspberries 13

Ginsberg - Jessore Road

Ginsberg, Carolyn Cassady and Eric Mottram on Jazz-FM, London radio. June 13, 1990

[28 cassettes in this group]

The Literary History of the Beat Generation lectures. These lectures span the period from 1977 to 1982 at Naropa Institute, Boulder, Colorado [76 tapes]

plus a further series conducted at Brooklyn College in 1987 [25 tapes] 101 tapes in all.

[101 cassettes in this group]

168 cassettes in total

III. CHRONOLOGY FOLDERS

Day-by-day itineraries of all major trips throughout life up until end 1985.

17 Folder 53 - Chronology 1944 - 1970.

Ts. early years chronology, duplicates much of later material only in less detail. 14p

Ts of years 1944-1967. Heavily annotated. Photocopy Coast Guard record of merchant marine shipping career and journal page.. 46p

[from here on, each year's chronology consists of a mass of documents, mostly photocopies of Ginsberg's reading tour itineraries - which are usually heavily annotated by Ginsberg. The itineraries give details of readings, addresses, flight numbers, who is meeting Ginsberg and who reading with him [if important], also details of where he will be staying. The list includes details of joint readings with Burroughs, Creeley, Corso, etc. in great detail. This material is then summarized in a two or three page chronology handwritten on yellow pad. ]

1968, As. 3p. Photocopies of Ginsberg's 1968 itineraries, lOp 13pp

1969, As. 3p. Photocopies of Ginsberg's 1969 itineraries, 18p 21pp

1970, As. 3p. Photocopies of Ginsberg's 1970 itineraries, 16p 19pp

113 pages total this folder.

Folder 54 - Chronology of years 1971-1977 14

1971, As 3p, Ts 5pp [carbon] Photocopies of Ginsberg's 1971 itineraries, 4pp 12pp

1972 - 1975 [combined], As lOpp, Photocopies of Ginsberg's 1972-75 itineraries, 22pp 32pp

1973 [separate file] As lp, Photocopies of Ginsberg's 1973 itinerary, llpp 12pp

1974-1975. Photocopies of Ginsberg's 1974-5 itineraries 15pp. 15pp

1976, As lp. Photocopies of Ginsberg's 1976 itineraries, 6pp 7pp

1977, As 4p, Photocopies of Ginsberg's 1969 itineraries 14pp 18pp

96 pages total this folder.

Folder 55 - Chronology of years 1978 - 1982

1978, As 2pp, Ts, 3pp, Photocopies of Ginsberg's 1978 itineraries, 18pp

1979, As 3pp. Photocopies of Ginsberg's 1979 itineraries, 26pp. 29pp

1980, As 5pp, Photocopies of Ginsberg's 1980 itineraries 15pp 20pp

1981, As 2pp, Photocopies of Ginsberg's 1981 itineraries 13pp 15pp

1982, As 2pp, Photocopies of Ginsberg's 1982 itinerary 3pp.Photocopies of Ginsberg's 1982-83 itinerary, lOpp 15p

97 pages total this folder.

Folder 56 - Chronology of years 1983 - 1985

1983, As 2pp, Photocopies of Ginsberg's 1983 itineraries, 26pp 28pp

1984, As 4pp, Photocopies of Ginsberg's 1984 itineraries 16pp. 20pp

1985, As 3pp. Photocopies of Ginsberg's 1969 itineraries 7pp. Different set photocopies of Ginsberg's 1985 itineraries 43pp - includes page with Ginsberg's seal in red. 53pp

"Allen Ginsberg Autobiographical Precis." Photocopy document issued by Ginsberg's office giving year by year precis of activities, plus bibliography, filmography, discography:9pp. 9pp

110 pages total this folder. 15

Folder 57 - Misc papers & chronological files.

Ts w/ As Chronology of Ginsberg's life 14pp; Misc Ts and As, mostly heavily or very heavily annotated. 97pp [much of this is hand written drafts for inserts.] 11 lpp

111 pages total this folder.

513 pages total in chronology files.

Kaddish files

Folder 58- 1959: "Kaddish".

Photocopy. Cover sheet by Ginsberg, dated March 18, 1961 when mss was auctioned. Plus As 58pp.

Ts lp [extracts from Kerouac/Ginsberg corresp. Photocopies of Ginsberg letters to Kerouac concerning "Kaddish" 6pp.

66 pages total this file.

Folder 59 - 1964: "Kaddish" Film Script.

[written by Ginsberg with Robert Frank] Photocopy from Ts. Annotated by Robert Frank. 92pp

92 pages total this file.

Folder 60 - 1972: "Kaddish" playscript.

[Produced by the Chelsea Theatre Centre, Brooklyn, with Ginsberg's collaboration.] 78pp

78 pages total this file.

Section Four:

Year-by-Year chronology reference files

Folder 61 - Russia.

Ts 7pp. As 5pp 12pp 16

12 pages total this folder.

Folder 62 - Louis' Family.

7 drafts of family tree on legal size paper - different degrees of accuracy. ALs [photocopy] from Judy [family member]. 2pp stats of drawings of preliminary family tree from AG archives. 2pp stats from AG notebooks about relatives. Ts 9pp on family history prior AG birth. "Horses" - Ts of piece on Peter Ginsberg's horses later published in festschrift for AG. 4p. Transcript of tape 70D1/011: Louis Ginsberg interviewed in 1970 by Miles on early days of family, single-spaced lip p/c of Russian village by Chagall. 35pp

35 pages total this folder.

Folder 63 - Naomi's Family.

9 drafts of family tree on legal size paper - various stages. Three annotated by Ginsberg.

TLs Gene Berlin 2pp. ALs Edith Leehgant lp [photocopy but w/AG annotation to Miles]. 6pp states from AG notebooks on family history. Ts 4p. 22pp

22 pages total this folder.

Folder 64 - Childhood Notes. [Fair Street 1929-1933 ; 155 Haledon 1934-1937]

AG unpublished journals - April 28, 1952. Ts 3pp [Ts by Miles] "Allen Ginsberg - Parents' Influence On Poetry and Politics" by Eugene Brooks. 5pp [unpublished ms by Ginsberg's brother. 5 or 6 annotations in Brooks' hand.] Poem by Brooks [photocopy] lp. As 4pp transcript of interview with Hannah Litzky on yellow pad. Ts 18pp [much of transcribed from interview with AG done in Boulder 1983 about his childhood]. Stat of "Allen Ginsberg Remembers mama" by Elenore Lester, New York Times. 4p. Transcript of a short story by Naomi, lp. "Experiences of Reality" 1979 Ms by AG [stat] lp. Transcription from 76 Dl/035. AG talking w/father in 1976. lp 38pp

38 pages total this folder.

Folder 65 - Childhood Notes [72 Haledon Avenue ; 288 Graham Avenue]

Miles notes taken from correspondence in various deposits, from AG unpublished Journals, transcriptions of tape recorded conversations, published interviews, stats of journals and press clips, and other sources: each page labeled with source. 17

As, Ts and photocopies: 72p. Very early draft Kaddish material [not in final poem - Paris 1958?] 2p. LHBG 12p Kaddish play, first 6p Saigon Journal [unpublished] 1963 - 9p "No Way Back To The Past" Ms by AG 4p. Clipping on Bronx from NYT. 1 p 106p

106 pages total this folder.

Folder 66-1943.

Transcript tape interview Lucien Carr with Barry Gifford, Lawrence Lee and James Grauerholz. 1977. 76pp. As, Ts and photocopies; 23pp 99pp

99 pages total this folder.

Folder 67 - 1944.[i]

Photostats of AG journals 10pp. ALs from Celine Young [Lucien Carr's girlfriends] to AG, 10pp. Ts 61p [includes interview transcripts w/AG] Stats from books [mostly Kerouac] 27pp. Transcript from Brookner's "William Burroughs" movie, 4p. "Death Scene" from "Where Was the World?" by Allen Brooks [Ginsberg] 1944. 4pp 116pp

116 pages total this folder

Folder 68-1944. [11]

Photocopies, with transcripts, of complete news coverage of Lucien Carr/David Kammerer murder trial. 47p [as follows:]

"Accuse Student In River Death" in New York Journal American "Student Admits Killing Teacher" in New York World Telegram "Columbia Student Kills Friend And Sinks Body In Hudson" in New York Times "Youth In New York Killing" in St. Louis Post Dispatch "Gashed Body Found In Hudson" in New York Daily Mirror "Student Accused In 'Honor' Slaying" in Daily News "Student Is Held In Death Of Man Found In River" in New York Herald Tribune "Youth Tells How He Killed Prof in New York Journal American "Columbia Student Is Held In Killing Of An Instructor" in PM "Columbia Student Kills Ex-Instructor, Rolls Body Into River" in New York Post "Student Arraigned In Slaying" in New York Sun "Clash Marks Hearing Of Student In Slaying" in New York World Telegram "Student Is Silent On Slaying Friend" in New York Times "Sailor Says Carr Confided In Him After Murder" in St. Louis Dispatch "Lucien Carr Arraigned In Homocide Court For Riverside Park Murder" in Columbia Spectator 18

"Student Mum At Slaying Hearing" in New York Daily Mirror "Carr Jailed Without Bail; Reads Yeats" (in unidentified St Louis paper) "Honor Slayer Held Without Bail" in Daily News "Student Is Held Without Bail In Slaying Of Man" in New York Herald Tribune "Student Denied Bail In Slaying" in PM "College Student Held In Slaying" in New York Journal American "2nd Witness Held In Teacher Killing" in New York World Telegram "Student Is Indicted In 2nd Degree Murder" in New York Times "Another St. Louis Man Knew Carr Killed Kammerer" in St. Louis Post Dispatch "Honor Slayer Faces Trial In Second Degree" in New York Daily News "Indict Student In Murder Case" in New York Daily Mirror "Columbia Student Indicted In Slaying Of Ex-Teacher. Lucien Carr FacesTrial On Charges Of Second Degree Murder" in PM "Lucien Carr Arraigned, Held Without Bond In Killing" in St. Louis Post Dispatch "Witness In Killing Freed" in New York Times "Lucien Carr Pleads Guilty Of Manslaughter" in St. Louis Post Dispatch "Carr Admits Fatal Killing" in New York Journal American "Student Pleads Guilty To Killing Ex-Teacher" in New York World Telegram "Guilty Plea Made By Carr In Slaying" in New York Times "Student Pleads Guilty In Killing Of Former Teacher" in New York Daily Mirror "Student Cops Manslaughter Plea In Slaying" in Daily News "Lucien Carr Gets Indeterminate Term For Killing" in St. Louis Post Dispatch "Carr Sentenced To Reformatory" in New York Journal American "Young Slayer Is Sentenced" in The New York Sun "Carr Sentenced To Reformatory" in New York World Telegram "Student Slayer Sent To The Reformatory" in New York Times "Sentence Youth In Honor Slaying" in New York Daily Mirror "Carr Is Sentenced, Judge Urges His Rehabilitation" in New York Herald Tribune "Student Slayer Carr Off To Reformatory" in New York Journal American "Slayer To reformatory" in New York World Telegram "Young Slayer Goes To Elmira" in New York Times "Lucien Carr Begins Term For Killing Of Kammerer" in St. Louis Post Dispatch

Large collection photocopies of ms of Ginsberg's novel about theCarr-Kammerer killing and AG transcripts of his conversations w/Carr in 1944. 88pp: [as follows]

"Aesthetics of Morality": Written after all night conv. June 22, 1944. 5pp August 3, 1944. 4pp Transcription of argument between Louis and Naomi, June 1944. 3pp "Essay in Character Analysis - Carr" Aug 3, 1944. 12pp Journal 1944. 4pp "The Village Jade" 5pp "Names of characters" 2pp "Fight In the West End - Chapter One of a novel." 1 lpp "Scenes for a Novel - the Plot" 2pp 19

"Consolation of Celine - Chapters Two & Three of a Novel" lOpp "Death Scene" 6pp "Work In Progress" 24pp

Ts 4pp. NYT clip on Trilling, lp. 136pp

136 pages total this folder.

Folder 69-1945:

Ts 92pp Stats from books, on Herbert Huncke, 17pp. ALs from Celine Young 15pp. Photostats Ginsberg unpub. novel: "A beginning" 4p. "A New Vision" 6pp. Book lists of books read and date 1 lp.'Thilexion Society" [photograph of AG] in Columbia Review lp. Clip from The Best of Gay. lpp. 147pp

147 pages total this folder.

Folder 70-1946.

Ts 31p.Stats from books, 20pp. Ms."Death In Violence" by AG.37pp 88pp

88 pages total this folder.

Folder71-1947.

Ts. 37pp. Stats from books and articles: 66pp. Ms. AG:'A Book of Doldrums" 14pp. Ms. AG: "Birthday ode" [to Burroughs] 24p [several drafts] Ms; AG on On bus trip to Denver. 15pp. Ms. AG: "The Death of William Lowell" Ms. 9pp. AG: Interpersonal relations" 6pp. Ms. AG: "The Monster of Dakar" 13pp. Letters from Neal Cassady to AG: 9pp 193pp

193 pages total this folder.

Folder 72-1948.

Ts & As 47pp Stats from books, magazines, etc: 53pp. TLs from Neal Cassady 4pp. Ms. AG: "A Vision of the Apocalypse" 6pp 1 lOpp

110 pages total this folder.

Folder 73-1949: 20

"Wrong Way Turn Clears Up Robbery" in New York Times lp. As, Ts: 19p Stats from books, magazines, articles, letters: 23pp. Ms. AG: "Portrait of Huncke" 21pp Stat of letter from J-C Holmes. 2pp 66p

66 pages total this folder.

Folder 74-1949:

1949: "The Fall" mss. Ts 2p. Photocopy of "The Fall" notebooks written by hand by Ginsberg in 1947 for assessment by his psychiatrist prior to entering the Columbia Psychiatric Institute. 147pp 149pp

149 pages total this folder.

Folder 75 -1950:

AS, Ts: 33pp Ms: AG "On Bill Cannastra's Death" 6p Stats from books, articles: 6pp. ALs from Helen Parker [Ginsberg's first girlfriend] 7pp. TLsNeal Cassady 4pp

Press clippings on Bill Cannastra's death: 4pp [as follows] "Man Killed Climbing Out Of Subway Window" in New York Tribune "Prank Costs Him His Life On IRT Trian" in New York Daily Mirror "Knocked Out IRT Window" in New York Times "Climb From Subway For Drink Kills Rider" in Daily News. 60pp

60 pages total this folder.

Folder 76-1951:

As, Ts: 25pp. Stats from books, articles, interviews: 5pp. 30pp

30 pages total this folder.

Folder 77-1952:

Ts, As: 47pp. Ms: [carbon with Ginsberg annotation] "Transcript of Ginsberg video reading at Warwick" [England] AG interviewed by Tom Pickard. 6pp. Stats from books, articles, interviews: 13pp 21

"The Journal Of Allen Ginsberg, May 1952" in The Beat Book - 2pp "Visions of Ordinary Mind" in Talking Poetics: Naropa InstituteDocuments.33pp. lOlpp

101 pages total this folder.

Folder 78-1953:

As, Ts: 37pp. Stats from magazines, books: 18pp. Color snapshot showing Paradise Alley [now torn down] where "Mardu" in Kerouac's Subterraneans lived.. Tear sheet showing the Albert Hotel. TLs Neal Cassady 2pp.

59 pages total this folder.

Folder 79-1954:

[interview 1972 with Carolyn Cassady] "Neals Ashes" in Rolling Stone 3pp. As, Ts: 48pp. Stats from books, articles: 33pp. 84ppp

84 pages total this folder.

Folder 80-1955:

As, Ts,: 68pp Stats from books, magazines: 5p. [obit] Joe Albany lp. 73pp

73 pages total this folder.

Folder 81-1956:

As, Ts,: 39pp. Stats from magazines, books:67pp TLs, Corso to AG 3pp. 109p

109 pages total this folder.

Folder 82-1957:

As, Ts: 132pp Stats from books, articles, interviews: 23pp. Questions for AG interview 2pp

[press release] City Lights Books Statement Of Facts Relating To Allen Ginsberg's Howl and Other Poems. April 11, 1957. lp. Ms: AG on Henri Michaux. 9pp "The Cult of Unthink" in Horizon - 8pp. 22

"St Germain Des Pres: The Golden Age 1947-1959" in Pahs Metro. 12pp tabloid. "Come Home To Roost" in Village Voice, lp "En Garde" in New York Times Book Review. 2pp "Paterson Man's Poems Draw Attention of Major Critics" in Paterson HeraldNews. 2pp "A Howl of Protest in San Francisco" in The New Republic lp "West Coast Censorship Trial Draws Big Audiences In Support of Poem" in National Guardian, lp "Howl" decision Landmark of Law" in San Francisco Chronicle, lp "The Case of the Howling Co" in National Guardian, lp "Howl Rules Not Obscene" in San Francisco Examiner, lp "Big Day For Bards At Bay" in Life 2p [actual clipping] "Books Of The Times" by Gilbert Millstein (Kerouac review) in New York Times lp 201pp

201 pages total this folder.

Folder 83-1958:

Ts, As: 90p Stats from books, magazines lp. Ms. AG: "The Dharma Bums" review for VV. 5pp. ALs from Kerouac's mother: lp "The Lively Arts In Frisco" in Mademoiselle - 3pp "Here To Save Us But Not Sure From What" in Village Voice 3pp "Quo Vadis?" Burroughs, Ginsberg, Logue, Wain, Truffaut, etc. in Mademoiselle . 2pp "Goodbye To The Beatniks" in This Week with six photographs. 4pp "Where Is The Beat Generation Going?" by Podhoretz in Esquire. 4pp "Disorganization Man" in Time 2pp "Allen Ginsberg Invited To Read Poetry Here" in Hunter Arrow lp "Advisor Resigns After Ginsberg Reads Poetry" in Hunter Arrow (HunterCollege) lp "Allen Ginsberg Reads Poetry" in Yale News lp "Dharma Bums" in San Francisco Examiner lp "On The Road Back" in San Francisco Examiner lp "Poets By Any Other Name" in Kingsman lp "Beat Poets Appear En Masse ~ A Mess" in a San Francisco paper, lp "The Beat Debated - Is It Or Is It Not?" in Village Voice - 3pp [obit] Kenny Clarke in New York Times lp [clip] [letter from Edith Sitwell] in Life. Feb 8 1960. 127pp

127 pages total this folder.

Folder 84-1959:

Ts, As:36p Stats from books, magazines: 6pp. Als Ferlinghetti lp Ms. Al Aronowitz interview w/AG for Post series. 17pp [12 articles] "The Beat Generation" a series of 12 articles in the New York Post 17 pp. "Campus Fight" in Columbia Jester . 2pp 23

UPI-"Night Lead on Beatniks" lp "Those Beatniks Dig Madmadmad Soiree in Chicago Sun Times, lp "Coffee Brews Up Some Rare Beans" in Daily News, lp "Fried Shoes" in Time, lp "Beatniks Corso, Ginsberg, Howl Before New Lee Crowd" in Harvard Crimson.lp "Beatniks Shock, Amuse 700" in Chicago Daily Tribune, lp "Square's Beat Verse Up in Hair" in Chicago American, lp "Kup's Column" in Chicago Sun-Times, lp "The Only Rebellion Around" in Life. 8pp "Two Poets In Paris" in New York Herald Tribune lp "How Captain Hanrahan Made 'Howl' A Best Seller" in The Reporter - 3pp 99pp

99 pages total this folder.

Folder 85-1960:

As, Ts: 70p. Stats from books, articles, 23pp Colour tear sheet of Machu Picchu. lp "The Might of Machu Picchu" in New York Times lp "Chileans Shouted 'Bravo' When Beats Read Poetry" in San Francisco Sunday Chronicle lp 96pp

96 pages total this folder.

Folder 86-1961:

As, Ts: 71pp. Stats from books, articles, interviews: 21pp Ms. AG: untitled poem written in Tangier.2pp. TLs Eugene Brooks lp [AG brother] "A Resume" by Paul Bowles, in The Beat Book - 2pp Ts, [signed Peter Orlovsky] Orlovsky's journals for '61. [photostats of long roll - like Kerouac legal size. 13pp "Howl In The Classroom" in The CEA Critic - 2pp 112pp

112 pages total this folder.

Folder 87-1962:

Ts, As,: 31p Stats from books, articles: 5 "Allen Ginsberg As An American Jew" in Judaism - 6pp 42pp

42 pages total this folder. 24

Folder 88-1963:

As, Ts:6p Stats of correspondence re the Hungry Generation, letters to Ginsberg, clips re Hungry Generation [Indian poets], etc. 22p "The Rain On Dasaswamedh" by AG in The Illustrated Weekly of India, lp "For Holy Hindu City, Pilgrims Profits and Politics" in New York Times, lp TLs Gregory Corso 3pp. 33pp

33 pages total this folder.

Folder 89-1963:

As, Ts: 15p Stats from magazines, interviews, etc: 2p "The Strange Case of the Harvard Drug Scandal" in Look - 6pp "Buddhists Find A Beatnik Spy" in New York Times lp 24pp

24 pages total this folder.

Folder 90-1964:

As, Ts: 22p Stats from magazines, books, lp "Statement to the Burning Bush" by AG, in The Burning Bush. 2pp "Allen Ginsberg And the Law" in New York Herald Tribune Magazin. 3pp CIA document. 2p obtained under FI Act. 30pp

30 pages total this folder.

Folder91-1965:

As, Ts, 83p. Stats from books, articles, 2pp Interview with Josef Skvorecky by Miles. Transcript of tape:10pp Contemporary Authors Autobiography Series Vol 1, AG in Prague. 2pp [article] in Hoy, Havana, 1965 lp "When Police Took Poems, They Took His Heart Too," in Miami Herald. 3pp ALs Gregory Corso, 9pp [interview] in U 2pp TLs Igor Hajek, U of Glasgow re AG in Prague. 2p [original letter] Ms: AG Tsl of "Who Be Kind To" 4pp "Ginsberg In London" by Tom McGrath in Peace News - double page spread with photograph. 2pp Transcript of Bob Dylan press conference, December, San Francisco. 19pp Transcript of Bob Dylan on les Crane Show, February. 12pp. 25

FBI document obtained using the FI Act lpp [interview/feature] "Ginsberg Makes The World Scene" in New York Times Magazine - 7pp with six photographs Ms. AG "Allen Ginsberg's suggestions for November 20 Demonstration or Spectacle as Example, as Communication" several drafts. 6pp 165pp

165 pages total this folder.

Folder 92-1966:

As, Ts: 24p. Stats from books, articles,: 7pp [poster] Peace illumination Walk [photocopy], lp "A Homecoming For Allen" in Paterson Morning Call. "The Life and Death of Richard Brautigan" in Rolling Stone Magazine. 8pp "The Great Marijuana Hoax" by AG - in Look. 8pp Ms. AG to Wall Street Journal. 2p "Its Happening In Lawrence" in Kansas City Star, lp [interview] in Village Voice. Jazz Concert Opens Artists Show Sunday" in Lawrence Outlook. Artists Setup To Open with Sunday Concert" in Lawrence Journal-World. [press release] Federal Narcots Agents Attempt to Force Defendant To Set Up Entrapment Of Internationally Famous Poet Allen Ginsberg" lp "US Plot to 'set-up' Ginsberg For Arrest Is Described To Jury" in New York Times. "Jazzman Who Accused Feds Is Convicted" in New York Post. "Special Letter from Barbara Rubin." 9pp "Provos" in Village Voice. "Mystery Poet Puzzles Crowd" in Topeka Capitol. "The Guru Comes To Kansas" in Life .1 lpp 8lpp

81 pages total this folder.

Folder 93-1967:

As, Ts: 15p. Stats from books, articles: lOpp "Singalong With Ginsberg" in Sunday Times, lpp [clip] "The Hippies, Philosophy of a Subculture" in Time. 1 lpp [clip] "Encounters With Ezra Pound" in Composed On The Tongue. 17pp "Lost Weekend Among the Flower Children" in Evening Standard. Diana Trilling: "Celebrating With Dr Leary" in Encounter - 12pp [clip] [interview] in Penthouse. 5pp 72pp

72 pages total this folder. 26

Folder 94-1968:

As, Ts: 21 p. Stats from books, articles: lpp CIA, FBI etc documents obtained through Freedom Info act. 14pp [interview] in Playboy - 8pp [interview with Kerouac] in Paris Review - 2pp on AG "Scruffy Vagabonds Who Shook Up America" in National Observer. Photographs of Ginsberg, Corso, Kerouac, Rexroth. 47pp

47 pages total this folder.

Folder 95-1969:

As, Ts:16p Stats from books, articles: lp "The Ginsberg Generation Gap" in Miami Herald, 2pp [clip] Cherry Valley Museum flyer "Fblup!" in New Statesman. "Odd Man Out" in Time. 2pp [review] in Publishers Weekly. "There Is Really Nothing Inside" in Rolling Stone (with photograph of AG at Kerouac's funeral [clip] "Gone In October" by John Clellon Holmes in Playboy -1 lpp report on Kerouac's funeral. "Allen Ginsberg Meets A Judge and Is Clearly Misunderstood" in New York Times - 2pp "The Family of Poets" in Paterson Morning Call - 2pp "Renaissance In North Beach" in San Francisco Chronicle - two parts. 4pp "The Poets Ginsberg" in Newark News - 6pp "The Press of Pornography" in Village Voice - 2pp 52pp

52 pages total this folder.

Folder 96-1970:

As, Ts: 71p Stats from books, articles: 2pp CIA, FBI documents obtained under FI Act. 4pp [AG Blake record Review] in New Yorker, lpp Ms. AG "Autobiography, Sept 1969.' lpp "A Poet Watches A Harried World" in The Subday Record (NJ) "The Chicago Conspiracy Circus" in Playboy - lOpp [clip] 90pp

90 pages total this folder. 27

Folder 97-1971:

As, Ts:48p Stats from books, articles: lp Ms: Transcript of Interview with AG by James Harris, SF 8-21-71.32pp "All Of Us Have A Stake In Ginsberg's Bet" in Denver Post 13p [documents on Ginsberg's bet with Richard helms of CIA]. "My Son The Jewish Mother" in Berkeley Barb. [interview] in West End, Bronx, NY. - 6pp Ms: Ag's "Declaration of Independence for Dr. Timothy Leary." 9pp Stat of printed version, 8p [review of AG Blake album] in Blake Newsletter. - 9pp "My Son The Guru - My Father the Poet" in Jerusalem Post. - 4pp [Jack Anderson column] Washington Post. "Dear Allen" in New York Times - 7pp [the National Book Award controversy] [flyer] "Allen's Barb Ad" distributed in Berkeley, lp 140pp

140 pages total this folder

Folder 98-1972:

As, Ts: 40pp Ms: AG "Television address, 1972" 2pp "Boulder, an Eclectic City, Tackles Matters of Taste" in New York Times. 43pp

43 pages total this folder

Folder 99-1973:

As, Ts: 23p Stats from articles, 2pp "The Dylan They Didn't Bootleg" in New Musical Express, lp Ms: AG "In Defence of Abbie Hoffman." 5pp "In Defence of Abbie Hoffman" in Liberation. 2pp [interview with Carolyn Cassady] many photographs in Rolling Stone. 3pp [news article] in Rolling Stone. [review] of William Burroughs' Jr's "Kentucky Ham" in Cream. "Money and Art Marry" by Alex Cockburn in Village Voice. 39pp

39 pages total this folder

Folder 100-1974:

As, ts: 20p 28

"Thoughts And Recurrent Musings on Israeli Arguments" in Liberation. - 4pp Interview in Nimrod, 7pp "First Thought Best Thought" by AG in Loka. - 7pp "John & Yoko As Poets" by AG in Changes. 3pp [photocopy of above] lp "A Little Tenderness" in Georgia Straight 43pp

43 pages total this folder

Folder 101 - 1975:

As, Ts: 35p. Stats from books: 37pp Ms: Statement how Ginsberg met Trungpa. 41pp Ms: How Did You Lose Your Virginity" by Victor Bockris [report on Ginsberg reading at Columbia]. 14pp "Dylan, old pals revisited" in New Musical Express. "Mugging" in New York Times . 2pp 130pp

130 pages total this folder.

Folder 102-1976:

As, Ts: 33p Stats from magazines, interviews, 1 lpp "Allen Ginsberg Recording His First Blues" in Gloucester NJ County Times. "Louis Ginsberg Traditional Poet" [obit]in New York Times. 2pp "El Instituto Naropa y sa Guru" in La Opinion Cultural (Mexico) [interview] in New Age Journal - 8pp cover story [clip] "On The Road" in Melody Maker. 57pp

57 pages total this folder.

Folder 103 - 1977:

As, Ts: 4pp Ms: AG :"First Blues" 6pp Ms: AG: "Preface and A Trip" 9pp Ms: AG "On Mindfulness" lp "Haunting Poe's Baltimore" in Washington Post Magazine lp [interview] "Allen Ginsberg Talks About Poetry" in New York Times Book Review by Kenneth Koch- 4pp [clip] [photograph of Burroughs, Ginsberg and Patti Smith] in New Musical Express. [catalog] Naropa summer 1977 29

[catalog] Naropa winter 1977 Ms: Interview with Bob Dylan by Ginsberg about Renaldo & Clara, several drafts.80pp 108pp

108 pages total this folder [excluding catalogues]

Folder 104-1978:

As, Ts: lOp Ms: AG "Dear Brothers & Sisters..." in holograph, lp "Dharma Matter" in Village Voice - 3pp [interview] Plainspeak, Denver 4pp Ms: AG & Burroughs "Nuts to Plutonium" 18pp [interview] in High Times. Ms: AG "A Note On Kerouac's biography" lp 39pp

39 pages total this folder.

Folder 105 -1979:

As, Ts: 5p Ms: transcript of dialogue from the film "Fried Shoes, Cooked Diamonds" [mostly Ginsberg] 35pp TLs Sheila Carr lp "Spiritual Obedience" in Harpers - 16pp Ms: transcript National Arts Club Literary medal for Allen Ginsberg Dinner. 24pp Ms: AG: "David Solomon Appeal" 12p "Harry Fainlight In Memorium" in St Marks Newsletter - 2pp [interview] New Manchester Review "The Triumph of Woodstock" SF Chronicle [clip] lp "What's Dead" in Poetry London. AG TLs to Merwin. 4pp TLs Bob Rosenthal annual report on Ginsberg's office affairs. "Buddha-Gate Scandal and cover-up at Naropa Revealed" in Berkeley Barb. 2pp AG: ALs to Tom Clark re Buddha-gate.Transcript of AG interview re Trungpa/Merwin affair w/Ginsberg's changes. 19pp for Boulder Magazine.{they ran unedited version causing many problems]. 124pp

124 pages total this folder

Folder 106-1980:

As, Ts: 4p "Ginsberg Keeping a Steady Beat" in Melody Maker - 2pp 30

[catalog] Naropa Institute Winter-summer 1980 Ms: AG Capitol Air.lp [interview] in Nalanda News. [interview] in Bananas.

20 pages total this folder [excluding catalogue]

Folder 107-1981:

As, Ts: lOp "In New York Howl Becomes A Hoot" in Time. "Poet Allen Ginsberg Comes Full Circle" in Manhattan. "Ginsberg To Read Howl" in New York Times. "Composed On The Tongue" 22pp from an unknown journal. "Ginsberg At Columbia" in American Book Review. Ms: AG "Capitol Rasberries" [ms of lyrics to new recording of songs]. 4pp Ms: AG "Smoking Typewriters" photocopy of original heavily annotated ms. 6pp [small annotation in Ginsberg's hand top right].

46 pages total this folder.

Folder 108-1982:

As, ts 17p Ms: "Notes from Allen Ginsberg re On The Road' 6pp [interview] in The Sun - 1 lpp Ms: AG "Poems from Tea at the Kalpa Court" 8pp "On The Road Again and Mad To remember" in Washington Post [clip] 2pp Beat Generation Elders Meet To Praise Kerouac" in New York Times. "Ginsberg, Gluons Howl With the Voices of Risk" in Colorado Daily. [interview] St. Louis Jewish Light. [interview] in Denver Up The Creek. - 4pp [interview] in Soho Weekly News -2pp "On The Road Again" in Miami Herald - 5pp Naropa Institute Bulletin report on Kerouac conference. - 2pp "Beatnik Gurus Look Ahead and the Young Look Askance" in Philadelphia Inquire.r Naropa Institute Bulletin Fall 82. [interview] in Red Bass, Florida student underground mag. 3pp

65 pages total this folder

Folder 109-1983: 31

As, ts: 39p [catalog] Naropa summer writing program. [catalog] Naropa Fall-Spring catalog. Naropa Institute Bulletin Fall 1983. [interview] The New Paper. "Sing Along With Ginsberg" in New York Post.

44 pages this folder excluding catalogues.

Folder 110-1984:

As, Ts: 25p [interview] in Washington Post [clip] lp [catalog] Naropa Institute Fall 1984 Program. [Press release] "The Life And Times of Allen Ginsberg" Documentary Film, lp [program] Cineprobe, the Films of Gordon Ball. Museum of Modern Art. [includes AG on farm] 3pp [photographs of Ginsberg, Burroughs, Mailer, etc] in Update, Naropa Institute. [program] Naropa Summer Writing Program [fold out with photographs] "On The Literary Road, American Writers In China" in New York Times. "Intimations of Mortality" major interview in New York Times -12pp [actual clip] USIS Blacklist, in New York Times. "These Folk Singers Are No Relics From The f50s" in San Francisco Sunday Examiner and Chronicle. [interview] "Allen Ginsberg's Jewishness" in Jewish Chronicle. [interview] in Dartmouth Review 3pp(complete magazine here) "The Beats Go On" in Time Out. "Hearing A Poetic Voice" in Horizon. "You Don't Have To Be Mad..." in New Society. 2pp Ms: AG on the Living Theater 5pp

61 pages total this folder

Folder 111-1985:

As, Ts: 18pp "On Pornography & US Subsidies" in New York Times. "A Major Minor Poet" in The New Republic - 3pp "Bye Bye Romance" in City Limits. "A Guru of the 60s Still Dissents - and Poetically" in Philadelphia Inquires "The World Of Allen Ginsberg" in Washington Post - 2pp "Portrait of a Popular Poet" in Boulder Sunday Camera - 4p with large photographs. 32

"Beat Streets" in Village Voice . - 3pp "Allen Ginsberg Still Controversial" in Los Angeles Times. "Ginsberg Collection Puts Bold Repertoire, Career In Retrospective" in The Chicago Tribune. 2p "Allen Ginsberg's Powerful Painful Search For Truth" in USA Today. "Allen Ginsberg & Company, Respectable At Last," in Daily News Magazine. 8pp with color photographs. "Ginsberg. He's As Indignant As Ever and Proud of It" interview in The Daily Herald Chicago. "Power of Babble" in Village Voice. "Mainstreaming Allen Ginsberg" in Time. "Still Making Waves" in Detroit Jewish News - 7pp "Pictures From A Poet" in Washington Post. "Ginsberg's Picture Poetry" in Washington Post. "Muhlenberg Embraces Ginsberg in Call-Chronicle, Allentown, PA. "Protest of CIA Hiring Ended at Colorado U" in New York Times. "China Through A Poet's Eyes" in San Jose Mercury News. "Screen: Kerouac, A Documentary" New York Times. Oldest Swinger in Cherwell "Ginsberg Calls America 'Evil', himself'Insane'" Columbus Dispatch "164 More Arrested in CIA Protest at CU" Rocky Mountain News, [photograph of AG]. "Cool Beat" in Melody Maker. Ginsberg in China San Jose Mercury News, lp "Poet Of The Beat generation Still At Home In The 80s" in Allentown Express. "Ginsberg Charms Crowd in LV Visit" in Allentown Globe-Times. 2pp "Ginsberg: A Visit To Remember" in the Setonian, NJ. "A Beat Poet Finds New Beatitude" in Reading, PA, Eagle. 3pp "Students of the 1980s Meet radical of the 60s" in Plymouth Observer. "Allen Ginsberg Takes A Poetic Look At China" in San Francisco Examiner. - 4pp "Collected Poems" in Los Angeles Times. "Allen Ginsberg: The Beat Goes On" in The Washington Post. "City Lights" in Publishers Weekly .- 3pp "Poet Allen Ginsberg Changes With Times" in the Detroit Free Press. "Pariah or Prophet?" in Milwawkee Journal. "Reality Sandwich" in New Musical Express. [catalog] Naropa Institute for Fall 1985. Complete. [catalog] Naropa Institute for summer, 1985, complete. [flyer] Naropa summer writing program.

89 pages this folder excluding catalogues

Folder 112-1986:

As, Ts: 20p [obit] Bob Kaufman. Times "Travels With A Reflective Poet" in San Francisco Chronicle 2p 33

East vs West in Lithuania by Willian Gass. in New York Times 3pp "Allen Ginsberg: No Longer Howling Inn The Wilderness" Wall Street Journal "The Beat Goes On" Chicago Tribune 2pp "Film" in Village Voice "The Dream Apartment" in Village Voice [catalog] Naropa Institute, 1986 "Prince of Dullness" in Observer [obit] Brion Gysin. New York Herald Tribune [letter from Adrian Mitchell] in Observer "An Interview With Herbert Huncke" from a New York freebie "Beat Reheat" in Poetry Project Newsletter [catalog] Naropa Summer Institute Strategies For Peacemaking [article on Ginsberg] in Barricada, newspaper, Managua, Nicaragua. [interview] in The Harvard Crimson 2p "The Wandering Minstral" in Denver Post

41 pages total this folder

Folder 113-1987:

As, Ts: lp. TLs Jim Perrizo 2p MLA Newsletter. Photograph of AG reading at MLA Conference. Issue is complete [interview] US News & World Report. [interview] "200 Attend Buddhist Cremation in Vermont" New York Times stat from catalog Boekenbijlage. major review, illustrated with three photographs of AG, by Simon Vinkenoog. Entire issue present [interview with Carolyn Cassady] in Guardian [photograph] in Village Voice "People" section Time, [photograph AG with Burroughs, et al] "Ex-Wife Recalls Kerouac's Life" in Lawrence Journal-World [Interview Carolyn Cassady] "The End Of The Road" Sunday Times [obit] John Hammond Independent "Idealising the Sixties" in The Listener "Beat Roots" in Time Out [many photographs] 2 pages American Academy of Arts and Letters list of members. "Ginsberg Espouses A Familiar Refrain" in the Floridian 2p "Who'se Angry Now?" in Evening Standard "Allen Ginsberg Still Howling" in Boston Sunday Globe "The Beat Goes On" in Western Oregon State College Newsletter "Beat Goes On, But Howling Voice Was Lost Somewhere On The Road" in The Commercial Appeal, Memphis, Tenn. "Ginsberg, Snyder, Beating the Odds" in Providence Sunday Journal "Ginsberg's Hidden Shroud" in Chicago Tribune 34

"Poet's Performance - Ginsberg Still Howls About Politics, Life..." Towne Courier Lansing, Mich "An Interloper Caught Shoplifting In Paradise" in The Boston Globe "Ginsberg Still Howls In His 60s" in Lansing State Journal 3p "Ginsberg Pictures His Past" in Miami Herald "Buddhist College Steers Path From The 60s" in The Chronicle of Higher Education [photograph ofAG] "MIA at the MLA" in The New Republic 2p "A Monument To Jack Kerouac? in Washington Post "Strange Honor For A False Prophet" in New York Post o [interview] in Harpers Magazine "I Am Price Miskin" in London Review of Boohs "King of the Beats and his Recurring Howl" in The Oregonian "White Shroud" in Los Angeles Times

41 pages total this folder

Folder 114-1988:

Documents of FCC Obscenity regulations: an 86p document of press clippings, letters from and to the FCC from various radio stations and the Council for Civil Liberties, prepared by Ginsberg in an edition of about a dozen sets, stapled.

[WBAI-FM Press Release]: "Allen Ginsberg On Why He Can't Broadcast Howl. Allen Ginsberg Broadcasts Howl!" 2pp "Allen Ginsberg's Howl In New Controversy" in New York Times [obit.] Ronald Bladen in New York Times. Review "Howl, facsimile" in World Literature Today [interview] "Ginsberg Still Howling" in San Francisco Examiner, [large photograph] [interview] The New Common Good, [whole issue enclosed because interview extends throughout paper] [interview] "Poet Terms Nukes 'Planetary Bummer'" in Colorado Daily [interview] "The Poet" in The Daily Pennsylvanian [Interview] "Ginsberg Returns" in Surplas Cheaper Hands [also article on Burroughs] 2p [interview with Robert Frank] about Ginsberg. Sunday Times. [interview] "Pacific Coral Blues" in California Waterfront Age. [interview] in San Francisco Chronicle about Tompkins Square Park riot "FCC Firm on Decency Code; 'Howl' Muffled" in Los Angeles Times. "Student activists Gather at Rutgers" in Newark Star Ledger [flyer] Mexico City Blues by Jack Kerouac, a reading "Kerouac Finds Peace And Honor At Last in Lowell" from Lowell Sun - 4pp stat "Kerouac" in New Yorker. 2pp "Jazz Opera In Hamburg: A Look At Bessie Smith" in New York Times. 2pp [obit] John Clellon Holmes. Independent [obit] John Clellon Holmes. Times 35

"PEN Unit Chides Israel Over Censorship" in New York Times a "Jewish Artists Chastise Israel" in New York Magazine "Ginsberg In A Poetic Injustice" in New York Post "Street Fighters Neutralizing Israeli Might." AP new story, from a Pittsburgh paper. "60,000 Protest Treatment of Palestinians" San Francisco Examiner [letter re Beats" TLS

Ms: AG:"RelevE de la conference d1 Allen Ginsberg" [in English] Text of Canadian lecture on Kerouac. 25p

146 pages total this folder.

Folder 115: Death of Joan Vollmer:

"Burroughs Heir's Gun Kills Wide; Accident, He Insists" in Daily News "Heir's Pistol Kills His Wife; He Denies Playing Wm. Tell" in Daily News "Drunken William Tell Held In Killing Of Wife" in World Telegram and Sun "Stunt Shooting of Wife Denied" in New York Times "Burroughs Seeks Trial Injunction" in World Telegram and Sun "Heir Asserts Wife Killed In Accident" in Journal American "Trial Ordered In Killings" in New York Times

4 pages total this folder, [filed in folder for 1951]

Folder 116: Background material

Ts, As: 40p. Stats from books, magazines: 16p Draft of Ginsberg documentary proposal for Granada Television, 9p AG: "Autobiographic Precis" 6p

71 pages total this folder.

4,445 pages total this section:

Section Five: Allen Ginsberg Journals: Photocopies of typed transcripts.

Folder 117:

1953 bound notebook, spring binder with mss from 1953-58 159p 36

Folder 118:

Tangier 1957. 117p

Folder 119:

Paris 1957 [includes 15p first draft Kaddish] 50p Paris 1958 23p Paris 1958-NYC 1958182p

Folder 120:

Chicago - Big Table 1959 21 p

Folder 121:

NYC 1959 212p

Folder 122:

NYC 1959-60 47p NYC 1960 48p Laughing Gas NYC 1960 1 Op NYC Journals from Jan 1960 48p

Folder 123:

Augl960-April61 165p

[Polder 124:} "G.U^I**-"

SA- Pulcallpa 28p South American j ournals 3 07p [Folder 125:}

SA Journals 13p SA Journals 55p 37

Folder 126:

Bankok 4p Angkor Wat 29p Saigon 20p Japan "The Change" 28p

Folder 127: t\%(p^

Vancouver 1963 13p Oversize notebook 28p San Francisco 1963 64p

Folder 128:

NYC 5p NYC 21p NYC 1964 83p NYC 84p NYC Sept 64 19p

Folder 129:

Boston 20p

Folder 130:

Cuba 1965 [oversize] 169p Cuba Bk V 9p

Folder 131:

Prague 1965 82p

Folder 132:

USSR 49p

Folder 133:

Warsaw 80p

Folder 134:

Prague II 5p 38

London / Liverpool 1965 42p Paris 1965 lOp

Folder 135:

Nov-Dec 65: San Francisco - LA 6p San Francisco July 1965 40p Olson Reading 24p

l{ Folder 136:

LA Jan 1966 24p 1-969 1970 Notebook 132p— bo+14 Folder 137:

Notebook Jan 1971 124p 0 Notebook 1971 24p

Folder 138:

San Francisco 1972 145p

Folder 139:

Jan 1972 131p

Folder 140:

Notebook 72 157p

Folder 141:

Notebook 1973 21 lp

Folder 142:

1973 24p

Folder 143:

1977 50p

Folder 144: 39

1978 81p

Folder 145:

1979 106p

Folder 146:

1980 42p

Folder 147:

East Europe 5 Op

Folder 148:

1980 142p

Folder 149:

1981 79p

Folder 150:

China 1984-5 50p o Folder 151:

Naropa 33p • •

4,020 pages total pages in journal transcript folders.

Section Six: Correspondence

Folder 152 - Letters from libraries

[These letters concern the Ginsberg holdings in various rare book dept libraries, and show which letters I had photocopied and in most cases give details of what their actual holdings are. More than one letter may be included in the page total]

Kenneth Spencer Research Library, U of Kansas, Lawrence. 1 Op

Uppsala Universitet, Sweden, TLs 2 sides lp 40

Yale University 7p

U of California, San Diego 3p

U of California, Los Angeles 7p

U of California, Berkeley lOp

State U of New York at Buffalo 1 p

Brown U, Providence, RI. lOp

Washington U in St.Louis 1 Op

U of Virginia Library 3p

The Lilly Library, Indiana U. Bloomington. 2p

Colby College, Waterville, Maine 2p

Boston U. 2p

Uof Connecticut, Storrs. 2p

U of Texas, Austin. 3p

Columbia U Library. 26p

Letters from individuals [all originals]

William Burroughs Communications. TLs. Feb 18, 1985 lp TLs. Oct9, 1986 lp

Fernanda Pivano, TLs + env. May 28, 1985 lp TLs Jan 15, 1985. lp

Ted Morgan. TLs May 2, 1985 lp

TLs Aug 29, 1986 lp

Gordon Ball. ALs Feb 27, 1986 lp

Michael Schumacher. TLs Feb 13, 1986 lp 41

Jeffrey Dunn. TLs March 15,1987 lp

Jim Perrizo, TLs March 12, 1987 7p

Bill Morgan. ALs, TLs, and p/cs usually undated. 13p 2 copies Miles to Bill Morgan 8p

Copy Miles to Brion Gysin lp

Arthur & Kit Knight. TLs. Sept 16, 1976 lp

Juanita from Ginsberg's office. ALs nd. lp

Bob Rosenthal. Ap/c Oct 4, 1983. 1 p

Claude Pelieu. 4 pages photocopy on AG. 4p

George Lawson, Bertram Rota Booksellers, four TLs. 4p

Josef Skvorecky. TLs Sept 23, 1984. lp

Gerard Malanga. TLs Oct 11, 1984 lp

Legs McNeal ALs 2p

Articus Books. 2 p/cs 2p

Copy Miles to Robert Jackson. lp

Misc papers. 5p

160 pages total this folder.

Folder 153 - Correspondence with People to be interviewed, [all letters originals]

Ellie Dorfman, TLs.nd. lp

Gary Snyder. A p/c s Jan 29, 1986 lp

Michael McClure. ALs + env. Jan 25, 1986 lp Autograph note, nd lp

Constanzo Allione. A p/c s nd. lp 42

Carolyn Kizer. ALs Feb 9, 1988 lp Ap/csMar26, 1986 lp

Lawrence Ferlinghetti. ALs 2 sides + env. Aug 22, 1986 2p Ap/csJan24, 1986 lp

Philip Whalen. A p/c s. Jan 22, 1986 lp

Gordon Ball. A p/c s Feb 24, 1986 lp Ap/cs Jan 28, 1986 lp

Lucien Carr. ALs Jan 25, 1986 + env lp

[Chogyam Trungpa] Office of Trungpa. April 18, 1986 lp Copy Miles letter to Trungpa. lp

Copy letter Miles to Eugene Brooks nd 2p

Question sheets used during interviews with: Steven Taylor; William Burroughs, Lucien Carr, Eugene Brooks, Michael McClure, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Gary Snyder [not done], Philip Whalen, Hannah Litzky, Bob Rosenthal. 16p

Chronology of childhood years. 9p

Interview schedules, lists of names, 8p

Allen Ginsberg, letter of authorization to interview people for the biography. May 10, 1984 photocopy lp

52 pages total this folder.

Folder 154. Correspondence with Simon & Schuster:

Laurie Lister, Vice President & Senior editor [Miles 2nd editor]

TLs. Jan 29, 1986. + 2 photocopies. 3p Catalog copy photostat lp TLs to Andrew Wylie [Miles' agent] Oct 28, 1987 lp TLs April 18, 1988 3p p/c nd lp ALs nd lp TL Winston J Dong Jr [Lister's secty] May 15, 1988 lp } ALs nd lp TLs nd Winston J. Dong Jr. lp 43

[Lister was then fired and Burton Beals and Frederick Hills became my editor]

TLs Beals. Oct 12, 1988 2p TLs Beals. Oct 13, 1988 lp TLs Beals. Nov 17, 1988 2p TLs Beals. Jan 19, 1989 lp TLs Beals. Feb 17, 1989 2p TLs Hills. Mar 3, 1989 lp Copy Miles to Hills, Mar 7, 1989 7p TLs Hills. Mar 22, 1989 lp TLs Hills. Mar 24, 1989 2p TL Beals. Mar 24, 1989 lp Stat of ad from Water Row Books for book lp TLs Hills. April 3, 1989 lp TLs Elizabeth McNamara, legal council S&S. April 18, 89 8p TLs Elizabeth McNamara, legal council S&S. April 1989 lp TLs Sophie Sorkin, copy ed.+ leaflet How To proofread. 2p TLs Jenny Cox, sety. April 19, 1989 lp TLs Beals. April 19, 1989 lp ALs Beals. April 22, 1989 lp TLs Jeny Cox, sety. May 3, 1989 lp ALs Beals, + note + Elizabeth McNamara legal reading and suggestions on the mss for libel, etc. + proof pages 21p TLs Jenny Cox, May 17, 1989 lp TLs Hills, May 25, 1989 + colour proof cover artwork 2p TLs Beals, nd. 4p ALs Beals nd + stats of illustration pages for book. 14p TLs Jenny Cox, June 1, 1989 lp TLs Jenny Cox, June 16, 1989 lp TLs Jenny Cox, June 16,1989 lp TLs Hills, July 6, 1989 lp TLs Hills, July 18, 1989 [end first copy] lp TLs Hills, July 27, 1989 + QPC enclosure 2p [stat] Lawrence Ferlinghetti to Hills, July 31,1989 2p [stat] Hills to Lawrence Ferlinghetti. Aug 31, 1989 lp Autograph note, Hills, nd lp TL Hills, Sept 22, 1989 lp TLs Hills, Nov 10, 1989 lp TLs Hills, Feb 23, 1989 lp TLs Hills, Feb 23, 1989 lp

Undated lists of photographs, picture captions, etc. 17p Cover blurb copy lp FedEx airway bills, representing movement of copy & ms.31p 44

[Harper & Row issued a paperback edition]

TLs Sheila Gillooly, Harper & Row. April 4, 1990 lp Haper & Row Author & Book Information form 1 Op

167 pages total this folder.

Folder 155: duplicate xerox copies of letters from Allen Ginsberg to Miles [unless otherwise noted].

34 pages total in this folder

Folder 156: [unattributed] Kt. A .£>• *%

Folder 157: [unattributed] M "

Folder 158: Letters from Allen Ginsberg to William Burroughs [all photocopies]

23 letters, 37 pages total this folder.

Folder 159: Letters from William Burroughs to Allen Ginsberg [i] [some are to Jack Kerouac, all are photocopies]

Letters from the period July 1945 - March 1951 41 letters, 88 pages.

88 pages total this folder

Folder 160: Letters from William Burroughs to Allen Ginsberg [ii] [some are to Jack Kerouac, all are photocopies].

Letters from the period May 1950 - July 1953 73 letters, 143 pages.

143 pages total this folder.

Folder 161: Letters from William Burroughs to Allen Ginsberg [iii] [some are to Jack Kerouac, all are photocopies].

Letters from the period April 1954 - 1973 75 letters [including 6 postcards] 164 pages [Ginsberg corresp stops 1959, few extra letters from misc sources in mid seventies.]

164 pages total this folder 45

ALLEN GINSBERG CORRESPONDENCE FILES [These organized in a folder for each year, labeled by year. There are approx. 15% more letters than listed here as this description was compiled when Miles was first editing Ginsberg's Selected Letters and has been considerably added to since.

[All photocopies]

Folder 162: 1943: Eugene Brooks. 1 letter. 1

Folder 163: 1944: Eugene Brooks. 2 letters. Louis Ginsberg. 1 letter Jack Kerouac. 2 letters 5

Folder 164: 1945 Eugene Brooks. 1 letter William1 "Burroughs. 1 letter Jack Kerouac. 5 letters Lionel Trilling. 1 letter 8

Folder 165: 1946 Jack Kerouac. 3 letters 3

Folder 166: 1947 Wilhelm Reich. 1 letter Jack Kerouac 4 letters Louis Ginsberg 2 letters Herbert Huncke 1 letter 8

Folder 167: 1948 Louis Ginsberg 1 letter Jack Kerouac 10 letters Herbert Huncke 1 letter 12

Folder 168: 1949 John Clellon Holmes. 1 letter William Carlos Williams. 1 letter William Burroughs 1 letter. Jack Kerouac 8 letters 11

Folder 169: 1950 Jack Kerouac 11 letters William Carlos Williams 1 letter 46

Wiliam Burroughs 1 letter 13

Folder 170: 1951 Jack Kerouac 2 letters Ezra Pound 1 letter 3

Folder 171: 1952 Jack Kerouac 11 letters William Carlos Williams 4 letters Neal Cassady 1 letter Ezra Pound. 1 letter 17

Folder 172: 1953 Jack Kerouac 7 letters Pres Eisenhower 1 letter Mrs Kerouac 1 letter 9

Folder 173: 1954 Lucien C&aibJetters Jack Kerouac 10 letters Eugene Brooks 1 letter 16

Folder 174: 1955 Robert LaVigne 2 Eugene Brooks 2 letters Jack Kerouac 19 letters Louis Ginsberg 1 letter 24

Folder 175: 1956 Hannah Litzky 1 letter Buba Ginsberg 1 letter Louis Ginsberg 3 letters Eugene Brooks 4 letters Peter Orlovsky 2 letters Robert LaVigne 2 letters Lucien Carr 1 letter Jack Kerouac 3 letters 17

Folder 176: 1957 Robert LaVigne 3 letters Gregory Corso 1 letter Charles Olson 2 letters William Carlos Williams 2 letters Edith Ginsberg 1 letter LeRoi Jones 1 letter 47

John Weiners 1 letter William Burroughs 3 letters Peter Orlovsky 3 letters Eugene Brooks 4 letters Louis Ginsberg 11 letters Jack Kerouac 8 letters Lucien Carr 3 letters Lawrence Ferlinghetti 14 letters 57

Folder 177: 1958 Eugene Brooks 5 letters Lucien Carr 1 letter Gregory Corso 6 letters Lawrence Ferlinghetti 15 letters Louis Ginsberg 8 letters Jack Kerouac 12 letters Robert LaVigne 2 leters Hannah Litzsky 1 letter Ron Lowenstein 2 letters Jack Micheline 1 letter Charles Olson 4 letters Peter Orlovsky 18 letters 75

Folder 178: 1959 Gregory Corso 2 letters San Francisco Chron 1 letter Lawrence Ferlinghetti 15 letters Louis Ginsberg 3 letters Henry Luce 1 letter LeRoi Jones 3 letters Jack Kerouac 9 letters Robert LaVigne 1 letter Ed Marshall 1 letter NY Times 1 letter Charles Olson 3 letters William Carlos Williams 2 letters William Burroughs 2 letters 44

Folder 179: 1960 Jack Kerouac 6 letters Peter Orlovsky 1 letter Lucien Carr 3 letters William Carlos Williams 2 letters William Carlos Williams to Hymen Zimel William Burroughs 3 letters 48

Hannah Litzky 1 letter Eugene Brooks 1 letter Louis Ginsberg 1 letter Gregory Corso 2 letters Lawrence Ferlinghetti 27 letters Neal Cassady 2 letters 50

Folder 180: 1961 Jack Kerouac 2 letters Peter Orlovsky 4 letters Lucien Carr 4 letters Hannah Litzky 2 letters Eugene Brooks 3 letters Louis Ginsberg 7 letters Gregory Corso 4 letters Lawrence Ferlinghetti 30 letters Neal Cassady 1 letters LeRoi Jones 5 letters Howard Shulman 1 letter Ted Wilentz 5 letters Charles Olson 1 letter Diane diPrima 1 letter 71

Folder 181: 1962 Jack Kerouac 11 letters Peter Orlovsky 6 letters Lucien Carr 7 letters Louis Ginsberg 3 letters Gregory Corso 7 letters Lawrence Ferlinghetti 16 letters LeRoi Jones 1 letters Ted Wilentz 3 letters Robert LaVigne 2 letters Henry Wenning 1 letter Joh Kelly 2 letters Paul Bowles 4 letters Wiliam Carlos Williams 1 letter 64

Folder 182: 1963 Ron Rice 1 letter Jack Kerouac 4 letters Peter Orlovsky 26 letters Lucien Carr 3 letters Louis Ginsberg 3 letters Gregory Corso 2 letters 49

Lawrence Ferlinghetti 17 letters Ted Wilentz 3 letters Charles Olson 1 letter Paul Bowles 2 letters John Weinersa 1 letter E. Wilson 1 letter Barry Wallenstein 1 letter 65

Folder 183: 1964 Jack Kerouac 11 letters Lawrence Ferlinghetti 20 letters Charles Olson 2 letter Mr Raman re Hungry Generation 2 letters 35

Folder 184: 1965 Lawrence Ferlinghetti 7 letters Peter Orlovsky 20 letters Lucien Carr 2 letters Ed Sanders 1 letter Charles Olson 3 letters Miles 5 letters Louis Ginsberg 1 letter Gregory Corso 2 letters Ted Wilentz 1 letter Herbert Huncke 1 letter Nicanor Para 1 letter John Willett 1 letter Secty of State MacNamara 1 letter 46

Folder 185: 1966 Livingstone & Schiller 1 letter Roy Cooperman Leavitt and Violi 1 letter Lawrence Ferlinghetti 11 letters Gregory Corso 5 letters Miles 7 letters Lucien Carr 2 letters Ed Sanders 3 letters Charles Olson 1 letter Eugene Brooks 1 letter 32

Folder 186: 1967 Peter Orlovsky 17 letters Eugene Brooks 1 letter Miles 5 letters Lawrence Ferlinghetti 16 letters 50

Gregory Corso 1 letter Richard Helms 1 letter 41

Folder 187: 1968 Mr Joelson 1 letter Lawrence Ferlinghetti 11 letters Charles Olson 1 letter Michael Grant [Hare krishna] 2 letters Shig Mureo 2 letters Miles 8 letters Louis Ginsberg 1 letter 26

Folder 188: 1969 Charles Plymell 3 letters Miles 9 letters Lawrence Ferlinghetti 16 letters To the Legal Community 1 letter 29

Folder 189: 1970 Carloyn Cassady 1 letter Miles 7 letters Lucien Carr 1 letter Louis Ginsberg 1 letter Gregory Corso 1 letter Lawrence Ferlinghetti 17 letters George Dowden 1 letter William Maness 1 letter 30

Folder 190: 1971 To the court 1 letter Miles 8 letters Sue Miles 1 letter Jack Mooney 1 letter 11

Folder 191: 1972 Miles 4 letters George Dowden 1 letter 7 Simon Albury 1 letter

Folder 192: 1973 Arthur & Kit Knight 1 letter Miles 3 letters 5 Jean-Jacques Lebel 3 letters

Folder 193: 1974 51

Open letter on Michael X 1 letter Miles 4 letters 8 Simon Albury 1 letter Jean-Jacques lebel 3 letters

Folder 194: 1975 Miles 2 letters Gregory Corso 2 letters 2 Simon Albury 1 letter

Folder 195: 1976 Eugene Brooks 3 letters Gregory Corso 4 letters Miles 2 letters 28 Jean-Jacques Lebel 1 letter Antler 1 letter Ned Roram 1 letter David Cope 26 letters [filed together]

Folder 196: 1977 Eugene Brooks 1 letter Miles 1 letter 2 Gregory Corso 2 letters Simon Albury 1 letter

Folder 197: 1978 Simon Vinkenoog - cable Bob LaVigne 1 letter Bruce Richer 1 letter Jonathan Robbins 1 letter 4

Folder 198: 1979 Miles 7 letters Simon Albury 1 letter 24 Jann Wenner 1 letter Bob LaVigne 1 letter Simon Albury 1 letter Jean-Jacques Lebel 2 letters Gregory Corso 3 letters Jonathan Robbins 1 letter

Folder 199: 1980 Miles 2 letters 8 Robert LaVigne 1 letter David Ellis 1 letter 52

Gregory Corso 2 letters

Folder 200: 1981 Miles 4 letters 14 Jean-Jacques Lebel 2 letters Harry Lewis 1 letter Ann Charters 1 letter Bob LaVigne 2 letters Time Mag 1 letter

Folder 201: 1982 Miles 2 letters 9 Ann Charters 1 letter Bob LaVigne 3 letters Eliot Katz 1 letter Felix Gueltari 1 letter Eugene Brooks 1 letter

Folder 202: 1983 Eugene Brooks 1 letter Miles 3 letters Lewis Hyde 1 letter Jean-Jacques Lebel 4 letters 17

Folder 203: 1984 Miles 2 letters Lewis Hyde 1 letter Bob LaVigne 4 letters Simon Albury 1 letter Gerard Malanga 1 letter 9

Folder 204: Ij885 Miles 1 letter Bob LaVigne 1 letter Eliot Katz 1 letter Jim Cohn 1 letter 8

Folder 205: 1986 Miles 1 letter Ned Roram 1 letter Fred Jordan 1 letter Ferlinghetti 1 letter 4

Folder 206: 1987 Miles 4 letters 53

Bob LaVigne 1 letter 5

Folder 207: 1988 Ned Rorem 1 letter Eliot Katz 1 letter Alan Bisbort 2 letters John Reynolds 1 letter Bob LaVigne 1 letter Miles 4 letters 10

Folder 208: 1989 Bob LaVigne 1 Gerard Malanga 1 letter PEN 1 letter Eliot Katz 1 letter Jean-Jacques Lebel 2 letters Andrew Wylie 1 letter Miles 8 letters 55

Folder 209: 1990 Gerard Malanga 2 letters Peter Money 1 letter Jean-Jacques Lebel 2 letters Miles 5 letters 77

Folder 210: 1991 Jean-Jacques Lebel 4 letters Peter Money 2 letters Gvr Florio 1 letter Miles 2 letters [+2Op enclosure] 30

Folder 211: 1992 Peter Money 1 letter Miles 2 letters [+ 22p enclosures] 27

Folder 212: 1993 Jim Cohn 2 letters Eliot Katz 1 letter Alan Tobine 1 letter Bob Lavigne 1 letter Wesley College 1 letter Miles 3 letters [+ 13p enclosures] 19

Folder 213: 1994 Peter Money 1 letter 54

Miles 5 letters 11

Folder 214: 1995 Alan Tobias 2 letters Michael Hartnett 1 letter Jean-Jacques Lebel 1 letter [Miles] 12 p enclosures sent by AG office. 17

Folder 215: 1996 [Miles] 3 enclosures 3

Number letters in this section, approx. 903. [925 including folder 158] but many have been added so real number probably close to 1000 [number of pages approx. 1325, plus approx. 135 extra pages, so real number approx. 1460]

Continuation of the year-by-year folders picking up after folder 118 for 1988.

Annual Folder 216: 1989 "Buddhists in US Agonize on AIDS issue." NYT Beat Rap: AG and Gregory Corso in discussion. 4p

5 pages total this folder

Annual Folder 217: 1990 South Korean journals 39p. "Ginsberg: Apres-midi avec un faune." 3p UK tour schedule. 5pp "40 Years On and Still AG" lp Naropa Instutute 1990 catalog. Pompidou Centre lecture [in French] 2pp "His Howl Turns Into A Song." NY Post "Personal Ad" from Long Shot Mag. lp

"G Howls over plans to ban on air indecency." NY Post, lp

53 pages total this folder

Annual Folder 218: 1991 empty

Annual Folder 219: 1992 AG interview in Details. 2p AG definition of humanism, lp Intro to the Life of the Theatre by Judith Malina. AG and Julian Beck. 55

Also note by AG. 2p 6 "Verse & Worse" Times

6 pages total this folder

Annual Folder 220: 1993 AG European trip: Interview Herald Trib. lp Review: Guardian, 2pp Kerouac review, Independent, lp Programme for the Cheltenham Festival of Literature. ALs to Miles ALs to AG from Miles Itinerary and cover letter from AG office. 5p Miles to AG office, lp Review in Guardian, lp j^ ALg plus two scrap notes by AG 3p Photocopies of faxes between AG and his NYC office throughout early part of tour: 39p

56 pages total this folder

Annual Folder 221: 1994 "AG Millionaire?" lp

1 page this folder

Annual Folder 222: 1995 NYT "endpaper" lp Guardian Kerouac review lp An lp 4 Kerouac estate lp

4 pages this folder

Annual Folder 223: 1996 "How AG Thinks His Thoughts" NYT 2p 2 reviews NYT 2p Kerouac estate. Guardian lp An lp Kerouac. Arena mag 3p

8 pages total this folder

Annual Folder 224: 1997 56

Interview w/Harvey Kubernik 23p Melville & Kerouac NYT 2p NYT review lp Lowell Mass, Herald Trib lp Anton Rosenberg obits 2p "G on Life's Skeletons" 2p "Beats He" 3p TLs Miles from Kubernik. lp

34 pages total this folder

Folder 225: Obits. Spin July 3p Realist 4p Telegraph lp Guardian lp Village Voice 7p Observer lp Times lp Independentlp Sunday Times lp Financial Times lp Herald Trib lp Sunday Telegraph Herald Trib NY Post 2p New Yorker 3p Independent Jewish Chronicle New Statesman Newsweek Publishing News Economist Rolling Stone NY Post Independent Tribute flyer Optic Nerve press release TV doc. Wall St Journal assorted others 6p Official biog - 1 Op Poetry Project Newsletter 3p Small Press Newsletter 61

61 pages total this folder 57

[Folder 226] Notes taken at Stanford Oct 1999

[Folder 227] AG Spoken Work Re. his recordings, 1971-1993

[Folder 228] AG Archive Sale Various lists & invoices

First edition of the biography with Allen Ginsberg's annotations & signed by him

Box 32 "Annotated Howl" ed. by Barry Miles. Xerox copies of various text & notes, ca. 1986.

Ginsberg: a biography. Proofs of English edition in 2000 by Virgin Publishing Ltd., with corrections

Box 33 & 34 Audio tape cassettes Tape recordings of interviews with Allen Ginsberg & his associates as enumerated in Folders 51 & 52, & on pages 8 to 13 of this list

Box 33: Tapes A - Z & Tapes 59/13 to 82/74 (91 cassettes)

Box 34: Tapes 82/75 to 9... (75 cassettes)