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WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS PAPERS
SPEC.CMS.40

INTR0DUCTI0N

This collection of materials, originally gathered by James W. Grauerholz, William S. Burroughs' assistant and editor, includes drafts and editorial materials for many of WSB's publications; copies of many of WSB's publications; other WSB texts and notes; correspondence, fan mail, clippings and printed matter received from the mid-1970's to the mid-1980's; books and magazines received or acquired during the same period; Burroughs Communications business, travel, and tour files from that period; and much other material.

In addition to providing source material for the study of WSB's life and works, this collection provides a wealth of information about the avant-garde literary, art, and music worlds of the 1970's and 1980's, primarily in North America, but also in Europe and elsewhere. There is abundant correspondence, manuscript, and published material from a wide variety of writers and other artists, both contemporaries of WSB and younger artists and writers. Many of the latter are also represented in OSU's Avant Writing Collection.

Among the highlights of this collection are drafts, MSS, and editorial materials for the following WSB or other publications: Letters to Allen Ginsberg, Cities of the Red Night,Cobble Stone Gardens, Ah Pook is Here, The Third Mind,Blade Runner, The Book of Breeething, Early Routines,Port of Saints, Junky [Junkie], The Place of Dead Roads, and Allen Ginsberg's Journals. Other highlights include several notebooks of Brion Gysin's; many WSB cut-up texts; correspondence and documentation regarding The Nova Convention; transcripts of WSB's 1974 CCNY lectures; tape recordings; and correspondence with Alan Ansen, Brion Gysin, Charles Henri Ford, John Giorno, Harold Norse, Allen Ginsberg, Steve Lacy, Paul Bowles, and many others.

It should be noted that not all material on a given topic is necessarily in the same box; for example, files pertaining to the novel Cities of the Red Night are scattered throughout this collection. Further material on any given topic may also be found in other WSB collections in the OSU Libraries.

Throughout this guide, "WSB" refers to William S. Burroughs, "JG" refers to James W. Grauerholz, and "WSB, Jr." refers to William S. Burroughs, Jr. Folders preceded by an asterisk [*] are in oversize boxes.

Provenance note:

This collection was acquired by OSU in 1988. This guide was compiled by Jane Falk in 1998.

John M. Bennett, October 1999


WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS PAPERS -

CATALOGUE OF INVENTORY, OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY


(Note that these folder descriptions coordinate with the boxes and folders listed on Ohio State's "Preliminary Inventory" of the Burroughs Collection, as of June 1998.)

Detailed Listing/ Box and Folder Listing:

    Box 1

    Folder Number #1-5

  1. Note: This box contains manuscript stages for Letters to Allen Ginsberg 1953-57, Claude Givaudan edition. Photocopies of letters in holograph and typescript from 12/21/53-8/28/57; letters make up draft of book, Letters to Allen Ginsberg 1953-57; manila envelope in file inscribed, "W.S.B. letters from Richard Aaron's Collection (Rec'd 9 Feb 77)"; pp numbered on reverse in pencil, 1 - 201; some notations.


  2. Typed transcripts of Letters to Allen Ginsberg in brown envelope, inscribed, "Transcripts WSB-AG. Letters (tr. by Richard Aaron, prop)" postmarked, 1 Feb 77; some corrections and additions in pen, probably JG's hand; some additional notes and queries typed and signed "ra"; numbered in pencil on reverse, 1-191


  3. Letters to Allen Ginsberg in red binder, "record copy corrected transcription;" on outside, June 14, 1977 stamped on manila fly leaf, "record copy with editing by JWG;" includes typescript introduction, 5 pages, "UN HOMMES DES LETTRES. UNE POEME MODERNE." and xerox of record copy heavily edited and corrected; 12/21/53 - 8/28/57; 187 pp (a stage of revised proof).


  4. Letters to Allen Ginsberg in black binders: Claude Givaudan edition, inscribed, "proofs, Claude Givaudan edition/Volume One," pp numbered 8-212 (even numbers only) 12/21/53-4/20/55; Volume two proofs, pp numbered 214-428 (even numbers only) 5/17/55-8/28/57; changes and corrections in pencil, probably JG's hand.


  5. Letters to Allen Ginsberg in manila envelope; galleys in English (8-428) and French (9-429); Claude Givaudan proofs; dated 24 May 79 (note: these are in same state as Folder 4, but without pencil corrections); this book published in English and bilingual French/English editions, 500 copies each by Editions Claude Givaudan, Am Here Books, Geneva, May 1978 with translation by J. Chopin and script corrected by James Grauerholz



Box 2

Folder Number #6-10

  1. Contains about 70 letters/documents, dated 10/73-7/80, related primarily to Claude Givaudan publication of Letters to Ginsberg (LtoAG); four letters, 9-10/80 re "Mediums" magazine project; letters also re scrapbook project; Junky, Retreat Diaries, Cities of The Red Night, Port of the Saints, The Fire, The Job, Wild Boys; letter of interest from 6/17/77 re archive sale by Richard Aaron and 7/17/77 includes ms of "Un Homme des Lettres. Une Poeme Moderne" with ts draft corrected by WSB re archive sale; 8/3/79 to JG discusses photograph and scrapbook gallery show, Geneva (Note: unless specified letters from WSB or JG are carbons and letters to WSB are usually ts/auto.)


  2. About 82 letters dated 2/6/74-4/28/76 primarily soliciting a piece of writing, interview, or advice from WSB or about WSB projects; about 30 responses by WSB or JG; specific works mentioned include: Nova Express, Electronic Revolution, The Exterminator, Ah Puch is Here, Last Words of Dutch Schltz, Wild Boys, White Subway, Naked Lunch, Port of Saints, Third Mind ; publications include: Gay Sunshine, Playboy, High Times, Esquire, Gasolin 23, Creem, Berkeley Barb, Soft Need.


  3. About 82 letters from 5/24/76-10/20/78 to WSB with about 32 responses by WSB/JG; primarily requests for ms. from ROOF, PRETEXTOS, CHIC, LOOK QUICK, MINUIT, SHELL #2, DECADE, THE GAY LIBERATION BOOK, JOURNAL FOR THE PROTECTION OF ALL BEINGS, BOSS, OXYMORON, WISCONSIN REVIEW, PEARL, BLUE RIDGE REVIEW, GRINNING IDIOT; of interest is letter from 11/6/76 from JG re WSB's of films


  4. About 126 pieces of correspondence from 4/5/74-11/6/79 primarily between WSB and agent Peter Matson (PM) regarding misc. publications in English and foreign languages and film projects of WSB including- Nova Express, Exterminator, Third Mind, Last Words of Dutch Schultz, Naked Lunch, Electronic Revolution, Ah Puch, Port of Saints, Collected Letters, Cities of the Red Night, The Critical Essays, Junkie, Cobblestone Gardens, Retreat Diaries, Junk Subway, White Subway, Wild Boys, Yage Letters, Prakriti Junction, Ticket That Exploded, The Job, Blade Runner, Book of Breething, Letters to AG , as well as various WSB shorter pieces in High Times, Crawdaddy, Rolling Stone , as well as adaptation of WSB's Wild Boys for the stage.


  5. Contains letters primarily to WSB requesting ms, photos, or information on apomorphine, dated 11/28/73-8/20/74 with the exception of one Christmas card dated 1967. Out of these: 71 are not responded to by WSB, 23 letters have WSB responses (15 in number), and 6 letters refer to specific publication/published interviews of WSB; of particular interest is 3/11/74 response to Dave Stone re Awareness Institute for Humanity and CCNY course on the technology of writing; 4/5/74 WSB declines to do a piece for the REALIST re Patty Hearst's brainwashing; and n.d. WSB response to Peter Crowley re Organs Ray Gun, THE JOB, and apomorphine; 5/21/74 request from Michael Horowitz for Tim Leary piece and encl. Leary interview SF Phoenix 5/20/74.



Box 3

Folder Number #11-20

  1. 15 misc. letters to WSB from 3-9/74; about 95 pieces of ephemera (flyers, brochures, etc.) including 8 items directly pertaining to WSB (catalogues, newsletter, flyer, newsclipping, etc.) all ca. 1974. In addition, xeroxed excerpts from four books: K.P. Platonov , The Word as a Physiological Therapeutic Factor, Erich Newmann,Origin of Consciousness Author unknown, Aliens from Space and Artaud Anthology and two newspaper articles: "The Amazing Children who Baffle Science," "See lab-created virus as perilous." Of interest: Coach House Press Newsletter, July 1974, with photos of WSB at reading, May 11; The Poetry Project Newsletter 3/1/75 with WSB on Nixon; Art Metropole Catalogue #1, ca. 10/74 lists WSB videotape, "William Burroughs at A Space"; GASOLIN 23 #3 9/74- Frankfurt am Main, William Burroughs, "Die Foto-Falle"; PLAYBOY Interview - Anthony Burgess, 9/74 - mentions WSB Naked Lunch.


  2. Contains misc. ephemera including anonymous manuscripts (20 pages) and flyers, newsclippings, broadside, drawings, and five letters with no WSB responses, ca. 1974. Of interest: 3/11/74, "Black Holes Proposed as Fuel Source," Int'l. Herald Tribune; 7/13 xerox of newsclipping, "Last Picture Show Dillinger Went to Closes"; 10/29/74,A. Balch-Tom Luddy (xerox) re: screening of WSB's Towers Open Fire, The Cut Ups, two experiemental rolls; New Year 1975, Diane di Prima broadside, "12 Wishes for Any Season"; Ira Cohen, Angus Maclise flyer from Kathmandu. Anonymous manuscripts include:undated holograph ms by S.R. Buzzurro: "Illegal Aliens," "Decoy taxi," "Dental Records," "Breaking and Entering," "Italics," Untitled, "decoded ode to inspector lee," "Perish the Thoughts," "Bitter Almonds," "Italics," Untitled, "Coppers don't have imagination," "Silent Dictators," "Tibetan dead letter," "Ray in Sun Glasses," "Spray Paint," (8 pages); anonymous undated ms, "Improvisation on Mallarme #1,#2" (1 page); undated ms, untitled by Bob Bryant. (10 pages)


  3. Contains misc. items, from 9/74-1/75: 11 letters requiring no response; items re Plan K (17 pages with 6 photographs); flyers; notes (one holograph with Ezra Pound quotation); 13 letters requesting WSB ms or appearance; Of interest is 11/29/74 letter re Plan K request to stage WSB work; 1/5/75 letter from Tim Wyatt re Hamis Robertson thesis on WSB


  4. Contains about 16 letters with no WSB response (two re Libraire Flammarion WSB publications) from 1/23/74-10/8/74, folder titled "letters answered or letters that require no answer". Of interest: 3/11/74, Gerard Lemaire - WSB-Paris; re: publication of WSB trilogy by Libraire Flammarion - Minutes To Go, Let the Mice In, The Third Mind; PARIS REVIEW #35, ROLLING STONE #108.


  5. Contains about 20 misc. letters and 25 letters from WSB from 3/4/74-2/17/75: some fan letters and requests for WSB to read ms., personal and business letters from WSB (rent, electricity bills, etc.). Of interest: several letters from Charles Henri Ford, one with poem to WSB (4/11 and 5/6/74); one response to a fan re magic and LSD from 3/4/74; 1/23/75 WSB-Scott Davey re Domaine Poetique, France - echoes and concrete sound in poetry, 1/25/75 WSB-Leroi Jones-NY re Jean Genet; 1/28/75 holograph from Frankie Edith Parker-WSB-Detroit re article on FEP and Kerouac in Detroit Free Press; encl: "Jack Kerouac: Off the Road in Grosse Point" and response WSB re Kerouac, Ginsberg, Hunke.


  6. Contains lists of addresses and phone numbers (about 10 pages); note on The Chinese Written Character As a Medium for Poetry.


  7. Contains Christmas cards and invitations from 1975-1977.


  8. "Messages given me at West Coast readings, answered" noted on folder which contains 2 letters from 11/13/74 David Hechler-WSB-CA with encl Hechler ms and response from WSB re HIROSHIMA MON AMOUR and Horizontal Plot-vertical Flash backs and letter from Zoron Heierhenry-WSB-SF re Self-Determinism Services with response from WSB re Scientology.


  9. "Letters for WSB to answer" noted on folder which contains about 12 misc. letters from 5/l/75-12/29/75, fan mail, etc. with 2 letters on WSB projects; of interest: 10/7/75 Ira Cohen-WSB-Kathmandhu re 7 MARVELS, Angus MacLise's SUBLIMINAL REPORT, WSB Magic Incantation piece; 12/10/75 Bob Wilson-WSB-Berkeley re Meta-phase Typewriter, Carl Sagan, ILLUMINATUS; 1/17/75 Peter Knobler-WSB-NY re WSB interview with Stanley Kubrick; 11/20/75 Henri Chopin-WSB-Essex re Chopin's book on sound poetry of the world; request WSB statement.


  10. Contains about 15 misc. letters from 1/6/74-7/2/75, some with enclosed ms., with no responses by WSB and includes other ephemera; of interest: 1/1/75 Bernard Heidsieck-WSB-Paris re 2 records by BH, "Obsolete, Trois biopsies and passe-partout" and "Partition V"; 1/6/74 Udo Breger-WSB-Gottingen; re NAKED SCIENTOLOGY and SOFT NEED #9 magazines; 7/27/75 holograph Richard Seaver-WSB-NY re ad for LAST WORDS OF DUTCH SCHULTZ with encl ad copy .



Box 4

Folder Number #21-28

  1. Contains about 30 letters to WSB from 12/74-7/75 including fan mail, requests for autographs, information about apomorphine, and requests for WSB to read ms. with 18 responses from WSB several of which are of interest; about 10 misc. letter from WSB (to VILLAGE VOICE, Blue Cross, Moscowitz re apartment, etc.); of interest: 12/28/74 Bob Wilson-WSB-Berkeley re Starseed and end. re Timothy Leary with response WSB re Starseed-proposal to freeze people; 12/21/74 Samuel Lerner-WSB-Houston re morphine, dreamachine and response WSB re drug cure, dream machine; 6/25/74 Robert Yarra-WSB-NY re Beats, Yarra ms and response WSB re Why I Am a Writer, Murder of Joan, Writing; 2/8/75 Greg-WSB and response WSB re Magical Warfare; 1/29, 4/4/75 Martin Horan-WSB-Scotland re MH's encl. ms and response WSB re WSB Quotes Pound and Cut-up Method.


  2. Contains about 60 misc. letters most dating from 1/11/75-11/8/75 with ephemera (flyers for poetry readings, gallery openings, form letters,etc.) and requests for info about apomorphine; interesting letters from WSB re Scientology, but relatively few WSB responses; of interest: 2/24/75 Charley & Pam Plymell-WSB-NY re Rusty Jack, Kali Yug ms., COLD SPRING #5 & 6 and 3/75 C. Plymell-JG-Cherry Valley, NY re JG m. in CS #7; 11/2/73 ts auto WSB-Bill Burroughs, Jr.-London re authoritarianism as colonial syndrome; programming through opposites; 5/13/75 John Giorno-WSB-Kathmandu re Tibetan Buddhism; 7/25/ holograph Ira Cohen-WSB-Paris re B. Gysin; 8/9/75 Bob Wilson-WSB-Berkeley re ESP with encl: Bavarian Illuminati flyers, BERKELEY BARB article, "Hefner vs. the Narcs," Gnostic article, "Founding Fathers, and "How to Blend with Faerie Land and Survive"; 7/8/75 John Brooks-WSB-Oshkosh re significance of 1910 for WSB-Kerouac and response WSB re 1910 ephemera: flyer for CONFESSIONS OF A CRAP ARTIST by Philip K. Dick, JG balance sheet of personal finances, lists of phone numbers, ToDo list, ms requests WSB, gallery opening, NY taxes, form letters, National Union of Journalists Harper's Wraparound, 3 rice paper prints from Kathmandu, Cummington Community of Arts.


  3. Contains about 44 letters and misc. correspondence from 1975 with 25 WSB responses; includes Robert Anton Wilson's (Bob Wilson) THE STARSEED SEQUELS ms and WSB response and some interesting WSB responses re Scientology, UFO's: 1/11/75 Dr. Brite-WSB-Vancouver re LET THE MICE IN, WSB image from Vogue and response WSB; n.d. Nancy Harris-WSB-New Orleans re THE EXTRATERRESTRIALS, The Process News, WSB's work as literature of silence and response WSB re Billie Alonzo, I Ride a White Horse Against UFOS, The Process News now called The City Moon (JG's publication); 4/17/75 Eugene Vazzara-WSB-NY re encl of Harry Polkinhorn's dissertation abstract - William Burroughs in the Radical Tradition and response WSB; 7/14/75 Roland Masso-WSB-San Clemente re orgone accumulator and response WSB re orgone accumulators, Neal Cassady; 3/17/75 Terry Dorn-WSB-Aptos, CA re THE JOB and Scientology and encl TD ms.with response WSB re Scientology and changes to THE JOB; Hubbard's engram theory; TD's ms. "come close to 'reading itself'"; 8/1/75 Campbell Dalglish-WSB-Conifer,C0 re esp experiences and response WSB re how to project the self to a place with encl photo of WSB's apt. in NY; 5/19/75 Robert Anton Wilson-WSB-Berkeley re ms. of THE STARSEED SEQUELS (ms encl) and response WSB re no such thing as coincidence; believes in extraterrestrial intervention.


  4. Contains misc. ephemera; Christmas cards; solicitation letters from 11/12/75; of interest: 12/12/75 2 postcards from Charles Henri Ford-WSB re Conversations with Harold Hudson Channer and note that WSB interview taped 11/22/75; 11/26/75 James Michener-WSB-DC re Invitation to Join National Society of Literature and the Arts; copy of STEREO HEADPHONES Summer 1974 #6 with article by Nicholas Zurbrugg, "The Treated Text" .


  5. Contains misc. ephemera and correspondence (personal, Christmas cards, etc.) from 11/12/75; WSB xerox ts ms with holograph comments by JG and WSB, "Ah Pook is Here" for reading with slide presentation; Maurice Girodias xerox ts ms, "Communion of all the Suns"; article sent to WSB 12/23/75 on WSB from LIBRE OPINION p. 46, "trois tartines de l.s.d.!" and review of P. Mikriammos, WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS and EXTERMINATEUR by WSB; xerox from EROTICA JUDAICA, "The Omnipotent Phallus"; xerox of "Technique for Switching Channels," author unknown; 11/27/75 telegram Frederic Flamand-WSB-Brussels re The Penny Arcade Peepshow-Geneva and Daily News article, "38 Dismissed from Jobs in Addict Agency" of 9/25/75


  6. Contains misc. correspondence, mostly fan mail 10/11/75-12/75; ephemera of poetry reading announcements, gallery openings, etc. magazine clipping sent by Ian Sommerville, "Differential drug response based on brain transmitters" from NEW SCIENTIST 10/16/75; Ray Johnson collage; of interest: 12/75 Allen Ginsberg-WSB and encl Rolling Thunder Review movie xerox (7 pages); 11/20/75 Charles Henri Ford-WSB re CHF exhibition; 10/13/75 Gordon Ball-WSB re excerpt from Allen Ginsberg's Journals, "The Dream of Tibet," and encl 1 page carbon ts


  7. Contains misc. correspondence from 10/3/75-6/8/76; about 25 WSB letters or responses; 7 letters from Charles Henri Ford; statements by WSB on Buddhism and bibliographic information as well as ephemera; of interest: 12/15/75 Martin Fischer-WSB-Frankfurt and response WSB re WSB's booklets, "The Literary Techniques of Lady Sutton-Smith" (TLS 6/aug/64 3258: 682-683); "Time" (C Press); "APO-33" (Beach Books); "Call me Burroughs" (ESP disk); 1/12/76 WSB-William Levy-NY re request for a copy of CERTAIN RADIO SPEECHES OF EZRA POUND; 1/30/76 WSB-Lyla Kramer-NY re copy of transcript of Chogyam Trungpa's talk on "The Meaning of Death" ; 1/30/76 Stanley Kubrick-WSB-England re refuses WSB interview re "Barry Lyndon" and response WSB re interview and BARRY LYNDON as time travel; 2/2/76 Angel-WSB-Berkeley re tape recorders and THE JOB and response WSB re tape recorders and video; 1/76 Michael Ondaatje-WSB-Toronto re THE COLLECTED WORKS OF BILLY THE KID and response WSB re BG and WSB like book; 3/8/76 WSB-Gregg Serrautl-NY re request for QUEER ms - WSB considers it "pretty amateurish"; 3/10/76 C. Bradbury Robinson-WSB-Bristol re Visit, Buddhism and response WSB re Buddhism; 3/4 & 3/19/76 Michael Reynolds-WSB-Berkeley re WSB's film piece in BERKELEY BARB, reprint of CRAWDADDY article on legalizing heroin and response WSB; 4/20/76 WSB-Suzy McKee Charmes-NY re appreciation of her scifi book Walk to The End of The World; 5/12/76 holograph Charles Henri Ford-WSB-NY re Photo-Portrait Show and response WSB re Similar Projection Show by BG and Ian S. in Paris 1957; 6/8/76 John Brooks-WSB-Oshkosh re Request permission to quote WSB re Symbolic dates in article on Kerouac with encl 2 pages from ms and response WSB re dates and significance of number 23; 4/30/76 Hamri-WSB-LA re request WSB statement re his paintings and response WSB statement (1 p); 1/22/76 holograph Michael Pierce-WSB-Bogota re New World, Jaquar demon and encl newsclipping, "Un norteamericano rebelde," by Carmen Olle and response WSB; 2/12/75 Bob Wilson-WSB-Berkeley re Immortalism. and WSB's THE JOB; God; Tape Recorder #3 and response WSB.


  8. Contains typed and holographed messages from 5/26/76-6/26/77, probably from JG to WSB, mainly re requests for WSB ms from ROLLING STONE, HIGH TIMES, NY TIMES BOOK REVIEW, CRAWDADDY, play of NAKED LUNCH.



Box 5

Folder Number #29-31

  1. Contains misc. correspondence, fan mail from 6/26/76-7/9/77 with about 15 responses from WSB, several of interest re Buddhism and right-wing cults; one letter includes cutup section; of interest: 9/22/76 telegram David Stone-WSB-NY re BG's work - Connection with Pace Gallery and brochure re: "Hamri, the Painter of Morocco" opening 10/18/76 with statement by WSB and BG; 10/12/76 Michael Reynolds-WSB-St. Augustine re WSB; Buddhism and Naropa and mentions WSB column in CRAWDADDY re this subject; 8/25/76 Isaac Bonewits-WSB-Berkeley re "The Nova Investigation " research project and encl form letter re project and response WSB re Bonewits' book REAL MAGIC, as valuable book for WSB who referenced it in CRAWDADDY column; also right-wing cults; 12/23/76 & l/18/77 Henri Chopin-WSB-Paris re HC's book on sound poetry in the world with chapter about WSB cut-ups and text; 1/3/77 holograph Alan Ansen-WSB-Athens re teaching, writing, W.H. Auden and encl AA's "Guarding the Guardians" (4 page ms) with response WSB including cut-up of draft of response to AA; 3/28/77 Jim Pennington-WSB-London re Michael Goodman's bibliography (items missing from it) Mayfair articles and "Proclaim Present Time Over" from Award Avant Garde reader.


  2. Contains misc. letters, ephemera from 3/22/77-9/4/77 (many pieces re St. Mark's Church) with number of references to requests for WSB interviews; letters from Charles Henri Ford and Alan Ansen; interesting WSB responses re nuclear disarmament and Mottram book; photos of WSB and children at Naropa Institute; of interest: 4/19/77 Robin Parsons-WSB re WSB interview in IRREGARDLESS magazine, Chapel Hill and refers to WSB piece in Spring CO EVOLUTION QUARTERLY; 9/2, 12/17/76 & 4/2/77 Christopher Bradbury Robinson-WSB and encl newspaper review of Eric Mottram's ALGEBRA OF NEED with response WSB re Mottram book; WSB working on film script for JUNKY; 3/22/77 Alan Ansen-WSB-Athens re response to Mottram book; AA's ideas about WSB and response WSB refers to "The Unfortunate Traveller"; 7/9/77 Michael Herr-WSB re encl DISPATCHES; Herr admires WSB and response WSB re Blurb for DISPATCHES and WSB's appreciation; 7/20/77 WSB-Walter Miale re his position re Nuclear weapons and unilateral disarmament - OK to use WSB's name for Mobiliation for Survival letterhead; 7/2/77 Robert MacLean-WSB-Montreal re Phd dissertation which includes WSB, NAKED LUNCH and philosophy of empiricism - Wittgenstein; 4/29/77 Gregory McNeil-WSB-Marion,IL re request copy of JUNKY for Black Cultures Society in prison; WSB sends 2 copies.


  3. Contains misc. letters, ephemera, solicitations for interviews or ms from 4/8/77-1/4/78; WSB response re writing and Raymond Chandler; interview in French between Maurice Girodias and Brion Gysin with references to a number of WSB articles; of interest: 11/25/77 Guta Cattori-WSB-SF re WSB's article "Heroin Maintenance" in the NEW TIMES of November 11, 1977; 10/25/77 Jon Windham-WSB-Alabama re fan letter, mentions WSB piece in ARCADE and response WSB re Raymond Chandler and profession of writing; 9/14/77 Millicent Dillon-WSB-Palo Alto re possible interview with WSB re Jane Bowles; 9/22/77 Charles Stein-WSB-NY re has WSB's poem, "The Green Nun" been published and how to find SPEED and response JG re poem found in EXTERMINATOR; SPEED in print from Sphere Books, England



Box 6

Folder Number #32-32

  1. Contains misc. correspondence, ephemera from 12/77-8/78; misc. ms: WSB 2 pp ms of blurb for NECRONOMICON and 1 p blurb for OUI Sept 78 re question, "What are you angry about?" and WSB response, FDA keeping new drugs off the market; several responses by WSB re Buddhism, CIA, WSB and Joseph Conrad; of interest 12/9/77 Bruce Piersawl-WSB-NY re possible interest in Random House publication of QUEER and response JG re WSB prefers QUEER not be published now; too sentimental; 12/2/77 Charles Upton-WSB re connection of CIA and Scientology, Tibetan Buddhism with encl of 6 questions for Allen Ginsberg re the Politics of Trungpa's Buddhism; response WSB (2 drafts) re Tibetan Buddhism, spiritual leaders, WSB's lack of interest in Buddhism, CIA, problems with individuality; 1/25/78 Maurice Girodias-WSB-Boston re questions MG poses to WSB re MG autobiography and response WSB re what use of answering questions - so many interviews; WSB and Joseph Conrad; refers to article on women he wrote for March PLAYGIRL; WBAI interview with WSB, MG; 2/22/78 John Tytell-WSB-NY re encl tape of the Burroughs symposium at MLA annual meeting - Tytell, Thomas Parkinson, Michael Goodman; 12/27/77 Antony Balch-WSB-London and response WSB re letters of Ian Sommerville; WSB in England late June for Newcastle Literary Festival; 2/16,3/21/78 Nancy Morgan-WSB-CA and response WSB re Conrad's AN OUTCAST OF THE ISLANDS and UNDER WESTERN EYES; Denton Welch; cloning; 7/3/78 WSB-Christian Bourgeois-Boulder re ESSAYS to CB; 8/26/78 JG-Anthony Naso re biography of WSB in French LA VIE ET OEUVRE by Philippe Mikriammos and Mottram book, ALGEBRA OF NEED



Box 7

Folder Number #33-37

  1. Contains misc. correspondence from 10/30/78-5/l/79 to WSB (fan mail and solicitations) with few responses; ephemera; of interest: 10/30/78 Christine Reichhold-WSB-Germany re her proposal to write a thesis on WSB's narration and response WSB; announcement of WSB exhibition of ms, photos at Galerie Pierre Belfond, 2/14/79


  2. Contains misc. correspondence from 5/28/78-12/78 with several interesting responses WSB (about 8 WSB responses in all); WSB ms of 1 p, "Sex Magic," from work in progress, "The Gay Gun" in letter to John Hopkins, 10/17/78 and possible text to be cut-up; of interest: 6/5/78 JG-Grahame White-NY re GW's essays on WSB,"W.B. Tel Quel" and "Picaresque Transfigurations"; 8/9/78 Michael Solon-WSB-NY re survey on writer's block and response WSB re never experienced writer's block; most important observation by Joseph Conrad, esp. intro to UNDER WESTERN EYES of writer's block; 8/10/78 Christopher Robinson-WSB-England mentions TLS articles on WSB and Allen Ginsberg and WSB response; 7/3/78 holograph Terry Wi1son-WSB-Sweden and response WSB re Savoy Books asks WSB to do Intro for Wilson's PLANET R-101; interview with BG-WSB will do; 7/24/78 Gary Lee-Nova-WSB-Vancouver re connection between "artist" and criminal activity; response WSB re origin from WW1-army; 9/4/78 holograph C. Wilson-WSB-Boston re similarity of world of medicine to world of NAKED LUNCH and response WSB: "Science pure Science I Always say"; n.d. Victor Bockris-WSB-NY re encl copy of PIC and response WSB re image VB sent will go in his scrap book, mentions Denton Welch and interest in out-of-print good books or seldom read; n.d. postcard Gerard Malanga-WSB-NY with poem


  3. Contains misc. correspondence from 4/15/79-7/27/79; mostly fan mail; several interesting WSB responses re cut-up technique, J.G. Ballard; xerox of Paul Bowles interview by Stephen Davis received 6/28/79; of interest: 5/18/79 Serge Brumberg-WSB-Paris re criticism of WSB by Sollers and TEL QUEL and response JG refers to clipping collection from the Nova Convention; newsclippings: THE VILLAGE VOICE, June 11, 1979, "Harrisburg, The Aftermath,"; copy of 21ST CENTURY NO NUCLEAR WASTES EXPRESS, Vol 1, Issue, Spring 1979; n.d. holograph David Lewis-WSB-San Jose re WSB-cut-up technique and response WSB discusses technique; 4/15/79 holograph Michael Gentile-Baltimore and response WSB re endorphin and J.G. Ballard; n.d. WSB-Charles Beadles-NY re Fitzgerald, GREAT GATSBY and Hemingway, "Snows of Kilimanjaro"; 7/9/79 xerox of VILLAGE VOICE review by Regina Weinreich of GENESIS ANGELS: THE SAGA OF LEW WELCH AND THE BEAT GENERATION by Aram Saroyan; 5/26/79 postcard Ed Woods-WSB-Amsterdam re WSB cut-up pastiche in CRIPPLED WARLORDS poetry special; 7/8/79 JG-Ralph Sipper-Lawrence re Richard Aaron sold copies of Early Routines to you and WSB needs photocopies for use in new work with response: sold Early Routines to Bradford Morrow; also mentions Jack Black, YOU CAN'T WIN a significant book for WSB; 6/26/79 Cris Reichhold-WSB-West Germany re article in LE MONDE with interview by Pierre Dommergues; French thesis on WSB by Ms. N. Batt ("L'ecriture de WB); book by S. Greenberg.


  4. Contain misc. correspondence, primarily fan mail and personal mail from 3/13/79-11/1/79; three photos of WSB; of interest: 8/79 holograph Terry Wilson-WSB-London re Savoy publishing the interview with Brion Gysin with photos next year; 9/26/79 WSB-Harriet Olivieri-NY re negative feelings about US bombing of Japan in WWI and nuclear proliferation; 8/22/79 Ulrich Hillibrand-WSB-Sweden re WSB in PLAYBOY magazine (Aug 29) and encloses photos of WSB and BG; 11/l/7 JG-Gerry Brown-NY re WSB support of Brown for President


  5. Contains 44 pp ms, xeroxed - pages appear to have been cut in quarters and pieced together for xerox; some anecdote re pirates and sports events; some dreams; dated Feb 1975; p. 14 discusses purpose of art as magical and evocative; part of ms may be draft of Led Zeppelin concert for HIGH TIMES.



Box 8

Folder Number #38-59

  1. Contains five envelopes with carbon ts and ts of WSB ms torn into 32 pieces (some pieces missing):

    1st envelope - 4 pieces missing - pencil corrections by WSB - page numbered in blue marker UR, 176

    2nd envelope - page from C.O.T.R.N. ms - 8 pieces missing - page numbered in blue marker UR, 177 - top line -"be squirting blue twilight in attic rooms and distant train"

    3rd envelope - page from C.O.T.R.N. ms - 1 piece missing - page numbered in blue marker UR, 175

    4th envelope - carbon ts The Red Hots ms - 5 pieces missing -typewritten page number in UR 177 - top line - "The red hots bring you out in red blotches squirming around on"

    5th envelope - ts from The Red Hots ms - 2 pieces missing - typewritten page number in UR 177

  2. Contains Virus B-23 xeroxed cut-ups numbered M-1.B-M-l.B.22 including title page (22pp); one page dated 10/28/73; several pp dated 5/30/74 and 5/31/74; M-l.b.20 refers to Virus B-23


  3. Contains 40 pp xeroxed ms cut-ups (some of these used in COBBLE STONE GARDENS ms and AH POOK IS HERE ms):

    M-2.A.1-M-2.A.14 (WSB life?)

    M-2.1.16-11/19/73

    M-2.B-M.2.B.2 - cut-up dream notes 12/4/74 (in WSB's hand)

    M-2.C.1-M-2.C.6 - pirates come back

    M-2.D.1-M.2-D.14 - Mayan time/death and time travel

    M-2-D.4 - quotations from Shakespeare etc.

    M-2.D.7 - dream 1/7/76

    M-2.D.9-10 - references - poetry lines on death


  4. Contains 45 pp xerox ms of THE BLADE RUNNER numbered in UL 1-36; in pencil in UR "M"-3 (45 pp)" annotations in black ink JG/WSB's; film about overpopulation and growth of vast service bureaucracies


  5. "COBBLE STONE GARDENS (abridged version May 76)" noted on folder which contains 2 sets of CSG (abridged version) and (corrections attached): 1st set in 3 section all xerox:

    a - "abridged version" in JG's hand - 19 pp stapled together - stamped 5/10/76; some editing in JG's hand

    b - "material removed from CSG in preparation of 16 pp ms for RUSH magazine" in JG's hand - 5 pp stapled together stamped 5/10/76

    c -"retyped for RUSH" in JG's hand - 4 pp stapled stamped 5/11/76 - some editing in JG's hand

    2nd set - in pencil on title page "corrections attached" in JG's hand; on page 1 - "pencil corrections for Cherry Valley Editions" in JG's hand stamped 5/23/76; pencil corrections by JG - 26 pp and some corrections stamped 6/11/76; appears to be complete version


  6. "Original ms of Cobble Stone Gardens gift to JWG" noted on folder and title page of ms typewritten - has dedication in ink in WSB's hand: "For JG with appreciation for his work in editing and typeing this manuscript/with all best wishes and friendship WSB." which contains ms of 24 pp including title page - typewritten with pencil and ink corrections some in WSB's hand, some JG's


  7. "COBBLE STONE GARDENS-carbon William Burroughs" noted on folder which contains 25 pp carbon ts ms including title page and dedication page; ms pages numbered 1 - 23; additional 3 typewritten pp - same as pp 1 -3 of ms carbons; ts note on title page - "sent to Peter Matson 9 Sept 75 for publication by Frank Hallman's Aloes Books 1975"


  8. Contains AH POOK IS HERE bound ms; typed on binder, "AH POOK IS HERE M-5 William S. Burroughs Final Ms - June 1976" in 91 pp ts and carbon including title page; pages numbered 1-84; foreword dated 20 Sept 75, numbered I-VI in carbon


  9. "Galley proofs, AH POOK IS HERE and other Texts rec'd 5 May 79" noted on folder which contains gallery proofs numbered from 101-146 of AH POOK IS HERE AND OTHER TEXTS published by John Calder, London; other texts - BOOK OF BREEETHING, ELECTRONIC REVOLUTION


  10. "Ah Pook" noted on folder in pencil which contains ms ts, carbon, xerox pp 1-50 numbered in UR with insert page (some pp missing - 47 pps in all); corrections in ink and pencil in WSB's hand; incomplete ms.


  11. "Ah Pook is Here" noted on folder which contains carbon, xeroxes, ts and 1 p holograph; 19 pp in all; corrections in pencil by JG; last page of draft of foreword signed "William S. Burroughs Sept 20 1975 "; last page of ms contains variant ending (p 51)


  12. "Advocate Interview" noted on folder which contains correspondence primarily between Dean Gengle, Assistant Editor, THE ADVOCATE and JG from 1/17/77-4/20/78 (about 20 letters) re Gengle's wish to interview WSB for ADVOCATE; of interest: 7/5 & 9/12/77 notes re interview in JG's hand and ts auto letter WSB-JG; interview piece runs in 10th Anniversary issue; 12/10/77 JG-DG;NY re William thinks interview very well done 1/16 & 3/28/78 DG-WSB/JG; CA re interview with T. Leary; wants to review RETREAT DIARIES and COBBLE STONE GARDENS and response JG re WSB on Leary see 214-232 in HIGH PRIEST.


  13. "American Academy of Arts and Letters Correspondence" noted on folder which contains AAAL ephemera and correspondence between WSB and AAAL from 2/11/75-6/17/75 (11 letters) re induction of William S. Burroughs, 1975; WSB's work exhibited May 21, 1975 in connection with his award includes: photograph of WSB; 2 pp of work in progress, C.O.T.R.N and EXTERMINATOR!


  14. Correspondence from Alan Ansen. WSB, t/s auto from 3/9/79-12/23/79 (4 letters); of interest 7/23 and 8/7/79 note WSB's lecture in Naropa poetics volume and Dennis McNally's DESOLATE ANGEL on WSB's NY wartime period


  15. "Ms to ANTAEUS (Dan Halpern)" noted on folder which contains correspondence between WSB/JG and Dan Halpern from 2/10/75-12/26/75 (5 letters) re possible WSB pieces in ANTAEUS (on 20th C books which have been neglected and "Medicine and Dreams"); includes 7 pp ts ms, "Medicine and Dreams" with holograph note in JG's hand "removed to CRAWDADDY file" Column #9 "rejected"


  16. "Ms to ARCADE (Bill Griffith)" noted on folder which contains correspondence with JG and Bill Griffith from 5/75-10/75 (about 16 letters) re WSB piece for ARCADE #4; also includes WSB ms, 8 pp ts carbon, "Fun City in Ba'Dan," illustrated by S. Clay Wilson; ms inscribed in pen, "sent to Bill Griffith Sept 75; to be illus. by S. Clay Wilson and publ. in ARCADE #4"; and xerox. of published version, ARCADE #4 pp 11-13


  17. "Ms to BASTARD ANGEL (Harold Norse)" noted on folder which contains correspondence between WSB and Harold Norse from 4/24/74-3/4/75 (4 letters) re WSB piece for BASTARD ANGEL #3; also includes 1 ts carbon ms of 4 pp, "Cut Throat Trout"


  18. "Blues 10 - C.H. Ford" noted on folder which contains correspondence between WSB/JG and Charles Henri Ford from 3/17/78-10/22/76 (11 letters) re WSB piece for BLUES 10; also includes 1 ts carbon ms of 7 pp, "My Pink Face is Death" from THE GAY GUN and b/w photo of WSB; news clippings re CHF's film, "Johnny Minotaur".


  19. "Blueboy" contains correspondence between WSB/JG and Hal DeMan re WSB piece in BLUEBOY; WSB will send excerpt from forthcoming limited edition book, LETTERS TO ALLEN GINSBERG, 1953-1957; also contains ts ms of 11pp of letters 10/23/55, 12/10/55, 9/16/56, 10/29/56 as well as xerox from Federico Garcia Lorca's "Poeta En Nueva York" from which WSB has quoted in excerpted letters; letter of interest 12/24/77 from JG which contains WSB's explanation of the expression, "staping vitals"


  20. "Bockris/High Times Interview" contains correspondence 9/12/78 JG-VB re corrections of Victor Bockris' interview with WSB for HIGH TIMES of Aug-Sept. and encl 12 pp interview ms in xerox with pencil corrections in JG's hand.


  21. "The Book of Breeething-Verbrugghen, Blue Wind" contains correspondence mainly between WSB and Jan Herman and George Mattingly from 9/16/74-9/14/79 (27 letters) re US publication of BOOK OF BREEETHING; possible publication by Jan Herman of Something Else Press and actual publication by George Mattingly of Blue Wind Press, Berkeley; also correspondence between WSB and Bob Gale re possible illustrations by Gale; xerox proofs of BofB, Ed. OU, Essex England, 1973, as well as various clippings sent to WSB by Jan Herman some of which relate to the number 23.


  22. "UDO BREGER-Corres." noted on folder which contains correspondence between WSB/JG and Udo Breger from 8/28/74-8/9/79 (12 letters) re publication in Germany of various WSB works such as NAKED SCIENTOLOGY, ELECTRONIC REVOLUTION, and request for WSB piece for SOFT NEED #9 and SOFT NEED #17 (WSB piece on Brion Gysin for this issue) and possible publication of RETREAT DIARIES; 2 drafts of WSB ms of Gysin piece, 8 pp with corrections in WSB's hand and 4 pp xerox of ms; allusion to WSB piece on Kerouac for earlier SOFT NEED



Box 9

Folder Number #60-79

  1. "CAPS Correspondence" noted on folder which contains correspondence between WSB and CAPS (Creative Artists Public Service Program) from 2/27/75-2/22/78 (7 letters), as well as CAPS ephemera; of interest is WSB's response of 4/10/75 to an article critical of him as financially secure writer receiving a CAPS award; notice of publication of WSB's RETREAT DIARIES in CAPS Fourth Library Package of 1976


  2. "Cheri" noted on folder which contains 2 letters - JG and Peter Wolff from 9/29 and 10/14/77 re request for WSB piece for CHERI


  3. "Ms. to Coach House Press (David Young)" noted on folder which contains correspondence between WSB and David Young, 3/24/74, re request for WSB piece for Coach House Press Anthology 1974, THE STORIES SO FAR; also WSB 12 pp ms, "The Health Officer" for anthology with some corrections in WSB's hand.


  4. "Ms to Henri Chopin" noted on folder which contains correspondence with and about Henri Chopin mostly between WSB and HC from 2/21/74-5/10/76 (about 15 letters) re solicitation of piece from WSB for OU and solicitation of WSB introduction to HC's book on "poesie sonore" with chapter on WSB; notice of WSB silkscreen project with Phil Kaplan, London; also WSB ms 2 pp ts carbon, "An Introductory Text for Henri Chopin's Book on 'Poesie Sonore"' and ephemera announcing B. Gysin as participant in event at Centre Georges Pompidou Feb. 1980 re poesie sonore; of interest in file is 5/10/76 letter from WSB-HC re the French are his best critics.


  5. "Cobble Stone Gardens" noted on folder which contains correspondence mainly between WSB/JG and various publishing houses (possibly Frank Hallman and George Mattingly) re the publication of WSB's COBBLE STONE GARDENS; publication by Cherry Valley Editions and John Calder in NEW WRITERS AND WRITING 16 as well as German and Greek editions from 12/3/74-3/2/82 (32 letters); note that Cherry Valley Edition is complete edition and uses images supplied by Cherry Valley, C. Plymell, but chosen and placed in text by WSB


  6. "Comet Film Zurich" noted on folder which contains correspondence mainly between JG and Ueli Siegenthaler from 12/9/77-6/14/78 (12 letters) re possible filming of WSB for Zurich TV and his statement on drugs; also WSB ms "Statement of Addiction to Opiates" in 3 drafts, 9 ts pp in all dated June 1978 with one version annotated in WSB's hand; film project rejected by Mr. Ratti of Zurich TV


  7. "Coum/Genesis E. Porridge Correspondence" noted on folder which contains correspondence from Genesis - WSB from 1974-78 (17 letters) misc. ephemera, postcards, and news clippings from Genesis E. Porridge, some re Throbbing Gristle; 2 records: Monte Cazazza and Throbbing Gristle; copy of INDUSTRIAL NEWS, June 1978; of interest- WSB statement on behalf of Genesis' obscenity trial ts carbon 3/22/76; mention of possible WSB piece in CONTEMPORARY ARTISTS, 1975, St. James Press Ltd. (note WSB ms re B. Gysin for CONTEMPORARY ARTISTS)


  8. "Creative Arts Book Co-Barry Gifford, Don Ellis" noted on folder which contains 1979 Creative Arts Book Company catalogue and correspondence between JG, Barry Gifford, and Peter Matson from 7/31/78-1/8/79 (7 letters) re reissue of PORT OF SAINTS


  9. "The Daily Planet/Earth News Tape Series - Larry Yurdin" noted on folder which contains ephemera and PR materials on Earth News and Daily Planet radio network and correspondence between WSB/JG and Larry Yurdin from 4/8/76-12/23/76 (3 letters) re submission of WSB material to Daily Planet series; schedule indicates that WSB tape on heroin industry ran on 4/18/77


  10. Contains correspondence between Gus Van Sant, Peter Matson and WSB/JG re permission to create film based on WSB story, "The Discipline of DE" from 3/30/76-7/29/78 (13 letters); 10 minute film made as of 3/24/78; also contains 29 pps xerox ms by Van Sant DISCIPLINE OF DE screenplay (noted on copy, "rec'd 14 May 76")


  11. Contains correspondence between Jeffrey Miller and WSB/JG and xeroxes of correspondence with Richard Aaron and Roberto Altmann from 11/15/74-3/3/79 (33 letters) re Miller's request for WSB-Bowles correspondence for inclusion in SELECTED LETTERS OF PAUL BOWLES (note that there are about 110 letters in WSB-PB correspondence in Vaduz archive and Richard Aaron has not cooperated as of 3/3/79); of interest is information from Miller on the location of Bowles' letters from Cohen and Gysin in other US archives


  12. Contains correspondence between WSB/JG and W. Boyd, Erskine Lane, Tom Wright, and Harold Norse on WSB's proposed trip to Guatemala; also correspondence between WSB/JG and American magazines, QUEST, TRAVEL AND LEISURE, GAY SUNSHINE, ROLLING STONE, NY TIMES re proposed WSB article on the trip from 4/4/76-6/21/79; of interest are Harold Norse-WSB letters re Guatemala, Charles Bukowski, Naropa, BEAT HOTEL and CARNIVOROUS SAINT by Norse; also reviews from GAY SUNSHINE of GUATEMALA DIARY by Lane and book of his translations


  13. "Michael Goodman Corres. 1975-78" noted on folder which contains correspondence between Michael Goodman and WSB from 4/6/75-1/28/78 re Goodman's bibliography of WSB's work published by Garland Publishing Co. and request for publication of collection of WSB's letters (subsequently turned down by JG 1/28/78); also 16 pp draft ms of Goodman article, "The History of NAKED LUNCH" and notice of MG article in letter of 11/21/77, "The Customs Censorship of NAKED LUNCH in POLIT: A NEW JOURNAL FOR LITERATURE AND POLITICS


  14. Contains 4 letters from John Giorno-WSB from 10/18/74-11/28/75 re Dial-A-Poem Poets LP, BITING OFF THE TONGUE OF A CORPSE, to include WSB's piece from THE WILD BOYS: "A Top Level Conference is in Progress"


  15. Contains correspondence between JG and German PLAYBOY from 9/25/77-8/14/78 re publication of WSB piece which PLAYBOY eventually declines to publish; possibilities of publication of excerpt from CITIES OF THE RED NIGHT ("The Walled City of Tamaghis"), "They Do Not Always Remember," "The Street of Chance," or selections from CRAWDADDY columns, "Cancer People" or "When Did I Stop Wanting to Be President"


  16. Contains correspondence between Robert Fulton and WSB/JG from 3/12/76-10/21/77 (14 letters) re Fulton's film, STREET FILM, and possibility of filming WSB's JUNKY; of interest is letter from JG to Tom Luddy which refers to WSB's commentary on this film as the essay, "Take Nirvana" (mind as analogue of multiple projectors; Buddhist meditation)


  17. Contains correspondence from 6/8/77-9/23/78 (17 letters) between Winston Leyland and WSB/JG and John Giorno re WSB interview for GAY SUNSHINE interview anthology; also enclosed xerox of part of WSB interview from GAY SUNSHINE #21 (3 pp) as well as xeroxed transcript of recent interview between WSB and Giorno both in ts copy of 33 pp with WSB edits in pencil and retypings and in xeroxed typeset copy of 9 pp; of interest is letter from JG - WL re WL included pp 6-7 that were originally cut by WSB; text is not meant to be taken seriously; too provocative.


  18. Contains correspondence between WSB/JG and editors of HIGH TIMES and DEALER magazines from 5/13/76-11/8/76 re solicitation of piece by WSB; WSB suggests excerpt from COTRN; HIGH TIMES not interested, also includes WSB bibliography in JG's hand, "High Times Search" of 2 pp; of interest is letter re Kerouac/Burroughs detective novel, AND THE HIPPOS WERE BOILED IN THEIR TANKS, which WSB does not want to be published.


  19. Contains ephemera and xeroxed typescript for HAVEN CAN'T WAIT (2 copies) play by Terry Southern and Ciprian Lo Guidice; WSB is one of the characters; also contains news clippings from VILLAGE VOICE, SOHO WEEKLY NEWS, NEWSWEEK and TIME re reviews from 8/31 and 9/4/78


  20. Contains information on Guatemala and Yucatan with map of Merida and archaeological maps, info on hotels, etc.



Box 10

Folder Number #80-111

  1. Contains correspondence between John Hopkins - WSB from Jan 74-Jan 75 (7 letters)


  2. "Mer Records" contains correspondence between Patti Smith and WSB 1977-79 re collaboration


  3. Contains correspondence primarily with Glee and Arthur Knight and WSB re THE BEAT BOOK and THE BEAT DIARY and WSB interview for Beat issue of "Unspeakable Visions of Individual" from 3/20/74-3/4/76 (6 letters); the specific projects mentioned are Gerard Malanga interview of WSB and John Tytell interview of WSB


  4. Contains correspondence with Charles Leonard and WSB 3-4/78 re Leonard's request for WSB interview, also 14 pp xerox ms of interview with annotations in WSB/JG's hand and 3 typed pp (additions) by WSB, "Tea with William Burroughs"


  5. Contains 13 letters primarily from Peachie Le Nic (Michael March) to WSB 8/4/75-2/12/79 - personal


  6. Contains correspondence between Gerard-Georges Lemaire and WSB from 11/20/78-4/10/79 (8 letters); includes xeroxes of Lemaire interviews with and articles about WSB in French (9 pps): "Le Planetarium de la Mort-Orgasme" in OPUS INTERNATIONAL 1977; 2 interviews 1978: "Burroughs et l'ecriture diamagnetism" and "Burroughs parle de politique" and review of Le Plan K, "23 Skiddoo," publications unknown; letters of interest from WSB re Nova Convention and participation of French critics; JG letter re issue of CAHIERS CRITIQUES with excerpt from COBBLE STONE GARDENS


  7. Contains correspondence with Steve Lawson and WSB 2/25/74-5/26/79 (32 letters); also 4 photos and 2 ms pp by SL who did illustrations for EXTERMINATOR and NAKED LUNCH which were never used


  8. Contains correspondence between Bradford Morrow and WSB/JG from 7/3/79-1/9/80 (14 letters) re 1979 publication by Morrow of excerpt from NAKED LUNCH entitled DOCTOR BENWAY; also contains WSB ts ms of 5 pp edited in WSB's hand, Introduction for DOCTOR BENWAY; signed colophons by WSB; 11 pp of galleys for DE edited by JG; letter of interest re Doctor Benway's connection to Jack Black's YOU CAN'T WIN - no connection per JG and letter from Morrow to WSB re Morrow's purchase of WSB archive in 1979 from Richard Aaron which he is trying to sell to university library or private collector


  9. Contains correspondence between Dr. John Kramer and WSB from 8/21/77-1/11/79 (9 letters) re publication of WSB piece in DRUGS AND THE ARTS; also 9 pp ms by Kramer based on WSB interview, "William Burroughs, a Sketch"; in one letter Kramer recommends 2 articles on addiction by Murray Kane


  10. Contains correspondence between William Farley and JG/WSB from 10/31/79-1/9/81 (12 letters) re Farley film I'M NOT LOSING MY MIND. I'M GIVING IT AWAY to include WSB; also includes 24 pp film script/proposal by Farley


  11. Contains correspondence with FILE magazine between AA Bronson and WSB from 9/19/74-2/20/75 (8 letters) re WSB piece; also 5 pp ts carbon ms by WSB, "It Looks Like Measles Doctor" ("excerpt from material in preparation for new book")


  12. Contains correspondence wth DC law firm from 7/27/79-11/24/80 (13 letters) to obtain FBI/CIA documents on WSB under Freedom of Information Act; letters of interest: FBI sent 2 documents which refer to WSB's murder of wife and witnessing murder of David Kammerer


  13. Contains correspondence re Millicent Dillon's request to interview WSB from 2/9-7/6/77 (4 letters) re Jane Bowles in connection with her bio of Bowles; WSB agrees


  14. Contains correspondence re "Deconstruction of the Countdown" theater piece on WSB's work by Theater of All Possibilities from 3/5/79-9/13/79 (9 letters); also misc. ephemera re performance; letter of interest re WSB invited to speak at Jungle as Ecosystem Conference, "Jungle as Sacred" proposed topic


  15. Contains correspondence between Allen De Loach and WSB from 4/3/74-2/19/77 (16 letters) re DeLoach writing projects involving WSB; letter of interest re De Loach requests WSB piece for INTREPID, 1974, and WSB encloses lecture from CCNY course and note from WSB re CHANGES magazine, #90 with Leslie Fiedler-WSB conversation


  16. Contains correspondence between John de Chadenedes and WSB from March 74-April 77 (7 letters) - personal


  17. Correspondence primarily between Olivier Boelen and WSB from 7/2/75-1/30/76 (7 letters) re translation /publication of LAST WORD OF DUTCH SCHULTZ in Holland


  18. Correspondence between Bob Johnson , editor of IN TOUCH magazine and WSB/JG soliciting a WSB piece for IN TOUCH -from 8/4/76-6/19/79 (18 letters); also contains 2 drafts of "California Men" by WSB in ts carbon, 2 pp rough and 3 pp final; WSB letter permits Johnson's use of WSB's introduction for Jurgen Vollmer's book of photos


  19. Correspondence between Herb Gellin , Lord John Press, and WSB/JG from 10/29/77-4/15/78 (7 letters) re WSB broadside, edition of 126 signed copies, "Where Naked Troubadours Shoot Snotty Baboons"; also contains 2 drafts of this ms both xerox 2 pp each numbered 285, 288 (numbers refer to ms from which they were taken - C.O.T.R.N.?)


  20. Correspondence mostly between John Calder and JG/WSB from 5/8 - 10/4/78 (15 letters) re proposal of giving WSB International Publishers' Prize; letter of interest from Peter Matson that Prix du Sept. for C.O.T.R.N. is of little value to WSB and publishers that would be involved are not advantageous for C.O.T.R.N.'s publication


  21. Correspondence and brochures between Monroe Institute of Applied Science and WSB from 1/23/76-10/5/78 (6 letters) for WSB's participation in the M-5000 Training Program, 1976 (a consciousness training program)


  22. Contains requests from 11 magazines for WSB's work for publication and 2 requests for information from 10/25/74-8/15/76; possible submissions: 2/76, "As Starships Fall" to FIX, London; 4/76, "To Talk for Joe" to WORDWORKS #8 in Manchester, 5/76, "To Talk For Joe" to magazine published by David Wonjarowicz, NY; also holograph 5 pp ms possible movie script of WSB piece from Francis Dobbs, "The 'Priest' They Called Him"


  23. Correspondence from 12/18/76-9/6/77 (9 letters from JG) re publication of excerpts from WSB's JUNKY in PUNK and NEW YORK ROCKER magazines; possibly "Best of Punk Issue"


  24. Correspondence re WSB's narration of film, AYAHUASCA, produced by Pueblovision Communications Ltd., Tony Carrion, aired March 5, 1977; also includes 4 pp xeroxed ms of "Ayahuasca" written by Pueblovision and edited by JG and 5 pp ts carbon ms of Text of the Ayahuasca Narrative" (note WSB is narrator only)


  25. Correspondence from 5/12/78-7/10/80 (11 letters) between Jonathan Cott and JG/WSB re ROLLING STONE's BOOK FOR KIDS; also includes 2 drafts of 2 ms, one xerox with corrections in JG's hand and 1 carbon of copy sent to ROLLING STONE of "The Baron Says These Things" in 5 pp rough and 7 pp finished state and "The Popcorn Kid" in 4 pp rough and 5 pp finished state; decision by Paul Bresnick not to use pieces; 7/80 JG sends "Pop Corn Kid" to BOILED OWL, San Francisco


  26. Correspondence between Michael Pierce and WSB from 12/74-1/75 (5 letters); letter from WSB of 12/11/74 contains short routine and childhood anecdote; also 2 photos of Pierce?


  27. Correspondence between PENTHOUSE and JG from 10/14/77-1/25/78 re possible WSB piece for publication; they declined "The Walled City of Tamaghis," excerpt from C.O.T.R.N.


  28. Correspondence between WSB/JG and New Line Presentations (WSB's lecture booking agent) from 6/27/75-2/23/78 (25 letters); also contains CV on WSB; WSB eventually terminates agreement in 1978.


  29. Correspondence with NATIONAL SCREW from 10/6/76-5/9/77 (19 letters) for 2 fiction pices by WSB and Victor Bockris article on WSB; also includes WSB 9 pp xerox and carbon ms, "Los Ninos Locos" to appear in June 1977 issue?; WSB 8 pp xerox and carbon ms, "Day is Done," excerpt from PORT OF SAINTS published in NATIONAL SCREW #9 which is last issue; WSBs ms notes for Bockris' possible interview, 6 pp carbon with corrections by JG published in NATIONAL SCREW #5; letters of interest from VB, 10/6/76, re sections of Bockris' profile on WSB published in NEW YORK ARTS JOURNAL, VOL 1, #2; JG responds in a letter correcting the profile's errors and suggesting an article on WSB's First Meetings with the Stars, WSB to provide list of stars (see 6 pp carbon ms above)


  30. Correspondence with PLAYBOY book division from 8/4/75-9/19/76 (8 letters) for possible publication of WSB work, BEST OF BURROUGHS


  31. Correspondence with Richard Seaver, WSB's editor at Viking Press from 2/12/74-1/10/79 (17 letters) includes review of LAST WORDS OF DUTCH SCHULTZ, 3/15/75; book jack facsimile for EXTERMINATOR! and NY TIMES BOOK REVIEW, "Richard Seaver, Publisher" by C. David Heymann, 3/11/79; letters of interest include request to quote from WSB's EXTERMINATOR! for SIDETRIPPING with photos by Charles Gatewood and words by WSB; letter from Seaver to Peter Matson, 6/23/77, re WSB needs to re-establish himself in USA with a new work, C.O.T.R.N. should be next publication after 3RD MIND.


  32. Correspondence between Ralph Cook and WSB from 5/27/79-7/27/79 includes Atticus Books Catalogue #4 1979 with WSB image on cover.



Box 11

Folder Number #112-131

  1. Correspondence from 10/29/75-2/10/77 (20 letters) re payment for WSB/Gerard Julien Salvy radio interviews and WSB's exemption from French tax


  2. Correspondence between Charles Russell, PARIS REVIEW, and WSB from 12/16/76-1/17/78 (12 letters) re request for WSB piece on Recent European and American AvantGarde Writing; letters of interest in which JG encloses 10 pp by WSB from unpublished THIRD MIND ms and "The Poem of Poems" by Gysin and essay on cut-ups by Gysin first published in EVERGREEN REVIEW; Russell would like more recent work


  3. Correspondence with Philippe Roussin from 9/25/77-7/6/79 (13 letters) re the discussion of WSB's writing and publication of WSB's pieces in CAHIERS CRITIQUE DE LA LITTERATURE; also includes 2 xerox copies of CAHIERS CRITIQUE article on WSB in 2 parts, Dec. 1976 and Summer 1972 written by Jean-Francois Chevrier and Philippe Roussin; letters of interest include one from 9/25/77 re CAHIERS' interest in publishing translation of WSB's COBBLE STONE GARDENS and RETREAT DIARIES and allusion to publication of WSB's CRAWDADDY essays by Lemaire in fall of 1979 as well as Gysin radio broadcast in series called THE OTHER HALF which will consist of readings of WSB texts also to air in September


  4. Correspondence with Ed Rivers from 1/20/77-8/27/78 (14 letters) re publication of his interview with WSB; also includes newspaper article, NY TIMES BOOK REVIEW , March 13, 1977, "Gates of Eden" by Christopher Lasch; letters of interest from JG, 1/20/77, re request for copies of Rivers' WSB tapes of 1976 Naropa lecture and 7/31/78 Gordon Ball request to publish Rivers-WSB 1976 interview in NEW LAZARUS REVIEW , Carrboro, NC


  5. Correspondence with Sphinx Verlag, Basel, from 8/8/79-10/19/80 (17 letters) re publication of RETREAT DIARIES with Allen Ginsberg's DREAM OF TIBET; letter of interest from Udo Breger-JG, 1/3/80, re ECO-Verlag publication of "Blade Runner" and "Roosevelt After. . . " and 1980 letter from JG-Anthony Gornall re Slovenska Literarna Agentura publication of WSB works.


  6. Correspondence with CO-EVOLUTION QUARTERLY from 10/21/76-2/19/77 (10 letters) re publication of WSB piece from RETREAT DIARIES; also includes Todd Granzow 5 pp xerox ms, "Some Thoughts on WSB's RETREAT DIARIES," and Granzow's 2 pp xerox ms, "Further," as well as WSB ts carbon and xerox ms (3 drafts in 8 pp) of "Response to Todd Granzow"; letters of interest include carbon copy of Allen Ginsberg-Richard Elovich letter, 10/21/76, re AG's comments on WSB's RETREAT DIARIES essay; 12/10/76 letter from Jonas Mekas to WSB re artist's tools; 1977 letter from Stewart Brand-JG re possibility of dialogue and response to WSB essay by Allen Ginsberg, Jonas Mekas, Michael Reynolds, Todd Granzow published in Spring 1977 edition, pp 132-34


  7. Correspondence with Jennie Skerl from 8/28/78-4/21/80 (11 letters) re her book about WSB for Twayne's US Authors Series; also includes xeroxes of 2 Skerl articles, "William S. Burroughs: Pop Artist" from SPHINX #11, 1979, and "Beat Chronology: The First Twenty Years, 1944-1964", from MOODY STREET IRREGULARS #6/7, 1980; letters of interest include 4/7/80 letter from WSB to Skerl re errors in Tytell book


  8. Correspondence from 10/3/7-1/13/80 (6 letters) re WSB's introductory notes for Jim De Sana's book of photos, SUBMISSION; letter of interest from De Sana re difficulty of getting book published with controversial subject matter, book will be self-published as of 1980


  9. Correspondence between Eric Mottram and WSB from 10/l/74-3/26/78 (20 letters) re SNACK a book of 2 interviews between Mottram and WSB published by Aloes Books, 1975; also includes 4 b/w photos of WSB and Morocco? and 23 pp xeroxed ms, "Selected Transcript"; letters of interest re Pre-Textos request to publish SNACK in Spain and their publication of EL METRO BLANCO (WHITE SUBWAY); letter of 1/1/78 from WSB re his comments on Mottram's ALGEBRA OF NEED


  10. Correspondence from 9/23/74-5/17/78 (9 letters) between Josef Bogdanovich and WSB/JG re motion picture rights to THE TICKET THAT EXPLODED; permission granted from 5/17/78


  11. Correspondence from 5/11/76-3/31/82 (50 letters) re publication in English of THE 3RD MIND by Viking Press; file includes biographical statement on WSB and 2 pp carbon ms for "Amendments to Prefatory Copy - 3rd Mind"; file also includes correspondence on Nova Convention, SOFT NEEDS #17 and NAKED SCIENTOLOGY; letters of interest: 5/11/76 from WSB to Seaver that WSB likes Flammarion format of THIRD MIND (OEUVRE CROISEE) and mentions WSB Collected Letters project; letter of 8/5/76 from JG indicates that Gysin also likes composition of French version of 3RD MIND; letter of 6/28/78 includes notes from Gysin re 3RD MIND; note that book is remaindered in April 1980.


  12. Correspondence with TRANSATLANTIC REVIEW and MINUIT from 1/l/75-7/29/78 (25 letters) re publication of WSB story, "To Talk For Foe," 1976; file includes 4 copies of ms, 3 in English (1 draft of 4 pp with corrections in JG's hand and 2 copies carbon and xerox of 7 pp each) and 1 French translation in 5 pp; note that "To Talk For Joe" was published in final issue, #60, of TRANSATLANTIC REVIEW


  13. Correspondence with Arthur and Kit Knight from 3/7/78-10/11/78(7 letters) re WSB inclusion in THE BEAT JOURNEY; file includes copy of WSB transcript for book of 7 xerox pp (Kerouac letter); letters of interest from JG to the Knights re permission to publish WSB materials from Ginsberg collection including WSB letter to Kerouac of 5/21/55 along with the routine and ms "Dream of the City"


  14. Correspondence with Voice of America from 10/25/79-2/23/81 (18 letters) re WSB participation in VOA Forum 1980 radio series, "American Writing Today," and subsequent book, AMERICAN WRITING TODAY, 1981?; also includes 4 pp of proofs of WSB's contribution, "William Burroughs on Writing," which is edited version of WSB's 1st CCNY lecture of 1974


  15. Correspondence with WBAI radio from 2/27/75-12/23/76 (14 letters) re series on WSB to be recorded March-April 1975; also includes transcriptions of some of the tapes, 22 xerox pp, and WSB ms of dramatic rendering of selection from LAST WORDS OF DUTCH SCHULTZ as in ATLANTIC MONTHLY of June 1969 (2 copies 9 xerox pp each) as well as copy of ATLANTIC MONTHLY article from June 1969 (#223: 72-6); carbon copy outline of tapes of 12 pp and WSB reading schedule for April 74-75; letters of interest concern JG's adaptation of LAST WORDS for radio and request for tapes of WSB's Naropa classes


  16. Correspondence between S. Clay Wilson and WSB from 3/24/74-12/16/76 (17 letters); letter of interest of 5/20/76 in which WSB defends Wilson's charges of misogyny in defense of freedom of the artist


  17. Correspondence from 12/l/79-1/21/80 (2 letters) with WET magazine re WSB/JG submissions; file includes 1 p ms by JG, "The Boulder Song" submissions and letter from JG re submissions of WSB include foreword to AH POOK IS HERE; Brion Gysin/Terry Wilson interview, "Planet R-101" from SOFT NEED


  18. Correspondence between David Young of Coach House Press and WSB from 7/16/74-6/18/76 (13 letters) re Young's proposal to market a videotape of WSB reading at Coach House Press; WSB agrees and wonders if other films he has made could also be put on tape


  19. Correspondence with Joe Maynard from 2/6/74-9/9/81 (56 letters) re Maynard's bibliography of WSB's work in collaboration with Barry Miles; file includes xeroxes of some proofs of book and 1978 catalogue, "New Books from Virginia!" with review of WSB, 1953-1973, A BIBLIOGRAPHY; note that WSB agrees to write the preface to the bibliography; letter of interest from Maynard-WSB of 4/5/76 re project was more Miles' work because he started it and made the greater contribution


  20. Correspondence with Jim Pennington of Aloes Books from 11/7/77-2/23/81 (10 letters) re possible publications of WSB: PORT OF SAINTS and BLADERUNNER Script; note that per JG, 12/24/77, PORT OF SAINTS must first be offered to John Calder, French translation will be out from Flammarion in February; Pennington should consider a ms called BLADERUNNER: A MOVIE by WSB (movie treatment of Charles Nourse's book, THE BLADE RUNNER); 1979 Pennington notes inclusion of interview and typescript tape from never broadcast radio program put together by Melville Hardiment in letter but these are not in folder.



Box 12

Folder Number #132-140

  1. Contains JG's holograph notes for Nova Convention, July - Nov. 1978, as well as misc. ephemera re the convention; b/w photo of WSB by Tina Freeman; several news clippings about Timothy Leary


  2. Correspondence for Nova Convention mostly from JG or Sylvere Lotringer to festival participants such as Ed Sanders, Brion Gysin, Timothy Leary, John Giorno from 8/16/77-5/20/79 (16 letters) as well as misc. ephemera connected with NC including 3 slides of WSB by Kevin Hagerty; letters of interest include one to Steven Lowe re films relating to WSB to be shown; Gysin to Lotringer re participation of G-G Lemaire, organizer of Colloque de Tanger; Peter Stewart to JG re translating WSB into Swedish and review of WSB from Swedish papers from March and October 1978 (reviews included); JG to Marshall McLuhan re participation and MM's review of WSB in THE NATION 1964; also Dean Gengle 8 pp xerox ms, "Illness as Metaphor as Camp"; Jurgen Ploog xeroxed article on WSB from BUCHERJOURNAL, possibility of coverage of Nova Convention in FLASH ART and OMNI magazine.


  3. Holograph notebook in JG's hand re Nova Convention plans and envelope marked "Spencer Smith-Papers after Death" containing letter of 2/4/78 proposing land deal with WSB, as well as news article re Smith's death in plane crash 2/9/79


  4. Correspondence mainly with Phillipe Mikriammos and George Mattingly from 7/4/73-11/1/80 (about 55 letters) re publication of PORT OF SAINTS originally published by Am Here Books, 1973, in limited edition, and revised edition (mainly formal revisions) in USA, France, Germany; file also contains flier for "poesie sonore-poesie action" in 1976 and release from Blue Wind Press for PORT OF SAINTS and BOOK OF BREEETHING; photo of WSB; letters of interest include 3/25/76 Mikriammos - WSB re publication of colloque book by Bourgeois, along with Mottram book; PM-WSB 5/24/76 re article on WSB in Paris Herald Tribune and 1/ 12/77 note re Mikriammos' book on WSB published by Seghers, WSB: LA VIE ET OEUVRE; 1/28/80 letter JG-Carl Weissner re use of "It Belongs to the Cucumber" in Ploog's anthology; 3/12/80 letter from JG-Lucy Garber re WSB articles in BLUEBOY and CHRISTOPHER STREET


  5. Correspondence between Philippe Mikriammos and WSB from 7/11/74-4/7/79 (15 letters) re PM's book on WSB and other translation projects such as THE JOB and JUNKY, AH POOK IS HERE and PORT OF SAINTS; file includes xerox of news article, "Jack Kerouac, l'Homere enfant" review of PM's Kerouac translation by Andre Laude; letter of interest of 8/7-4/74 from WSB-PM re Allen Ginsberg's is fairest and most accurate account of Joan's death


  6. Holograph notes on Nova Convention in JG's hand and Nova press master list


  7. Holograph lists and notes in JG's hand and xeroxed schedule of events for stage crew


  8. PR materials on Nova Convention as well as advertising notices; calendar of events from 11/30 through 12/2: Le Plan K presentation of "The Penny Arcade Peep Show," Cinevirus presentations of WSB films, post-punk rock group, exhibition at Books & Co., as well as readings and lectures


  9. Contains misc. materials re Nova Convention; 3 b/w photos of WSB; correspondence re marketing of RETREAT DIARIES and xeroxed news articles on Le Plan K from SOHO NEWS; also included is ms material: 1 pg ts carbon ms by WSB, "The Future of Writing," keynote statement for Nova Convention, 2 pp carbon ts statements about WSBs writings and control, 6 pp ts cut-ups author unknown, 1 pg ts list of stories and routines from TICKET THAT EXPLODED and NOVA EXPRESS; 2 issues of TALK TALK from 2/80 (music magazine from Lawrence, KS)



Box 13

Folder Number #141-154

  1. THIRD MIND "editor's assembly ms" noted on folder which contains xeroxes organized in sections and holograph notes in JG's hand relating to 1978 3RD MIND though page numbers do not all correlate; some xeroxes in typeset phase and some typed pages; not all materials in this file have been included in THIRD MIND; some materials are xeroxes from already published WSB material (sources not always noted); file also contains news articles from NEWSWEEK, 9/21/63, "Virus Hunters," and newspaper articles such as "Lost Cosmonauts: A Blastoff, Then Silence in Space," and excerpt from THE GUTENBERG GALAXIES by Marshall McLuhan.


  2. THIRD MIND "copy ed. copy" noted on folder which contains manuscript and galleys for 3RD MIND; copy follows order of printed book with printer's and editor's marks in pencil and pen; folder also contains some mock-up pages for design


  3. Contains THIRD MIND galley proof with a few annotations in pencil in unknown hand



Box 14

Folder Number #144-154

  1. Contains four holograph notebooks in WSB's hand, probably dream notes, from 2-9/78; 7/77-1/78; 5/78-7/78; and 10/81 as well as 3 x 5 cards with holograph notes and envelopes with misc. photographs and ephemera of WSB, friends, places as well as photos of montages


  2. Contains BLADE RUNNER drafts in xerox and holograph (2 pp) numbered M-50.A - M50.EEEE


  3. Contains BLADE RUNNER "submission ms" noted on folder which contains xeroxed copy of ts ms with title p and pp 1-56 with holograph notation in JG's hand, "THE BLADE RUNNER A TREATMENT by William Burroughs very freely from The Bladerunner by Alan E. Nourse"


  4. Contains correspondence between Rick Fields-JG from 7/28/75-1/16/76 (8 letters) re transcripts of WSB lectures at Naropa and WSB piece for LOKA 2 and JG-Rich Elovich from June 75 (3 letters); also misc PR material about Naropa Institute and The Tibet Center, NY; issue of CHANGES #90 with Interview by JG, "The fully-clothed lunch and other meals"; ts transcript of conversation at Naropa, 6/20/75, between Ginsberg, Corso, WSB, Waldman, Rinpoche, Merwin, Whalen; 2 JG ms: " Naropa '75: A Memoir" and "What was Done ... June 15 75"


  5. Contains THE BOOK OF BREEETHING , American edition pasteups (xeroxed paste up copy); also flyer for Blue Wind Press edition of BofB


  6. "Working Short Fiction" noted on folder which contains typed cover sheet of status of WSB stories/submissions, works in progress, etc. and copies of 7 pieces: "The 'Priest' They Called Him" (1p photostat); " 23 Skiddoo . . . " (3 pp carbon); "Day The Records Went Up" (2 copies: 5pp ts with corrections by WSB and xerox copy); "P.S to Academy 23" (3pp ts); "Mr. Who?" (9 pp carbon and ts); "Scribe Street" (9pp carbon and ts); "The Last Words of Dutch Schultz" (18 pp xerox)


  7. Contains manuscript material toward a piece on Reich by WSB and JG: 3/18/75 outline for WSB Reich piece; cut-up prose stapled together and in envelope; "Me and My Orgone Box" (4 ts pp); "Cut-up from Reich's case histories" (1p ts); sections III, IV, VI, VII probably JG's ms and section V, "WSB's Comments on Reich"; 1/15/75 conversation between WSB and JG on Reich; 14 pp ts draft of JG's article with WSB excerpts and cut-ups re Reich; 7 ts pp of excerpts from Reich's writings and holograph notes in JG's hand; folder also contains copy of Rick Fields, "A Visit to Orgonon" from NEW AGE JOURNAL; WSB's "Playback from Eden to Watergate" from HARPER'S; news article, "Electrons: The Key to Cancer?"


  8. Contains 6 pieces by WSB published in magazines: "The Coming of the Purple Better One" xerox ESQUIRE November, "The Last Words of Dutch Schultz" xerox from ATLANTIC June 1969; "Burning Heavens, Idiot" xerox ts; "Who is the Walks Beside You written 3rd?" xerox ts; "Ten Age Future Time" xerox from BETWEEN WORLDS, Summer 1960; "Face to Face" by WSB and "With the Goat God" by Craig Karpel from OUI


  9. Contains xeroxes of early routines ms, some dated in WSB's hand November 55; drafts for 1980 Cadmus Edition, EARLY ROUTINES


  10. Contains title page for Cadmus Editions, 1980 edition of EARLY ROUTINES and ts draft of ms


  11. "Early Routines - p/c of galleys, TS & notes" noted on folder which contains misc ts pp from ER and xerox galleys edited by JG for EARLY ROUTINES (Cadmus editions, 1st ed. 1981 and 1982); also includes holograph editing notes August 79 by JG



Box 15

Folder Number #155-184

  1. Contains xeroxed ts ms for 1st draft of SECTS AND DEATH numbered in pencil in JG's hand M-24.1.p.1-M-24.cc


  2. Contains envelope with cut-ups and drafts of cut-up prose with date on envelope of Mar 79; envelope with 3 stories to be translated by Carl Weissner and published by Maro, Verlag with COBBLE STONE GARDENS: "The Inferential Kid!" (4 pp ts xerox); "The Bay of Pigs" (3 drafts of 2 versions ts and carbon); "Old Photographer" (4 pp ts xerox)


  3. "WSB Scrapbook Transcription" noted on folder which contains xerox of transcription from WSB Scrapbook to be published by Givaudin Ltd. Ed with WSB corrections; note "received 6/24/76"


  4. "Mostly 1964 Larachi" noted on folder which contains misc ts, carbon and xerox ms pp untitled, some inscribed, "4 Calle Larachi 1964"; some sections titled: "The Log Book February 5, 1899"; "The Boy Magazine"; "Calling All Re Active Agents"; "McGuinness in Embankment Garden and Surgical Spirit"


  5. Contains drafts of Cafe Voices lecture (ts carbons and holograph pp) and draft of introduction to Allen Ginsberg letters (ts carbons with holograph notes)


  6. Contains ts and carbon drafts re Huncke, GUILTY OF EVERYTHING, with some holograph edits and "April 19 (Recorded) Nightdream notes 1974" from 1/19/74-6/20/75 (56 pp mostly holograph)


  7. Contains 1st drafts of Miles Intro for bibliography and ts and carbon drafts for RETREAT DIARIES


  8. "For Magazines Short Pieces (Finished and in preparation)" noted on folder which contains misc ts pp; 1 p titled, "The Function of the Underground Press" and l p "Sigma Portfolio"; also answers to questionnaire


  9. Contains Scrapbook 2 ts (28 pp ts carbon) with 1 p titled separately "Time/Goofs"


  10. "Dream Material, 1976 Night" noted on folder which contains dream notes from 5/9/-12/15/76


  11. Contains 2 drafts of "When Did I Stop Wanting to be President?" with 1st draft dated 11/21/74 for ATLANTIC


  12. Contains recorded dreams 12/25/75-9/25/76 of 51 holograph pp and 2 ts carbons


  13. In WSB's hand on file: "Material retyped from original N.L material" and "Cobble Stone Gardens" in JG's hand. 31 pp of untitled ms some carbons and some with holograph marks and underlinings with hieroglyphs on reverse of one page


  14. "Finished material (copies) (may need to send in case of loss)" noted on folder in 2 sections ts pp and carbons with holograph notations


  15. "Dickens Calendar copies" noted on folder which contains 25 pp ts and xeroxes numbered from D.C. 68-D.C. 148; one page dated June 6, 1970


  16. "Copy material from Scrap Book/A made by Richard Aaron Do you have copy?" noted on folder which contains mostly misc ts pp, some xeroxes; sections titled: "Oct. 17, Geneva 1911" and "Dreams" (7/29/65 - 3/8/66 in 3 column format)


  17. Contains misc. untitled pages ts and xerox, one dated 1970 and 2 pieces titled "Three Books" (8 pp ts carbon) and "Towards a Field Theory of Word" (8 pp ts carbon)


  18. "copies of Naked Lunch orig. ms" noted on folder containing ts xeroxes with edits and ts and holograph letters from Terry Wilson and Heathcote; 1 holograph page ms in WSB's hand and 4 cut-ups ts carbon


  19. Contains 13 separate pieces: 1-3 ts pp re GUILTY OF EVERYTHING with edits by JG; and misc. ts and draft of "A preface for Jurgen Vollmer's SEX APPEAL" edited by JG with letters from Vollmer to WSB of 3/22 and 5/24/76; 2-ts ms of "Ernest's Last Eyes" of 1974 and correspondence JG-Les Levine sending piece to Paris; 3-ts ms, "une poeme moderne" and correspondence 7/9/74 JG-Bill MacKay re "une poeme moderne" for Poetry Center Newsletter #18, October 1974 and copy of newsletter; 4-ms drafts of "WSB on TALES OF BEATNIK GLORY by Ed Sanders" and 7/17/75 letter from Jonathan Cott-JG requesting WSB's comments on Ed Sanders' book; 5-ts ms, "THE ELECTRIC BANANA - an Introduction by William Burroughs" and 3/5/75 letter from Charles Plymell-WSB re request for intro; 6-ts ms, "Essay on Brion Gysin's work for CONTEMPORARY ARTISTS" by WSB; 7-WSB's "An Introductory Text for Henri Chopin's Book, POESIE SONORE" ts carbon (2 drafts); 8-introduction for David Prentice Interview in ZOOM magazine"; 9 through 11 -3 short statements by WSB - ts ms re ritual of shaving for ESQUIRE, re Nixon for POETRY PROJECT NEWSLETTER, and re Kronhauser's SEX PEOPLE; 12-self-portrait of WSB (xerox) 4/17/74 for, Burt Britton's book of self-portraits by authors; 13- "Notes taken by WSB at meeting of Board of Giorno Poetry Systems" June 1976 and holograph page by JG


  20. "Christmas story notes" noted on folder which contains ts and holograph pp in WSB's hand; some pp dated 6/3/75; pp dated 12/25-12/28/76 may be dreams


  21. Contains several ts drafts re "Quien Es?" and 1 page final version sent to The Poetry Mailing List, 1/15/77; 3 pp holograph and 4 cut-ups ts re Billy the Kid


  22. Contains ts xerox pp numbered M-54.A-M-54.L (some of which appear in "Cancer People")


  23. Contains ts carbon with editing by WSB


  24. Contains holograph dream notes from 5/9/76-12/15/76


  25. Contains misc. ts some with holograph edits; 1 p titled "Black Silence" and 1 p dated 5/24/71; 1/21/70 xerox ts letter WSB-B Gysin re The Dream Calendar


  26. "Writers copy Haute Nendaz file/Pages from chaos file" noted on folder which contains xerox ts pp some dated 10/14 & 10/21/71; some misc. ms pp re University of New World


  27. Contains WSB and JG passport applications; also Index to WSB columns for CRAWDADDY, "Time of the Assassins," from 8/75-10/77 (3 pp ts); also ms "Cancer People" ts xerox; "The Walled City of Tamaghis" ts xerox (2 copies); and excerpts from C.O.T.R.N. ts xerox


  28. "Unpublished useable THE NIXER" noted on folder which contains misc. ts and xerox ms pp some with holograph edits by WSB; 1 section titled "The Nixer"; xerox ms by Kells Elvins, "Death of an Executioner" and 1 p ts carbon re Kells Elvins and Jack Kerouac


  29. Contains misc. C.O.T.R.N. ms in 6 sections: 1- "The Health Officer" with note in JG's hand "publ in CLUB/QUEST Ca May 1977"; 2-C.O.T.R.N. ms pp 269-315, an excerpt from H.G. Wells, and JG's notes; 3 "Firecrackers" dated July 1976; 4- "Captain Mission and the Articles" which was "Time of the Assassins" #5; 5- "Where Naked Troubadors Shot Snotty Baboons" from C.O.T.R.N. in ts xerox; 6- "Inserted after p 258 going to p 259" in WSB's hand ts carbon with WSB edits.


  30. "Cities ms copies to WB's attn 20 Mar 78" noted on folder which contains misc C.O.T.R.N. ms pp ts and some xerox; 1 section titled "Where Naked Troubadors Shot Snotty Baboons"



Box 16

Folder Number #185-193

  1. Contains misc ts ms of 1st and 2nd drafts; sections designated "Fire Crackers" prospectus and "First draft of prospectus" as well as 4 pp holograph


  2. Contains misc. C.O.T.R.N. ms xeroxes from Feb 1977; some are duplicates of pp from folder 185


  3. Contains misc. xeroxes of sections and chapters of C.O.T.R.N. such as "The Doctor is on the Market," "Firecrackers, " and "Panama Hat" as well as 8 pp xeroxed photographs; 2 pp holograph in JG's hand re order and title of sections


  4. Contains ts mostly carbon with edits in WSBs hand, including "Material for the Private Eye, Tamaghis section" and "Material for the pirate section"


  5. Contains several untitled ms ts and carbon pp one dated April 8, 1976-April 11, 1976; xerox of WSB, "Carrion Road" published in MARIJUANA RESEARCH ASSOC. Mailing; includes ms titled. "Part Line" and "On the Death of Jack Kerouac" by WSB in xerox ts and xerox cut-up form; "Answers to Questions"; untitled ms on writing with cut-up carbons


  6. "Narrative sections Audrey V-23" noted on folder which contains ms ts carbon and xerox pp numbered in WSB's hand with holograph edits; some unnumbered pp and 5 pp cut-ups ts and xerox


  7. Contains 1st, 2nd, and 3rd drafts of C.O.T.R.N. some with edits in WSB's hand; includes 1 p of WSB's dreams incorporated into draft; ephemera from music magazine; ms section titled, "Live Go Go Bar"


  8. Contains xerox of misc. C.O.T.R.N. ms pages as well as xerox of ts "The Private Ass Hole" (excerpt submitted to HIGH TIMES); file also contains correspondence re publication of C.O.T.R.N. mostly between JG and publishers, Anthony Gornall. and Peter Matson; letter of interest of 10/23/80 from P. Mikriammos re Anti-Semitism in C.O.T.R.N.


  9. Contains misc. early C.O.T.R.N. ms pages including "the Rescue," "Virus B-23," "The Stranger," "Liquid Gold," "Shore Leave," "Capture" with some edits in WSB's hand; also includes 1 p WSB dreams; note that inner file folder has postcard of Incan ceremonial knife pasted on cover



Box 17

Folder Number #194-205

  1. Contains misc. ts carbon pp numbered 150-167 of C.O.T.R.N. with some duplicates and edits by WSB


  2. Contains xeroxed pp ts numbered and unnumbered from various parts of C.O.T.R.N. roughly in order, also ts carbons of dream sequence and Farnsworth section


  3. Contains C.O.T.R.N. ts pp with WSB's edits numbered 1-78


  4. Contains misc. ts pp with holograph notes by WSB; one page dated 1977; Rover Boy and Tom Swift story line


  5. Contains misc. ts pp, with some sections titled: "Cities of the Red Night," "Return to Port Roger" with some duplicates and ts pp with holograph notes by WSB


  6. C.O.T.R.N. typescript w/corrections: ts with holograph corrections numbered 79-139; includes dreams 12/3/73 and 9/3/74; "first drafts"; one section draft of "The Popling"


  7. C.O.T.R.N. typescript w/corrections: ts and carbon with holograph corrections numbered 140-150 and 175-185


  8. C.O.T.R.N. typescript with heavy corrections: ts with holograph corrections numbered 140-182; one section titled "Live Go Go Bar"


  9. "FIRECRACKER -1st draft, part of CITIES" noted on folder which contains ts and carbons with holograph notations


  10. Contains excerpt for HIGH TIMES as "Firecrackers" of 20 pp ts with holograph annotations dated 6/30/76


  11. Contains ts pp, carbons and xeroxes; Clem Snide episode with holograph annotations


  12. "SNIDE AND KRUP IN SPACE (part of CITIES)" noted on folder which contains ts, carbon, xeroxes of 1st and 2nd draft copies with some duplicates; some holograph pp; some sections appear to be drafts of "Bugger the Queen"



Box 18

Folder Number #206-207

  1. C.O.T.R.N. late draft not in final order, changes to be made in chapter titles, cuts, etc.; contains xerox, paste-up and holograph edits; pages are numbered 1-251 with many inserts; folder also contains xeroxed photos


  2. C.O.T.R.N. last version before final WSB ms closed 27 July 78: pages numbered 1-347, all xeroxes; folder begins with "The Rescue"



Box 19

Folder Number #208-225

  1. "James W. Grauerholz's galleys/due back 6/24/80" and "Company-Holt, Rinehart, Winston COTRN first Proofs" noted on folder which contains copy edited by JG


  2. C.O.T.R.N. 1st drafts: B'Dan riots section of ts, carbons and holograph edits


  3. C.O.T.R.N. retyped material: ts and xerox with holograph edits


  4. C.O.T.R.N. 1st drafts. ts, carbon, and xerox with holograph notes and holograph pages(one dated 2/27/78), as well as holograph drawings; one section titled, "The Assault on Yasswadah"


  5. C.O.T.R.N. 1st drafts: ts, carbon xerox. and holograph; sections titled: "La Cucharacha," "Pancho Villa Takes His Shirt Off," "The End The Rescue"


  6. "New Material - C.O.T.R.N" noted on folder dated 2 Jan 78 written in Boulder with xeroxed pages some duplicates of ms in file 205


  7. "C.O.T.R.N. xeroxed mat/1st drafts" noted on folder with xeroxes of parts of Blum & Krup and Iguana sections


  8. "Clem Snide, Private Asss-hole" noted on folder which contains draft labelled "Clem Snide Private Agent"; folder contains ts carbons of Clem Snide section, as well as "The Popling" (note in JG's hand: "Copied for "Poly-sexuality SEMIO TEXTE 2-0 Feb 81")


  9. "Bloom & Krup 1st drafts C.O.T.R.N." noted on folder which contains ts carbon with holograph edits


  10. "Ba-dan & Yass Waddah" noted on folder which contains ts carbon with holograph edits


  11. "RED NIGHT material" noted on folder which contains Cities of the Red Night and Clem Snide sections: ts and carbon with holograph edits


  12. "The Contessa/C.O.T.R.N." noted on folder which contains ts and carbons re the Contessa. and Hanging Fever


  13. "The Carsons Academy/C.O.T.R.N." noted on folder which contains 1 p ts carbon re questions and answers re bombing incident put to Control


  14. "C.O.T.R.N. outline material" noted on folder which contains outline holograph notes in JG's hand and 1 pg ts summary of plot re Carsons family


  15. "Marie Celeste/C.O.T.R.N." noted on folder which contains ts and carbons of sections titled: "This is a sex flick" and "The Marie Celeste"; file includes Casting Notes


  16. "Audrey Carsons and the Fever/C.O.T.R.N." noted on folder which contains ts and carbon of sections titled: "What Happens in This Book and What This Book is About" and "Carsons Family"; 1 p dated 1/14/71


  17. "Carsons Family/C.O.T.R.N." noted on folder which contains ts and carbons


  18. "Virus B-23 pre-revision text COTRN" noted on folder which contains ts and carbon with holograph edits; sections titled: "The Story Conference (Louie the Light)," "Fever Ship," "High Silver" "A Wicked Sister," "Gallows Babies," "The Breathers" and pages dated 1/26/71, 5/30,5/31/74



Box 20

Folder Number #226-227

  1. "C.O.T.R.N. 1st complete draft 1-349" noted on folder which contains (not in final order or with final chapter titles), ts with holograph edits not in WSBs hand


  2. "C.O.T.R.N. 1st camp. draft 350-732" noted on folder (actually 350-733) containing, not in final order or with final chapter titles, ts with holograph edits not in WSB's hand



Box 21

Folder Number #228-230

  1. "C.O.T.R.N. ms corrected, 1st complete" noted on folder containing probably the version from which 226 and 227 were typed; pages numbered 1-422; edits in JG's hand


  2. "C.O.T.R.N. ms completely edited" noted on folder which contains pp 1-323 (incomplete ms); this version is an edit of files in Box 20 (226 and 227 cut and pasted) but not final version


  3. "C.O.T.R.N. misc" noted on folder which contains misc. sections (appear to be xeroxes of 226 and 227 with some edits in JG's hand)



Box 22

Folder Number #231-234

  1. "C.O.T.R.N. misc" noted on folder which contains xeroxes, paste-ups and pencil edits in JG's hand; corrected xeroxes of files 226 and 227


  2. "C.O.T.R.N. loose scraps" noted on folder which contains misc. scraps, cut up pages with chapter title pages in JG's hand as well as edits by JG and WSB


  3. "Immediate/editing C.O.T.R.N." noted on folder which contains much holograph material in JG's hand some dated 7/14/79: "Reconstruction of Edit Process-C.O.T.R.N." and 8/20-21: notes re more edits; ts pp of "the Private Ass Hole" section edited by JG; additional holograph material by JG: flow chart; possible chapter titles; notes re characters: misc ms material with edits by JG and WSB


  4. "C.O.T.R.N. ms corrections, rejected dust jacket" noted on folder which contains C.O.T.R.N. ms pp 305-422 and misc. sections titled "Dear Mr. Beadle," "Notes on Time Travel," "The Johnson Family"; scrapbook notes; info on petroleum strike of 1978: dreams



Box 23

Folder Number #235-241

  1. "Puerto de los Santos - 1st draft" and "For Cherry Valley Editions" noted on folder which contains early version of Clem Snide section and draft of 1st section of PORT OF SAINTS


  2. "PORT OF SAINTS xeroxes, art, pics/1st ed." noted on folder which contains xerox ts ms and original photos and art work for AM HERE Edition 1973, PORT OF SAINTS


  3. Contains Blue 1980 edition lightly edited in Blue Wind Press envelope


  4. Contains 3 envelopes re PORT OF SAINTS: 1- unbound pp edited in pencil probably by JG - Am Here Edition of 1973; 2- POS ts beginning "The Captain's Logbook" and carbon pp from beginning; 3- ts and xerox drafts of POS with some notes and corrections by JG


  5. Contains JUNKIE xerox copy of glossary and pp 1-171 (incomplete ms)


  6. Contains thermofax copy of JUNKIE glossary and pp 1-171 (copy from which folder 239 made)


  7. Note in folder: "Deletions, corrections, and additions to JUNKIE (Ace 1973) (Carbon) (Original w/Penguin) (Victor Bockris has copy)" which contains carbon corrections and inserts with note re these changes: "These changes from the 1973 "Junkie" Ace edition have been made to restore the text to correspond with the original ms, JUNK," August 1976 with some holograph edits by JG



Box 24

Folder Number #242-246

    • A-(1 of 2 folders numbered 242) -Contains paste-up of original Ace edition with additions and corrections as well as Ginsberg introduction, "Burroughs' JUNKY" of 9 ts pp with editor's corrections and typesetter's marks for JUNKIE pp 8-94 and Preface


    • B-(2 of 2 folders numbered 242) -Contains paste-ups of Ace edition pp 95-157 and Glossary pp 14-19


  1. "Master set" and "authors set" noted in folder which contains 2 sets of JUNKY galleys for 1977 Penguin Books edition; master set heavily edited in unknown hand.


  2. Contains correspondence mainly between WSB/JG and publishers/agent from 6/25/75-4/21/77 (107 letters) re reissue of JUNKY in English and Spanish, Italian, French editions as well as Aaron's original ms for JUNKIE as well as additional material: 1- drafts of Allen Ginsberg's "Burroughs' JUNK" ms dated 9/19/76; 2- WBAI tape transcript of discussion between WSB, Ginsberg, Carl Solomon, Girodias, and JG re JUNKY March 1975 (2 drafts); 3- xerox draft of Bockris' "Penguin Releases Burroughs' JUNKY: Ten Questions" rejected by NY TIMES BOOK REVIEW; 4- xerox copy of Ginsberg's "Burroughs' JUNKY" edited by JG and news clippings of article, "'Junky' Restored" NYTBR 2/6/77; 5-Penguin press release for JUNKY (2 versions); 6- JG's "Introductory Notes for 'The Valley'" (2 drafts and holograph notes); 7- 3 copies of JUNKY, Penguin edition, publication info; 8- Kevin Scott.. "Smack!" WASHINGTON POST BOOK WORLD, 3/13/77; 9- Barry Gifford review of JUNKY for SF REVIEW OF BOOKS in ts form; letters of interest include 8/25/76 WSB-Matson re preference for JUNK as title; other letters re publishing history of JUNKY and Robert Anton Wilson's book review of BOOK OF BREEETHING in BERKELEY BARB, 10/29/76 and other publications


  3. Contains correspondence re and ms for Allen Ginsberg's "Junky: An Appreciation by Allen Ginsberg (1952)", ts excerpted from a letter from AG to Ace Books 4/12/52 with xeroxes of other letters from AG to Ace re JUNKY at that time; also holograph note by JG re errors in "Appreciation" and letters from JG to AG 4/25/77 as well as to Pam Plymell re possible use of "Appreciation" in NORTHEAST RISING SUN.


  4. Contains JG's notes on characters and synopsis of THE PLACE OF DEAD ROADS dated 3/24/83 in several drafts as well as locales for T.P.O.D.R. 8/19/83; includes holograph notes by WSB; statement re title; misc. ms material with edits by JG and WSB some labelled "TPODR Editing Remnants 4/16/83"; road maps of Colorado, Wyoming, Missouri, Arizona, and New Mexico.



Box 25

Folder Number #247-248

    • A-(1 of 3 & in 3 folders) "T.P.O.D.R. final draft as published p 1-149" noted on folder (note that 247 is in final draft book form and corresponds to rearranged synopsis in 246) and dated 4/18/83 with pencil edits and notes by JG; ts copy with page numbers stamped (some ts pp numbered out of order).
    • B-(2 of 3) "T.P.O.D.R. final draft as published p. 150-299" noted on folder and edits by JG; page numbers stamped as above.
    • C-(3 of 3) "T.P.O.D.R. final draft, as published p. 300-475" noted on folder and as above 2 folders

    • A-(1 of 8 & in 8 folders) Note that all 8 folders in 248 and 249 are inscribed "T.P.O.D.R.-WSB Assembly Copy" and correspond to synopsis in 246; some additions included here and in book are not included in 247; they are xeroxes of ts with WSB edits and cut and pastes with pp numbered 1-112 by WSB.
    • B-(2 of 8)Xerox ts with WSB edits, numbered 113-173 by WSB and note "174-183 out"
    • C-(3 of 8)Xerox ts with WSB edits, numbered 184-244 by WSB
    • D-(4 of 8) Xerox ts with WSB edits, numbered 244-317 by WSB



Box 26

Folder Number #249-262

  1. continue from Box 25
    • E-(5 of 8)Xerox ts with WSB edits, numbered 318-389 by WSB
    • F-(6 of 8) Xerox ts with WSB edits, numbered 390-431 by WSB
    • G-(7 of 8) Xerox ts with WSB edits, numbered 432-480 by WSB
    • H-(8 of 8)Xerox ts with WSB edits, numbered 481-564 by WSB

  2. Note that much of the material in folders 250-254 labelled T.P.O.D.R. contains draft material of this work prior to draft in 247, for example p 1 of folder corresponds to p. 45 of final version of T.P.O.D.R.; contains draft of ms re The Johnson Family


  3. "TPODR J.F. (Johnson Fam) summary" noted on folder which contains mostly xerox ts of summary of info about Johnson Family with Kim Carson as protagonist; section titled, "The Johnson Family"


  4. Draft xerox ts ms re Colonel Sutton-Smith; appears to include summary information


  5. Contains holograph ms re Kim, some pages dated 1/26-1/29/79; some material re Col. Sutton-Smith


  6. Draft ts and xerox ms as well as 2 pp of cut-ups; draft ts of the Baron section


  7. Draft xerox ts ms of 2 sections: "Quien Es?" and "The Long Journey"


  8. Contains blue folder labelled "THE GAY GUN William S. Burroughs (early partial draft, 2 Jan 78)" with liquifax copy which partially corresponds to T.P.O.D.R.; also selections from Charles Henri Ford's BLUES 10


  9. Draft xerox ts of "The Nixer"


  10. Contains holograph notes with some pp dated 10/29, 10/30, 11/12/77 and draft ms titled "The Gay Gun" (mostly ts and carbons)


  11. "CREATION OF ADAM Junky files (4)" noted on folder (note that THE CREATION OF ADAM, earlier title was JUNK SUBWAY, refers to a projected title for a film based on JUNKIE; this folder contains 4 files: 1- ts and carbon draft of Mexican segment of script; 2- ts, xerox and cut and paste with title "Last Synopsis THE CREATION OF ADAM"; 3- Final Treatment "The Creation of Adam" with summary ts and carbon and 1 p holograph by WSB; 4- ts ms of 1st and and 2nd synopsis of "Junk Subway").


  12. Contains "Final Treatment of 'The Creation of Adam'" bound in folder by WSB, assisted by Jacques Stern with holograph edits by WSB and JS, dated, 8/27/75


  13. Correspondence re "The Creation of Adam mainly Matson and Stern" from 7/8/75-8/13/75 (7 letters)


  14. "The Creation of Adam. From 2nd treatment to 1st scenario treatment" noted on folder which contains xerox and ts carbon pp as well as cut and paste, mostly Stern's edits.



Box 27

Folder Number #263-268

  1. "THE CREATION OF ADAM, Note/Sketch book: THE EVEN SONGS OF ECSTASY" noted on folder which contains a notebook in holograph by Jacques Stern re the Tarot


  2. "THE CREATION OF ADAM Summary of Final Treatment" noted on folder which contains preliminary xerox with edits bound in folder dated 7/30/78 and 10/13/78


  3. Contains 2 xerox copies, one incomplete of 264 with letter of revision by Matson dated 8/25/75 and holograph notes by Stern


  4. Contains envelope with cassette tape labelled "WSB & Jacques Stern" and "Technical Notes on filming of Creation of Adam"


  5. Correspondence re JUNKY movie between Matson and WSB/JG from 3/2/77-5/15/77 (5 letters) and xerox ts statement on film probably by WSB or JG, 5/11/77


  6. "JUNKY MOVIE JG records, corresp." noted on folder which contains mostly JG notes and memos as well as correspondence dated 2/28/77-6/6/77 re agreements for JUNKY movie as well as book reissue; of interest is summary of publicity re JUNKY 3/5/77; folder includes carbon of movie statement as in 267



Box 28

Folder Number #269-278

  1. "Junky Movie, corresp.-pics (junky movie-File #2)" noted on folder which contains memos, notes, correspondence and budget dated 5/22/77-8/12/77 with photos of possible actors and xeroxes from HIGH TIMES and TIME re movie plans; of interest are letters from JG -WSB 8/10,8/11/77 re project problems and WSB response approving of JG's script


  2. "Junky Movie-File #3" contains misc. notes, correspondence, photos mainly to or from JG 8/20/77-11/5/77 (15 letters); note that letters deal mainly with JG's script


  3. "Junky Movie-File #4" contains correspondence re stage and screen production of JG's script of JUNKY entitled BILL LEE from 11/10/77-8/21/81 (38 letters); also contains xerox of BERKELEY BARB interview with Patti Smith, "Patti Smith Talks of Junk Food and junkie" of 6/1/78 and article on Dennis Hopper from NEW TIMES 10/2/78, "Rebel without Pause"


  4. Contains clippings re Terry Southern, Dennis Hopper, and Laszlo Kovacs from 60's and early 70's


  5. Contains JG's script of beginning scenes of JUNKY dated 4/12/77; WSB, Dennis Hopper and Terry Southern script (several copies) of beginning as well as WSB's treatment outline edited by him; xeroxes of sections of Stern/WSB CREATION OF ADAM; as well as 9 pp holograph notes in WSB's and JG's hand dated 8/15/77


  6. Contains early draft of material in 273 in ts and carbon with WSB's edits


  7. Contains notes and drafts for JG's script including xerox of "Locations Found in JUNKY" and 13 pp of holograph notes by JG; also section of notes titled "withdrawl notes" and 3 pp xerox of Kerouac's "Dave" and 7 pp xerox of Alloway, "Violent America" sources unknown


  8. Contains xerox drafts dated 4/12/77 with revision of 5/13/77 and one section marked "latest" contains numbered pp 1-55 and 68-78; there are about 7 partial sections; file also contains 1 copy of Penguin 1977 edition of JUNKY with notations in JG's hand in red and black


  9. "Junky First draft" noted on folder which contains some notes re JUNKY script and misc. draft pages and synopsis of action with WSB's notes; one section titled "Junky" begins on subway; several pages cut-ups; one section, "Withdrawl Notes"


  10. "Hand written junky notes" noted on folder which contains notes and illustrations in WSB's hand and 1 page by JG dated Feb and March 1977



Box 29

Folder Number #279-286

  1. Contains misc ts and carbon pp re opium addiction with 1 p, cut-ups and 5 pp holograph notes by WSB; material in this folder is similar to "The Last Junky" in THE ADDING MACHINE


  2. Contains holograph notes by Stern and budget and synopsis


  3. Contains early draft dated 5/25/77 and 8/15/77 with parallel texts including Terry Southern's draft, JG's notes, WSB's notes


  4. same as 281 but bound


  5. Contains notebook with xeroxes of WSB draft material


  6. Contains JUNKY screenplay by Southern and WSB dated 5/25/77, same as Southern/WSB half of parallel texts in 281, 282


  7. Contains 2 copies (xerox and ts and xerox) of JUNKY 7/11/77 "final version of treatment" of screenplay by WSB, Southern, Hopper, Stern with extra material from THE CREATION OF ADAM


  8. "NAKED JUNK J Grauerholz drafts" noted on folder which contains 2 copies of version of NAKED JUNK screenplay by JG and Southern dated 7/25 and 7/29/77 one with holograph notes by JG; note on envelope of 1 copy: "Naked Junk (early draft BILL LEE) scs. 1-41"



Box 30

Folder Number #287-292

  1. Same as 284 but Hopper is also given credit on the draft


  2. Same as 285 - 1 copy


  3. Contains xerox 1st draft 5/25/77 with edits by JG


  4. Same as 299 but without annotations and dated 5/25/77; however authors have been changed to Southern and WSB


  5. Contains draft similar to NAKED JUNK version in 286 but titled BILL LEE and dated 8/4/77 1st Draft; this is corrected version of 286 and has appendices 1-4; folder also contains memos and notes re JUNKY characters from 9/19/84 and 1/11/85 and xerox of WSB-JG letter of 8/12/77 approving JG's script


  6. "Transcripts of Conversations with Bockris-Wylie 3 May 74, 9 May 74" noted on folder containing xerox ts of interviews on above dates; parts of interviews appear in WITH WILLIAM BURROUGHS A REPORT FROM THE BUNKER



Box 31

Folder Number #293-302

  1. Contains 8 Bockris interviews all in xerox form: "I Defend Myself Now" (Muhammad Ali), "The Egos of Heroes" (Allen Ginsberg), "Christopher Isherwood Meets William Burroughs," "First Meetings: One Day in Memories from the Files of William Burroughs," "Interview with Mick Jagger," " Please My Hat is Here," (Salvador Dali), "People Should just Make Money, Not Love," (Andy Warhol), "I Should Have Been a Soldier," (Nicholas Roeg)


  2. "1st May 77-Hotel Elysee WSB/Tennessee Williams" note in folder which contains 6 WSB/Williams contact sheets dated 5/1/77 and transcript of WSB/Williams interview, "Orpheus Holds His Own" dated 5/1/77


  3. "WSB/Tennessee Williams (Village Voice, 11 May 77)" note in folder and contains misc. notes by JG as well as ts introductory notes by WSB re interview, xerox draft of WSB/TW interview "Orpheus Holds Her Own" dated 5/6/77; drafts of JG intro to interview dated 5/9/77; NY TIMES review of VIEUX CARRE by TW dated 5/8/77, "I am Widely Regarded as the Ghost of a Writer'"; TIME 5/23/77, "Down and Out in N.O." review of VIEUX CARRE and VOICE 5/30/77 review of VIEUX CARRE, "The Gang's All Here"


  4. Contains obituary notices re Williams in NY TIMES 2/26/83; LA TIMES 2/26/83; SF CHRONICLE 2/26/83; LAWRENCE JOURNAL-WORLD 2/27/84


  5. "Constanza Allione WSB Interview from Boulder Summer '78" noted on folder which contains 2 copies of interview transcript, one edited


  6. Contains xerox of Bockris ms (some of this ms appears in WITH WILLIAM BURROUGHS folder also includes 3 pp holograph by JG, "Notes: On Bockris"; "Conversation with Wm. Burroughs" dated 9/4/79 (note that some of this interview material also appears in "First Meetings" folder 293)


  7. Contains 2 drafts labeled "Transcript 1st Side One" edited by WSB and 1 draft "Burroughs Transcripts 2nd Tape"


  8. "(full transcript)" noted in folder which contains ts of "William Burroughs Rolling Stone Magazine Sides 1 & 2" and ts of "William Burroughs Sides 3 & 4"


  9. Contains carbon letter dated 11/14/79 WSB - Charles Ruas re permission to use transcript of conversation between WSB, Girodias, Ginsberg, Salomon, JG from Fall 1974; also contains ts xerox of transcript


  10. Contains ts ms dated 3/27/79 of interview between WSB and Patti Smith



Box 32

Folder Number #303-315

  1. Contains xerox of interview of AG re WSB and 5/27/73 holograph letter from Block to AG re interview which also deals with Bob Dylan and Emmett Grogan


  2. "Lucien Carr Interview 6/ Feb 1977" noted in folder which contains ts xerox with WSB's deletions sent to Lawrence Lee for use with JACK'S BOOK


  3. Contains corrected version of 304 xeroxed interview dated 11/30/77 corrected (red pen edits by JG and LC's black edits); also includes consent form for use in Kerouac bio and letter from St. Martin' Press-L. Carr, 11/16/77


  4. "Rec'd by LC 11/28/77 and marked by him and JG" noted on folder which contains preliminary edit of transcript in 305


  5. "Victor Bockris & William Burroughs: A Profile THE NEW REVIEW Vol. 3. no 25" and "Published 1 Apr 76" noted in folder which includes xeroxes of chapters 1,2,and 3 of Bockris' "William Burroughs: A Profile" with edits by JG; much of this material appears in early form in 298


  6. Contains WSB Intro to this work in 2 copies of drafts; also xerox ms by Beach, "The Electric Banana"


  7. "Book Proposal A PASSPORT FOR WILLIAM BURROUGHS by Victor Bockris Rec'd 1 June 77" noted in folder which contains xerox ts ms with edits by JG; note that some excerpts from this piece are from 298


  8. Contains xerox ts and holograph ms, "Egyptian Poem Suite" in 5 parts by Ray Bremser


  9. Contains xerox of WSB, JR. ms PRAKRITI JUNCTION in 3 parts: Synopsis of PJ; Book II, the Notes, and Book III, Pomes


  10. Contains original ts ms of PRAKRITI JUNCTION with holograph letter by Allen Ginsberg of 3/30/77 re PJ


  11. "52 pgs Mar 2/77 rec'd" noted in folder which contains 2 ms pieces: xerox of untitled Reich piece and "Review of John Tytell's NAKED ANGELS for GRADIVA"


  12. Contains early ts xerox draft of ms in 313 with envelope dated/stamped 1/26/77


  13. Contains original book jacket for Grove Press edition of JOURNALS: EARLY FIFTIES, EARLY SIXTIES and xerox of PUBLISHERS WEEKLY review as well as xerox of ts and holograph pp of ms, Allen Ginsberg, EARLY JOURNALS 1952-1962 ed. by Gordon Ball (1st 151 pp only)



Box 33

Folder Number #316-321

  1. Same as in 315 but pp 152-369 of AG, JOURNALS


  2. Same as in 315 but pp 370-530 of AG, JOURNALS


  3. "Gordon Lish's edit from ALLEN GINSBERG JOURNALS c. 60 pps rec'd Feb 77" noted in folder which contains xerox pp from above 3 folders with edits by Lish


  4. Contains xerox ts ms, "Suicide Sutra" by John Giorno of 1974 with frontispiece inscribed, "To William and the heart of the matter Love John"


  5. Contains 2 xerox ts ms by Girodias: "President Kissinger" and "The Ecoregion and the Politics of Happiness" dated 5/2/77 with appendices consisting of xeroxes of news articles on ecology


  6. Contains xerox ts ms of Herbert Huncke, GUILTY OF EVERYTHING with 5 pp by WSB,"Prefatory Notes for GUILTY OF EVERYTHING by Herbert Huncke"



Box 34

Folder Number #322-324

  1. Contains Allen Ginsberg xerox ts ms dated 1973, "On Huncke's Book," and WSB, "Prefatory Notes for GUILTY by HH" ts carbon dated 3/8/76 as well as GUILTY OF EVERYTHING xeroxes of Huncke ms edited by JG?


  2. "Rec'd Jan 14 1977" noted in folder which contains xerox ts ms by Ed Saunders, "No Excuses" with edits


  3. Contains xerox ts ms of Ed Saunders, DOM-INT dated 1977



Box 35

Folder Number #325-331

  1. Contains expanded xerox ts version of DOM-INT ms of 324 with consecutive pagination


  2. (1 of 3) Contains xerox ts ms by Hubert Selby, Jr, REQUIEM FOR A DREAM pp 1-124

  3. (2 of 3) Same as in 326 but pages 125-224

  4. (3 of 3)Same as in 326 but pages 225-354


  5. Contains xerox ts ms bound in folder by Terry Southern, BEYOND THE GRASSY KNOLL


  6. Contains 2 copies each of 2 drafts of Washburn's "Gone with Lola Pozo," (preliminary draft edited by JG dated 1/5/77 and copy of edited draft in ts, all other copies xerox)


  7. Contains xerox ts ms, "The Stars of Silver City" section of ANY NUMBER CAN PLAY



Box 36

Folder Number #332-348

  1. Contains checklist of the works of Pelieu as well as xerox ts ms, ROOM FULL OF MIRRORS, "The Last Interview in Black and White," and "Introduction by Miles"


  2. Contains Washburn ms, in ts carbon or xerox form: 2 versions of "Room Full of Mirrors," (one is copy of version in 332), excerpts from DARK TIDES AND SILENT SPEAKERS , "Space Oddity, "A Suicide That Smacked of Murder," "A Very Private Place"


  3. Contains ts ms "Random Notes on Claude Pelieu-Washburn's Works" and Washburn ts ms "The Ginger Connection" and "Room Full of Mirrors (same as 333 version), "Additional pix for 'TGC' Part One & Part Two"


  4. "Claude P. Washburn - copies of mss" noted on folder which contains 5/29/84 inventory of folder and xeroxes of Washburn ms: "Room Full of Mirrors," "Deep End," "The People Next Door," "Dark Tides and Silent Speakers," " Blood of Silver," "Death is the Hunter"


  5. Contains two ts and ts carbon essays by Grahame White: "Picaresque Transfigurations: William Burroughs, Criminal Writer" and "William Burroughs: Tel Quel"


  6. Same as folder 549, in the "Green Box"


  7. Same as folder 335


  8. "Brion Gysin-Terry Wilson Interview Planet R-101- Here to Go" noted in folder which contains xerox ts ms including "Goodnight Eileen," "Off the Couch," Terminal Tourist," "Making it Happen-The Process," "Gimme the Keys," "The Torso of 1960," "Mekhtoub," and "The End (Planet R-101)" (note that this ms corresponds to HERE TO GO: PLANET R-101, published in 1982)


  9. Contains Gysin xerox ts ms, "The Fire" dated 12/29/75


  10. DREAMACHINE catalogue for Gysin's dreamachine produced in Switzerland


  11. Correspondence from Paul Bowles to B Gysin ts with holograph signatures from 9/16/80-2/12/85 (8 letters)


  12. Correspondence from Ira Cohen to B Gysin 1980-1985, all holograph (11 letters/postcards)


  13. Correspondence from Allen Ginsberg to B Gysin from 3/12/83-1/11/85, all holograph (5 letters/postcards)


  14. Correspondence from John Giorno to B Gysin ts with holograph signatures from 5/25/81-4/26/82 (4 letters) and postcard from Giorno, WSB, JG, Ginsberg July 1984


  15. Correspondence from Steve Lacy to B Gysin from 10/9/80-8/14/85 (10 postcards)


  16. Correspondence from Ted Morgan to B Gysin ts and holograph from 1982-84 (5 letters)


  17. Gysin's holograph notebook with dream records and journal entries of daily happenings for 1976 with postcards and commentary on Tangier; also contains commentary on Ira Cohen's poem, "Where the Heart Lies" for BG and "Image Track for 3RD MIND"



Box 37

Folder Number #349-351

  1. Gysin's holograph notebook for 1977 with dreams, Tangier commentary and postcards, photo by Ira Cohen, list of museums which collect his art, permutations, sections entitled "Le Dermier Musee 1973-1977," "Lettres a Rennes,"


  2. Gysin's holograph notebook with notes for "The Beat Hotel," "Day's Bar," "Desert Devorant," "Notes for the B.G. Show," "Plans for the Tape Poem Where's That Word"


  3. Gysin's holograph notebook with dreams, clippings, Tangier commentary and postcards, Perm Poem, photos of BG and news clippings re Nova Convention



Box 38

Folder Number #352-354

  1. Gysin's holograph notebook with dreams, remembrances, Tangier stories, and photos of Moroccan musicians


  2. Gysin's holograph notebook with photos of BG, WSB, news clippings, and sections entitled, "Billy Taylor in Down Beat," "The Museum"


  3. Gysin's holograph notebook with photos of BG and WSB, additional notes for Beat Hotel, section titled "Social Amoebae"



Box 39

Folder Number #355-362

  1. Gysin's holograph notebook with stop smoking songs, poem on Beat Hotel, commentary on Gottlieb painting, photos of BG and his paintings, section entitled "Writing," which ends with quote from Egyptian Book of the Dead


  2. Correspondence between B Gysin (7 holograph) and WSB (11 ts car) in 1974, including 2 letters from WSB re C.O.T.R.N.


  3. Correspondence between B Gysin (16 holograph and ts) and WSB (27 ts car) and a few letters from Ian and Felicity; 2 letters from WSB re C.O.T.R.N. and 2 pp WSB cut-ups; 3 letters on 3RD MIND from WSB; WSB xerox ts ms, "La Chute de l'Art"


  4. Correspondence between B Gysin (15 holograph) and WSB (17 ts car) and JG (2 ts), including BG's "Roller Poem," 1975; review of NOVA EXPRESS in LE NOUVEL OBSERVATEUR by Jerome Binde; 2 letters from WSB re tape experiments; and note on 3RD MIND translation


  5. Correspondence between WSB (11 ts car) and B Gysin (9 holograph), 1 letter from WSB re "Gay Gun," and 1 letter from WSB re "Bugger the Queen"; also xerox article from LIBERATION, "W.S. Burroughs in Paris," 6 July 1977


  6. Correspondence between B Gysin (14 holograph) and WSB (12 ts carbon) including 2 letters from WSB re writing


  7. Correspondence from JG (16 ts) (most re publication projects) and WSB (8 ts and holograph) to BG as well as holograph letter from Ginsberg to BG; also contains WSB ms, "Foreword to BEAT HOTEL by Harold Norse"; BG ms, "The Beat Hotel"; WSB ms ts preface for CAT INSIDE; misc. photos; of interest is one letter re anti-Semitism


  8. Correspondence from WSB (23 ts) and JG (2 ts) to B Gysin; several letters re WSB's request for BG illustrations for THE CAT INSIDE and comments re WESTERN LANDS and T.P.O.D.R. as well as WSB ms ts scrapbook statement; also contains John Updike's review of PORT OF SAINTS, "Dark Smile, Devilish Saints," from NEW YORKER, 8/11/80; WSB's chap book, RUSKI, 35/500 limited edition, from Hand-job Press, NY, 1984



Box 40

Folder Number #363-380

  1. Correspondence from JG-WSB from 3/11/75-8/29/81 (68 letters mostly carbon) and WSB from 12/11/75-4/9/81 (16 letters ts); also letters to and from JG and Cabell Hardy; also contains Edmund White, "Sweating Mirrors," from AFTER DARK, Sept 1980; typed excerpt from Patti Smith interview in BERKELEY BARB from 5/26/78; news clippings: "Cultist Followed Friends in Suicide" and "Anti-feminist Leader Claims God on Her Side," 8/9/80; letters of interest include 9/80 letter from WSB on writer's block


  2. Correspondence from JG-WSB (32 ts) most of which are originals of carbons in 363 hence duplicates and 2 letters 8/10 and 8/11/77 re JUNKY movie; also contains xerox copy of letter from WSB-Kerouac from 5/21/55 (7 pp); 1 xerox ts ms by WSB, "The Baron Says These Things," June 1978


  3. "Enclosures in letters from James" noted in folder which contains correspondence from JG-WSB from 8/4/77-9/28/78 (78 letters), many of which as original letters exist in other files; many are carbons and most have to do with WSB publications or appearances; folder also includes lp xerox ms by WSB, "815 Circle Drive"


  4. "Western and book list 1st drafts Mules-C31" noted on folder which contains misc. ts and carbon ms with holograph edits; 1 p comments on Wordsworth; some pp deal with Kim; some pp with the Baron piece; sections entitled: "Sticky Kid Stuff," and "The Lemon Kid"


  5. Contains 13 ts pp with holograph edits re victim date book


  6. Contains 21 pp some holograph pp, probably dream notes dated 9/14/79-12/24/79, 1/28/78, 2/4/80; other misc. ts pp with holograph edits on writing and 1 p early draft "Bugger the Queen"


  7. "Readings Ah Pook plus 1st draft of Benway for Abbie Hoffman benefit and Part Time" noted on folder-which contains misc. ts and carbon ms including ts carbon cut-up dated 6/6/75 and ts xerox of "The Private Ass Hole" as well as 1 p carbon "Where Naked Troubadours Shot Snotty Baboons"


  8. Contains Briggs initiative (anti-gay campaign) ephemera and news clippings from California newspapers from 1978 re Briggs as well as several Buzz Sawyer cartoons and news articles titled. "Reports on Synanon Probed" from LA TIMES, "Creatures Beyond Fathom of Science,"
    and "The Collector," ROLLING STONE article on Peter Beard, 11/78


  9. "Drafts of Cities Re-Write" noted on folder which contains ts pp half xerox and 1 p holograph sections titled: "Screen Play Part I," "The Unconscious imitated by cheesecake," "Animals in the Wall," "I Demand our authorities," "Obligate cellular parasite"


  10. "The Adding Machine - chapter heads" noted on folder which contains misc ts and holograph pp (8 with 1 dated 3/16/78) referring to C.O.T.R.N.; also misc. book titles noted not in WSB's hand such as THE GREEN CHILD, THE GOLEM, THE KIN OF ATA, Bukowski works


  11. Contains news clippings: Book Review TIME 3/10/80 of MAUGHAM by Ted Morgan; horoscopes, "Omar Reads the Stars," "Critic's Notebook: Berenice Abbott," NY TIMES 7/9/79; article on Colorado Associated University Press, "Novelist Feels Murder, Book Link Coincidence" from DAILY CAMERA 8/30/79; also lists of books not in WSB's hand


  12. "Play Girl article first draft and also Truth and Necronomicon intro" noted on folder which contains misc ts and carbon ms and 3 pp holograph; 1 p dated 10/2/76; material in folder relates to ADDING MACHINE (TAM) essay, "Woman A Biological Mistake," and "On Coincidence"


  13. Contains ts and holograph pp re Briggs anti-gay rights


  14. Contains misc ts and carbon ms and 1 p holograph


  15. Contains misc ts, carbon, and xerox pp and includes "Dedication"


  16. Contains misc ts and xerox ms pp


  17. Contains magazine articles: "W.S. Burroughs in Paris," from LIBERATION 7/6/77; xeroxes from ROCK SCENE Sept. 77; cover of Grove Press edition of NAKED LUNCH; misc. ephemera


  18. Contains misc ts, carbon, and xerox pp with 5 pp holograph, "Paris Please Stay the Same"; see TAM, "Light Reading," and "Paris Please Stay the Same"



Box 41

Folder Number #381-390

  1. Contains "A Conversation with Frank Zappa," from OUI and misc. ephemera

  2. Contains mainly correspondence to WSB (7 letters from 3-9/79); letter of interest from JG-Gerard-Georges Lemaire re WSB's lectures and essays; also contains ts ms and holograph, "Freud and the Unconscious;" see TAM, "On Freud and the Unconscious," and "On Coincidence"


  3. Contains misc ts pp with holograph edits with Kim as protagonist


  4. Contains photos of friends (Ian Sommerville) and includes photos of FDR and news article re justice Potter Stewart


  5. Contains misc ts ms pp with sections entitled: "Notes on Time Travel," "The Johnson Family," and notes on Communism


  6. Contains news clippings on Scientology and religious cults such as Synanon


  7. "Mob, Nukes, death squad, Moonies, rumors, body snatching" noted on folder which contains news clippings


  8. "Thursday May 18, 1978," noted on folder which contains clippings, some cartoons


  9. Contains misc news clippings re nuclear radiation problems; also 1 p ts cut-up


  10. "Current notes related to J.F., dreams, sketches" noted on folder which contains about 13 letters to WSB from May 1979; also xerox article by Robert Anton Wilson, "The Arts" book review of 3RD MIND from OMNI, March 1979



Box 42

Folder Number #391-409

  1. "Clippings-Beats in U.S.S.R., Kim Ryan, self immolation, Boy back from dead" noted on folder which contains misc. news clippings on these and other topics as well as newspaper photos depicting basketball players, airplane crashes, etc. as well as note of Patty Hearst kidnapping; clippings dated June-Sept 1974; March, Sept, Oct 1978; April-May 1979


  2. "Scrap book coincidence, fluxes" noted on folder which contains misc news clippings re plane crashes, natural and technological disasters, and Aztec sacrifice dated from Feb 1977, Dec 1978, April 1981


  3. "Copy material from Place of Dead Roads" noted on folder which contains misc xerox pages and 1 p ts; sections entitled: "The Baron Says These Things," "Progressive Education," and Viva Les Bouffres!"


  4. "The C.I.A. Script" noted on folder which contains clippings and 3 pp ts re CIA, Secret Service Agents and JFK Assassination, Army and Nerve Gas dated from Jan 1979, 11/14/79, and Jan 1981


  5. "Gay Gun first drafts column xerox" noted on folder which contains misc xerox,ts and holograph ms sections titled: "The Gay Gun," "My Own Business"


  6. Contains images of male youth primarily sports figures; Steve Roper and Mike Nomad cartoons; news clippings on youth violence, suicide from 1977-78


  7. Contains envelope with cut out headlines, one dated May 14, 1978; includes Zaire rebels, church collapse, Nazi Bookstore; also 2 pp ts dated May 22, 1978 re dream and commentary


  8. "23 & 52" noted on folder which contains headlines or images featuring numbers 23 or 52, dated Sept. 1978, May 1979, Dec 1980, March 1981


  9. "Friends" noted on folder of clippings which include Stan Brakhage, Chogyam Trungpa, Cynthia Mac Adam, Kate Millet, Timothy Leary, Naropa artists, etc. from 1978, 79, and 81 and Charles Henri Ford interview by Clive Philpot and Lynne Tillman dated Dec 1980 from Franklin Furnace FLUE; "Bewitched Bothered, Bewildered and Beat" by Alphonse Simonaitis; Victor Bockris article, "The Last Photograph of Tom Forcade"


  10. "Special Items" noted on folder which contains clippings dating from 1979, 80, and 81 depicting scenes from the past such as amusement parks, Indian caves; also cartoons; 1976 news clipping, "Homosexual Pirates"


  11. Contains misc ts ms dated 2/5/1914 and August 8; 2 pp cut-ups (one page of which is dreams) and news clippings on "CU Runners"


  12. Contains misc ts and carbon ms


  13. "Endorphine anti-viral drug, Rabies, lie detector" noted on folder which contains misc. clippings from 1977 and 78 as well as articles: "Epidemic" from PENTHOUSE by Ingrid Frank and George Richardson; 2 copies of LEM0ND 10/15/81, "Story-picture," with article on WSB, "Un damne de l'ecriture"; article from GLOBE AND MAIL, "Ginsberg a Man for all Decades" from 9/5/81


  14. "Story and picture" noted on folder which contains misc. clippings on car crashes and bombings as well as nuclear protest


  15. Contains newspaper photos of athletes, boys, cartoons ("Encyclopedia Brown") from October 1978 and Dec 1979


  16. Contains misc ms material, mostly holograph, 1 p titled, "His Father's Picture" and 1 p dated May 1, 1981, probably re T.P.O.D.R.


  17. "Scrapbook material, youth" noted on folder which contains misc. clippings re youth and 3 b/w photos of WSB


  18. "Letters to the editor" noted on folder and another notation, "Animals, sharks etc." which contains clippings dated 1977 and 1978


  19. "Mis" noted on folder which contains misc clippings re horoscope, cartoons, etc. from 1979, as well as clippings re heroin, marijuana from May-July 1981; note that this folder contains 2 files (one as above and one entitled "THE ADDING MACHINE - flyers") with flyers and ephemera re WSB appearances and records as well as Bockris interview, "Victor Bockris: Positives" by Terence Sellers from VACATION magazine, Summer 1981



Box 43

Folder Number #410-424

  1. Contains misc clippings from June and July 1981


  2. Contains PR material for Red Ozier Press publication of WSB's "The Streets of Chance" in 1981; a chapter from THE SOFT MACHINE of 1968


  3. Contains an article by WSB, "Ce Appartient aux Concombes: Au sujet des Voix Enregistres de Raudive," written 27 July 1976, from "It Belongs to the Cucumbers"


  4. Contains a copy of "The Burroughs File" by Victor Bockris, 1979 inscribed by Bockris to WSB; additional 4 pp letter from Bockris-WSB xeroxed and inserted in xerox of book


  5. Contains copy of "Fish Farming in Your Solar Greenhouse" by William Head and Jon Splane, Amity Foundation 1979


  6. Contains WSB piece, "The Literary Techniques of Lady Sutton-Smith," 2 copies ts and carbon and note in JGs hand, "publ. T.L.S. 6 Aug 64"


  7. "Sept 77" noted on folder which contains 2 ts pieces, one titled "My Own Business" with holograph edits and untitled ts with WSB edits on victimless crime; also xerox re MOB in SIGMA PORTFOLIO #37, "The Original MOB statement" of 2 pp


  8. Contains 3 drafts of WSB's "Heroin Maintenance," dated Sept. 77: preliminary drafts ts and xerox edited by WSB and JG and final draft ts carbon


  9. Contains 2 drafts of "Bugger the Queen" in ts with edits by WSB; see TAM for this essay


  10. Contains 3 copies of "Jack Kerouac" with note "7 May 74 sent to John Montgomery" of which 2 copies are ts carbon and 1 copy xerox; similar to "Remembering Jack Kerouac" in TAM


  11. Contains 16 files A-P with xerox copies of pieces for WSB's CRAWDADDY column as follows: A- "Time of the Assassins #6 variously titled "La Chute de le Mot," "Lecture 1," "La Chute de l'Art!" (noted "original version taken to Colloque de Tanger"); see TAM, "The Fall of Art"; B- material related to C.O.T.R.N., with quote, "liberal principles of the French and American revolutions"; C- Lecture #11 at CCNY rewrite for Crawdaddy Column" 15 Mar 74; D- "Lie Lie Lie" and xerox of news clipping, "The Growing Innocence of Lee Harvey Oswald"; E- contains xerox of typset column the subject of which is biologic warfare; see "In the Interest of National Security" TAM; F- "The Cure," "Time of the Assassins," #8; G- "In All Good Conscience," "Time of the Assassins" #9; H- "Sexual Conditioning" see TAM, "Sexual Conditioning" and xerox of "Sonic Dildo from OUI" by Patrick Carr; I- "The Great Glut," POP," "Mind War," and also paraphrase from John Rossman, THE MIND MASTERS; see TAM "The Great Glut," "POP and the Heroids," "Mind War"; J- "Medicine and Dreams"; K- "Cancer People"; L- 3 drafts of "Text for Screening of Robert Fulton's 'Street Film Part One' 3rd Aug 76"; M- "Les Voleurs" of Nov 76, see TAM, "Les Voleurs"; N- untitled; 0- "The Last Junky" (note that part of this material appears in TAM, "God's Own Medicine"); P- untitled (note that part of this material appears in TAM as "A Word to the Wise Guy")


  12. Contains 4 drafts of "HOW TO STOP SMOKING"; see TAM, "How You Stop Smoking"


  13. "First drafts Dreams & Medicine; Control Impasses, Ah Pook Reading" noted on folder, "Dreams and Medicine" is ts with WSB edits; see TAM, "The Limits of Control"


  14. Contains dream journal and some clippings


  15. Contains dream journal and some clippings



Box 44

Folder Number #425-435

  1. Contains Daily Reminder 1974 with birthdays noted and Daily Reminder 1975 dream diary


  2. Contains Daily Reminder 1976 dream diary and Daily Reminder 1977 dream diary


  3. Contains JG holograph ms, "Master Editing Checklist - Essays" many of which refer to TAM essays


  4. Contains 4 transcripts of CCNY lectures: Tape G, 3/20/74 (partial pp 10-13); Tape H, 3/22/74 (partial pp 5-23); Tape K, 4/17/74 (1-26), Tape N, 5/3/74 (partial pp 1-2)


  5. Note that folder contains misc ms material in 12 sections which relate to CCNY lectures in 444-448: 1- Note for proposed book of essays, LIGHT READING FOR LIGHT YEARS many of which appear in TAM; 2- " Notes from Class Transcript C-3; 3- "List of neglected works; suggested for Naropa Workshop, Fall 1976"; 4- "CCNY Lecture 1 11 Feb 74" (10 pp); 5- "Edited Version of WSB CCNY Lecture 22 Feb 74" (4 pp) and "Lecture No 5/Folder 5"; 6- "Excerpt from Lecture Notes CCNY 20 Feb 74" (8pp) "Folder 4"; 7- "Cut up Text" (sent to RELEASE mag 11 May 80) "Folder 2" and " Note on Dreams"; 8- "Comment on Willard" Folder 8 (2 pp); 9-"Magic of journalism" 13 Mar 74 Folder 10" (3 pp); 10- Folder 15 CCNY 29 Mar 74 (4 pp); 11- Untitled xerox ms with note in JG's hand, "Part of bit publ. in CO-EV QTLY 1980-81?" and holograph note "June 1978 copy for Bill from Allen G."; 12- untitled "text delivered by WSB at Pacific Film Archive 13 Nov 75" in JG's hand (in 4 drafts some edited in WSB's hand and comments on films


  6. Contains 4 pp ts and 1 p xerox, "The Name is Burroughs," and 7 pp from Archive Catalogue xeroxed (see TAM); xeroxes are edited out material of sets and routines also cut up; note in folder in JG's hand, "13 pgs unused drafts"


  7. Contains misc ms pp on cut-ups and cut-up prose


  8. Contains drafts of 2 copies edited by WSB of this pieces (see TAM)


  9. Material that was in this folder may now be in folder 434 and 435


  10. Contains partial paste-ups of reading list; also includes draft of "Why all the paranoia?" in ts with WSB edits


  11. Contains xeroxes; of 3 pieces which appear in TAM: "The Limits of Control" with note "edit sent to Claudia Buder, THE RAKE, Providence R.I. 6/2/83" and "A Word to the Wise Guy," "Time of the Assassins," August 1977; and "'Fool's Pact' Fragment" in ts ms; (note that part of this may be draft material for "The Maugham Curse" in TAM)



Box 45

Folder Number #436-444

  1. Contains several drafts of ts ms as well as clippings and brochures re guns and gun control (NRA) from March 1980, March 1987


  2. Contains drafts of 2 ms re Freud piece edited by WSB (see "On Freud and the Unconscious" in TAM for later version); and "The Drug Problem" edited by WSB with note in folder "Drug Talk and Freud"


  3. Contains correspondence and ms "The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse" which WSB presented at the 1980 Planet Earth Conference, Aix-en-Provence, France 12/14/80; essay later reprinted by Udo Breger and Sphinx Verlag magazine in German; also printed in RADAR #1 based on WSB's statement, "Time is Running Out"; correspondence mainly between Udo Breger-WSB and JG from 1/11/81-7/3/82 (16 letters);3 drafts of ms "Horsemen" piece: one xerox ts transcript from conference presentation of 23 pp; 1 typseset edited version of transcript for printing of Proceedings of the Institute of Ecotechnics for speakers, guests, friends of Ecotechnics; 2 ts versions similar to the essay in TAM of 9 pp and 4 pp "extra" ; misc. material relating to 1980 Planet Earth Conference sponsored by Institute of Ecotechnics, France; note that file also contains 6 mylar photos of WSB by Ira Cohen


  4. Contains misc ts ms with sections entitled "Language and Words," "Korzybski" with holograph drafts of 15 pp and 14 pp xerox ts; 3 pp xerox ms of Jack Kerouac ms (see TAM "Remembering Jack Kerouac")


  5. Contains 11 separately titled file folders; note in folder 1 that these files are modeled on CCNY lectures of 1973; 1- "First drafts for lectures"; draft of "Les Voleurs" and technology of writing with holograph notes and ts; 2- "First drafts lecture 4" with holograph notes and ts; 3- "Lectures 1 & 2" "Naropa Class #1 and #2 (Oct'76)"; xerox of CCNY Lecture #1 - See "Technology of Writing" (TAM); and ts Introduction and assignment (Naropa Workshop Class 2); 4- "Lecture 3" "Naropa Fall Workshop 19 Oct 76" "CCNY #4" with xerox article, "The Mechanism of dreams" by Peter Watson; and misc ts notes; 5- "Naropa Fall Workshop Class #4 (21 Oct 76)" "Exec Job"; 6- "Naropa Fall Workshop Class #5 (26 Oct 76)" "Draft Lecture Folder 8" 6 Mar 74 "The Story Conference" and misc notes; 7- "Naropa Fall Workshop Class #6 28 Oct 76" "William Burroughs' Sixth Lecture at CCNY" 27 Feb 74; and article, The Guest Word column, "Not Guilty" by Stephen King, NY TIME BR 10/24/76; 8- "Lecture #7 Naropa Fall Workshop 2 Nov 76" "List of Neglected Works" "Draft Folder 15 (CCNY, 29 Mar 74)" and misc notes; 9- "Naropa Class #9" with misc notes and news article, "Electrical Antennae Lead Sharks to Food"; 10- "Lecture 8" Naropa class with misc notes; 11- "Lecture 10 Le Fin Artifact section, Language as artifact" "Naropa Class #10" which contains sections: "Rough Sketch of William Burroughs' classes for Naropa Institute Fall 1976 (12 Oct - 8 Nov)" "Lecture #11 at CCNY 15 Mar 74 (adaptation for WSB/Naropa Wkshop Class #3, 19 Oct 76)" "Class #4 Naropa" "Class #5/Fall 76" "#8" "Introduction and assignment (Naropa Workshop, class 2)" "Recap" and "WSB#l1"


  6. Note that folder contains 2 files: 1- notes for film script writing course with ts notes and some holograph, "Tools and rules" theoretical material; 2- section titled "Bugger the Queen" and misc excerpts from C.O.T.R.N. and T.P.O.D.R.


  7. Contains "Notes on Time Travel" and misc ts ms re ESP, dreams, art and magic


    • A-(1 of 2) Contains "Contents of the WSB/CCNY File" (copy of which is in "WSB Papers Preliminary Inventory"); this sheet is correlated with contents of Box 45-444 and Box 46-445, 446, 447, 448; "Exiting Tapes of WSB/CCNY Lectures" (copy in "WSB Papers Preliminary Inventory"); "List of WSB Class Days at CCNY"; "Existing Tapes of WSB/CCNY Lectures 11 Feb to 17 May 74"; "Reading List for 313 Section 3"; "On the Quest for Unity" author unknown; clipping from ROLLING STONE review of JAWS and WATERSHIP DOWN; "Contents of the WSB CCNY file 15 Feb 75"; holograph pages in JG's hand - draft of "Contents" above
    • B-(2 of 2) Folder contains 11 separate file folders: 1- "Lecture 1 1978" with notes re Stephen King, THE SHINING and news clipping, "Murder Suspect 'Saw` Father Butcher Children"; 2- "Reading Course 1st drafts" contains "list of neglected works"; suggested for Naropa Workshop, Fall 1976; and other misc ts; 3- "Notes for lectures" and in JG's hand: "Creative reading Summer 1979 Naropa"; misc notes some holograph on Conrad and Fitzgerald; book lists; "Exercises in Awareness" and news article, "'Looking' Exceeds 'Seeing'" by Larry Caldwell; 4- "Lecture 2" with misc notes in ts; xerox of WSB piece, "The Burroughs Review of 'The Process'"; 5- "Book List"; Creative Reading Lists with Classics Best-Sellers, Science Fiction, and Non-Fiction Books; 6- "Reading Course Materials"; xerox of "Chandler on the Mystery Novel" from CHANDLER ON THE CRAFT OF WRITING and draft of book list with misc notes; 7- "Boulder" "Creative Reading" and misc notes in ts; 8- "Lecture 1"; and misc notes re reading in ts on Jim and Gatsby, Fitzgerald and Conrad; 9- "Lecture III" and misc notes in ts as well as clippings: "Panel Urged to lift Ban on Contraceptive Shots" and "Vacine Being Developed to Combat Tooth Decay"; 10- misc ts some of which appear to be cut-ups; 11- misc ts on films, camera, and tape recorders


  8. Contains 4 files in folder. 1- "11 Feb 74" "WSB CCNY Lecture No 1 Feb 74" (edited) and several drafts some in holograph similar to "Technology of Writing" in TAM; 2- " 13 Feb 74" "Lie detector material" noted on folder, "Feb 15th Tape: A" "The Literary Techniques of Lady Sutton-Smith" "Language and Literature of the Supernatural" flyer for NEW SOLIDARITY - "Press Must Help Labor Committee Attempt to Save Ms. Hearst's Life"; 3- "15 Feb 74" "lie detector material" noted on folder, "CCNY Lectures Tape A Feb 15th" which discusses lie detectors; some draft material and xerox from NEWSWEEK from 7/23/73, "The Stress Test-Who's Lying?"; 4- "20 Feb 74" "Draft of Lecture Text (20 Feb 74)" of which there are several drafts



Box 46

Folder Number #445-449

  1. Contains 4 files in folder numbered consecutively from, 444: 5- "22 Feb 74" in 4 sections, 3 of which are labeled: Tape D 2/22/74, Peter Stamos; Tape C 22 Feb 74, Peter Seaton; Tape B Feb 22 (there are 3 version of the same lecture); 6- "27 Feb 74" in 2 sections, one labeled Tape E 2/27, Peter Stamos (these are 2 versions of the same lecture); 7- "1 Mar 74" in 3 sections , 2 labeled: Tape D, 1 Mar 74, Peter Stamos; Tape C 1 Mar 74 (sections appear to be similar or versions of each other); 8- "6 Mar 74" in 3 sections, 2 of which are labeled: Tape F 3/6/74 and Recorded 3/6/74 (versions of same lecture) and Best Sellers Story Conference (note that proper names following tapes probably refer to tape transcription)


  2. Contains 5 files in folder numbered consecutively from 444: 9- "8 Mar 74" in 3 sections: "Technology of technology" ( Mar 74); "March 8 CCNY #9" (these are 2 versions of each other) and "Tape F 3/8/74, Seaton"; 10- "13 Mar 74" misc 7 pp containing "A Review of the Reviewers"; NEW YORKER review of WSB's EXTERMINATOR!, 11/19/74; xerox of news articles, "FBI Agents Found in Closet in 'Gainesville 8' Courthouse"; 11- " 15 Mar 74" in 3 sections and misc pp: Lecture #11 at CCNY 15 Mar 74 and copy of this and version of it, Tape E 3/13/74, Peter Stamos; 12- "20 Mar 74" in 3 sections: "Tape G 3/20/74 CCNY #12" and 2 others unlabeled as well as cut-ups; 13- "22 Mar 74" in 3 sections: Tape 1 3/22/74, Peter Seaton and untitled version; cut-up from THE GREAT GATSBY and some other sources; Felicity Mason, "William Burroughs Speaks," and dream of 3/25/74 and cut-up of dream 3/25/74


  3. Contains 9 files in folder numbered consecutively from 444: 14- "27 Mar 74" and misc ts with sections "The Curse of King Tut" and news clipping, "The Public Art of Reshooting History" by Mary Blume from INTERNATIONAL HERALD TRIBUNE, 9/11-12/71; 15- "29 Mar 74" misc ts; 16- "3 Apr 74" misc ts (note as in most files that pages are not necessarily the same in number as in JG's table of contents); 17- "5 Apr 74" misc ts; 18- 17 Apr 74" misc ts and one section, "Horrible Discovery in Greece"; 19- " 19 Apr 74" "Tape M, April 19th, 1974" misc ts version of above and 1 holograph p; 20- "24 Apr 74" and one section "Tape L 4/24/74" and "Address to the Delaware Valley Mental Health Foundation's Symposium" misc ts; 21- "1 May 74" and 1 section "Tape N 5/1/74, Grauerholz" "Utopia" and misc ts; 22- "3 May 74" and sections "Tape N 5/3/77, Grauerholz" and misc ts


  4. Contains 4 files in folder numbered consecutively from 444: 23- "8 May 74" and section "Tape 0, Grauerholz 5/8/74" and misc ts with 1 p holograph; 24- "10 May 74" and 2 sections, "Tape P 5/10/74, Grauerholz"; and 1 draft with holograph pages; 25- "15 May 74" and 2 sections "Tape Q 5/15/74, Grauerholz" and 1 draft; 26- "17 May 74" and sections Tape Q 5/17/74, Grauerholz and misc ts/draft and xerox "Cut-ups Self-Explained" by Brion Gysin in 2 pp


  5. Contains 2 indexes to columns and titles of WSB pieces from August 1975-October 1977 for CRAWDADDY; note that some of these pieces are reprinted in TAM in edited version; some pieces are missing that are on index and some have been added to file; some of the ts ms have xerox of column attached (25 pieces in all); missing: "Lie Lie Lie," "It Belongs to the Cucumbers," "A Word to the Wise Guy"; additional: "The Mayan Codices," "La Chute de le Mot," fragment from "Les Voleurs"



Box 47

Folder Number #450-472

  1. Correspondence between ART IN AMERICA and WSB from 10/3/74-5/21/75 (7 letters and list of possible artists) re WSB article or interview with artists; also contains WSB 2 drafts ts and carbon ms, "La Chute de l'Art" and excerpt from Andre Breton, "Surrealist Situation of the Object," 1935 (note version of this piece in TAM as "The Fall of Art")


  2. Correspondence with WSB and LITTLE CAESAR and IT (INTERNATIONAL TIMES) from 2/21/79-11/6/79 (3 letters and enclosed poem, "Song for Herman" by Rene Stoute) re publication of "Bugger the Queen"; also contains ts ms "Bugger the Queen," Jan 1978 IT (note version of this in TAM)


  3. Correspondence re publication of an excerpt from 3RD MIND in CO-EVOLUTION QUARTERLY, Winter 1977/78 from 10/27-10/31/77 (2 letters); also contains pp 78-79 from CQ of "from the third mind" and pp 13-19, Allen Ginsberg and Col. Sutton Smith piece, "Nuts to Plutonium," and p 20, Anne Waldman poem, "Plutonium Chant" from a different CQ


  4. Correspondence re article on WSB by Richard Goldstein from 5/30/79-10/9/79 (4 letters)


  5. Correspondence between John Tytell, Michael Andre, WSB, Anne Waldman re Tytell's NAKED ANGELS and WSB's corrections there of from 6/27/74-6/16/76 (13 letters); also contains 2 ts ms by WSB re "Corrections for Tytell's NAKED ANGELS," Dec 75; copy of NY TIMES BOOK REVIEW for Peter Schjeldahl, NAKED ANGELS, 5/9/76


  6. Correspondence/solicitation of this piece by WSB from HARPER'S from 10/31/74-2/19/78 (6 letters); also contains carbon ms, "When Did I Stop Wanting to Be President?" and xerox of translation into German by Carl Weissner (piece appeared in HARPER'S March 1975)


  7. Note that folder contains 2 files: 1- Correspondence between Eric Keller-JG from 10/3/76-7/29/78 (14 letters) re publication of WSB Interview and "Take Nirvana" in LIGHTWORKS Magazine, Ann Arbor, MI; also contains WSB ts carbon "Interview" 11/75 from U of Michigan, issue #6; WSB xerox ts, "Take Nirvana" issues #8/9; 2- Correspondence re publication of "M.O.B." in HIGH TIMES (Dec. 1977) and BEST OF HIGH TIMES from 9/21/77-4/8/82 (4 letters); also includes WSB ts ms, "M.O.B.-My Own Business" 9/20/77; xerox of publication of "MOB" in NEW EDINBURGH REVIEW, Summer 1979; xerox bibliography of "M.O.B." from Miles/Maynard biblio


  8. Correspondence between John Montgomery-WSB re publication of WSB piece on Kerouac in HIGH TIMES from 2/28/74-5/3/79 (38 letters); xerox of John Montgomery, "Snowmelt from Yesteryears"; xerox of Carl Adkins, "Jack Kerouac: Off the Road for Good"; xerox of John Montgomery, "Introduction to KEROUAC COMPANION"; copy of MOODY STREET IRREGULARS, Vol 1 #2, Summer 1978; galleys of WSB, "Kerouac" for HIGH TIMES, 1978-79; news clipping,"Lowell man to produce movie based on life of Jack Kerouac" by Nick Carraganis from THE LOWELL SUN, 3/14/78


  9. Correspondence primarily between JG and NEW TIMES re publication of WSB's Heroin Maintenance and reprint in LOS ANGELES HERALD from 9/1/77-5/30/78 (13 letters); also possibility of excerpt from it (on endorphin) for Michael Andre's Poet's Encyclopedia


  10. Correspondence between Glenn O'Brien, OUI and WSB from 9/2/75-7/9/77 (8 letters); carbon ts ms, WSB, "Orgone Accumulators I Have Owned" dated 10/15/75 probably ran 1977; xerox of news clipping, "'Electrical cell theory' on cancer" by Dr. Anthony Michaels in DAILY TELEGRAPH, 3/31/70 (See TAM for version of this, "My Experiences with Wilhelm Reich's Orgone Box")


  11. Correspondence mostly between PLAYGIRL-JG from 10/4/77-4/10/78; ts carbon ms, WSB, "His Turn" opinion column from PLAYGIRL 11/77; draft of this piece edited by JG (See TAM for a version of this, "Women: A Biological Mistake")


  12. Correspondence mostly between Jed Horne-JG from 10/25/76-5/27/77 (16 letters); ts carbon ms, WSB, "How You Stop Smoking" and xeroxed draft edited by Jed Horne, 30 Jan 77 probably published QUEST #3; review of Herbert Brean's HOW TO STOP SMOKING (See TAM for version, "How You Stop Smoking")


  13. Contains 3 drafts of this article for publication June 75 in CRAWDADDY, 1 edited by WSB, 1 edited by JG; misc. correspondence May - Sept 1975 re this article (possible plagiarism of WSB's CCNY class in WSB's cut-up assigned to class)


  14. Correspondence between JG and Hiram Smith from 3/76-8/79 (14 letters) re WSB's payment by Avant Associates for his preface to Vollmer's SEX APPEAL


  15. "25 Aug 78-Selections from MSS, made by WSB and suggested for short pieces" note in JG's hand; includes "Light Reading-COTRN" version of which appears in TAM as "Light Reading"; "Progressive Education-Gay Gun"; "The Pop Corn Kid"; Whitey Routine 74-5; Freedom from fear, Monkey-eating eagle; 77 Franklin Sketch all 74; Marion Baxter's Market and Sketch from Marche St from 76 and 78 respectively (note that WSB spells Whitey without an e)


  16. Contains 4 pieces by WSB: ts carbon, "Medicine and Dreams" sent to James Sherry for ROOF 7/28/76; ts, "The American Non-Dream"; ts untitled (source folder 4, CCNY Mss) 20 Feb 74; ts "Do You Remember Tomorrow?"


  17. Correspondence between C Gatewood-WSB from 5/8/74-12/10/77 (4 letters); also includes ts carbon ms by WSB, preface to SIDETRIPPING, book of Charles Gatewood photos


  18. Correspondence between Howard Boyer-WSB from 7/29/78-1/24/79 (5 letters) re WSB's "An Epitaph" for THE VICTIM DATEBOOK; also includes ts ms WSB, "Epitaph" and edited typeset version and draft and xerox of pages of VICTIM DATEBOOK (See TAM, "An Epitaph")

  19. "Magazine piece for ESSAYS and Columns for ESSAYS" noted by JG in folder, contains misc ms: ts ms with holograph edits by WSB, "Light Reading"; ts xerox ms, "On the Road to Naked Lunch" from 7/77 (see version in TAM, "The Name is Burroughs"); ts xerox, "WSB's Corrections for John Tytell's NAKED ANGELS" Dec 75


  20. Contains 2 drafts of class notes for 2 classes at Naropa, Summer 1976, one edited by JG for CRAWDADDY, the other edited by WSB re Raudive's tape voices (See version in TAM, "It Belongs to the Cucumbers"); additional misc ts inserts edited by WSB


  21. Contains original collage art work; misc ts carbon ms in which Kim is protagonist


  22. Contains misc clippings ca 1980-81; photo of WSB by Ira Cohen, 1981; cover to TALK TALK, Vol 3 #6, "Nova Express Out"; clippings re cancer, Scientology, deaths, violence, Saturn, animals (dogs, fox, ferret); one dated 12/29/80 re small Texas town: "New Waverly may have found secret to stability"


  23. Contains ephemera, maps, cut-ups T.P.O.D.R.; xerox of WSB untitled ms probably from C.O.T.R.N.; xerox ms by John Kramer, "Speculations on the Nature and Pattern of Opium Smoking," Sept 78; 1 copy of CRAWDADDY magazine from March 1977 with column by WSB, "Roosevelt after Inauguration" (note that magazine contains WSB's holograph edits; and 1 p ms ts and holograph by WSB)



Box 48

Folder Number #473-490

  1. Contains holograph notes dated Jan 1, 1977; dream notes from December 28, 1976-March 20, 1977; 1 ts p on the death academy


  2. Contains 2 pp ts draft of dedication for C.O.T.R.N.; ts draft and carbons of "The Incestuous Carsons"; file also contains 2 pp from porn cartoon book re incest


  3. Contains photo and postcard; envelope with cut-ups; also pp 1-12 first edition of C.O.T.R.N. before trimming signed by WSB


  4. "Cut-up dream phrases, phrases from Konstantin Raudive tapes, Mac of the Marines, Reading material 1st drafts, Xerox material from SOFT MACHINE" noted in folder in WSB's hand which contains xerox pp from SOFT MACHINE?; Reading List for Berlin 9/24/76; German translation of "Twilight's Last Gleamings" and excerpt from NAKED LUNCH; "Friday, Mary Celeste 17, 1970"; misc ts dream notes, stream of consciousness and 1 p holograph draft


  5. Contains typed dream notes from 1/2/77-6/9/77 and 1 p holograph; also includes "cut up from NY TIMES Feb 5 1914 made March 26, 1977 Tuesday"


  6. Contains news clippings from 12/8/75 and 9/2/81 re teen hanging and suicide


  7. Contains xerox of "Jungle Conference" presentation by Dr. Richard Evans Schultes; also contains 2 pp ts Dream Boulder June 19 '75 by Anne Waldman with drawings


  8. Contains ts notes 3/8/76-11/18/76


  9. Contains 5 envelopes with cut-ups, one marked May 8, 1977; other misc ephemera.


  10. Contains ms of H.S. Schroeppel, "Lessons in Advanced Perception" from Feb 1960; also 4 pp of ts notes by WSB


  11. Contains letter from Goldberg-WSB from 6/17/81 and enclosed xeroxes from SCIENCE NEWS, Vol 115, May 1979 and Dec. 1980 re brain transplants


  12. Contains misc ts ms, one section titled, "Bright Wipe" with WSB holograph edits; one section titled "The Gay Gun"; also draft ms for T.P.O.D.R. in which Kim is protagonist and 1 p dated 12/2/77


  13. "Special mementos among my souvenirs" noted on folder which contains poem by Alan Ansen; holograph note from Honey Hoffman; April 1981 Poetry Project Newsletter with article by John Giorno, "William Burroughs Jr. Passes"; xerox of "Quantrell's Raid," by Peter Ridenour; xerox from BULLETIN OF NARCOTICS April-June 1953; misc cards,etc.


  14. "Narco Material" noted on folder which contains 2 papers ts xerox by Richard Resnick: "Pharmacologic Assessment of Narcotic Antagonists" and "Treatment of Heroin Dependence with Opiate Antagonists"; xerox of excerpts from Samuel B. Collings, POSITIVE CURE FOR THE OPIUM HABIT; Experimental Study: "Effects of Frontal Lobotomy on the Morphine-Abstinence Syndrome in Man" by Abraham Wikler et al.; xerox article, "Differential Effects of Opioids on Flurothyl Seizure Thresholds in Rats," by H. Cowan et al.; NY TIMES letter to editor and article on drugs


  15. Contains misc ts and xeroxes edited in unknown hand; also "The Speaking Dead Senora" piece with ms pp numbered 1-46 with inserts


  16. Contains misc ts ms some of which may be dreams or dated diary entries (9/9/79, 9/15 9/25, 10/7, 12/16/79); 1 p titled, "Omar"; 2 pp ts, Brion Gysin, "BG's Points of Order Re Burroughs' Preface for Terry Wilson's Interview with BG" dated 7/19/79; 1 p statement on scrapbooks; misc ms pp with Kim as protagonist


  17. Contains misc ts ms with holograph edits and some xeroxes; some ms material with holograph pages with Kim as "protagonist of a Western in progress entitled The Place of Dead Roads"; other sections titled. "His Father's Picture"; "Cold Hearted Man"; "Progressive Education"


  18. Contains misc xerox ts pp with holograph edits; some draft material for T.P.O.D.R. with pp numbered 330-416



Box 49

Folder Number #491-504

  1. (1 of 3) Contains misc ts ms with holograph edits; draft xerox of T.P.O.D.R. pages numbered 1-94 (p 1 corresponds to p 10 of published text); news clipping, LA REPUBLICA from 2/2/80, "Burroughs lo Sterminatore" by Beniamino Placido


  2. (2 of 3)Contains draft xerox of T.P.O.D.R. pp numbered 223-252 (corresponding with p 131 of published text)


  3. (3 of 3) Contains draft xerox of T.P.O.D.R. pp numbered 96-222 (p 110 corresponds to 113 in text) and includes xerox of news article on missing boy


  4. "Copies of Dead Roads" noted in folder which contains misc ts ms with holograph edits and holograph pp, and sections titled, "Bugger the Queen" and "The Place of Dead Roads"; also holograph pages dated April 2,3,5 1981, Feb 25,26 1981; xerox of news article, "Child Pornography" by Edward Davis


  5. Contains misc ephemera; b/w photo of WSB; clipping from ANTIOCH RECORD of 9/10/71, "The Friday Funnies: Nova Express" and clipping on Marx Brothers from SF CHRONICLE; 1978 clipping on Ginsberg and WSB appearances in Wisconsin; ts letter with holograph signature Alan Ansen-WSB, 2/9/81


  6. Contains misc ephemera re Jackie Curtis and 2 pp intro by WSB (1 p draft) dated 10/6/80; also misc letters from JG, Udo Breger, Peter Matson, Brad Morrow, autograph seekers and fan mail, and friends dated Dec 1979-Aug 1980 (13 letters)


  7. Contains Genesis P-Orridge ephemera; misc ts, carbon, holograph (2 pp) ms in which Audrey is protagonist


  8. "Pretty pictures Art" noted in folder which contains misc clippings re art, Dali, Pompeii from 4/21/79-3/5/81


    • "Copy material" noted on folder which contains misc. draft ts ms probably T.P.O.D.R. with holograph edits; sections titled, "The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse: and "The Grosse Point Massacre"
    • 499A-"Wild Boy reject worked over" noted on folder which contains misc ts ms with Kim as protagonist


  9. "Misc clippings and dead letters" noted on folder which contains clippings from 1978-1980 re Jonestown, voice from the grave, Hollywood, cattle mutilations, ghosts, nerve gas sent via postcard; one titled "Hymn for Harvey" (Harvey Milk); misc fan mail; info on Guatemala


  10. "Scrap book material for shifting story and picture" rioted on folder which contains clippings from 1978-79 re various disasters both images and story; also robber posing as parson; woman who killed with snake venom; lightning deaths


  11. "Cut ups last words, horses, gay gun with first drafts of gay gun and Denton Welch" noted on folder which contains mostly misc ts ms some with holograph edits; some holograph pages (2 with drawings); some drafts of T.P.O.D.R.; dream from 10/20/77 and p dated 11/20/77; xerox of article by George Plimpton, "The Last Laugh" re deaths of writers/their last words from NY REVIEW OF BOOKS, 8/4/77


  12. Contains 2 magazines: NEWSWEEK, "Probing the Brain" and TIME, "Inside the Brain"


  13. "Cut up material some Magus some Rimbaud etc., hold up attempt useable material (mis)" noted on folder which contains one section in xerox ts titled, "Cut up with Jean Genet and writing in his style 6 pages"; pages dated March 27, 1978, May 23, January 3 and 6 1976 some of which are dreams and some pages are cut-ups; also one section titled, "The Postman Always Rings Twice"



Box 50

Folder Number #505-519

  1. Contains misc ts and carbon ms pages some of which may be draft material re C.O.T.R.N.; 2 pp dated 7/26/76 and 10/2/76


  2. Contains synopsis dated 10/5/78, "Synopses of HEART BEAT scenes, w/schedule" in ts


  3. "Routines" noted on folder which contains misc ts ms with definition of routine for "Introduction to Early Routines" for Cadmus Edition; xerox of final draft, WSB, EARLY ROUTINES, 1979 Cadmus Editions without final draft of Preface


  4. "Cities copies some material not included in ms (Popling Story)" noted on folder which contains xeroxed ts ms: Excerpts from "Gay Gun"; "Where Naked Troubadors Shot Snotty Baboons"; 1 p holograph and 1 p drawings; misc ts ms


    • A-(1 of 2) Contains 2 copies of GASOLIN 23 #7 with WSB, "Sonntag, 17 August 1975" (probably translation of section of RETREAT DIARIES) pp 14-15; Brion Gysin, "Dreamachine," pp 20-21
    • B-(2 of 2) Contains misc ts ms and news clipping, "The Secret 10% in a Recipe for the Hydrogen Bomb"


  5. Contains ts ms re influence of Denton Welch; 1 holograph p re John Giorno


  6. Contains misc draft ms material xerox and ts with some holograph edits; most of file is devoted to "Ah Pook" draft (draft pp 1-46 and inserts); also news clipping from TLA, 10/5/73, "Glyphs of the Maya: decoding the Dresden Codex"


  7. Contains misc news clippings, Ayatollah Khomeini; drawing by an unknown artist; opening notices and ephemera; itinerary for WSB 2/17/77, 7 and 9/76; holograph letter from Allen Ginsberg-WSB 8/18/76 re Bill, Jr.


  8. "First drafts Ticket That Exploded Film Idea" noted on folder which contains some holograph edits re "Bugger the Queen" and several holograph pages, one dated 4/7/79


  9. Contains cut-ups in envelopes, some labeled: Rimbaud cut-ups, David Bowie cut-ups, Ian and Billy, some untitled addressed to WSB; misc photos, postcards, and ephemera


  10. Note that folder contains 2 files both titled "scrap book material"; 1 - scrap book analysis, misc ts ms; titled ms: "Fictional Extension of IN HIS IMAGE"; xerox draft pp of "Woman: A Biological Mistake?"; "The CIA Reporter"; xerox of "An Interview with Ayatollah Khomeyni" (not by WSB); dated ts pp -possibly dreams (5/10, 15/78); 2 - misc ts ms material similar to that in file 513; ts carbon section titled "Progressive Education"


  11. Contains misc news clippings from 1980-81 re heroin linked to illness; articles on morphine in cow and human milk from SCIENCE, 8/28/81 and methonine enhephalin, SCIENCE, 2/6/81; xerox paper by David Courtwright, "Opiate Addiction in the American West, 1850-1920"; map of San Francisco's Chinatown 1850; xerox p from SOFT MACHINE


  12. Contains misc ts ms, 1 p dated 12/10/75 and 1 dated 4/23/76; 3 holograph pp and draft material re C.O.T.R.N.; sections titled "Return to Port Roger" and "The Red Fruit"


  13. Contains misc ts ms and 2 pp holograph; some pages edited in unknown hand


  14. Contains 1 p commentary on "The Health Officer" re creative process and dream; also dream from 1973-74 titled, "Pages from Audrey's dream diary"



Box 51

Folder Number #520-530

  1. "3/6/74 recorded/current material 1st drafts" noted in folder which contains dream material dated 2/1/77; also misc ms material some re B-23 Virus


  2. Contains xerox of new clippings, SF CHRONICLE, "Datebook" from 9/16/78 and CRAWDADDY story on Nick Nolte by James Trombetta as well as "'Heart Beat' Production Information"


  3. Contains misc. news clippings: HARVARD CRIMSON issue, 2/1/80 and 2/7/80, articles on Kerouac and WSB; "Bugger the Queen" by WSB from INTERNATIONAL TIMES , Vol V#5, Jan/Feb '80; article by Fernanda Pivano on WSB, CARRIERE DELLA SERA, 31 Jan/ 3 Feb '80; review of Nova Convention record, NY TIMES 12/27/79


  4. Contains holograph dream notes


  5. "Nicosia/Kerouac Chapter/rec'd 13 Jan 78 from Carl Macki" noted in folder which contains xerox ts pp of "Einstein's Riddle" chapter from MEMORY BABE


  6. Contains ticket sales, budgets etc. mostly in JG's hand from 11/78-1/79


  7. Contains 3 envelopes: 1 - original news clippings most are reviews or notices for Nova Convention, 12/78 and 1/79 from SOHO ARTS, ROLLING STONE, VILLAGE VOICE, NY TIMES; 2 - xeroxes of "Nietzsche in Alphaville", VOICE article from 12/11/78 by Richard Goldstein; 3 - xeroxes of "Fugitive on the Town" re Abbie Hoffman in VILLAGE VOICE. 12/18/78


  8. Contains b/w photos of WSB by Louis Cartwright from Nova Convention


  9. "Text used for reading 2nd night of Nova Convention Dec 2 1978 (photocopy as found in Wm's folder)" noted in folder which contains sections titled: "Bugger the Queen," "Lunch with the Sitwells," "The Whole Tamale," and "Progressive Education"


  10. Contains poster design, pencil on paper


  11. Contains draft of the Miles/Maynard bibliography in xerox ts with some ts pp at beginning, Sections A-F (Section A, Books, is summarily covered)



Box 52

Folder Number #531-536

  1. Contains complete draft material on book section of Miles/Maynard bibliography in xerox ts


  2. Contains 2 bound copies xerox ts dated 1/23/75 and Feb. 1978


  3. Contains excerpts in xerox ts from "Heart Beat" screenplay


  4. Contains descriptions of WSB Tape Collection by JG from 1988 (coordinates with tapes in folders 535-547)


  5. Contains 2 reels of tape, both labeled T-1


  6. Contains 4 cassettes: 1 - T-1; T-2; 2 - T-2 (cont) and T-3; 3 - T-3 (cont) and T-5; 4 - T-5 (cont)



Box 53

Folder Number #537-541

  1. Contains 2 reels: T-2 ("Ali & Eliot-Scio-" and "Pop Tunes" and T-3: Beat Hotel with WSB, B. Gysin, G. Corso, S. Beiles


  2. Contains 2 reels: T-4 and T-5 (old tapes and cut-ins with Modigliani Ian and Bill)


  3. Contains T-7 in 2 tapes: "Brion on Mescaline"


  4. Contains T-7 copy 3 in 2 tapes (see 534 for complete description)


  5. Contains T-10, "Bill & Ian separated" (2 tapes)



Box 54

Folder Number #542-546/546A

  1. Contains 2 tapes (for notes on tapes see 534)


  2. Contains 1 tape (see 534 for notes on tape)


  3. Contains 2 tapes (see 534 for notes on tape)


  4. Contains 2 tapes


    • Contains tape

    • 546A-Contains various catalogues and announcements for WSB's art exhibitions and associated projects; of particular interest: JG's essay, "On Burroughs' Art" for Exhibition Catalogue, Casa Sin Nombre, Santa Fe 8/13-9/24/88; WSB's Statement re Christopher Lucas' work in Lucas Exhibition Catalogue, John Good Gallery, NY 4/15-5/13/89; edited version of JG's essay "On Burroughs' Art" for Galerie Carzaniga & Ueker, Basel 4/27-5/20/89; edited version of JG's essay, "On Burroughs' Art" for LITERARY VISION Exhibition Catalogue, Jack Tilton Gallery, NY Nov 1988; piece on B. Gysin by Felicity Mason



Box 55

Folder Number #547-548

  1. Contains 1 tape


  2. Contains 10 Cassettes in box labeled "Ramona dubs, WSB old tapes": #2, "BURROUGHS & GYSIN MISC."; #3, "DICTATORSHIP WHILST UNDER THE INFLUENCE"; #5, "SILENT WRITINGS OF HASAN SABHA"; #7, "SILENT WRITINGS SIDE 2"; #7, #6; #10 & #12; #9, #7, SIDE 1, SIDE 2; #17, SIDE 1; #17



Green Box

Folder Number #549-556

  1. Contains loose pages of THE CAT INSIDE, Grenfell Edition, signed by WSB, BG (2 copies)


  2. Contains 3 copies untitled broadside, signed by WSB, A/C, 24, 25


  3. Contains 8 pp xeroxes


  4. ZG magazine #7, London


  5. Contains 3 issues of MIDCONTINENTAL, Winnipeg Canada, all 1985: Vol 3 #3, Vol 3 #4, Vol 4#1


  6. Contains photos and xeroxes of WSB at Nova Convention mounted on boards (5) by Joe Bidewell, 1979


  7. Contains 1 issue of EXQUISITE CORPSE


  8. Contains clippings and DAILY NEWS front page story re cops killing youth and youth killing cops, NY, mostly from Jan-Feb 1981 from DAILY NEWS and NY POST



Unboxed

Folder Number #557-561

  1. Scroll format of C.O.T.R.N. layout in JG's hand


  2. Contains various photos: WSB and friends such as Gregory Corso; photos probably of Tangier, some images of atom bomb clouds


  3. Contains 11 x 14" color photo collage


  4. Posters: "You're the Guy I Want to Share my Money With" (2 copies of posters re Giorno Poetry Systems, Inc. releases 10/81); "The Empire Strikes Back" (2 copies); "We Are Not Afraid/Les Levine"; "Patti Smith Will Read in Lawrence" (4 copies)


  5. INTERVIEW magazines: 1 copy Vol, IX #10; 3 copies Vol. IX #12 (Oct, Dec 1979)



Scrapbooks

Folder Number #562-566

  1. Scrapbook contains 20 pp xerox ts ms by WSB interpreting scrapbook images; scrapbook contain 106 numbered pages; news clippings, etc. date from ca. 1978-79-80


  2. Scrapbook contains ts carbon scenario for scrapbook, cut-ups, as well as ts ms of 6 pp at p 66, mainly dreams from 9/73-12/73 and 2/75; images date from ca. 1973-74-75


  3. Scrapbook images date from ca. 1979-86; contains reviews of T.P.O.D.R. by Robert Ferro and Anatole Broyard pasted into scrapbook


  4. Scrapbook images date from ca. 1978-79-80; contains 3 ts pp on guns


  5. Color photocopy facsimile edition of WSB scrapbook: "William S. Burroughs, 'Scrapbook 3'", no. 13 of 30 copies published by Editions Claude Givaudan in 1979.



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