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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 Piersaul-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


  2. "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.


  3. 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


  4. 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.


  5. 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;