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Allen Ginsberg papers, M0733. Dept. of Special Collections, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, Calif.
Purchased from Allen Ginsberg, 1994 Oct.
Irwin Allen Ginsberg was born on June 3, 1926 in Newark, New Jersey to Louis and Naomi (Levy) Ginsberg. Louis Ginsberg, who died in 1976, was a high school English teacher and poet who was politically a socialist but socially conservative; Louis often disagreed with his son's writings. Naomi Ginsberg, a Russian-born Jew and a dedicated Marxist, died in a mental institution in 1956. Ginsberg documented his mother's illness and its impact on his life in "Kaddish for Naomi Ginsberg (1894-1956)", better known simply as "Kaddish".
Ginsberg and his older brother, lawyer and poet Eugene Brooks, grew up in Paterson, New Jersey. Ginsberg enrolled at Columbia University on a Young Men's Hebrew Association scholarship in 1943. Originally intending to major in prelaw, he changed his major to literature and studied with Mark Van Doren and Lionel Trilling, with whom he frequently clashed artistically.
The greatest influence on Ginsberg's artistic as well as personal development was his off-campus circle of friends, including most notably Jack Kerouac, a former Columbia student four years older than Ginsberg; and William S. Burroughs, who introduced Ginsberg to the literature of rebellion as well as illicit drugs, and who would publish in 1959 his surreal satire of American life entitled Naked Lunch. Herbert Huncke, John Clellon Holmes, Lucien Carr, and Neal Cassady were also part of this extended network of literarily-minded friends and comprised the core of the "Beat Generation", which would begin to surface as a movement in the mid-1950's with the publication of Ginsberg's "Howl" and Kerouac's bohemian-hobo novel "On the road".
Ginsberg's major personal problems rose out of attempts to deal with his homosexuality and with brushes-by-association with the law. In the aftermath of the murder of his friend David Kammerer by Lucien Carr in 1945, Ginsberg was suspended from Columbia for a year, during which he worked as a merchant marine, a Times Square restaurant dishwasher, and a reporter for a New Jersey newspaper. Returning to Columbia, he maintained an A-minus average and took his Bachelor of Arts degree in 1948.
It was in 1948 that Ginsberg had, while masturbating, his first mystical experience, an auditory illusion in which he heard a supernal voice reading reciting from William Blake's "Songs of Experience".
Early the following year Herbert Huncke moved into Ginsberg's apartment after being released from jail. Huncke began using Ginsberg's apartment to store stolen property that he was selling to support his drug habit. When Huncke was arrested and sentenced to 5 years in prison, Ginsberg was circumstantially implicated and plead psychological disability to avoid a jail sentence. He was committed to the Columbia Psychiatric Institute for eight months. There he became friends with Carl Solomon, the "lunatic saint" to whom he would dedicate "Howl".
After his release from the Columbia Psychiatric Institute, Ginsberg moved in with his father and step-mother, Edith Ginsberg. During his stay, he met and befriended physician and poet William Carlos Williams, who impressed on Ginsberg the importance of paying attention to the world immediately around him and recording his observations in the rhythms of idiomatic American English. The model for such language was Neal Cassady, a high-energy athlete, ex-con, spellbinding, lyrical talker, and promiscuous bisexual.
Ginsberg remained in the New York City area until 1953, supporting himself mainly as a market researcher. He left New York City in December 1953 to follow Neal Cassady, who had married and moved to San Jose, California, and after visiting Cuba and the Yucatan, arrived in San Jose in 1954, where he lived with Neal and his wife Carolyn, until she evicted him after finding him in bed with her husband.
Ginsberg moved to San Francisco, acquired a live-in girlfriend, a well-paid job, and a middle-class apartment and tried living a life of middle-class domesticity. After a year of this, he decided, with his psychiatrist's blessings, to end the charade, quit his job, and move in with his boyfriend, Peter Orlovsky.
In San Francisco, Ginsberg became part of the San Francisco Poetry Renaissance, a literary circle including Kenneth Rexroth, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Gary Snyder, Michael McClure, Philip Lamantia, Robert Duncan, and Philip Whalen. In October 1955, Rexroth hosted a poetry reading at the Six Gallery in San Francisco in which Snyder, McClure, Whalen, Lamantia, and Ginsberg participated. Ginsberg read his newly written poem "Howl".
In 1956, Lawrence Ferlighetti published "Howl and Other Poems" in his Pocket Poets series. United States Customs officers and the San Francisco police seized the edition, and Lawrence Ferlinghetti was charged with publishing an obscence book. The court case, which Ferlinghetti won in 1957, gave the book immense publicity, and by the time the trial was over, Ginsberg was widely in demand for poetry readings.
From the 1950's on, Ginsberg based himself in New York, alternating between the Cherry Valley farm that he bought and a tenement apartment in Manhattan's Lower East Side, which he rented until 1996. He travelled extensively in Europe, Latin America, North Africa and the Asia as well as the United States. Into the 1960's he experimented heavily with drugs, including LSD under the guidance of Timothy Leary, partly as an aid to poetic creation. The first two parts of "Kaddish to Naomi Ginsberg (1894-1956)", published in Kaddish and Other Poems (City Lights, 1961), were written under the influence of a combination of amphetamines and morphine.
Around 1960, Ginsberg began seeking the counsel of Martin Buber in Israel and of holy men in India and emerged with a new attitude; he began to preach of the superiority of yoga and meditation over the use of drugs, but he did not rule out the usefulness of such pyschedelics as marijuana, peyote, and, occasionally, LSD. While he warned against the use of addictive drugs, he fought against the government's manipulation of the publicized danger of those drugs and campaigned for a liberalization of drug laws.
Ginsberg became a spiritual leader for the hippie and Yippie movements during the 1960's. Ginsberg invented the term "flower power" in 1965 and was the driving force behind the Gathering of the Tribes for a Human Be-In held in Golden Gate Park in San Francisco in January 1967. Later in the same year, he was arrested in an anti-Vietnam war demonstration in New York City, and during the demonstration at the 1968 Democratic Convention in Chicago he was teargassed by police while trying to calm the crowd by chanting mantras. At the conspiracy trial of the Chicago demonstrators, known as the Chicago Seven, he testified for the defense.
The poems in Planet News : 1961-1967 (City Lights, 1968) constitute a poetic record of Ginsberg's travels in Eastern Europe, the Indian subcontinent, other parts of Asia, as well as in the United States. Included in the collection was "Wichita Vortex Sutra", inspired by his tour of midwestern universities. The collection The Fall of America : Poems of These States, 1965-1971 (City Lights, 1973) earned Ginsberg the National Book Award.
In 1974, Ginsberg helped to found the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics of the Naropa Institute in Boulder, Colorado, a Buddhist university where he continued to teach courses in poetry and Buddhist meditation until his death. In 1974 he was also inducted into the American Institute of Arts and Letters.
After the Vietnam War, Ginsberg concentrated his political efforts on exposing alleged CIA subsidization of drug trafficking; in attempts at reforming American drug laws; in environmental and antinuclear causes; in sexual freedom causes; and in speaking out against abuses of authority by governmental agencies including the FBI, CIA, and police forces. Ginsberg became an outspoken critic of the Reagan Administration's intervention in Nicaragua. He wrote "Plutonian Ode" for a demonstration at the Rocky Flats, Colorado, plutonium works.
Ginsberg lost hope for any salvation for America and took refuge in Buddhism under the guidance of Trungpa Chogyam, the Tibetan guru who supervised the Naropa Institute. In addition to instructing Ginsberg in Kagu Buddhist meditation, Trungpa served as his general adviser, in artistic as well as spiritual matters.
After publishing his books for years with small alternative-press houses, Ginsberg signed a $160,000 contract with Harper & Row for six books. The first, Collected Poems, 1947-1980 was published in 1984. White Shroud was published in 1986, bringing together the poems that Ginsberg wrote between 1980 and 1985, and Cosmopolitan Greetings was published in 1994.
Ginsberg made scores of recordings, including an album in the Spoken Arts Treasury of 100 American Poets (Volume XVI, 1969), William Blake's Songs of Innocence and Experience Tuned by Allen Ginsberg (MGM, 1970), First Blues : songs , and many poetry readings in limited editions. Other recent CD releases have included The Lion For Real (1989) and The Ballad of the Skeletons (1996), as well as collaborative efforts with Philip Glass, Hydrogen Jukebox (1993), and the Kronos Quartet, Howl U.S.A. (1996).
Ginsberg's books of prose include Indian Journals (1970), Allen Verbatim: Lectures on Poetry, Politics, Consciousness (McGraw-Hill, 1974), Journals : Early Fifties-Early Sixties (Grove, 1977), both edited by Gordon Ball.
In 1960's, Ginsberg appeared in some of the most famous experimental films of the decade, including the well known Pull My Daisy. His longtime interest in the visual arts -especially photography, a practice encouraged by his longtime friend Robert Frank -have now been collected in two books, Photographs (1991) and Snapshot Poetics (1993). Ginsberg's photographs were also represented in a groundbreaking exhibit organized by the Whitney Museum of Art, "Beat Culture and the New America: 1950 -1965."
Ginsberg was a visiting professor at Columbia University in 1986-87, and he taught at Brooklyn College from the fall of 1987 until his death.
Allen Ginsberg died at the age of 70 on April 6, 1997 of a heart attack triggered by liver cancer, which had only been diagnosed a few days before.
Note: this biographical sketch draws heavily on the biography of Ginsberg published in the Current Biography Yearbook 1987.
Current Biography Yearbook 1987 New York : H. W. Wilson 1987 Miles, Barry. Ginsberg : a biography. New York : Simon and Schuster, 1989. Schumacher, Michael Dharma Lion : a biography of Allen Ginsberg New York : St. Martin's Press 1992
The Allen Ginsberg Papers document the life work of one of the core members of the "Beat Generation" and a leading American poet of the 20th century. The papers include Ginsberg personal and professional correspondence, journals, business records, personal mementos, extensive newspaper clipping collection, artwork, and other documents generated and collected by him from 1937 to 1994.
The papers are divided into 19 series: 1. Correspondence, 2. Notebooks and journals, 3. Manuscripts, 4. Business records, 5. Financial Records, 6. Committee on Poetry records, 7. Teaching materials, 8. Political files, 9. Religious materials, 10. Photographs, 11. Audiovisual recordings, 12. Computer files, 13. Periodicals, 14. Clippings, 15. Memorabilia, 16. Posters, 17. Printed Ephemera, 18. Artwork, 19. Musical scores
Wherever Ginsberg's original arrangement of materials was encountered, the order was retained. However, materials previously housed at Columbia University show signs of having been rearranged significantly. As a result, several series show evidence of conflicting intellectual arrangement schemas, one imposed by Ginsberg and his staff, another by third parties. Where possible, arrangement notes for the specific series will indicate which portions reflect Ginsberg's own arrangement system and which reflect an ordering imposed by individuals other than Ginsberg or his staff.
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.
The correspondence series ranges from the early 1940's through the mid 1990's and contains letters, postcards, birthday cards, telegrams, manuscripts, Christmas cards, and other items sent to Ginsberg.
The correspondence is particularly rich in correspondence between Ginsberg and virtually all of the authors associated with the Beat Generation, including Allen Ansen, Gregory Corso, John Clellon Holmes, Herbert Huncke, Gary Snyder, Carl Solomon, and Philip Whalen among others.
The correspondence series also contains some materials from William S. Burroughs, Sr., Neal Cassady, Jack Kerouac, including a few sporadic letters, post-cards, and photocopies of letters, but the vast bulk of the correspondence from these authors to Allen Ginsberg was sold by Ginsberg to Columbia University in the 1970's. The majority of the original Burroughs correspondence in this collection post-dates that sale.
Other prominent literary figures represented in the correspondence include: Don Allen, Lucien Carr, Carolyn Cassady, Robert Creeley, Diane DiPrima, Bob Dylan, LeRoi Jones a.k.a. Amiri Baraka, Timothy Leary, Denise Levertov, Norman Mailer, Gerard Malanga, Yoko Ono, George Plimpton, Ezra Pound, Kenneth Rexroth, Stephen Spender, Lionel Trilling, Andrei Voznesenski, John Wieners, Yevgeny Yevtushenko, and Louis Zukofsky.
A large portion of the correspondence represents business communications between Ginsberg and publishers, editors, translators, literary agents, and others associated with the business end of his writing career, such as Lawrence Ferlinghetti, the co-founder and publisher of the City Lights Bookstore in San Francisco, Fernanda Pivano, who was the Italian translator for most of the Beat writers, including Ginsberg.
By far the most extensive files of correspondence from a single source are from his life partner, Peter Orlovsky. This correspondence documents their lives together from the 1950's through the 1980's.
The correspondence series also contains files of communication between Allen Ginsberg and his family members, including his father, Louis Ginsberg, his stepmother, Edith Ginsberg, his brother, Eugene Brooks, sister-in-law, Connie Brooks, and nephews, Lyle Brooks Alan Brooks, and various aunts, uncles and cousins.
The remainder of the correspondence is comprised of letters, postcards, and other items sent to Ginsberg by fans.
The bulk of the correspondence is arranged by decade and thereunder alphabetically.
Carr, Lucien Chicago in Spring. [New York, 1944?] t.ms., 19 p. (story ; with critical notes in the margin, not in the author's hand)
Ginsberg, Allen [Letter] 1944 Aug. 13, New York [to] Lucien Carr. --1 p. a.l.s.
Ginsberg, Allen [Letter] 1944 Aug. 16 [New York to] Lucien Carr. --1 p. a.l.s.
Carr, Lucien [Letter, 1944 Sept. 30, New York to] Allen Ginsberg. --5 p. a.l. (with envelope; Carr's signature on envelope)
Carr, Lucien Miscellaneous -4 items
Carr, Lucien [Postcard], 1946 Oct. 7, New York [to] Allen Ginsberg. t.p.c.
Carr, Lucien [The clubhouse roof] [New York, ca. Oct. 1949] t.ms., 15 p. (story, with ms. corrections, 1 p., related ms. notes)
5 td (photocopies); 1 als (photocopies.
Holmes, John Clellon [Letter 194-, Los Angeles? to] Allen Ginsberg. --2 p. als
Ginsberg, Allen [Letter] 1949 May [to] John Clellon Holmes. --1 p. with enclosures. als (photocopy) + tms
Holmes, John Clellon [Letter] 1949 June 14, [Provincetown, Mass. to] Allen Ginsberg. --2 p. tls
Ginsberg, Allen [Letter] 1949 July [to] John Clellon Holms. --8 p. als (photocopy)
Holmes, John Clellon [Letter] 1949 July 28, [New York to] Allen Ginsberg. --2 p. tls
Ginsberg, Allen [Letter, 194? to] John Clellon Holmes. --11 p. als (photocopy)
Ginsberg, Allen [Letter, 194-, New York to] Spence. --1 p. a.l.s.
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Hunke, Herbert E. [Letter, 194-, New York to] Allen Ginsberg. --1 p. a.l.s. (reply to the above, written on the verso)
Ginsberg, Allen [Letter, n.d.] New York [to] Herbert E. Huncke. --1 p. a.l.s.
Huncke, Herbert E. [Letter, 1946?, New York to] Roberta. --2 p. a.l.s.
Huncke, Herbert E. [Letter] 1946 March 23, New York [to] Allen Ginsberg. --2 p. a.l.s.
Huncke, Herbert E. [Letter] 1946 Oct. 8 [New York to] Joan Adams. --8 p. a.l.s. (with envelope)
Huncke, Herbert E. [Letter, 1946?, New York to] Allen Ginsberg. --1 p. a.l.s.
Huncke, Herbert E. [Letter, 1946, New York to] Allen Ginsberg. --4 p. a.l.s.
Huncke, Herbert E. [Letter] 1947 Jan. 9 [New York to] Allen Ginsberg. --1 p. a.l.s.
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Huncke, Herbert E. [Letter, 1947 Jan. 9, New York to] Allen Ginsberg. --1 p. Note: a.l.s., written on the verso of the above
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Nonnie [Letter, 1947 Jan. 9, New York to] Allen Ginsberg. --1 p. Note: ms.l.s., letter in hand of, and signed by, "Normie"; written on verso of the above
Huncke, Herbert E. [Letter] 1947 Jan. 10 [New York to] Allen Ginsberg. --4 p. a.l.s.
Huncke, Herbert E. [Letter, 1947 Jan., New York to] Allen Ginsberg. --2 p. a.l.s.
Huncke, Herbert E. [Letter, 1947 Jan., New York to] Allen Ginsberg. --3 p. a.l.s.
Huncke, Herbert E. [Letter, 1947 Jan., New York, Jan. 1947 to] Allen Ginsberg. --1 p. a.l.s.
Huncke, Herbert E. [Letter, 1948, New York to] Allen Ginsberg. --1 p. a.l.s.
2 tl, 1 tls, 1 am, 1 ams
4 als, 11 tls, 5 tms, 1 AC, 1 acs
1 acs
1 tl
1 drawing.
1 tm
1 tm
1 tm
1 tm (photocopy)
1 tm
Carr, Lucien [Postcard] 1950 Aug. 10, New York [to] Allen Ginsberg a.p.c.s.
Carr, Lucien [Letter] 1951 Jan. 2, [New York? to] William S. Wasserman. --1 p. t.l. (draft, corrected in the author's hand)
Carr, Lucien [Letter, 1951] Oct. 2, New York [to] Allen Ginsberg. --2 p. t.l. (with envelope)
Carr, Lucien When Ernie Troulinger was found dead on North Street .... --1951. 11 p. a.m.s. (story: draft; with 1 t.p.)
Carr, Lucien [Postcard] 1952 Jan. 3, Veracruz, Mexico [to] Allen Ginsberg a.p.c.s.
Carr, Lucien [Postcard] 1952 Jan. 18, Mexico City [to] Allen Ginsberg a.p.c.s.
Carr, Lucien [Letter] 1952 Jan. 28 [New York to] Allen Ginsberg. --3 p. t.l. (with envelope)
Carr, Lucien [Postcard] 1953 March 2, San Juan, Puerto Rico [to] Allen Ginsberg ms.p.c.s. (signed "Cessa & Lu", written in her own hand)
Carr, Lucien [Letter] 1953 March 12, Kingston, Jamaica [to] Allen Ginsberg. --1 p. t.l. (with envelope)
Carr, Lucien [Letter, 1953?, New York to] Allen Ginsberg. --1 p. a.l.s. (written on envelope)
Ginsberg, Allen [Letter, 1954] Jan. 18/19, Palenque, Mexico [to] Lucien Carr, Cessa, and Bob. --2 p. a.l.s. (with envelope)
Ginsberg, Allen [Letter] 1954 Feb. 18, Salto de Agua, Mexico to Lucien Carr, Cessa, and Bob. --7 p. t.l. (with a.n.; with envelope)
Carr, Lucien [Letter, 1954] Feb. 25, New York [to] Allen Ginsberg. --1 p. a.l.s. (written on verso of last page of letter to Ginsberg from "Cessa", a.l.s. 3 p. ; with envelope ; clippings enclosed)
Ginsberg, Allen [Telegram] 1954 March 25, Salto de Agua, Mexico to Lucien Carr.
Ginsberg, Allen [Letter, 1954] March 31, Yajalon, Mexico [to] Lucien Carr. --2 p. t.l.s. (with 2 related documents ; with envelope)
Ginsberg, Allen [Letter] 1954 April 1, Yajalon, Mexico [to] Lucien Carr. --1 p. t.l.s.
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[Volcano at Acavalna?] Yajalon, Mexico, [1954] April 1. --7 p. t.ms., (with a. corrections by the author ; enclosed with the above)
Carr, Lucien [Telegram] 1954 April 3, New York [to] Allen Ginsberg.
Carr, Lucien [Letter] 1954 May 20, [New York to] Allen Ginsberg. --1 p. t.l.s. (with envelope)
[Ginsberg, Allen] [Letter] 1954 May 21, Mexico City [to] Lucien Carr, Cessa, and Bob. --3 p. a.l.
Carr, Lucien [Letter] 1954 Nov. 27, [New York to] Allen Ginsberg. --1 p. t.l. (with envelope)
Carr, Lucien [Letter, ca. 1954, New York to] Roberto. --2 p. t.l.
Carr, Lucien [Letter, ca. 1956 Feb. 13, New York to] Allen Ginsberg. --2 p. a.l.s. (with envelope)
Carr, Lucien [Letter, 1956] Sept. 21, [New York to] Allen Ginsberg. --2 p. t.l.s.
Carr, Lucien [Letter] 1957 April 24, New York [to] Allen Ginsberg. --1 p. t.l.s.
1 als, 1 tl, 11 tls, 2 tms, 2 tcs
2 envelopes
3 als
1 al
1 tls
1 acs, 2 als
Holmes, John Clellon New York, 31 Oct. 1950 To Allen Ginsberg tcs
Holmes, John Clellon New York, 3 Nov. 1950 To Allen Ginsberg tcs
Ginsberg, Allen [Letter] 1950 Dec. 13 [to] John Clellon Holmes. --7 p. tls (photocopy)
Ginsberg, Allen [Postcards] 1951 -1957 [to] John Clellon Holmes. --14 cards on 7 p. : photocopies acs (photocopies)
Ginsberg, Allen [Mexico, May 1954] To John Clellon Holmes acs
Ginsberg, Allen Howl : for Carl Solomon. --1955 Aug. 30. --6 p. tms Note: sent by John Kerouac to John Clellon Holmes
Holmes, John Clellon [Old Saybrook, Conn.?] 26 Sept. 1956 To Allen Ginsberg t..l.s., 1 p.
Ginsberg, Allen [Letter] 1956 Oct. 12 [to] John Clellon Holmes. --1 p. tls
Holmes, John Clellon [Old Saybrook, Conn.?] 14 Jan. 1959 To Allen Ginsberg t..l.s., 4 p. (with envelope)
Holmes, John Clellon [Old Saybrook, Conn.?] 12 June 1959 To Allen Ginsberg t..l.s., 2 p.
Ginsberg, Allen [Letter, 195? to] John Clellon Holmes. --1 p. with enclosures als (photocopy) + tms (photocopy)
3 als, 4 tls
Huncke, Herbert E. [Letter 1959], New York [to] Allen Ginsberg. --2 p. a.l.s., Huncke, Herbert E. "Sometimes I remember Chicago ...." New York, 1959 a.m.s., 9 p. (essay; reminiscences of Elsie-John)
1 tls
Lamantia, Philip [Letter 10 Jan. 1959], San Francisco [to] Allen Ginsberg. --1 p. t.l.s. (with envelope; a.n. added)
Lamantia, Philip [Letter ca. 1959 Feb. 11], Avenida Juarez, Mexico [to] Allen Ginsberg. --2 p. t.l.s. (with envelope)
Lamantia, Philip [Postcard 1959 April], Mexico D.F., Mexico [to] Allen Ginsberg. a.p.c.s.
Lamantia, Philip [Letter ]1959 Aug. 21, [San Francisco to] Allen Ginsberg. --2 p. t.l.s. (with envelope)
Lamantia, Philip [Postcard], 1959 Sept. 10, San Francisco [to] Allen Ginsberg. t.p.c.s.
Lamantia, Philip [Postcard] 1959 Sept. 17, San Francisco [to] Allen Ginsberg. t.p.c.s.
Lamantia, Philip [Letter 1959 Oct. 24], Mexico D.F., Mexico [to] Allen Ginsberg. --1 p. t.l.s. (with envelope)
Lamantia, Philip [Letter 1959] Nov. 15, Mexico D.F., Mexico [to] Allen Ginsberg. --1 p. t.l.s. (with envelope)
Lamantia, Philip [Postcard] 1959 Nov. 24, Laredo, Texas [to] Allen Ginsberg. a.p.c.s.
Lamantia, Philip [Letter] 1959 Dec. 7, San Francisco [to] Allen Ginsberg. --1 p. t.l.s.
7 tls
LaVigne, Robert [Letter] 1955 Aug. 12, Aboard the Arturo in the Gulf of California [to] Allen Ginsberg. --2 p. a.l.s.
LaVigne, Robert [Letter] 1955 Aug. 16, Todos Santos, Mexico [to] Allen Ginsberg. --2 p. a.l.s. (with envelope)
LaVigne, Robert [Letter] 1955 Sept. 6, La Paz, Mexico [to] Allen Ginsberg. --6 p. a.l.s. (with envelope)
LaVigne, Robert [Letter] 1955 Sept. 21, Todos Santos, Mexico [to] Allen Ginsberg. --4 p. a.l.s. (with envelope)
LaVigne, Robert [Letter] 1956 Jan. 21, Four Lakes, Wash. [to] Allen Ginsberg. --3 p. t.l.s.
LaVigne, Robert [Letter, 1956] Aug. 16, San Francisco [to] Allen Ginsberg. --10 p. a.l.s., (with 2 pen-and-ink drawings : [Potted plant] and [Man playing a lyre]; with envelope)
LaVigne, Robert [Letter] 1956 Oct. 10, Four Lakes, Wash. [to] Allen Ginsberg. --2 p. a.l.s. (with pen-and-ink drawing, "View from the kitchen window", s. by LaVigne, 16 Oct.; with envelope)
LaVigne, Robert [Letter] 1956 Dec. 5, Four Lakes, Wash. [to] Allen Ginsberg. --6 p. a.l.s.
LaVigne, Robert [Letter, 1956] Dec. 15, Four Lakes, Wash. [to] Allen Ginsberg. --4 p. a.l.s. (with pen-and-ink drawing, "Christmas tree"; with envelope)
LaVigne, Robert [Letter] 1956 Dec. 27., Four Lakes, Wash. [to] Allen Ginsberg. --3 p. a.l.s. (with drawing on p. 4 [Iris]; with envelope, a.n.s. written to AG on the envelope)
LaVigne, Robert [Four Lakes, Wash.] 25 Jan. 1957 To Allen Ginsberg a.p.c.s. (card illustration: a pen-and-ink drawing by LaVigne, signed by him, "Battle of Four Lakes")
LaVigne, Robert [Four Lakes, Wash.], 1 Feb. 1957 To Allen Ginsberg a.p.c.s. (illustration on the card is a linoleum print by LaVigne)
LaVigne, Robert Four Lakes, Wash., 7 Feb. 1957 To Allen Ginsberg a.p.c.s. (card illustration: "Landscape with snow", dry-brush, signed by LaVigne)
LaVigne, Robert Four Lakes, Wash., 19 March 1957 To Allen Ginsberg a.p.c.s. (card illustration: "Young poet practicing his 'scatting'," pen-and-ink drawing)
LaVigne, Robert Four Lakes, Wash., 17 May [1957] To Allen Ginsberg a.l., 6 p. (with envelope) note: illustrations removed and cataloged separately
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Four Lakes, Wash., 31 March [1957] To Allen a.l., 1 p. (incomplete: includes copy of the Mass, At the foot of the altar; enclosed with the above)
LaVigne, Robert Four Lakes, Wash., 30 May & 2 June 1957 To Allen Ginsberg a.l.s., 8 p. (with envelope)
LaVigne, Robert Four Lakes, Wash., 18 July [1957] To Allen Ginsberg t.l.s. , 2 p.
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"So he came walking down the road on a May morning...." [Four Lakes, Wash., 18 July 1957] t.ms., 3 p. (essay: "Things I just can't paint"; enclosed with the above
LaVigne, Robert Four Lakes, Wash., 21 July [1957] To Allen Ginsberg t.l.s., 4 p. (with envelope)
LaVigne, Robert Four Lakes, Wash., 3 Aug. 1957 To Allen Ginsberg a.l.s., 4 p. (with envelope)
LaVigne, Robert Four Lakes, Wash., 3 Aug. 1957 To Allen Ginsberg a.l.s., 4 p.
LaVigne, Robert Four Lakes, Wash., 28 Aug. 1957 To Allen Ginsberg t.l.s., 4 p.
LaVigne, Robert Four Lakes, Wash., 8 Sept. [1957] To Allen Ginsberg t.l.s., 3 p.
LaVigne, Robert Spokane, Wash., 7 Oct. [1957] To Allen Ginsberg t.l.s., 1 p. (with envelope)
LaVigne, Robert San Francisco, 22 March 1958 To Allen Ginsberg a.l.s., 4 p.
LaVigne, Robert San Francisco, 14 May [1958] To Allen Ginsberg a.l.s., 3 p.
LaVigne, Robert San Francisco, 22 June 1958 To Allen Ginsberg t.l.s., 3 p. (with envelope)
LaVigne, Robert San Francisco, 16 Sept. -6 Oct. [1958] To Allen Ginsberg t.l.s., 3 p. (with envelope)
LaVigne, Robert San Francisco, 24 Oct. [1958] To Allen Ginsberg & Peter Orlovsky t.l.s., 2 p. (with envelope)
LaVigne, Robert San Francisco, 29 Dec. 1958 To Allen Ginsberg a.l.s., 5 p. (with envelope)
LaVigne, Robert San Francisco, 22 Aug. 1959 To Allen Ginsberg a.p.c.s.
LaVigne, Robert [San Francisco], 4 Nov. 1959 To Allen Ginsberg a.l.s., 1 p. (with envelope)
LaVigne, Robert Portland, Ore., 17 Nov. 1959 To Allen Ginsberg a.l.s., 1 p.
LaVigne, Robert n.p., n.d. To Allen Ginsberg a.l.s., 1 p.
LaVigne, Robert n.p., 23 Nov. To Allen Ginsberg a.l.s., 1 p.
LaVigne, Robert [Self-portrait] Pen-and-ink 23x16.5 cm. Sketch with a.n.s., 1957, to Allen Ginsberg. Removed from letter of LaVigne to Allen Ginsberg, 17 May 1957.
LaVigne, Robert [Portraits] Pencil. 12.5x8.5 cm. 3 sketches of "Cessa" and another friend, removed from notebook. Removed from letter of LaVigne to Allen Ginsberg of 17 May 1957.
LaVigne, Robert [Pear] Pencil 15x9.5 cm. 3 sketches on leaves from a notebook. Removed from letter of LaVigne to Allen Ginsberg, 16 Aug. 1956
LaVigne, Robert "On a night that will probably bring rain" [Four Lakes, Wash., ca. Sept. 1957] t.ms., 1 p. (poem; carbon copy)
LaVigne Notes for "The battle of Four Lakes" [Four Lakes, Wash., ca. Sept. 1957] t.ms., 4 p. (poem; draft; carbon copy)
1 tms
3 als
1 als, 4 tl, 11 tls
1 tls
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Snyder, Gary [Postcard], 1956 Feb. 24, Mill Valley, Calif. [to] Allen Ginsberg a.p.c.s. Snyder, Gary [Letter], 1956 June 3, Kyoto, Japan [to] Allen Ginsberg. --1 p. t.l.s. Snyder, Gary [Letter], 1956 Aug. 20, Kyoto, Japan [to] Allen Ginsberg. --3 p. t.l.s. ---------------"Long. 170° Lat. 35°N" [Kyoto, 1956 Aug. 20]. --1 p. t.ms. (poem: typed on the first page of the letter above) ------------"Tôji" [Kyoto, 1956 Aug. 20]. --1 p. t.ms. (poem: typed in the first page of the letter above) Snyder, Gary [Letter], 1956 Oct. 12, Kyoto, Japan [to] Allen Ginsberg. --3 p. t.l.s. (signed "Gareth") Snyder, Gary [Letter, 1957, Kyoto, Japan to] Allen Ginsberg. --1 p. t.l.s. --------------"Above Pate Valley" Sierras 1955 -Kyoto 1957. --1 p. t.ms. (poem: enclosed with the above) ---------------"Map" [Kyoto, Japan, 1957]. --1 p. t.ms. (poem: enclosed with the above) Snyder, Gary [Letter 1957] Jan. 7. [Kyoto, Japan to] Allen Ginsberg. --2 p. t.l.s.(signed "Gareth"; with envelope)
Snyder, Gary [Postcard] 1958 Feb. 20, Ras Tamura, Arabia [to] Allen Ginsberg a.p.c.s
Snyder, Gary [Letter, 1958] April 22, Corte Madera, Calif. [to] Allen Ginsberg. --2 p. a.l.s. (with envelope)
Snyder, Gary [Letter] 1958 June 14, Mill Valley, Calif. [to] Allen Ginsberg. --1 p. a.l.s.
Snyder, Gary [Letter, 1958] July 30, [Mill Valley, Calif. to] Allen Ginsberg. --2 p. t.l.s. (with envelope)
Snyder, Gary [Letter], 1958 Sept. 17, Newport, Ore. [to] Allen Ginsberg. --6 p. t.l.s. (signature in Japanese?)
Snyder, Gary "On Vulture Peak" [Mill Valley, Calif., 13 Oct 1958]. --5 p. t.ms.(poem; carbon; with envelope)
Snyder, Gary [Letter] 1958 Oct. 26, [Mill Valley, Calif. to Allen Ginsberg]. --1 p. t.l. (incomplete; with envelope)
Snyder, Gary [Letter, 1958] Dec. 2, [Mill Valley, Calif. to] Allen Ginsberg. --1 p. a.l.s. (with envelope)
Snyder, Gary [Letter, 1958] Dec. 7, [Mill Valley, Calif. to] Allen Ginsberg. --2p. a.l.s. (with envelope)
Snyder, Gary [Letter], 1959 Jan. 5., [Mill Valley, Calif. to] Allen Ginsberg. --2 p. t.l.s., 2 p. (with envelope)
Snyder, Gary [Letter, 1959] Feb. 2, San Francisco, Calif. [to] Allen Ginsberg. --1 p. a.l.s. (with envelope)
Snyder, Gary [Letter], 1959 Feb. 21, [Mill Valley, Calif. to] Allen Ginsberg. --2 p. t.l.s., 2 p. (with envelope)
Snyder, Gary [Letter], 1959 April 6, Kyoto, Japan [to] Allen Ginsberg. --3 p. a.l.s.
Snyder, Gary [Letter], 1959 April 12, Kyoto, Japan [to] Allen Ginsberg. --3 p. a.l.s. (with envelope)
6 als, 7 tl, 1 tls, 1 ams, 1 AC, 2 acs, 1 tms
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Ginsberg, Allen Salto de Agua, Mexico, 3 April 1954 To Ernest Von Harz a.l.s., 1 p. (with envelope)
Whalen, Philip [Letter], 1956 June 24, Berkeley, Calif. [to] Allen Ginsberg. --3 p. t.l.s.
Whalen, Philip [Letter], 1956 July 21, Berkeley, Calif. [to] Allen Ginsberg. --2 p. a.l.s.
Whalen, Philip [Letter], 1956 Nov. 15, Berkeley, Calif. [to] Allen Ginsberg. --1 p. t.l.s.
Whalen, Philip [Letter], 1956 Dec. 8, [Berkeley, Calif. to] Allen Ginsberg. --1 p. t.l.s.
Whalen, Philip [Letter], 1956 Dec. 22, Berkeley, Calif. [to] Allen Ginsberg. --2 p. t.l.s. (with envelope)
Whalen, Philip [Letter], 1957 Jan. 11, [Berkeley, Calif. to] Allen Ginsberg. --1p. t.l.s. (with envelope)
Whalen, Philip [Letter], 1957 Feb. 6, [Berkeley, Calif. to] Allen Ginsberg. --3 p. t.l.s. (with envelope)
Whalen, Philip [Letter], 1957 Feb. 14, Berkeley, Calif. [to] Allen Ginsberg. --5 p. t.l.s. (with envelope)
Whalen, Philip [Letter], 1957 Feb. 24, Berkeley, Calif. [to] Allen Ginsberg. --1 p. t.l.s.
Whalen, Philip [Letter], 1957 April 17, Berkeley, Calif. [to] Allen Ginsberg. --3 p. a.l.s.
Whalen, Philip [Letter], 1957 May 18, Berkeley, Calif. [to] Allen Ginsberg. --3 p. a.l.s.
Whalen, Philip [Letter], 1957 July 29, Berkeley, Calif. [to] Allen Ginsberg. --3 p. t.l.s.
Whalen, Philip [Letter], 1957 Sept. 28, Newport, Ore. [to] Allen Ginsberg. --1 p. t.l.s.
Whalen, Philip [Letter], 1957 Nov. 26, Newport, Ore. [to] Allen Ginsberg. --1 p. a.l.s.
Whalen, Philip [Letter], 1958 March 19, Newport, Ore. [to] Allen Ginsberg. --2 p. a.l.s.
Whalen, Philip [Letter], 1958 April 12, Newport, Ore. [to] Allen Ginsberg. --3 p. a.l.s.
Whalen, Philip [Letter], 1958 June 29, Newport, Ore. [to] Allen Ginsberg. --2 p. a.l.s.
Whalen, Philip [Letter], 1958 Aug. 8, [Newport, Ore. to] Allen Ginsberg. --2 p. t.l.s., 2 p. (with envelope)
Whalen, Philip [Letter], 1958 Sept. 3, Newport, Ore. [to] Allen Ginsberg. --5 p. a.l.s. (with envelope)
Whalen, Philip [Letter], 1958 Sept. 11, Newport, Ore. [to] Allen Ginsberg. --4 p. t.l.s. (with a.n. added at end of the last page)
Whalen, Philip [Letter, 1958 Oct. 21, Newport, Ore. to] Allen Ginsberg. --2 p. t.l.s. (finished in the author's hand)
Whalen, Philip [Letter], 1958 Oct. 24, Newport, Ore. [to] Allen Ginsberg. --3 p. t.l.s. (with envelope)
Whalen, Philip [Letter, 1958 Oct. 29, Newport, Ore. to Allen Ginsberg]. --1 p. t.l. (on the bottom of a copy of letter sent to Charles E. Tuttle of this date; with envelope)
Whalen, Philip [Letter, ca. 1958 Nov., Newport, Ore. to] Allen Ginsberg & Gary Snyder. --1 p. t.l.s., 1 p. (carbon)
Whalen, Philip [Letter] 1958 Nov. 12, [Newport, Ore. to] Allen Ginsberg. --1 p. t.l.s. (with a.n.s. on verso; with envelope)
Whalen, Philip [Letter] 1958 Nov. 26, Newport, Ore. [to] Allen Ginsberg. --3 p. t.l.s. (with envelope)
Whalen, Philip [Letter 1958 Dec.?, Newport, Ore. to] Allen Ginsberg. --1 p. t.l.s.
Whalen, Philip [Letter] 1958 Dec. 6., Newport, Ore. [to] Allen Ginsberg. --2 p. t.l.s. (t.p. encl.; with envelope)
Whalen, Philip Sourdough Mountain lookout : for Kenneth Rexroth. [Newport Ore., 1958] t.ms.
Whalen, Philip [Letter] 1959 Jan. 16, [Newport, Ore. to] Allen Ginsberg. --3 p. a.l.s. (with envelope)
Whalen, Philip [Letter 1959 Jan. 27, Newport, Ore. to] Allen Ginsberg. --3 p. a.l.s. (with envelope)
Whalen, Philip [Letter 1959 Feb. 26, New York, NY to] Allen Ginsberg. --1 p. a.l.s. (with envelope)
Whalen, Philip [Letter 1959 March 9, San Francisco, Calif. to] Allen Ginsberg. --1 p. t.l.s. (with envelope)
Whalen, Philip [Letter ca. 1959 April, Newport, Ore.? to] Allen Ginsberg. --2 p. t.l.s.
Whalen, Philip [Letter 1959 Aug. 11, San Francisco, Calif. to] Allen Ginsberg. --3 p. a.l.s. (with envelope)
Whalen, Philip [Letter 1959 Oct. 5], San Francisco, Calif. [to] Allen Ginsberg. --1 p. t.l.s. (with envelope)
Whalen, Philip [Letter] 1959 Oct. 12, San Francisco, Calif. [to] Allen Ginsberg. --1 p. t.l.s.
Whalen, Philip [Letter 1959 Oct. 19, San Francisco, Calif. to] Allen Ginsberg. --1 p. t.l.s. (with envelope)
Whalen, Philip [Postcard] 1959 Oct. 23, San Francisco, Calif. [to] Allen Ginsberg. a.p.c.s.
Whalen, Philip [Letter, 1959 Oct. 24, San Francisco, Calif. to] Allen Ginsberg. --2 p. a.l.s., 2 p. (with envelope)
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McClure, Mike [Letter, 1959 Oct. 24, San Francisco to] Allen Ginsberg. --1 p. a.l.s. (enclosed with the above)
Whalen, Philip [Letter, 1959 Dec. 3, San Francisco, Calif. to] Allen Ginsberg. --1 p. t.l.s. (with envelope)
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Zukofsky, Louis Brooklyn, NY, 26 Sept. 1956 To Allen Ginsberg a.l.s., 1 p. (with envelope)
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Zukofsky, Louis Brooklyn, NY, 26 Sept. 1956 To Allen Ginsberg a.l.s., 1 p. (with envelope)
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