This series consists of correspondence between Allen Ginsberg and his friends, family and associated. Included is early correspondence between Ginsberg and his friends and fellow writers William Burroughs, Jack Kerouac, Neal Cassady, and Gregory Corso as well as letters including poetry critiques from his Columbia University professors Lionel Trilling and Mark Van Doren. There is also a significant amount of correspondence between Allen Ginsberg and his father, the poet Louis Ginsberg.
Box 1 Folder 1
Anderson, John Cutler to Ginsberg, undated
Box 1 Folder 2
Auden, W.H. to Ginsberg, 1948 April and 1952 October, 1948 April, 1952 October
Box 1 Folder 3
Bakken, Richard to Louis Ginsberg, 1973
Barzun, Jacques to Ginsberg
Box 1 Folder 4
1946 October- 1948 October (3 letters), 1946, 1948 October
Box 1 Folder 5
1959-1965 (7 letters), 1959-1965
Box 1 Folder 6
Beach, Mary to Ginsberg, 1974 April 2
Box 1 Folder 7
Beckett, Samuel to Ginsberg, 1957 October 22
Box 1 Folder 8
Behan, Brendan to Ginsberg, 1960
Box 1 Folder 9
Beltrametti, Franco; Jack Hirschman; Allen Ginsberg; Gary Snyder; and Peter Orlovsky to Claude Pelieu,, 1974 June 29
Box 1 Folder 10
Blackburn, Paul to Ginsberg, 1961 August and 1966 June-October (4 letters), 1961 August, 1966 June-October
Box 1 Folder 11
Bowles, Paul to Ginsberg, 1961-1962 and undated (9 letters), 1961-1962, undated
Brooks, Eugene to Ginsberg
Box 1 Folder 12
1945-1959 (7 letters, with enclosures), 1945-1959
Box 1 Folder 13
1961-1963 (10 letters), 1961-1963
Box 1 Folder 14
1964-1969 (12 letters), 1964-1969
Burroughs, Joan Vollmer to Ginsberg
Box 1 Folder 15
1946 November- 1947 March (3 letters), 1946, 1947 March
Box 1 Folder 16
1949 April- October (2 letters), 1949
Burroughs, William Seward to Ginsberg
Box 1 Folder 17
Undated (4 letters), Undated
Box 1 Folder 18
1945 July- 1947 July (8 letters), 1945, 1947 July
Box 1 Folder 19
1948 (7 letters), 1948
Box 1 Folder 20
1949 (12 letters), 1949
Box 1 Folder 21
1950 May-1951 (11 letters), 1950
Box 1 Folder 22
1952 January- June (17 letters), 1952
Box 1 Folder 23
1952 July-December (13 letters), 1952 July-December
Box 2 Folder 1
1953 January-May (13 letters), 1953 January-May
Box 2 Folder 2
1953 June-August , 1954 May (12 letters), 1953 June-August, 1954 May
Box 2 Folder 3
1957 September-December (12 letters), 1957 September-December
Box 2 Folder 4
1958 (12 letters), 1958
Box 2 Folder 5
1959 (18 letters), 1959
Box 2 Folder 6
1960 (13 letters), 1960
Box 2 Folder 7
1961 (8 letters), 1961
Box 2 Folder 8
1962 February-1964 December (9 letters), 1962 February-1964 December
Box 2 Folder 9
1965 December-1969 September (6 letters), 1965 December-1969 September
Box 2 Folder 10
Carroll, Paul to Ginsberg, 1967 March 20
(contains a 39 page essay written by Carroll about Ginsberg's "Wichita Vortex Sutra")
Box 2 Folder 11
Cassady, Carolyn to Ginsberg, 1952-1968 (11 letters), 1952-1968
Cassady, Neal
Box 2 Folder 12
to Carolyn Cassady, 1958-1959 January (3 letters), 1958-1959 January
to Ginsberg
Box 2 Folder 13
Undated (3 letters), Undated
Box 3 Folder 1
1947 (15 letters), 1947
Box 3 Folder 2
1948 (4 letters), 1948
Box 3 Folder 3
1949-1952 (8 letters), 1949-1952
Box 3 Folder 4
1953-1954 (5 letters), 1953-1954
Box 3 Folder 5
1959 (4 letters), 1959
Box 3 Folder 6
1967 (2 letters), 1967
to Jack Kerouac
Box 3 Folder 7
Undated
Box 3 Folder 8
1947 October and 1950 December (2 letters), 1947 October, 1950 December
Box 3 Folder 9
to his Parents and Hal Chase, 1953
Box 3 Folder 10
Miscellaneous Correspondence and Documents
Box 3 Folder 11
Charters, Ann to Ginsberg, 1970 August 23
Box 3 Folder 12
Ciardi, John (Saturday Review) to Ginsberg, 1959 August (2 letters), 1959 August
Box 3 Folder 13
Clemens, Cyril to Ginsberg, 1966 April 27
Corso, Gregory
Box 3 Folder 14
to Ray Bremser, 1959
Box 3 Folder 15
to Ann Campbell, 1960
to Ginsberg
Box 3 Folder 16
Undated (5 letters), Undated
Box 3 Folder 17
1956 August-December (5 letters), 1956 August-December
Box 3 Folder 18
1957 (12 letters), 1957
Box 3 Folder 19
[1958] (8 letters)
Box 3 Folder 20
1958 January-March (12 letters) (2 to Ginsberg and Orlovsky, 3 to Ginsberg and Burroughs), 1958 January-March
Box 3 Folder 21
1958 July-September (8 letters), 1958 July-September
Box 3 Folder 22
1958 October-December (11 letters), 1958 October-December
Box 3 Folder 23
1959 May-July (12 letters), 1959 May-July
Box 4 Folder 1
1959 August -December (15 letters), 1959 August
Box 4 Folder 2
1959 May 15
(includes notes from Corso to Orlovsky and Kerouac to Ginsberg)
Box 4 Folder 3
1960 (15 letters), 1960
Box 4 Folder 4
1961 January-March (8 letters), 1961 January-March
Box 4 Folder 5
1961 September-November (10 letters), 1961 September-November
Box 4 Folder 6
1962 January-July (8 letters), 1962 January-July
Box 4 Folder 7
1962 August-November (10 letters), 1962 August-November
Box 4 Folder 8
1963 (6 letters), 1963
Box 4 Folder 9
1965-1967 (14 letters), 1965-1967
Box 4 Folder 10
to Louis Ginsberg, undated
Box 4 Folder 11
to Jack Kerouac, 1961 January 4
Box 4 Folder 12
to Archibald MacLeish, undated
to Peter Orlovsky
Box 4 Folder 13
1957 (2 letters), 1957
Box 4 Folder 14
[1958] (2 letters)
Box 4 Folder 15
1958 September-October (2 letters), 1958 September-October
Box 4 Folder 16
1960 (5 letters), 1960
Box 4 Folder 17
Corso, Gregory and William Burroughs to Ginsberg and Peter Orlovsky, 1958 September 24
Box 4 Folder 18
Cowley, Malcolm to Ginsberg, 1953 July-December (3 letters), 1953 July-December
Creeley, Robert to Ginsberg
Box 4 Folder 19
1956 September-1958 December (7 letters), 1956 September-1958 December
Box 4 Folder 20
1959-1960 (8 letters), 1959-1960
Box 5 Folder 1
1962-1963 (11 letters), 1962-1963
Box 5 Folder 2
1964-1965
Box 5 Folder 3
1966-1967 (9 letters), 1966-1967
Box 5 Folder 4
Crosby, Caresse to Ginsberg, 1957 (3 letters), 1957
Box 5 Folder 5
cummings, e.e., 1956
Box 5 Folder 6
Day, Dorothy to Ginsberg, 1961 and 1966 (4 letters), 1961, 1966
Box 5 Folder 7
DiPrima, Diane to Ginsberg, 1969
Box 5 Folder 8
Duncan, Robert to Ginsberg, 1956-1966 (5 letters), 1956-1966
Box 5 Folder 9
Eberhart, Richard to Ginsberg, 1956-1966 (5 letters), 1956-1966
Box 5 Folder 10
Engle, Paul Hamilton to Ginsberg, 1964-1956 (6 letters), 1964-1956
Box 5 Folder 11
Farrell, Lawrence to Gregory Corso, 1958-1961 (3 letters), 1958-1961
Ferlinghetti, Lawrence
Box 5 Folder 12
to Gregory Corso, 1958-1961 (3 letters), 1958-1961
Box 5 Folder 13
to Max Gartenberg, 1960
to Ginsberg
Box 5 Folder 15
1957 (5 letters), 1957
Box 5 Folder 15
1958 (15 letters), 1958
Box 5 Folder 16
1959 (10 letters), 1959
Box 5 Folder 17
1960 (15 letters), 1960
Box 5 Folder 18
1961 (23 letters), 1961
Ferlinghetti, Lawrence
to Ginsberg
Box 6 Folder 1
1962 (22 letters), 1962
Box 6 Folder 2
1963 (11 letters), 1963
Box 6 Folder 3
1964 (20 letters), 1964
Box 6 Folder 4
1965 (8 letters), 1965
Box 6 Folder 5
1966 (16 letters), 1966
Box 6 Folder 6
1967 (9 letters), 1967
Box 6 Folder 7
1968 (7 letters), 1968
Box 6 Folder 8
to Peter Orlovsky, 1960
Box 6 Folder 9
to Claude Pélieu and Mary Beach, 1973 July- 1974 October (7 letters), 1973, 1974 October
Box 6 Folder 10
Miscellaneous Correspondence
Ford, Charles Henri to Ginsberg
Box 6 Folder 11
1952 (3 letters), 1952
Box 6 Folder 12
1964-1968 (10 letters), 1964-1968
Box 6 Folder 13
Gallup, Donald to Ginsberg, 1964-1965 (3 letters), 1964-1965
Box 6 Folder 14
Garver, William Maynard to Ginsberg, 1953
Box 6 Folder 15
Geffen, Felicia (National Institute of Arts and Letters) to Ginsberg, 1957
Ginsberg, Allen
Box 6 Folder 16
to unknown recipient, undated
(possibly discussing the work of Anselm Hollo)
Box 6 Folder 17
to Gordon Ball, 1973-1974, (2 Folders)
Box 6 Folder 18
to Amiri and Amina Baraka, 1978 March and 1980 November (2 letters), 1978 March, 1980 November
Box 6 Folder 19
to Amiri Baraka, 1978 and 1981 (3 letters), 1978, 1981
Box 7 Folder 1
to Bill Berkson, 1968-1969 (3 letters), 1968-1969
to Eugene Brooks
Box 7 Folder 2
1943-1945 (4 letter), 1943-1945
Box 7 Folder 3
1956-1957 (10 letters), 1956-1957
Box 7 Folder 4
to Ann Buchanan, 1972 (2 letters), 1972
to William Burroughs
Box 7 Folder 5
1949-1952 and undated (4 letters), 1949-1952, undated
Box 7 Folder 6
1960 July
Box 7 Folder 7
to Bill Butler, 1964
Box 7 Folder 8
to Neal Cassady, undated (3 letters), undated
Box 7 Folder 22
to Donald Cook, 12 December 1959 , 5 pages
sent from 170 East 2nd Street, New York. Unpublished
Accession number 2019.2020.M044
Box 7 Folder 9
to Gregory Corso, 1973
(contains transcript of a discussion following a poetry reading)
Box 7 Folder 10
to Mr. Creagh, 1967
Box 7 Folder 11
to Marcel Duchamp, 1964
Box 7 Folder 12
to Gail Dusenbery, 1970 (5 letters), 1970
Box 7 Folder 13
to Edith Ginsberg, 157 December 15
to Louis Ginsberg
Box 7 Folder 14
1947-1948 and undated (5 letters), 1947-1948, undated
Box 7 Folder 15
1954, 1956-1957 (15 letters), 1954, 1956-1957
Box 7 Folder 16
1958-1959 (9 letters), 1958-1959
Box 7 Folder 17
1960-1961 (16 letters), 1960-1961
Box 7 Folder 18
1962-1963 (16 letters), 1962-1963
Box 7 Folder 19
1965 (12 letters), 1965
Box 7 Folder 20
1967 September-1969 August (7 letters), 1967 September-1969 August
Box 7 Folder 21
1970s and undated (3 letters), 1970s, undated
Box 8 Folder 1
1970 (17 letters), 1970
Box 8 Folder 2
1971 (14 letters), 1971
Box 8 Folder 3
1972 (21 letters), 1972
Box 8 Folder 4
1973 (25 letters), 1973
Box 8 Folder 5
1974 (19 letters), 1974
Box 8 Folder 6
1975-1976 (8 letters), 1975-1976
to Dave Haselwood
Box 8 Folder 7
1967 and undated (9 letters), 1967, undated
Box 8 Folder 8
1968-1969 (5 letters), 1968-1969
Box 8 Folder 9
to Pietro Heliczer, 1966
Box 8 Folder 10
to Jeremy Hilton, 1965
Box 8 Folder 11
to Herbert Huncke
Box 8 Folder 12
to Jack Kerouac, undated, 1945-1949 (4 letters), 1945-1949
Box 8 Folder 13
to Jack Kerouac and William Burroughs, 1951-1952 (2 letters), 1951-1952
Box 9 Folder 1
to Arthur and Glee Knight, 1970-1975 (11 letters), 1970-1975
Box 9 Folder 2
to Arthur and Kit Knight, 1976, 1984 (3 letters), 1976, 1984
Box 9 Folder 3
to Paolo Lionni, 1956
Box 9 Folder 4
to Kenneth Lohf, 1971
Box 9 Folder 5
to Tom McGrath, 1966
Box 9 Folder 6
to Kirsten Michalski, 1970
Box 9 Folder 6a
to Sandra S. Osborn, 1961
Box 9 Folder 7
to Claude Pélieu and Mary Beach, 1968 and 1973 December- 1974 July (10 letters), 1968, 1973, 1974 July
Box 9 Folder 8
to [Robert] Gene [Pippin], 1950
(contains poem "If Money Made the Mind More Sane")
Box 9 Folder 9
to Janine Pommey, 1961
Box 9 Folder 10
to Jonathan Robbins, 1977
Box 9 Folder 11
to Miss Rosenberg, 1966
Box 9 Folder 12
to Barney Rossett, 1961
Box 9 Folder 13
to Lionel Trilling, 1945-1950 (3 letters), 1945-1950
Box 9 Folder 14
to Mark Van Doren, undated (2 letters), undated
Box 9 Folder 15
to A.A. Wyn, 1953
(regarding distribution ofJunkie)
Box 9 Folder 16
Miscellaneous Correspondence, 1966-1982
Box 9 Folder 17
Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, Peter Orlovsky and Gregory Corso to "Jim" [James Weschler],, undated
Box 9 Folder 18
Ginsberg and William Burroughs to Tom Briberg, 1967
Ginsberg, Louis
Box 9 Folder 19
to City Lights Publishing, 1960
Box 9 Folder 20
to Gail Dusenberg, 1968 (6 letters), 1968
Box 9 Folder 21
to Eugene and Connie Brooks, 1957
to Allen Ginsberg
Box 9 Folder 22
Undated
Box 9 Folder 23
1945-1948 (12 letters), 1945-1948
Box 9 Folder 24
1955 December (2 letters), 1955 December
Box 9 Folder 25
1956 (16 letters), 1956
Box 9 Folder 26
1957-1958 (13 letters), 1957-1958
Box 9 Folder 27
1959-1960 (18 letters), 1959-1960
Box 9 Folder 28
1961 (22 letters), 1961
Box 10 Folder 1
1962 (22 letters), 1962
Box 10 Folder 2
1963 (23 letters), 1963
Box 10 Folder 3
1964 (10 letters), 1964
Box 10 Folder 4
1965 (22 letters), 1965
Box 10 Folder 5
1966 January-July (23 letters), 1966 January-July
Box 10 Folder 6
1966 August-December (21 letters), 1966 August-December
Box 10 Folder 7
1967 (37 letters), 1967
Box 10 Folder 8
1968 (18 letters), 1968
Box 10 Folder 9
1969, (6 Folders)
Box 10 Folder 10
to Selden Rodman, 1962
Ginsberg, Naomi Levy
Box 10 Folder 11
to Eugene Brooks and Louis Ginsberg, 1948 and 1950s (4 letters), 1948, 1950s
Box 10 Folder 12
To Ginsberg, 1948, 1956 and undated (17 letters), 1948, 1956, undated
Box 10 Folder 13
Ginsberg, Rebecca to Ginsberg, undated
Box 11 Folder 1
Holmes, John Clellon to Ginsberg, 1949-1964 (7 letters), 1949-1964
Box 11 Folder 2
Huxley, Aldous to Ginsberg, 1961
Box 11 Folder 2
Huxley, Laural to Ginsberg, 1968
Box 11 Folder 3
Kent, Rockwell to Ginsberg, 1964 February 14
Box 11 Folder 4
Kerouac, Edie Parker to Ginsberg, 1945 January 17
Kerouac, Gabrielle-Ange Levesque
Box 11 Folder 5
to Jack Kerouac, 1949 February 1
Box 11 Folder 6
to Ginsberg, 1958 and 1959 (2 letters), 1958, 1959
Kerouac, Jack
Box 11 Folder 7
Unaddressed and, undated
Box 11 Folder 8
to Alan Ansen, 1957 August 20
Box 11 Folder 9
to William S. Burroughs, 1947 ang 1955 (2 letters), 1947, 1955
Box 11 Folder 10
to Carolyn Robinson Cassady, 1954 May 17
Box 11 Folder 11
to Neal Cassady, undated
Box 11 Folder 12
to Max and Eleanor Frohman, circa, 1952
to Ginsberg
Box 11 Folder 13
Undated (5 letters), Undated
Box 11 Folder 14
1944-1945 (11 letters), 1944-1945
Box 11 Folder 15
1947-1948, (11 Folders)
(one letter includes a letter from Lucien Carr)
Box 11 Folder 16
1949 (7 letters), 1949
Box 11 Folder 17
1950 (7 letters), 1950
Box 11 Folder 18
1951 (4 letters), 1951
Box 11 Folder 19
1952 (14 letters), 1952
Box 11 Folder 20
1953 (7 letters), 1953
Box 11 Folder 21
1954 (11 letters), 1954
(includes copies of poems later included inSan Francisco Blues
Box 12 Folder 1
1955 (18 letters), 1955
Box 12 Folder 2
1956-1957 (14 letters), 1956-1957
Box 12 Folder 3
1958 (15 letters), 1958
Box 12 Folder 4
1959 March-June (10 letters), 1959 March-June
Box 12 Folder 5
1959 July-December (12 letters), 1959 July-December
Box 12 Folder 6
1960 (9 letters), 1960
Box 12 Folder 7
1961 (8 letters), 1961
Box 12 Folder 8
1962 April-November , 1963 June 97 letters), 1962 April-November, 1963 June 97
Box 12 Folder 9
1966, 1968 (2 letters), 1966, 1968
Box 12 Folder 10
to John Clellon Holmes, undated
Box 12 Folder 11
to James Laughlin, 1951-1952 (2 letters), 1951-1952
to Peter Orlovsky
Box 12 Folder 12
1956 and undated (3 letters), 1956, undated
Box 12 Folder 13
1959
Box 12 Folder 14
to Carl Solomon, 1951 December- 1952 April (2 letters), 1951, 1952 April
Box 13 Folder 1
Krassner, Paul to Ginsberg, 1972
(written on copy ofThe Realist)
Box 13 Folder 2
LaVigne, Robert to Barry Miles, 1972
Box 13 Folder 3
Lea, George to Lawrence Ferlinghetti, 1960
(includes Lea's review of "Kaddish")
Box 13 Folder 4
Lowell, Robert to Ginsberg, 1959 April (2 letters), 1959 April
Box 13 Folder 5
Lowenfels, Walter to Ginsberg, undated, 1958-1968, (14 letters)
Box 13 Folder 6
McClure, Jo Ann Keera to Ginsberg and Peter Orlovsky, 1964
McClure, Michael
Box 13 Folder 7
to Gregory Corso, 1961
to Ginsberg
Box 13 Folder 8
undated, 1956-1957 (10 letters), 1956-1957
Box 13 Folder 9
1958-1959 (19 letters), 1958-1959
Box 13 Folder 10
1960-1961 (11 letters), 1960-1961
Box 13 Folder 11
1963-1964 (9 letters), 1963-1964
Box 13 Folder 12
1965 (6 letters), 1965
Box 13 Folder 13
1966 1967 June (14 letters), 1966, 1967 June
Box 13 Folder 14
McInnerney, Michael to Barry Miles, 1969
Box 13 Folder 15
Micheline, Jack to Ginsberg, 1960
Box 13 Folder 16
Miles, Barry to Ginsberg, 1965, 1970 (2 letters), 1965, 1970
Box 13 Folder 17
Miles, Josephine to Ginsberg, 1957
Box 13 Folder 18
Moore, Marianne to Ginsberg, 1952 June-July and 1957 January (4 letters), 1952 June-July, 1957 January
Box 13 Folder 19
National Union of South African Students to Ginsberg, 1973
Box 13 Folder 20
O'Hara, Frank to Ginsberg, 1958-1961 (4 letters), 1958-1961
Box 14 Folder 1
Olsen, Charles to Ginsberg, 1957-1966 (10 letters), 1957-1966
Box 14 Folder 2
Ono, Yoko to Jonas Mekas, 1969
Orlovsky, Peter
Box 14 Folder 3
to Amiri and Amina Baraka, 1978
Box 14 Folder 4
to Barry Miles, 1971, 1973 (2 letters), 1971, 1973
Box 14 Folder 5
Pelieu, Claude to Ginsberg, 1974 (2 letters), 1974
Box 14 Folder 6
Pound, Dorothy to Ginsberg, 1952
Box 14 Folder 7
Ransom, John Crowe to Ginsberg, undated (2 letters), undated
Box 14 Folder 8
Read, Sir Herbert to Ginsberg, 1958
Box 14 Folder 9
Rodman, Selden to Ginsberg, 1960-1961, 1964 (5 letters), 1960-1961, 1964
Box 14 Folder 10
Rudge, Olga to Ginsberg, 1967 September-October (3 letters), 1967 September-October
Box 14 Folder 11
Russell, Bertrand to Ginsberg, 1962
Box 14 Folder 12
Salisbury, Harrison Evans to Ginsberg, 1968
Box 14 Folder 13
Solomon, Carl to Jack Kerouac, 1951-1952 (3 letters), 1951-1952
Box 14 Folder 14
Spender, Stephen to Ginsberg, undated
Box 14 Folder 15
Stevenson, Adlai to Ginsberg, 1960
Box 14 Folder 16
Trilling, Lionel to Ginsberg, 1945-1950 (13 letters), 1945-1950
Box 14 Folder 17
Trilling, Lionel to Ginsberg, 1951-1966 (11 letters), 1951-1966
Van Doren, Mark to Ginsberg, Undated
Box 14 Folder 18
Undated, 1944-1949 (8 letters), 1944-1949
Box 14 Folder 19
1950-1969 (8 letters), 1950-1969
Box 14 Folder 20
Villa, Jose Garcia to Ginsberg, 1946
Box 14 Folder 21
Williams, Florence Herman to Ginsberg, 1951-1964 (5 letters), 1951-1964
Williams, William Carlos
Box 14 Folder 22
to Ginsberg, 1956-1957 (10 letters), 1956-1957
Box 14 Folder 23
to Louis Ginsberg, 1952
Box 14 Folder 24
to Various Recipients, 1951-1959
Box 14 Folder 25
Wilson, Edmund to Ginsberg, 1963
Box 14 Folder 26
Zukofsky, Louis to Ginsberg, 1957
Box 15 Folder 1 to 2
Various Authors to Ginsberg, 1960s-1970s, (2 Folders)
(letters and poems sent to Ginsberg by admirers)
Box 15 Folder 3
Various Ginsberg Correspondence and Envelopes