Beat poets and poetry collection, 1959-1971

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Series 1: Correspondence and Manuscripts, 1959-1971

This series, which comprises the entirety of the collection, contains correspondence and manuscripts related to beat writers and the cultural movement known as the Beat Generation.



Box 1 Folder 1 Brakhage, Stan to David Gitlin, 1968 August


Box 1 Folder 2 Cassady, Neal to Ken Kesey, 1965 August-September


Box 1 Folder 3 Clark, Tom to David Gitin, 1968 August


Box 1 Folder 4 Farrell, Barry to Charles Plymell, undated (2 letters), undated


Box 1 Folder 5 Fine, Albert to Claude Pelieu, 1969-1971, (3 postcard collages)


Box 1 Folder 6 Gwerder, Urban to Claude Pelieu, 1969 June, (2 letters)


Box 1 Folder 7 "Jim" to David Gitin, 1968


Box 1 Folder 8 Jones, LeRoi (Amiri Baraka)- The Systems of Dante's Hell manuscript fragment with corrections, circa, 1961


Box 1 Folder 9 Lebel, Jean Jacques to Claude Pelieu, undated and 1968, undated, 1968

(3 postcards- one to Pelieu and Lawrence Ferlinghetti)


McGrath, Thomas Poetry Manuscripts


Box 1 Folder 10 "Giuffre's Sheepherder"


Box 1 Folder 10 "Long Distance"


Box 1 Folder 10 "Life in the Peasant Department"


Box 1 Folder 10 "Sound of One Hand"


Box 1 Folder 10 "O'Leary's Last Wish"


Box 1 Folder 10 "Sound of One Hand"


Box 1 Folder 10 "Song"


Box 1 Folder 10 "A Field of Sunflowers"


Box 1 Folder 10 "Sound of One Hand"


Box 1 Folder 10 "Presumptions"


Box 1 Folder 10 "Too Bad"


Box 1 Folder 10 "Sound of One Hand"


Box 1 Folder 10 "War Resisters Song"


Box 1 Folder 10 "Sound of One Hand"


Box 1 Folder 10 "Where Janie Went In"


Box 1 Folder 10 "Arrivals"


Box 1 Folder 11 McGrath, Thomas to Ron Wolin, 1968


Box 1 Folder 12 Murphy, Anne to Neal Cassady, 1965 August


Claude Pelieu


Box 1 Folder 13 to Albert Fine, 1969 April 7, (2 postcards)


Box 1 Folder 14 Collages


Box 1 Folder 15 Poetry Manuscripts- "Airplane Poem" and "Coeur d'Alene," undated and 1969, undated, 1969


Box 1 Folder 16 Plymell, Charles- 3 items relating to Charles Plymell


Box 1 Folder 17 Ray, David to Charles Plymell, circa 1968 (3 letters), 1968


Box 1 Folder 18 Snyder, Gary to Jack Hirschmann, 1959 April-May, (2 letters)