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Title: Archive of letters, cards and correspondence between friends within the Burroughs “Circle” Author: ** Place: Publisher: Date: 1970s Description: Archive of letters, cards and correspondence between friends within the Burroughs “Circle” largely concerned with his literary archive, and publishing details, containing a total of approximately 96 items. Includes a file of 18 letters from Barry Miles, Burroughs and Ginsberg biographer to publisher and bookseller, Richard Aaron. Miles writes about the Burroughs bibliography and the literary scene around London. The letters cover the period of 1973-75 and are all single space typed letters signed of one and two pages, some with mailing envelopes present, signed “Miles”. * A file of 10 letters to Brion Gysin including one post card, most written to Gysin in the Royal Free hospital in London during 1975. Four are lengthy ALS written in a fine hand in French from his friend Gerard-Georges Lemaire. One TLS from film maker Ted Folke concerning collaborating with Burroughs on a script. Interesting content. Colin Naylor writes on St James Press letterhead about including Gysin in a book. * A file of approximately 19 letters from Carl Weissner in Germany to Richard Aaron as publisher in Switzerland concerning various Burroughs projects from 1974-75. Mentions Burroughs German publishers, “Kiepenheuer & Witsch have been ruled out as they bought the rights to The Ticket That Exploded in 1970 and the book never got published. They put out Dutch Schultz, The Job, and Soft Machine and all 3 were dead flops because of crummy translation and no promotion at all.” 12/29/1975, Weissner writes “have been ill for 2 or 3 weeks, some nasty virus in my nasal cavity caused some horrible inflammation like half my head was coming off, and the doc grabs an iron bolt and shoves it up my nose, then CRACK!! He breaks through the bone without so much as offering me a snort of coke before, seems he doesn’t like local anesthetic, so he makes a nice hole in there to attach a water hose to flush out the virus’” Long single space detailed letters, some with envelopes. * A file containing about 29 cards and correspondence to William Burroughs, mostly from the 1970’s although two or three from the late 1960’s including a card mailed to Tangier in 1964 signed Brother Budd. Most of the senders use a familiar one word name so some study is in order here to decipher the people. Some are Phillip Kienholz, Jerry Tarshis, Bob, Ted, John etc. an interesting paste-up etc. * A file of 18 letters from James Grauerholz, Burroughs’ literary adviser and personal assistant, to Richard Aaron in Switzerland, all concerning publishing activities and the Burroughs bibliography and archive. A great look at the people surrounding Burroughs and their doings. Lot Amendments Condition: All in very good condition and worthy of further study and research. Item number: 212453