Angus and Hetty MacLise papers, 1950s-201015.5 linear feet (14 manuscript boxes; 1 half-size manuscript box; 5 record storage cartons (audio-visual material); 3 oversize boxes; 2 tube cases; 7 mapcase folders)
Creator
MacLise, Angus
Abstract Or Scope
Angus MacLise was a musician, poet, artist, and countercultural figure who was a mainstay of the downtown New York arts scene in the 1960s, which included Fluxus alongside other avant-garde communities and scenes. Hetty MacLise was an English-born artist, poet, and multi-instrumentalist likewise associated with various overlapping movements and milieus within the 1960s and 70s avant-garde. This collection contains papers, documents, publications, ephemera, sound and video recordings, photographs, and artwork primarily created by, given to, or related to Angus MacLise and Hetty MacLise.
The Barry Miles Papers contains correspondence, manuscripts, photographs, and printed materials concerned with Miles' literary activities in the London counterculture. Included are letters and manuscripts from William S. Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg, among numerous others. This collection also includes material used by Miles in the research and writing of his work Ginsberg: A Biography as well as from his editorship of the annotated edition of Ginsberg's Howl.
The office file of the magazine. There is correspondence and manuscripts from many writers among whom are: William Burroughs; Diane di Prima; Allen Ginsberg; Anselm Hollo; Walter Lowenfels; Michael McClure; Gerard Malanga, and John Wieners