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Manuel Ramos Otero Papers, circa 1920s-2007, bulk 1967-1992

18 linear feet
Manuel Ramos Otero (1948-1990) is considered the first openly gay writer from Puerto Rico. He resided in New York City for much of his adult life. In 1990, he returned to his hometown of Manatí, Puerto Rico, where he died of complications from HIV/AIDS. The collection includes personal and professional correspondence, manuscripts, notebooks and notes, reviews, photographs, and newspaper clippings. These materials range in date from Otero's infancy to his death, 1948-1990. There is also a small section of the collection that contains material related to Otero posthumously, which dates from 1990 to 2007.
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Michael McClure Papers, 1958-1968

93 items

Letters from McClure to David Meltzer discussing McClure's writings, especially during a visit to New York in 1961. Also, three poems sent to Meltzer; one letter, dated 1965, and addressed to Joe Pinelli; letters from McClure to his agent, Max Gartenberg, 1965-1967, concerning his negotiations with Grove Press; and 43 drafts of his MEAT SCIENCE ESSAYS, published by City Lights Books in 1963 and 1966.

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Amiri Baraka papers, 1945-2015, bulk 1970s-2000s

219.5 linear feet
The Amiri Baraka Papers contains correspondence, writings, and the personal, political activism and teaching materials related to Amiri Baraka's career as a poet, writer, editor, activist, and teacher in the New York City Beat, Downtown, and Black Arts literary scenes from the 1960s through the 2000s. Included are manuscripts from Baraka's numerous books of poetry, non-fiction, fiction, plays, editorial work, and screenplays. The collection also features organizational and documentary materials relating to Baraka's university teaching and Newark, NJ-based Black radical activism, as well as audio/visual material, photographs, and printed material collected and created by Baraka.
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Tennessee Williams papers, 1920-1983

160 linear feet
A large and important collection of the correspondence, memoirs, and plays of Tennessee Williams. The collection is especially strong in the later works.
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Sidney Kramer papers and library, 1940s-1980s

176 linear feet

Papers and 50 boxes of paperback books.

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John Baxter Collection of Olympia Press manuscripts, 1979-1988

0.1 Linear Feet

A small folder of promotional materials for Olympia Press, as well as letters from Girodias to Nick Austin, Henry Miller, and Samuel Beckett. Includes a photocopy of "Une journée sur la terre" from L'Infini.

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Maurice Girodias Letter to Samuel Beckett, 1986 Box 1

of Grove Press, and his thoughts about publishing in general and Olympia in particular.

Copy. Letter discusses Deidre Bair's biography of Beckett, Girodias's clashes with Barney Rosset of Grove Press, and his thoughts about publishing in general and Olympia in particular.

  1. Series I: Papers
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John Howard Griffin papers, 1920-2004

28 linear feet

Correspondence, manuscripts, documents, photographs, and printed materials by and about John Howard Griffin. The correspondence is extensive and includes letter from Jacques Maritain; Thomas Merton; Maxwell Geismar; Eldridge Cleaver; Robert Casadeus; Abraham Rattner; P.D. East; Joseph Noonan; Sarah Patton Boyle; Lillian Smith; Father August Thompson; Nell Dorr; and Brother Patrick Hart. All of his major works are represented in manuscript form (usually typescript, carbon). In addition there are many original photographs by Griffin, which he pasted throughout his extensive journal, 1950-1980. This journal is a remarkable account of his life and thoughts, extending to over 3,000 pages.

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Rossett, Barney To John Howard Griffin, New York, 5 April 1952 Box 12, Folder 431

[Rossett, publisher of Grove Press, solicited Griffin's support on behalf of Henry Miller's Tropic

[Rossett, publisher of Grove Press, solicited Griffin's support on behalf of Henry Miller'sTropic of Cancer, which was cleared of the charge of pornography by the Supreme Court, on February 21, 1962; there is a carbon typescript of Griffin's reply of support, as well as related documents.

  1. Series XII. The Decade of the Sixties, 1960s
  2. Subseries XII.4: Censorship
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Albert Ellis papers, 1920-2007, bulk 1965-1997

218 linear feet
This collection encompasses the professional and personal life of psychologist and pioneer of Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy Albert Ellis.
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1960s Box 119

C. Thomas Publisher; Dugald S. Arbuckle, Boston University; Grove Press; Aaron Beck; Herbert

(Notable Correspondents Include: Noble H. Kelley, Southern Illinois University; George Walsh, Editor,Cosmopolitan; Cec Cinder, Editor, Utopia Publications; Brian Kirby, Editor, Brandon House; Jerry DeVincent, Editor,Verdict; Martin Grossack, Grossack Research Associates; Seymore Krim,Nugget Magazine; Isadore Rubin, Editor,Sexology Magazine; John Warkentin, Journal Editor,Voices: The Art and Science of Psychotherapy;The International Platform Association; Carnegie Institute of Technology;Fact Magazine; Psychology Club, College of San Mateo, California; Prentice-Hall, Inc.; Veterans Administration; Julian Messner, Inc. Publishers;The Realist; Janus Society of America;Journal of Marriage and Family; Charles C. Thomas Publisher; Dugald S. Arbuckle, Boston University; Grove Press; Aaron Beck; Herbert Michelman, Crown Publishers; Department of Health, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania; Paul G. Neimark, Editor, New Classics House; State of Georgia, Milledgeville State Hospital; A.C. Spectorsky, Editorial Director,Playboy; Robert A. Wilson, Editor, Country Wide Publications; The Language Press; A & W Publishers, Inc.; Impact Publishers; The Fielding Institute, California; Zift-Davis Publishing, Co.; American Association of Sex Educators, Counselors and Therapists, Washington, DC; Indiana School of Nursing; Springer Publishing; Russell Grieger, University of Virginia)

  1. Series I: Correspondence, 1947-2006
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Letters to Donald Keene from Japanese literary figures, 1952-2004

5 linear feet

This collection contains letters, postcards, manuscripts, published papers, photographs, and other ephemera from Japanese literary authors, critics, artists, and architects such as Abe Kōbo, Kawabata Yasunari, Mishima Yukio, Ōe Kenzaburō, Tanizaki Jun'ichirō. These materials were sent to, or otherwise acquired by, Professor Donald Keene between 1952 and 2004.

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Philip Whalen papers, 1941-1979

8.34 linear feet
Papers of Philip Whalen, American poet, novelist, and Zen Buddhist associated with the Beat Generation and the San Francisco Renaissance.
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