This series consists of materials related to Barry Miles' biography of Allen Ginsberg. First, it includes ten distinct manuscript drafts of the biography itself, up to and including galleys and typeset drafts. Many of these drafts include handwritten notes and corrections. The sixth draft has extensive corrections by Ginsberg. There is also a draft of the revised edition of the biography. Additionally, a published copy of the first edition, signed and annotated throughout by Ginsberg, can be found.
The research materials are quite extensive, including typed chronologies of Ginsberg's life, and itineraries of his various travels, as well as transcribed interviews with family and friends.
Audio recordings of interviews are also in this series, part of a 10-box collection of cassette tapes containing duplicates of tapes from Ginsberg's personal collection. The cassette tapes are ordered according to Ginsberg's own organizational schema when possible. Other audio material, such as Miles' interviews with Ginsberg friends and family, are arranged alphabetically by interviewee.
There is also Miles' detailed year-by-year chronological reconstruction of Ginsberg's life, from 1943 to Ginsberg's death in 1997. These files contain contemporary newspaper clippings; selected Ginsberg journal entries; letters regarding relevant details of Ginsberg's life; writings by Ginsberg and others from the year specified; and studies of Ginsberg and the Beats relevant to that year. Within the folder 'Year 1949' can be found photocopies of Ginsberg's early manuscript "The Fall."
Nearly all of this material is photocopied. The duplicated material is dated, in the container list, by when the originals were produced; the photocopies themselves date from the 1980s, the period when Miles was writing the biography.
This series also contains extensive correspondence, some related to the publication of the biography, but mostly a collection of Ginsberg's personal correspondence from the 1940s to the 1990s. As with the chronological material discussed above, this correspondence is almost exclusively photocopied Also found within this series are duplicates of Ginsberg's journals from 1953 to 1980. Finally, this series contains a small collection of Ginsberg obituaries.
Box 3 Folder 13
Archive Sale, 1994
Audio Material--Cassette Tapes
Box 28
Allen Ginsberg's Collection, 1959-1988 (137 Tapes), 1959-1988
Box 29
Allen Ginsberg's Collection, 1959-1988 (137 Tapes), 1959-1988
Box 30
Allen Ginsberg's Collection, 1959-1988 (137 Tapes), 1959-1988
Box 31
Allen Ginsberg's Collection, 1959-1988 (137 Tapes), 1959-1988
Box 32
Allen Ginsberg's Collection, 1959-1988 (137 Tapes), 1959-1988
Box 33
Allen Ginsberg's Collection, 1959-1988 (137 Tapes), 1959-1988
Box 34
Allen Ginsberg's Collection, 1959-1988 (137 Tapes), 1959-1988
Box 35
Allen Ginsberg's Collection, 1959-1988 (137 Tapes), 1959-1988
Box 36
Ball, Gordon - Whalen, Phillip--Tape 1, 1984-1986 (17 Tapes), 1984-1986
Box 37
Whalen, Phillip --Tape 2, 1986 (1 Tape), 1986
Box 37
Recordings of Allen Ginsberg, 1967-1990 (11 Tapes), 1967-1990
Box 3 Folder 13
Background Material and Autobiographical Precis, circa, 1986-1988
Box 4 Folder 1 to 2
Childhood Notes, 1970s (2 Folders), 1970s
Chronology, 1943-1997
Box 4 Folder 3 to 8
General, 1970-1980s (6 Folders), 1970-1980s
Year-by-Year
Box 4 Folder 9 to 11
1943-1999 (3 Folders), 1943-1999
Box 4 Folder 12
1943-1997
Box 4 Folder 13
1944-1999
Box 4 Folder 14
General Notes, 1953-1980s
Box 4 Folder 15
Carr, Lucien, 1944s-1999
Box 6 Folder 2 to 5
1945-1999, (4 Folders)
1949-1997
Box 6 Folder 6 to 7
General, 1949 (2 Folders), 1949
Box 6 Folder 8
"The Fall"--Notebooks, 1949
Box 6 Folder 9 to 12
1950-1997, (3 Folders)
Box 7 Folder 1 to 9
1953-2000 (9 Folders), 1953-2000
Box 8 Folder 1 to 14
1962-1999, (14 Folders)
Box 9 Folder 1 to 3
1976-1978 (3 Folders), 1976-1978
1979
Box 9 Folder 4
General, 1979
Box 9 Folder 5
Allen Ginsberg--European Itinerary, 1979
Box 9 Folder 6 to 11
1980-1993, (6 Folders)
Box 10 Folder 1 to 11
1986-1997, (11 Folders)
Box 10 Folder 12
Collected Poems Footnotes, Undated
Correspondence, 1943-1999
Biography-Related, 1976-1990
Box 10 Folder 13
General, 1986
Box 10 Folder 14
Libraries, 1976-1987
Box 10 Folder 15
Simon & Schuster, 1988-1990
Ginsberg, 1943-1999
Box 11 Folder 1 to 4
Burroughs, William S., 1950-1999 (4 Folders), 1950-1999
General
Box 14 Folder 10
Miles, 1966-1979
Drafts, 1980s-2000
First Draft
Second Draft
Box 16 Folder 5 to 7
Chapters 1-3, circa 1980s (3 Folders), 1980s
Third Draft
Fourth Draft
Box 20 Folder 2 to 3
Fifth Draft 1988 (2 Folders), 1988
Sixth Draft
Box 21 Folder 3 to 6
Final--Copyedited, 1988 (4 Folders), 1988
Box 21 Folder 7
Galleys, 1989
Box 22 Folder 1 to 2
Galleys, 1989 (2 Folders), 1989
Box 22 Folder 3 to 5
First Typeset Photocopy, 1989 (3 Folders), 1989
Box 22 Folder 6
Afterword, circa, 1980s
Box 22 Folder 7
Index, circa, 1980s
Box 3 Folder 15
Published First Edition, signed by Ginsberg, with marginalia, 1989
Box 22 Folder 8 to 9
English Edition, 2000 (2 Folders), 2000
Box 23 Folder 1 to 3
English Edition, 2000 (3 Folders), 2000
Family Notes, 1980s-1999
Box 23 Folder 4
Naomi (Mother), 1987-1999
Box 23 Folder 5
Louis (Father), 1980s-1999
Interviews--Transcribed, 1980s
Box 23 Folder 6
Friends and Family, circa, 1986
Box 23 Folder 7
Ginsberg, Allen, 1985-1986
Box 23 Folder 8
Interview Questions, Undated
Journals, 1953-1980
Kaddish
Box 26 Folder 6
Origins, 1950s-1960s
Box 26 Folder 7
Filmscript, Undated
Box 26 Folder 8
Playscript, 1972
Box 27 Folder 1
Obituaries, 1997-1999
Box 27 Folder 2
Recordings Listings and Liner Notes, 1971-1993
Box 27 Folder 3
Russia, Undated
Box 27 Folder 4
Stanford University Notes, 1999
Box 27 Folder 5
Vollmer, Joan, 1951
Box 27 Folder 6
University of Texas Ginsberg Collection Notes, Undated