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Series II: Arranged Correspondence
Series III: A Bibliography of Works by Allen Ginsberg

George Dowden papers on the Allen Ginsberg bibliography, 1966-1971

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Series I: Cataloged Material

Subseries I.1: Correspondence

Cataloged correspondence and manuscripts are interfiled


Box 1 Allen, Donald M. To George Dowden, San Francisco, 8 May 1967, 1 page t.l.s.,

[With copy of 1 related letter]

Box 1 Berke, Joseph H. To George Dowden, London, 19 Aug 1969, 3 pages a.l.s. (p. 3 typewritten

[With copies of 2 related letters]

Box 1 Berke, Joseph H. To George Dowden, London, 30 Sept 1969, 2 pages t.l.s.,

[With copy of reply]

Box 1 Berke, Joseph H. To George Dowden, London, [Oct 1969], 1 page t.l.s.,

[With copy of reply]

Box 1 Blackburn, Paul To George Dowden, New York, 31 May [1967], 1 page a.l.s.,

[With copy of reply]

Box 1 Cantwell, Robert To George Dowden, New York, 7 Oct 1967, 2 pages t.l.s.,

[With copy of 1 related letter]

Box 1 Chamberlain, Wynn To George Dowden, [New York], 22 Sept 1967, 1 page t.l.s.,

[With copy of 1 related letter]

Box 1 Ferlinghetti, Lawrence To George Dowden, [San Francisco], [March 1966], 1 page a.l. (his notes written on GD's letter

Box 1 Ferlinghetti, Lawrence To George Dowden, San Francisco, 2 March 1966, 1 page t.l.s. (with copy of related letter bearing LF's notes

Box 1 Ferlinghetti, Lawrence To George Dowden, San Francisco, [June 1966], 1 p.c.s. (with copy of related letter

Box 1 Ferlinghetti, Lawrence To George Dowden, San Francisco, 25 Aug 1966, 1 page t.l.s.,

[With copies of 2 related letters]

Box 1 Ferlinghetti, Lawrence To George Dowden, San Francisco, 7 Sept 1966, 2 pages t.l.s.,

[With copies of 2 related letters]

Box 1 Ferlinghetti, Lawrence To George Dowden, San Francisco, 25 April 1967, 1 page a.l.s.,

[With copies of 2 related letters]

Box 1 Blackburn, Paul To George Dowden, New York, 31 May [1967], 1 page a.l.s.,

[With copy of reply]

Box 1 Ferlinghetti, Lawrence To George Dowden, San Francisco, 12 [i.e., 11] May 1967, 1 p.c.s.,

[With copy of reply]

Box 1 Ferlinghetti, Lawrence To George Dowden, San Francisco, 1 June 1967, 2 pages a.l.s.,

[With copy of reply]

Box 1 Ferlinghetti, Lawrence To George Dowden, San Francisco, [8 June 1967], 1 p.c.s.,

[With GD's related notes, 4 pages]

Box 1 Ferlinghetti, Lawrence To George Dowden, San Francisco, 20 June 1967, 1 p.c.s.,

[With copy of reply]

Box 1 Ferlinghetti, Lawrence To George Dowden, San Francisco, 7 July 1967, 2 pages a.l.s.,

[With copies of 3 related letters]

Box 1 Ferlinghetti, Lawrence To George Dowden, [San Francisco], [Dec 1967], 1 page a.l.s.,

[Written on GD's letter; with carbon copy]

Box 1 Ferlinghetti, Lawrence To George Dowden, San Francisco, 18 Jan 1969, 1 page t.l.s.,

[With copies of 2 related letters & notes]

Box 1 Ferlinghetti, Lawrence To Marthe Whitcomb Rexroth (Mrs. Kenneth), San Francisco, [May 1969], 1 page t.l.s.,

Box 1 Ferlinghetti, Lawrence To George Dowden, San Francisco, 8 May 1969, 1 page t.l.s.,

Box 1 Ferlinghetti, Lawrence To George Dowden, San Francisco, 8 May 1969, 1 page t.l.s.,

[With copy of reply]

Box 1 Ferlinghetti, Lawrence To George Dowden, San Francisco, [June 1969], 2 pages a.l.s.,

[With copy of reply]

Box 1 Ferlinghetti, Lawrence To George Dowden, San Francisco, [Aug 1969], 1 page t.l.s.,

[With copy of reply & related letter bearing LF's notes, 3 pages]

Box 1 Ferlinghetti, Lawrence To George Dowden, San Francisco, 5 Sept 1969, 1 page t.l.s.,

[With copy of reply]

Box 1 Ferlinghetti, Lawrence To George Dowden, San Francisco, 15 Sept 1969, 1 page t.l.s., 3 related letters,

Box 1 Ferlinghetti, Lawrence To George Dowden, [San Francisco], 6 Nov 1969, 1 page t.l.s.,

[With copy of reply & receipt]

Box 1 Ferlinghetti, Lawrence To George Dowden, San Francisco, 2 Dec 1969, 1 page t.l.s.,

[With copy of reply]

Box 1 Ferlinghetti, Lawrence To George Dowden, San Francisco, 12 Jan 1970, 1 page t.l.s.,

[With copies of 2 replies]

Box 1 Ferlinghetti, Lawrence To George Dowden, San Francisco, 23 Feb 1970, 2 pages t.l.s.,

[With copy of reply]

Box 1 Ferlinghetti, Lawrence To George Dowden, San Francisco, [ca. March 1970], 2 pages a.l.s.,

[With 6 related letters & list]

Box 1 Ferlinghetti, Lawrence To George Dowden, San Francisco, 5 July 1970, 1 page t.l.s.,

Box 1 Ferlinghetti, Lawrence To George Dowden, San Francisco, 11 Aug 1970, 1 page t.l.s.,

[With copies of 2 replies]

Box 1 Ferlinghetti, Lawrence To George Dowden, San Francisco, [ca. 20 Aug 1970], 4 pages a.l.s.,

[Pages 2-4 written on GD's list of questions; With copy of reply]

Box 1 Ferlinghetti, Lawrence To George Dowden, San Francisco, 21 Dec 1970, 2 pages t.l.s.,

[With copies of 6 related letters]

Box 1 Ferlinghetti, Lawrence To George Dowden, San Francisco, 24 March 1971, 2 pages a.l.s.,

[With copies of 3 related letters]

Box 1 Ginsberg, Allen To George Dowden, [New York], [ca. March 1967], 2 pages a.l.,

[Notes written on GD's letter; With copies of 3 related letters]

Box 1 Ginsberg, Allen To George Dowden, London, 5 Aug 1967, 1 telegram,

Box 1 Ginsberg, Allen To George Dowden, [London], 16 Aug [1967], 1 page a.l.s.,

[With envelope & copy of reply]

Box 1 Ginsberg, Allen To George Dowden, [London], [18 Aug 1967], 1 a.n.s. (on envelope

Box 1 Ginsberg, Allen To George Dowden, Milan, 11 Nov 1967, 1 page a.l.s.,

[With envelope & copies of 3 related letters]

Box 1 Ginsberg, Allen To George Dowden, London, 28 Nov 1967, 1 page a.l.s.,

[With copies of 3 related letters]

Box 1 Ginsberg, Allen To George Dowden, [New York], [25 Jan 1968], 1 page a.l.s.,

[With copy of reply]

Box 1 Ginsberg, Allen To George Dowden, New York, 28 March 1968, 1 page a.l.s.,

[With copy of reply]

Box 1 Ginsberg, Allen To George Dowden, [New York], 29 April 1968, 2 pages a.l.s.,

[With copy of reply]

Box 1 Ginsberg, Allen To George Dowden, New York, 28 May 1968, 1 page a.l.s.,

[With copy of reply]

Box 1 Ginsberg, Allen To George Dowden, [New York], 20 June 1968, 1 page a.l.,

[With copy of reply]

Box 1 Ginsberg, Allen To George Dowden, [New York], 18 Oct 1968, 2 pages a.l.s.,

[With questionnaire, 9 pages, filled in by AG & copy of related letter]

Box 1 Ginsberg, Allen To George Dowden, [New York], 27 Jan 1968, 2 pages a.l.s.,

[With copy of related letter]

Box 1 Ginsberg, Allen To George Dowden, [New York], [Jan 1969], 2 pages a.l.s.,

[Written on related letter; With copy of reply & questionnaire, 12 pages]

Box 1 Ginsberg, Allen To George Dowden, Cherry Valley, NY, 10 March 1969, 1 page t.l.s.,

[With 11 page questionnaire filled in by AG & copy of related letter]

Box 1 Ginsberg, Allen To George Dowden, Cherry Valley, NY, 15 April 1969, 1 p.c.s.,

[With copy of reply]

Box 1 Ginsberg, Allen To George Dowden, [Cherry Valley, NY], [Oct 1969], 7 pages a.l.,

[5 pages written on lettter from GD; With copies of 2 related letters]

Box 1 Ginsberg, Allen To George Dowden, Cherry Valley, NY, 7 July 1969, 1 page a.l.s.,

[With 2 questionnaires filled in by AG; With copies of 3 related letters]

Box 1 Ginsberg, Allen To George Dowden, [Cherry Valley, NY], [Sept 1969], 3 pages a.l.s.,

[Written on related letter; With copy of letter]

Box 1 Ginsberg, Allen To George Dowden, [Cherry Valley, NY], [10 Dec 1969], 2 pages a.l.s.,

[With copies of 2 related letters & bank check]

Box 1 Ginsberg, Allen To George Dowden, Cherry Valley, NY, [Jan 1970], 8 pages t.l.s.,

[4 pages in AG's hand; with copy of reply]

Box 1 Ginsberg, Allen To George Dowden, [Cherry Valley, NY], 7 [i.e. 6] Feb 1970, 1 page a.l.s.,

[With copy of reply]

Box 1 Ginsberg, Allen To George Dowden, Cherry Valley, NY, 11 Feb 1970, 1 page t.l.s.,

[With copy of reply]

Box 1 Ginsberg, Allen To George Dowden, [Cherry Valley, NY], 19 Feb 1970, 1 page a.l.s.,

[With copies of 4 related letters & customs form]

Box 1 Ginsberg, Allen To George Dowden, [Cherry Valley, NY], 23 May 1970, 1 page a.l.s.,

[With copy of reply & AG's notes on Mantras, 2 pages]

Box 1 Ginsberg, Allen To George Dowden, [Cherry Valley, NY], 27 Jan [i.e. Feb] 1971, 1 p.c.s.,

[With copies of 2 related letters]

Box 1 Ginsberg, Louis To George Dowden, Paterson, NJ, 15 Oct 1966, 1 page t.l.s.,

Box 1 Ginsberg, Louis To George Dowden, Paterson, NJ, 26 Oct 1966, 1 page t.l.s.,

[With clipping & carbon copy of reply]

Box 1 Ginsberg, Louis To George Dowden, Paterson, NJ, [ca. April 1967], 2 pages t.l.s.,

[With carbon copy of reply]

Box 1 Ginsberg, Louis To George Dowden, Paterson, NJ, 12 May 1967, 1 page t.l.s.,

[2 poems enclosed; With copy of reply]

Box 1 Ginsberg, Louis To George Dowden, Paterson, NJ, 21 Dec 1967, 2 pages t.l.s.,

[With carbon copy of reply]

Box 1 Ginsberg, Louis To George Dowden, Paterson, NJ, 12 March 1968, 1 page t.l.s.,

[With carbon copy of reply]

Box 1 Ginsberg, Louis To George Dowden, Paterson, NJ, 31 May 1968, 1 page t.l.s.,

[With carbon copy of reply]

Box 1 Ginsberg, Louis To George Dowden, Paterson, NJ, [June 1968], 2 pages t.l.s.,

Box 1 Ginsberg, Louis To George Dowden, Paterson, NJ, 14 June 1968, 1 page t.l.s.,

[With carbon copies of 2 related letters]

Box 1 Ginsberg, Louis To George Dowden, Paterson, NJ, 22 Aug 1969, 2 pages t.l.s.,

[With copies of 2 related letters]

Box 1 Ginsberg, Louis To George Dowden, Paterson, NJ, 4 Sept 1969, 1 page t.l.s.,

Box 1 Ginsberg, Louis To George Dowden, Paterson, NJ, 3 Dec 1969, 1 page t.l.s.,

Box 1 Ginsberg, Louis To George Dowden, Paterson, NJ, 5 Dec 1969, 1 page t.l.s.,

[With carbon copy of reply]

Box 1 Grinberg, Miguel To George Dowden, Buenos Aires, 23 March 1966, 1 page t.l.s.,

[With copies of 2 related letters]

Box 1 Grinberg, Miguel To George Dowden, [Buenos Aires], 24 June 1966, 1 page a.l.s.,

[With carbon copy of reply]

Box 1 Grinberg, Miguel To George Dowden, [Buenos Aires], 30 January 1967, 1 page a.l.s.,

Box 1 Grinberg, Miguel To George Dowden, [Buenos Aires], [1 Feb 1967], 1 page a.l.s.,

[With carbon copy of reply]

Box 1 Grinberg, Miguel To George Dowden, [Buenos Aires], 18 May 1967, 1 page t.l.s.,

[With carbon copy of reply]

Box 1 Grinberg, Miguel To George Dowden, Buenos Aires, 7 June 1967, 2 pages t.l.s.,

[With carbon copy of reply]

Box 1 Grinberg, Miguel To George Dowden, Buenos Aires, 31 Aug 1967, 1 page a.l.s.,

[With carbon copy of reply]

Box 1 Grinberg, Miguel To George Dowden, [Buenos Aires], [ca. Oct 1967], 1 page t.l.s.,

Box 1 Grinberg, Miguel To George Dowden, [Buenos Aires], 20 Nov 1967, 1 page t.l.s.,

Box 1 Harding, Gunnar To George Dowden, Stockholm, 30 Aug 1967, 1 page t.l.s.,

[With enclosed bibliography & copies of 2 related letters]

Box 1 Harding, Gunnar To George Dowden, Stockholm, 1 Nov 1967, 2 pages t.l.s.,

[With copy of reply]

Box 1 Harding, Gunnar To George Dowden, Stockholm, 11 Nov 1967, 2 pages t.l.s.,

[With copy of reply]

Box 1 Harding, Gunnar To George Dowden, Iowa City, IA, 14 March 1969, 2 pages a.l.s.,

[With copy of reply]

Box 1 Holmes, John Clellon To George Dowden, Old Saybrook, CT, 17 Aug 1967, 2 pages t.l.s.,

[With copies of 2 related letters]

Box 1 Holmes, John Clellon To George Dowden, [London], [Oct 1967], 1 page t.l.s.,

[With copy of reply]

Box 1 Holmes, John Clellon To George Dowden, Old Saybrook, CT, 23 Jan 1967 [i.e., 1968], 1 page t.l.s.,

[With copy of reply]

Box 1 Holmes, John Clellon To George Dowden, Old Saybrook, CT, 18 Sept 1968, 2 pages t.l.s.,

[With copy of related letter]

Box 1 Kupferberg, Tuli To George Dowden, New York, 29 June 1964, 1 page a.l.s.,

[With copies of 4 related letters]

Box 1 Laughlin, James To George Dowden, New York, 28 June 1967, 1 page t.l.s.,

[With copies of 3 related letters]

Box 1 Laughlin, James To George Dowden, New York, 5 Oct 1967, 1 page t.l.s.,

[With copy of reply]

Box 1 Laughlin, James To George Dowden, New York, 18 Oct 1967, 1 page t.l.s.,

Box 1 La Vigne, Robert To George Dowden, Bennington, VT, [ca. Nov 1967], 2 pages a.l.s.,

[With copies of 2 related letters]

Box 1 La Vigne, Robert To George Dowden, San Francisco, 20 Jan 1968, 1 page a.l.s.,

Box 1 Label, Jean-Jacques To George Dowden, [Paris], [23 June 1966], 1 p.c.s.,

[With copies of 4 related letters]

Box 1 Malanga, Gerard To George Dowden, New York, 6 July 1966, 1 page a.l.s.,

Box 1 Malanga, Gerard To George Dowden, [New York], [Aug 1967], 2 pages a.l.s.,

[Written on related letter; With copies of 3 related letters]

Box 1 Pivano, Fernanda Sottsass To George Dowden, Milan, 22 June 1966, 1 page t.l.s.,

[With copies of 2 related letters]

Box 1 Pivano, Fernanda Sottsass To George Dowden, Milan, 8 Sept 1966, 1 page t.l.s.,

Box 1 Pivano, Fernanda Sottsass To George Dowden, Milan, 30 Oct 1967, 1 page t.l.s.,

[With copies of 2 related letters]

Box 1 Pivano, Fernanda Sottsass To George Dowden, [Milan], 14 Dec 1967, 1 page t.l.s.,

[With copies of 2 related letters]

Box 1 Pivano, Fernanda Sottsass To George Dowden, Milan, [Sept 1969], 1 page t.l.s.,

[With copies of 2 related letters]

Box 1 Pivano, Fernanda Sottsass To George Dowden, Milan, 21 Oct 1969, 1 page t.l.s.,

Box 1 Rexroth, Martha Whitcomb (Mrs. Kenneth) To Lawrence Ferlinghetti, [San Francisco], [May 1969], 1 page a.l.s.,

[For this item See Ferlinghetti, Lawrence. To George Dowden, [May 1969].]

Box 1 Snyder, Gary To George Dowden, [Kyoto], 17 Sept [1967], 2 pages a.l.s.,

[With envelope &amp copy of related letter]

Box 1 Snyder, Gary To George Dowden, San Francisco, [June 1969], 1 page t.l.s.,

[With copy of reply]

Box 1 Snyder, Gary To George Dowden, Mill Valley, CA, 26 Oct 1969, 1 page t.l.s.,

[With envelope &amp copies of 2 related letters]

Subseries I.2: Manuscripts

Cataloged correspondence and manuscripts are interfiled

Box 1 Dowden, George [autobiographical data], [Brighton, UK], [26 May 1970], 1 page t.ms.,

[With copy of 2 related letters]

Box 1 Dowden, George [A bibliography of works by Allen Ginsberg] - preface, [Brighton, UK], 23 Nov 1969, 9 pages a.ms.s. (first draft

Box 1 Dowden, George [A bibliography of works by Allen Ginsberg] - preface, Brighton, UK, 23 Nov 1969, 9 pages t.ms. (second draft; with many changes in the author's hand

Box 1 Dowden, George [A bibliography of works by Allen Ginsberg] - preface, Brighton, UK, 23 Nov 1969, 9 pages a.ms. (third draft; notes on proof of preface

Box 1 Dowden, George [A bibliography of works by Allen Ginsberg] - preface, Brighton, [UK], 10 Jan 1971, 11 pages t.ms. (fourth draft; with corrections in the author's hand

Box 1 Dowden, George [A bibliography of works by Allen Ginsberg] - preface, Brighton, [UK], 14 March 1971, 5 pages a.ms.s. (fifth draft

Box 1 Dowden, George [A bibliography of works by Allen Ginsberg] - preface, Brighton, [UK], 14 March 1971, 6 pages t.ms. (sixth draft; with many changes in the author's hand

Box 1 Dowden, George [A bibliography of works by Allen Ginsberg] - preface, Brighton, [UK], 14 March 1971, 5 pages t.ms. (seventh draft; with changes in the author's hand

Box 1 Dowden, George [A bibliography of works by Allen Ginsberg] - preface, Brighton, [UK], 14 March 1971, 4 pages t.ms. (eighth draft; with changes in the author's hand

Box 1 Dowden, George Landscape: 8 (poem), [London], [ca. Aug 1967], 1 page t.ms. (carbon copy

Box 1 Dowden, George Landscape: 9 (poem), [London], [ca. Aug 1967], 1 page t.ms. (carbon copy

Box 1 Ginsberg, Louis Speed (poem), [Paterson, NJ], [May 1967], 1 page t.ms. (with corrections

[For this item see Ginsberg, Louis. To George Dowden, 12 May 1967.]

Box 1 Harding, Gumnar Poems: Green revolution A new day This was a few years after the war Through the tunnel Us, [Stockholm], [ca. Nov 1967], 5 t.ms. (carbon copies; translated by Anselm Hollo

Series II: Arranged Correspondence


Box 2 A-L


Box 3 M-Z

Series III: A Bibliography of Works by Allen Ginsberg


Box 4 Carbon transcripts

Box 4 Drafts & notes

Box 4 Working notes