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Julian Edison Department of Special Collections

Box 19

 Container

Contains 12 Results:

Series 2, Sub-series 5: Journals and Notebooks

 Sub-Series — Multiple Containers
Description

Journals and Notebooks consists of Trocchi's journal and notebooks with autograph enteries by Trocchi, arrranged chronologically by the first date noted in each journal if known

Found in: Manuscripts / Alexander Trocchi Papers / Series 2: Manuscripts

Includes "Roses by Juan Gris...This seems to me a sufficiently precise illustration -- I call the picture unreservedly GREAT. Doing so, I pledge my critical ability. 29.xii.47....4.i.48. Ezra Pound. Whenever I take up one of his books I feel there is a hard core of sanity beneath his "imputed lunacy.", 1947 December 29-approximately 1948 April

 File — Box: 19, Folder: 1
Description

Autograph, 42 pages. Cover title "Lectures on Butt-Ends." 5.5 x 9" with blue wrappers.

Found in: Manuscripts / Alexander Trocchi Papers / Series 2: Manuscripts / Series 2, Sub-series 5: Journals and Notebooks

Includes "The True Testament of Joseph Necchi", Rimbaud, Camus, "Looking back from page 200 it occurs to me that Cain's Book is just the beginning," etc. Note by Trocchi on cover, "Notebook 1950-60. Paris - U.S.A. Contains various poems.", 1950-1960

 File — Box: 19, Folder: 2
Description

Autograph, 18 pages. 5 x 7.75" Spiral notebook with brown back cover. Missing front cover.

Found in: Manuscripts / Alexander Trocchi Papers / Series 2: Manuscripts / Series 2, Sub-series 5: Journals and Notebooks

Includes notes on Shakespeare's history plays, circa 1950

 File — Box: 19, Folder: 3
Description

Autograph, 83 pages. 4 x 6.5" bound with brown covers. S.O. Book 137

Found in: Manuscripts / Alexander Trocchi Papers / Series 2: Manuscripts / Series 2, Sub-series 5: Journals and Notebooks

Includes "A diaristic itinerary" and "I have been tied up in Gagny." Mentions having completed parts of "Young Adam," "A Little Geography Lesson for My Sons and Daughters," and "Wind from the Bosphorous." Also includes Trocchi's attitudes toward existentialism, Sartre-Camus split, and linguistics, 1951 April 4-May

 File — Box: 19, Folder: 4
Description

Typescript, 15 loose pages

Found in: Manuscripts / Alexander Trocchi Papers / Series 2: Manuscripts / Series 2, Sub-series 5: Journals and Notebooks

Includes "4.ix.'51 Camped outside Paris: mud, dripping water, mosquitos; & the rain. Money short as usual...The past is tight; but within broad limits the future is tight also. I meet my future through my attitudes which have a certain resilience even in the face of catastophe...I did not decide to leave the city of G. I was DECIDED....15.ix.'51. Saw Paris for the last time for how long?...Sometimes, wandering about the city during the summer, I would catch a glimpse of myself in a shop window; a longhaired ill-clad creature, unshaven, an anonymous member of the army of foreign shufflers who walk Paris streets. I could detect it too in the faces of the tourists....Leaving Glasgow, it was as tho' I had never been there at all; those that did [or] do remember me remember me [only] as a fool who wanted to write & who has since disappeared leaving no trace. Leaving Paris it is different. I want to leave but I have been there & I am remembered by a few, not as a freak, but as a serious writer....13 October 1951...away from Paris I think one can see more in perspective precisely what it means. It means a spiritual `feather-bed', a community of apparently-striving men, so that you're not alone....I'm not interested in the `atmospherics' of being a writer: I'm interested in writing; & here, stuck on a piece of wasteground with the sea on 3 sides I can't kid myself. Write, you bastard, write!" Includes note stating "Diary Abandoned", 1951 September 14-October 13

 File — Box: 19, Folder: 5
Description

Autograph, 14 loose pages

Found in: Manuscripts / Alexander Trocchi Papers / Series 2: Manuscripts / Series 2, Sub-series 5: Journals and Notebooks

Includes "Get hold of all remaining copies of Camus-Sartre editorials...Chronicle of proceedings against homosexuals in England--Gielgud case....The finding out of new things about the world must be preceded by the invention of terms (symbols) to express them....The autobiography of W. Hadden...", 1952

 File — Box: 19, Folder: 6
Description

Autograph, 51 pages. 6.25 x 9.5" with brown wrappers.

Found in: Manuscripts / Alexander Trocchi Papers / Series 2: Manuscripts / Series 2, Sub-series 5: Journals and Notebooks

Includes "Dieppe: Grey day in August; sky with luminous patches....The pale red wreck/ in the lobster shell/ is wound round/ in the womb of the sea....", circa 1952

 File — Box: 19, Folder: 7
Description

Autograph, 39 pages. 4 x 5.75". Spiral notebook with blue covers

Found in: Manuscripts / Alexander Trocchi Papers / Series 2: Manuscripts / Series 2, Sub-series 5: Journals and Notebooks

Includes sketches, notes, poems..."When Philip Gunn made his exit from the Central Station, he removed his Bersolino hat...", circa 1953

 File — Box: 19, Folder: 8
Description

Autograph, 23 pages. 6.25 x 9.5" Spiral notebook with brown covers

Found in: Manuscripts / Alexander Trocchi Papers / Series 2: Manuscripts / Series 2, Sub-series 5: Journals and Notebooks

Includes "Overseer;" "The European Neutralist;" "Merlin respresents the gradual articulation of the views and attitudes of a group of writers in Paris & of those writers whose attitudes are relatively proximate. Our main thesis is that `literature' is not an autonomous realm of objective significant entities, or rather, OUR MAIN PRACTICAL DECISION IS THAT THIS IS NOT OUR ATTITUDE TOWARDS LITERATURE;" "Wittgenstein;" "Three criticisms of Austryn [Wainhouse]'s literary style;" "After a moment, I took off my coat & threw it down under the truck. I sat down and looked up at her. She hesitated....", circa 1954

 File — Box: 19, Folder: 9
Description

Autograph, 51 pages. 7.5 x 11.75" Spiral notebook with red covers

Found in: Manuscripts / Alexander Trocchi Papers / Series 2: Manuscripts / Series 2, Sub-series 5: Journals and Notebooks