Box 20
Container
Contains 5 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
Includes, “How I came to want to Get Off,” “That man is most free who is capable still of choosing to act counter to his most cherished beliefs...,” “Opium: Notes,” 6 page typescript “Now it is a game I am going to play...these words are written to kill...” with autograph alterations, “Meanwhile whatever the cause...” [on the setting up of International Cultural Enterprises Ltd, a sigmatic centre in London], “In the Mohave desert...,” “Cosmological Blueprint,” “On Censorship,” “Pensees, en plus,” “The Cosmological Circular,” “Mr Trocchi calls his artefact...” [on the setting up of Sigma...”Mr Alexander Trocchi is presently in London where he is contemplating the establishment of a sigma situation...”], “What is Sigma,” “Sigma, notes towards the tactical revaluation,” transcript of conversation between Trocchi and R.D. Laing, “Notes for the pornographer,” and more. Loosely inserted: typed note covered with autograph additions [missing]; “Letter For Girodias” [missing]; 8 page pamphlet “Peter Russell Publications;” 4 page prospectus for Peter Russell's “The Golden Chain;” and envelope to Trocchi from The Village Voice, circa 1962-1970
File — Multiple Containers
Description
Autograph, 143 pages. 9.25 x 13.25" Peg-bound book with painted cover Trocchi and labled on spine "International Cultural Enterprises"
Includes satiric poems, poems on narcotics, draft of letter to William S. Burroughs, drafts of statement on Sigma, wife's attitude after drug session, sketches, notes on Dalwood, Toynbee, epistemology and language, draft of review, 1963-1966
File — Box: 20, Folder: 3
Description
Autograph, 127 pages. 5.75 x 8.25" Hardbound with painted cover by Trocchi
Includes Sigma concerns and ideas such as Sigma postcards, sigma chart for inclusion in folio, international conferences, The Moving Times, campaign for American universities, letters asking for gift donations, etc., circa 1964
File — Box: 20, Folder: 4
Description
Autograph, 60 pages. 5 x 8" hardbound with red covers
Includes autograph notations, drafts of poems, etc., circa 1965
File — Box: 20, Folder: 5
Description
Autograph, 178 pages. 5.25 x 12.75" Bound with red covers