Box 22
Container
Contains 6 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 12 pages headed "Beginning Chapter 3" [mentions de Sade], 3 pages "You may know already that Project Sigma is a registered company...", also with rent totals, Stanley Gibbons stamp prices, etc, before 1970
File — Box: 22, Folder: 1
Description
Autograph, 30 pages. 5x7" Wire O sketch book with gray covers
Includes, "How large must something be to be obscene? Must it be seen?" (2 pages); Sigma memos, 20 pages for draft of one letter, notes for poems, etc., before 1970
File — Box: 22, Folder: 2
Description
Autograph, 60 pages. 7 x 4.5" bound with black covers
MOB, circa 1970
File — Box: 22, Folder: 3
Description
Autograph, 54 pages. 5.25 x 13" bound with black covers decorated by Trocchi with red and yellow paint
Includes, "Sigma can be regarded as the evolving structure of the alternative"1 page: “To begin with a tabula rasa...” 1 page: “Today, Xmas 1969, I feel I am ready to use this book...” 5 pages: 'Cultural Engineering' with many stuck-in additions. 1 page: 1971 “Trinidad and Michael A Malik, Michael X for President” 2 pages: “Sigma Karma” 1 page: loosely inserted autograph letter signed, Jeff Nuttall to Trocchi loosely inserted, exhibition catalogue to “Groupe Icono,” Drian Gallery 1 page: 'In Sigmal thory...', 1969-1971
File — Box: 22, Folder: 4
Description
Autograph, 138 pages. 10 x 12.25" bound with red covers and red ties
Includes rough prose notes and drafts (with one letter dated September 1970), "The Pool by Doktor Juan Anonyme," "The Method of Found Structures," "Whether I begin this way or that, it does not seem to matter...," "At last I was free and had been able to give myself over to it...," "His sexual scandals/sell on Sunday/better than roman candles/...," "Content, of the defeat of the Athenian Army by Syracuse...," "Form, Outline Novel...," a caricature of William Burroughs, "Your Clitoris, he said...," "The City of Groin," "The Long Book is...," etc., circa 1970-1971
File — Box: 22, Folder: 5
Description
Autograph, 40 pages. 9.75 x 15 bound with blue covers