Box VMF 10
Container
Contains 15 Results:
Michael McClure Letters
Collection — Box: VMF 10, Folder: 14
Identifier: MS-VMF-vmf106
Scope and Contents
Correspondence from McClure to Henry Wenning, American book dealer and publisher, 1961-1965.
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Michael McClure Letters
McClure to Henry Wenning. San Francisco. Thanks him for inquiry through Dave Meltzer about his manuscripts of The New Book/A Book of Torture [collection of poems]. Explains the development of the collection and describes the writing of the poems. Comments on several individual poems, including For Artaud, Flowers of Politics, A Cool Pamphlet, Small Secret Book, and The Mad Sonnet. [Added page?] Requests payment and agrees to terms. Pencil notation upper right corner incorrectly reads `Nov. 61', 1961 December 9
Item — Box: VMF 10, Folder: 14
Description
Autograph letter signed, 5 pages
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Manuscripts
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Michael McClure Letters
McClure to Henry Wenning. San Francisco. Discusses hopes and rationale for sale of manuscripts. Discusses Small Secret Book [poem] and The New Book/A Book of Torture. Comments that Dark Brown [collection of poems] was sold by Larry Walrich for an agreeable sum. Mentions Marie Bergamini. Note on essay about Small Secret Book appended, 1961
Item — Box: VMF 10, Folder: 14
Description
Autograph letter signed, 2 pages
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Michael McClure Letters
McClure to Henry Wenning. San Francisco. Comments on bomb photograph, `illustrated' A New Book/..., a book of essays he is re-writing -- [Meat Science Essays?] and agrees that Wenning should hold "the material" for a better venture, 1962 January 8
Item — Box: VMF 10, Folder: 14
Description
Autograph postcard signed, 1 page
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Michael McClure Letters
McClure to Henry Wenning. San Francisco. Comments on Meat Science Essays, an unidentified book of poems he is working on, a Peyote Poem broadside and mentions summer employment in an hallucinogenic research project. Oversize paper, folded, 1962 September 13
Item — Box: VMF 10, Folder: 14
Description
Autograph letter signed, 1 page
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Manuscripts
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Michael McClure Letters
McClure to Henry Wenning. San Francisco. Thanks him for broadside received, 1962 November 14
Item — Box: VMF 10, Folder: 14
Description
Autograph postcard signed, 1 page
Found in:
Manuscripts
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Michael McClure Letters
McClure to Henry Wenning. San Francisco. Discusses plans for sale of Ghost Tantras and extensively explains his feelings and intent with the collection. Remarks on the downfall of his faith in science, 1962 November 27
Item — Box: VMF 10, Folder: 14
Description
Typed letter signed, 2 pages
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Michael McClure Letters
McClure to Henry Wenning. San Francisco. Asks for Samuel Beckett's address in order to send him copy of Meat Science Essays. Briefly describes work and activities -- preparation for teaching and says he is working on a play [unidentified]. Offers manuscripts of Meat Science Essays to Wenning to sell. Mentions Ginsberg, 1963 August 16
Item — Box: VMF 10, Folder: 14
Description
Typed letter signed, 1 page
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Manuscripts
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Michael McClure Letters
McClure to Henry Wenning. San Francisco. Remarks that he is including message for forwarding of Meat Science Essays to Beckett, 1963
Item — Box: VMF 10, Folder: 14
Description
Autograph letter signed, 1 page
Found in:
Manuscripts
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Michael McClure Letters
McClure to Henry Wenning. San Francisco. Discusses Meat Science Essays. Asks Wenning to send a copy to Beckett. Relates that he sent copies to Sartre and Genet and hopes to send to others. States that he put Billy the Kid into prose -- [The Blossom: or Billy the Kid?] [theater script], 1963 August 26
Item — Box: VMF 10, Folder: 14
Description
Autograph letter signed, 1 page
Found in:
Manuscripts
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Michael McClure Letters