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Letter from an unidentified sender, place not identified, to William Merwin and Dana Naone, 1979? March 29 : autograph manuscript signed.

BIB_ID
385284
Accession number
MA 8686.1
Display Date
Place not identified, 1979? March 29.
Credit line
The Carter Burden Collection of American Literature.
Description
1 item (1 page) ; 8.9 x 21.6 cm
Notes
Signed "Stephen."
Dated "3/29."
Part of a collection that includes an autograph letter signed "Stephen" to William [Merwin] and Dana [Naone] (MA 8686.1); a typed letter signed from Allen Ginsberg to Bill [Merwin] and Dana [Naone], with an autograph postscript signed by Peter Orlovsky (MA 8686.2); two autograph letters signed from Allen Ginsberg to Bill [Merwin] and Dana [Naone] (MA 8686.3-4); a photocopy of an autograph letter Allen Ginsberg sent to Tom Clark (MA 8686.5); and a photocopy of a typescript titled, "When the Party's Over: an Interview with Allen Ginsberg," with Ginsberg's corrections (MA 8686.6). Items are described in individual records; see MA 8686.1-6.
Provenance
Carter Burden.
Summary
Writing that "the [Allen] Ginsberg comments are sickening"; remarking that he "suppose[s] it's good that [Chögyam] Trungpa should be exposed, but [he is] feeling mostly shame for the Dharma"; adding that he and Vicki "send ... heartfelt sympathy and love."
Housed in
Black cloth drop-spine box (34 cm)