BIB_ID
455810
Accession number
MA 23933.4
Creator
Matson, Peter H., sender.
Credit line
Purchased on the Drue Heinz Fund for Twentieth-Century Literature, 2025.
Description
1 item (1 page) ; 21.7 x 14 cm + carbon copy of typescript enclosure
Notes
Cover letter to enclosed a carbon copy of a typescript essay, "Cut Ups As Underground Weapon".
Typed on white stationary stamped with Harold Matson Company, Inc. contact information.
Part of a small collection of literary documents acquired together, cataloged separately chronicling a feud between William S. Burroughs and Lawrence Lipton waged in the pages of The Los Angeles Free Press, ("The Freep"). Lipton wrote a negative review of Brion Gysin's novel "The Process" focusing on the use of "cut ups" published in The Freep #295, March 1970 and Burroughs responded with a critique of the review; see related collection record (MA 23933) for more information.
Typed on white stationary stamped with Harold Matson Company, Inc. contact information.
Part of a small collection of literary documents acquired together, cataloged separately chronicling a feud between William S. Burroughs and Lawrence Lipton waged in the pages of The Los Angeles Free Press, ("The Freep"). Lipton wrote a negative review of Brion Gysin's novel "The Process" focusing on the use of "cut ups" published in The Freep #295, March 1970 and Burroughs responded with a critique of the review; see related collection record (MA 23933) for more information.
Provenance
Purchased from Carl Williams Rare Books in 2025.
Summary
Addressing the Editor of the Los Angeles Free Press; saying "At the request of William Burroughs, we send you herewith a piece on cut ups in answer, in part, to the attack by Lawrence Lipton".
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