Finding Aid for the Allan H. Kurtzman Collection of Material about Beat Writers and Artists, ca. 1950-1989
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UCLA Library, Department of Special Collections
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Box 951575
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575
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The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
Finding Aid for the Allan H. Kurtzman Collection of Material about Beat Writers and Artists, ca. 1950-1989
Collection number: 362
UCLA Library, Department of Special Collections
Manuscripts Division
Los Angeles, CA
Contact Information
- Manuscripts Division
- UCLA Library, Department of Special Collections
- Room A1713, Charles E. Young Research Library
- Box 951575
- Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575
- Telephone: 310/825-4988 (10:00 a.m. - 4:45 p.m., Pacific
Time)
- Email: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu
- URL: http://www.library.ucla.edu/libraries/special/scweb/
- Processed by:
- Manuscripts Division staff, 1997
- Encoded by:
- Dan Luckenbill and Caroline Cubé
- Online finding aid edited by:
- Josh Fiala, August 2002
© 1997 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
Descriptive Summary
Title: Allan H. Kurtzman Collection of Material about Beat Writers and Artists,
Date (inclusive): ca. 1950-1989
Collection number: 362
Creator:
Kurtzman, Allan H.
Extent: 3 boxes (1 linear ft.)
3 oversize boxes
Repository:
University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections.
Los Angeles, California 90095-1575
Physical location: Stored off-site at SRLF. Advance notice is required for access to the collection. Please contact the UCLA Library, Department
of Special Collections Reference Desk for paging information.
Language:
English.
Administrative Information
Restrictions on Use and Reproduction
Property rights to the physical object belong to the UCLA Library, Department of Special Collections. Literary rights, including
copyright, are retained by the creators and their heirs. It is the responsibility of the researcher to determine who holds
the copyright and pursue the
copyright owner or his or her heir for permission to publish where The UC Regents do not hold the copyright.
Restrictions on Access
COLLECTION STORED OFF-SITE AT SRLF: Advance notice required for access.
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- Room A1713, Charles E. Young Research Library
- Box 951575
- Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575
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Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Allan H. Kurtzman Collection of Material about Beat Writers and Artists (Collection 362). Department
of Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles.
Scope and Content
Collection consists of printed material about William S. Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, and Michael McClure.
Indexing Terms
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.
Burroughs, William S., 1914- .
Ginsberg, Allen, 1926- .
McClure, Michael.
Beat generation.
Related Material
- Collection of Bookseller's Catalogs of Beat Literature (Collection 1648). Available at the Department of Special Collections,
UCLA.
- Hirado Porcelain of Japan: from the Kurtzman Family Collection /
[organized by] Robert T. Singer and Hollis Goodall. Available at the UCLA Arts Library. Call number: NK 4399 H57 L67 1997.
Container List
Amram, David and Rambling Jack Elliott
Box 4, Folder 10
No Title. Sound recording: 45 rpm.
Box 5, Folder 9
History. Manuscript material, author unknown. n.d.
Physical Description: Typescript (photocopy).
Scope and Content Note
Chapter 1 is entitled The pre-war origins of the post-war avant-garde. With Appendix, a bibliography in different paper.
Box 4, Folder 18
C Press [Journal] Publication material. Announcement. n.d.
Bockris, Victor(?) Edward (?)
Box 5, Folder 1
Poetry Anthology Manuscript. Manuscript material. n.d.
Physical Description: In notebook with label.
Scope and Content Note
Six poems [asked of various poets, e.g. Aram Saroyan, Gerard Malanga, ...], an assembly of statements by the poets and photo
and other copies of the poems selected.
Appears not to have been published.
Note
(not in ORION or MELVYL under this title)
Box 1
Printed Material About [Various items not listed by folder].
Box 4, Folder 2
Burroughs, William. Letters to Various Persons. 1960s.
Scope and Content Note
Notes and enclosures. Primarily to a seeming collector, Jake Swartz.
Includes mockup of British edition
Naked Lunch cover, etc.
Box 4, Folder 3
Letters to Various Persons. 1958, n.d.
Scope and Content Note
Christmas greetings, etc. Includes postcard to Robert La Vigne.
Box 4, Folder 5
Publication material.
Thirteen, with header Over Matter. n.d.
Physical Description: Galley proofs.
Note
Unable to determine publication.
For the Paris Biennale and Unlabeled
Box 4, Folder 7
Sound recordings. June 11, 1965 and n.d.
Physical Description: Reel to reel (2).
Poem Beginning: Brief the Moments of Ecstasy
Box 4, Folder 11
Manuscript material. n.d.
Scope and Content Note
Collage, painting, etc. Cut up poem on reverse, beginning: Stop the changes get a new number ....
Letters to Various Persons
Box 4, Folder 15
Dear Jackie mio, etc.. n.d.
Physical Description: Typescript.
Scope and Content Note
Seemingly kept as a journal, as well.
Box 5, Folder 6
Penny Poems. Publications. 1960.
Physical Description: Two newsprint broadsides.
Box 5, Folder 3
Ferlinghetti, Lawrence. Publications. 1960s.
Physical Description: Copies.
Scope and Content Note
Reviews etc.
Box 5, Folder 4
Postcards, etc. 1969, 1980, n.d.
Scope and Content Note
Includes note on City Lights postcard, poster for reading.
Box 2
Printed material about.
Note
[Various items not listed by folder]
Letters to Various Persons
Box 4, Folder 1
Notes, etc. 1965-1970.
Scope and Content Note
Primarily to Herbert Huncke, also Robert La Vigne, etc.
Most are notes, evidently about giving Huncke money (for habit). Some on City Lights notepads.
Box 4, Folder 4
Manuscript material. n.d.
Scope and Content Note
Beginning: A shadow of the angel. Entitled: Man is naked without secrets armed men lack this joy [signed Allen Ginsberg]
Box 4, Folder 9
Sound recording. n.d.
Physical Description: Cassette.
Allen Ginsberg with the Gluons
Box 4, Folder 10
Sound recording.
Sue your Parents. Birdbrain records. 45 rpm. Signed to Herbert Huncke. 1983.
Ginsberg, Allen and Anne Waldman
Box 4, Folder 9
Beauty and the Beast. Sound recording. August 1975.
Physical Description: Cassette (2 copies).
Ginsberg, Allen, Burroughs, and Various Other Beat Figures
Box 6
Sound Recordings (Long Playing Records). Various titles, including
Howl,
Ferlinghetti's Impeach Eisenhower,
Burroughs Reading Ali's Smile, etc.
Physical Description: Long playing records, most in sleeves with photographs.
Box 5, Folder 8
Mailings received. Various. 1960s-1980s.
Physical Description: Mimeograph sheets.
Scope and Content Note
Letters for Timothy Leary defense fund, publication announcements, etc. No actual correspondence except to enclose book lists,
catalogs, etc.
Box 4, Folder 17
Gallery Materials. Ephemera. 1958(?).
Scope and Content Note
The Lion (Polk Street, San Francisco gallery), Notes about Ginsberg, etc.
Box 4, Folder 16
Lady Chatterley's Lover. Grove Press court documents. Victor Weybright. 1959.
Box 3
Printed material about.
Note
[Various items not listed by folder]
The Blossom; or, Billy the Kid
Box 4, Folder 12
Manuscript material. 1960(?). Billy the Kid in envelope to Roi Jones.
Physical Description: Copy(?).
Box 4, Folder 13
Manuscript material(?). n.d.
Physical Description: Mimeograph(?).
Box 4, Folder 14
Manuscript material. n.d.
Scope and Content Note
Also Ghost tantra 51, Fuck ode. Notes on first page signed Rick. Letter with Fuck ode to Terry. Poems signed by McCLure.
McClure, Michael and Others
Box 4, Folder 6
Pale Pearl Pink on the Walls. n.d.
Physical Description: Typescript (photocopy or mimeograph), beginning p.21.
Scope and Content Note
Manuscript(?) material. Also material by Stuart Perkoff, etc.
Ossman, Dave With Michael McClure
Box 4, Folder 8
The Sullen Art. Sound recording. November 1964.
Physical Description: Reel-to-reel.
Box 5, Folder 2
Poet's Vaudeville. Publication. n.p.. n.d.
Physical Description: Mimeograph(?).
Box 5, Folder 7
Manuscript material. April 1959.
Physical Description: 1 leaf. Typescript with holograph corrections and notes. Signed by the poet.
Scope and Content Note
Poem, beginning: I shall grow mint and teach the child her colors.
