Archives/Manuscripts/Collections
This section of our website features archives, manuscripts, and collections - unique items or collections of items that might otherwise be hard to locate among the thousands of books in our inventory, but which we feel deserve special attention and notice.
A large archive of material spanning the whole of Burroughs' life, with emphasis on his career as a writer from the 1920s to the 1940s.
A substantial archive of manuscript material, correspondence, and books and printed matter, mostly signed. The manuscript material comprises some hundreds of pages, mostly from the 1950s to the 1980s, much of it unpublished.
1979-1991. A substantial collaborative archive between Beat writer William S. Burroughs and underground comic artist S. Clay Wilson that includes letters, three original artworks, unique and trial copies of books they worked on together, and other materials.
1978-1980. A small archive of correspondence by the award-winning poet in his capacity as Poetry Editor of Harper's magazine. 27 pieces.
Undated. A nine-page manuscript of an essay by the author of The Three Musketeers, The Count of Monte Cristo and numerous other works.
The Kupferberg and Topp Collection reflects Tuli's literary, musical, artistic, and political career, as well as Tuli and Sylvia's publishing work with Birth Press and theatrical work with the Revolting Theater. The collection dates from the late 1930s to 2010.
Circa 1890s - 1930s. A collection of manuscripts, correspondence, books and photographs from the library of Marjorie Henry Ilsley, a scholar and writer and a friend of a number of the French poets of the Symbolist and post-Symbolist schools.